Quick view The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruli… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Museum of Other People by Adam Kuper Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions, and their arrays of skulls a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World After 1989 by Kristina Spohr Now: $6.59 MSRP: $15.13 Was: This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born. The world changed dramatically as the Berlin Wall fell and protest turned to massacre in Tiananmen Square. Now, with d… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee (Hardback) Now: $10.99 MSRP: $34.38 Was: From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected lives of two men across the Renaissance globe. One o… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson Now: $14.29 MSRP: $54.99 Was: New York Times In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome.Less than two years later, Britain's bright future turned dark: after a series of provocat… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater by Jeff Maynard Now: $10.99 MSRP: $34.38 Was: Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see the ocean when we look at the water that blankets more than two thirds of our … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern Now: $19.79 MSRP: $21.99 Was: Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and ec… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Angel Makers: The True Story of the Most Astonishing Murder Ring in History by Patti McCracken Now: $7.69 MSRP: $23.38 Was: Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of local wives conspiring together, and one woman at the centre of it all… In 1929, a dark secret at the heart of a Hungarian farming village was finally exposed. For mor… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Young Alexander by Alex Rowson PB Now: $6.59 MSRP: $15.13 Was: This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great's story often reads like fiction: son to a … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx & Dr.Jerry Toner Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja. In this new and searingly personal memoir, Raja Shehadeh unpicks the snags and complexities o… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Lost City of Z by David Grann Now: $12.38 MSRP: Was: The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World, by the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER Fawcett was among the last … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a whole new terror was only just beginning...Here is the truth behind every spy thriller you've re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Chickenhawk by Robert Mason Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters - and the U.S.Army gave him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dead Wake by Erik Larson Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. Germany had declar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad Now: $23.38 MSRP: Was: As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Bad Land by Jonathan Raban Now: $15.13 MSRP: Was: Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordin… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings Now: $17.88 MSRP: Was: Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years int… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Short History of the Vietnam War by Gordon Kerr Now: $20.63 MSRP: Was: On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict that would haunt American… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera Now: $20.89 MSRP: $23.38 Was: In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.'Beautifully written, and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading' - Peter... Add to Cart The item has been added