Quick view A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the explor… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view American Mother by Colum McCann & Diane Foley Now: $18.15 MSRP: $20.63 Was: The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years sin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view History of the World in 100 Animals by Simon Barnes Now: $16.49 MSRP: $34.38 Was: 'So, so good! ... More gems than a pirate's chest ... science, art, history, culture - it's epic and mammoth, a repository of all our truths through their lives' Chris PackhamA powerful and fascinating insight into the 100 animals… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Hidden Hands: Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley Now: $7.69 MSRP: $16.49 Was: Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, sc… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Nomads by Anthony Sattin Now: $7.69 MSRP: $17.88 Was: The groundbreaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across history. Tracing the epic paths of wanderers across twelve thousand years, acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin recovers the stories of tribes who lived beyond imper… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Dragon Throne by Jonathan Fenby Now: $5.50 MSRP: $13.75 Was: They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall.The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian s… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Command by Al Murray Now: $7.69 MSRP: $15.13 Was: Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television shows and the recent huge succ… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes Now: $6.59 MSRP: $13.75 Was: Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological discoveries and philosophical explorations, Bettany Hughes takes us on a voyage of discovery to reveal the truth behind Venus, and why this immortal goddess is so much… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones (HB) Now: $14.29 MSRP: $34.38 Was: Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Kersten presented himself after the war as a resistance hero who convinced Himmler to save countless people from mass murder. Kawashima Yoshiko, a gender fluid Manchu princess, spied for the Japanese secret police in China, and wa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Love in a Time of Hate by Florian Illies Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns.Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with no-show Simone de Beau… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Dirty, Filthy Book by Michael Meyer Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Resistance by Halik Kochanski Now: $27.49 MSRP: Was: A sweeping history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of The Eagle Unbowed. Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as De… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from of… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Japanese by Christopher Harding Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin Now: $27.49 MSRP: Was: Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich in ruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among his holdings were Czechoslovaki… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich Now: $13.75 MSRP: Was: Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives by Philip Matyszak & Joanne Berry Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand years of history. The Roman empire witnessed a huge diversity of human experience over its hist… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the Middle East: 5th Edition by Peter Mansfield Now: $20.63 MSRP: Was: The best overall survey of the politics, regional rivalries and economics of the contemporary Arab world' - Washington Post. Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This no… Add to Cart The item has been added