20th Century History: c 1900 to c 2000
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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA
Michael GrazianoCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Grazianos intriguing book fuses t...
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America''s Great Migration
Isabel WilkersonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of...
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On a Knife''s Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942March 1943
Prit ButtarCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stali...
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An Autobiography: 150th Anniversary Edition with an Introduction by Pankaj Mishra
M. K. GandhiCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50The life of Gandhi, in his own words150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra'Generations to come will scarce believe that...
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Kate Winkler DawsonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment ...
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Caliban Shrieks
Jack HiltonCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s Br...
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Kairos: Winner of the International Booker Prize
Jenny ErpenbeckCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times 'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your ...
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben MacintyreCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians and the ultimate gift...
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Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity
Monica MaciasCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50The extraordinary true story of a West African girls upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only...
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Fortress Colony: The Final Act Vol. IV 1945-1964
Joseph M.Pirotta€68.00Professor Joseph M. Pirotta who holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Reading, is a former head of the Department of International Relat...
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The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: ''Truly revelatory'' Damien Lewis
Robert VerkaikCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating r...
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British Pacific Fleet 194445: The Royal Navy in the downfall of Japan
Brian Lane HerderCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99An illustration-packed new account of the powerful Royal Navy fleet that fought alongside the US Navy throughout the last year of the Pacific War.T...
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Mark SingletonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping ma...
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Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry
Deborah CadburyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Debora...
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The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocausts Most Audacious Rescue Operation
Roger MoorhouseCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that s...
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A Nation is Born
John O'ByrneCurrent price €25.35Original price €32.50A Nation Is Born celebrates a formative period in the history of the Irish state: the fifteen years during which we emerged from the rubble of wars...
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Ireland''s War of Independence 1919-21: The IRA''s Guerrilla Campaign
Lorcan CollinsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 Jan...
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The Balkans, 18042012: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers
James HerbertCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99'A great achievement' Timothy Garton Ash Bloodshed. Invasions. Nationalist fervor. In this classic and celebrated history of the Balkans, Misha Gl...
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The Panzers of Prokhorovka: The Myth of Hitlers Greatest Armoured Defeat
Dr. Ben WheatleyCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50A ground-breaking new study that transforms our understanding of one of the most famous battles of the Second World War, widely mythologized as the...
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
Thomas GeveCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people s...
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The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
Louis FischerCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99A monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint The TimesMahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own ti...
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Kairos: Winner of the International Booker Prize
Jenny ErpenbeckCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times 'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to...
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Band Of Brothers
Stephen E. AmbroseCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** Foreword by Tom Hanks. The book that inspired Steven Spielbergs acclaimed TV series, and its sequel, Masters of t...
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Nation, Pride and Dignity. Borg Olivier and the National Anthem
Joseph M.Pirotta€30.00“Nation, Pride and Dignity. Borg Olivier and the National Anthem is another systematically constructed historical account, profusely annotated, wri...
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The Cambridge History of the First World War 3 Volume Paperback Set
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €96.29Original price €106.99The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work which provides an authoritative account of the military, politic...
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Fortress Colony: The Final Act - Vol 1 1945-1954 HB
Joseph M. Pirotta€58.00Professor Joseph M. Pirotta who holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Reading, is a former head of the Department of International Relat...
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House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
Hadley FreemanCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The Sunday Times bestseller An utterly engrossing book Nigella Lawson Remarka...
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
Nicholas MulderCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Af...
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The Drowned And The Saved
Primo LeviCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, a...
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The Queen
Matthew DennisonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Cha...
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua LevineCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, ...
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Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6
Helen FryCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99The dramatic story of a man who stood at the center of British intelligence operations, the ultimate spymaster of World War II: Thomas KendrickA re...
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A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Julian JacksonCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco...
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Earl SwiftCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely. The Times (London)A brilliantly observed (Newsweek) and endlessly fascinating (WSJ) redisco...
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917
Helen RappaportCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD'[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They wi...
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