History: Specific Events & Topics
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Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
Jennifer WorthCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she becam...
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On a Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic
Bill WormstedtCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided ...
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Overreach: The Inside Story of Putins War Against Ukraine
Owen MatthewsCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* ...
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Elizabeth: Queen and Crown
Sarah GristwoodCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Sarah Gristwood celebrates the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II and how her enduring popularity was tantamount to her many supporters. The twists and t...
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Gerri ChanelCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the L...
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Antwerp: The Glory Years
Michael PyeCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at ...
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie RubenholdCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring chal...
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1983: The World at the Brink
Taylor DowningCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw...
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Samurai Weapons: Tools of the Warrior
Don CunninghamCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Unlock the secrets of the legendary weapons of the samuraiWhile the samurai is well known as the military nobility of medieval Japan, their range o...
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A Spy Among Friends: Now a major ITV series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce
Ben MacintyreCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50**NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ ...
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Black Monday
Victor Aquilina€32.00Black Monday, A Night of Mob Violence is a firsthand account of the burning down of The Times building on 15 October 1979 by Labour Party thugs. It...
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Max HastingsCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hasting...
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Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
Tom PhillipsCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg JennerThis is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've ...
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Why Im No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Reni Eddo-LodgeCurrent price €15.90Original price €15.99Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We cant afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak *Updated edition featur...
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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
Hein de HaasCurrent price €36.39Original price €37.39Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated si...
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Bloodlands: THE book to help you understand todays Eastern Europe
Timothy SnyderCurrent price €15.35Original price €15.99A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million pe...
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The Medici
Mary HollingsworthCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to be...
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Patrick JoyceCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompa...
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Caliban Shrieks
Jack HiltonCurrent price €17.81Original 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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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Raj PatelCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50'A work of exhilarating scope and relevance ... What a rare and powerful experience to feel a book in your very body' Naomi Klein'Health is not som...
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Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Daniel LiebermanCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSONThe myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes t...
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Breathe: A Life in Flow
Rickson GracieCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracies stun...
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
Guido AlfaniCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didnt help) their commu...
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Our Moon: A Human History
Rebecca BoyleCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship'TELEGRAPH'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book t...
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