Quick view The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid I. Khalidi Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of nationhood and denial of history. The Hundred Years War on Palestine is Rashid Khalidi's powerful response.Drawi… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes Now: €18.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis.The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes.The Lighthouse of Alexand… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable: they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain - and held a picnic.Word had spread of what was going to happen. On wisps of rumour, thousands of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Sport and The Universe by Mick O'Hare Now: €5.00 MSRP: €13.75 Was: A mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious minds from the bestselling author of Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps? Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic myth-bus… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer fits and are plagued by strange visions and dreams.Children sicken and die. As… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Alexandria: The City that Changed the World by Islam Issa Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: A city drawn in sand.Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander the Great sketched the idea of a city onto the sparsely populated Egyptian coastline. He did not live to see Alexandria built, but his … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics. Distilling decades of… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller Now: €11.25 MSRP: Was: Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain’s Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the NazisHistorian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the wa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The History of the SAS by Chris Ryan Now: €5.99 MSRP: €16.25 Was: Tasked with storming mountain strongholds in the desert. Trained to hunt down the world's most wanted terrorists. This is the extraordinary story of 22 SAS. The history of the modern SAS is one of the great successes of post-war … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view History of Air Warfare: From World War I to the Present Day by Malcolm Swanston and Alexander Swanston Now: €9.99 MSRP: €24.99 Was: A highly illustrated and accessible account of the development of air warfare, from the first skirmishes over the Western Front in World War I to today's hi-tech netcentric aerial battlespace.No single human invention has altered … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Stalin: Man of Steel or Mass Murderer? by Michael Kerrigan Now: €9.99 MSRP: €24.99 Was: Thug, armed robber, activist, revolutionary, tyrant we know the headlines, we know about the atrocities, but what do we really know of the man at the heart of it all? Stalin looks behind the image of the dictator and explores Iose… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view This Accursed Land: An epic solo journey across Antarctica by Lennard Bickel Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson's epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland as 'the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration'. This Accursed Land tells that story; how Mawso… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power by Peter Ross Range Now: €12.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: The chilling and little-known story of Adolf Hitler's eight-year march to the pinnacle of German politics.On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, bursting w… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Wager by David Grann Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.On 28th January 1742… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: "Reads like a pacey, page-turning, cold war political thriller." Dermot O'Leary This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Dark Side of the Moon by John Harris Now: €5.00 MSRP: Was: A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time. Over three decades after its release, Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' remains… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Persians by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Now: €6.99 MSRP: Was: The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was the fabled palace-city of Persepolis where the Achae… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch Now: €31.25 MSRP: Was: This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlook… Add to Cart The item has been added