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Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages)
Colin ThubronCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Colin Thurbons beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts,...
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Normandy 44: D-Day and the Battle for France
James HollandCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail, Book of the Week'A superb account of the invasio...
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Sex Tips for Husbands and Wives from 1894
Ruth SmythersCurrent price €7.21Original price €8.90In 1894, Ruth Smythers, ''Beloved wife of The Reverend L. D. Smythers'', wrote: ''One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: gi...
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Crusaders
Dan JonesCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades...
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The True History of Chocolate
Michael D CoeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Chocolate the food of the Gods has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of Maya studies, Michael Coe, an...
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Il-Piena Kapitali f’Malta u pajjizi ohra
Edward Attard€6.99Mil-1800, f’Malta, sakemm kienet abolita l-piena tal-mewt, din is-sentenza ngħatat 170 darba. Kien hemm każ ieħor fejn il-kundanna saret barra min...
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter FrankopanCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in s...
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Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend
John NicholCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99'The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero 'Compell...
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Max HastingsCurrent price €28.79Original price €29.99The 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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The Templars
Dan JonesCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Dan Jones narrates in his inimitably vivid and authoritative fashion the remarkable story of the Knights Templar. 'Exhilarating, epic, sword-swing...
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Assedju 1565 - Ġrajja ta' qlubija
Vincent Zammit€15.00Għas-sajf tal-2015, fl-450 anniversarju tal-Assedju l-Kbir ta’ Malta, Vincent Zammit, ipprepara 90 kitba qasira dwar diversi aspetti ta’ dan l-asse...
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Colonial Encounters - Maltese Experiences of British Rule 1800-1970s
John Chircop€20.00This volume brings together international and Maltese scholars, offering a line-up of innovative contributions to some of the most current – and de...
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Għall-Glorja tal-Patrija! - Kapriċċi Patrijottiċi
Aleks Farrugia€15.00Għax fin-nisġa tal-Istorja dejjem hemm nitfa ħrafa u fit-tifsila ta’ kull ħrafa biċa Storja… Min kien l-ewwel Malti? U l-frodist Pupull? X’kien id...
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The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph HenrichCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW ...
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The World: A Family History
Simon Sebag MontefioreCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author -...
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The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
Dan JonesCurrent price €13.25Original price €16.99The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Cris...
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
Rose GeorgeCurrent price €14.61Original price €16.99Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about ...
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Gin: A Short History
Dr Moses JenkinsCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Gin is a drink deeply rooted in British culture. From Dutch Courage to Gin Soaked, our language is full of expressions which reflect our gin drinki...
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Cilka''s Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather MorrisCurrent price €15.95Original price €18.99Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration C...
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Traitors of Rome (Eagles of the Empire 18): Roman army heroes Cato and Macro face treachery in the ranks
Simon ScarrowCurrent price €14.35Original price €17.50TRAITORS OF ROME: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAn enthralling Cato and Macro adventure from bestselling author Simon Scarrow. Not to be missed by rea...
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The Battle of The Nile: A Ladybird Expert Book
Sam WillisCurrent price €14.07Original price €15.99Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why was the Battle of the Nile so decisive in the French Revolutionary Wars?- Why did the French believ...
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Churchill, Malta, and Gibraltar
Victor Aquilina€40.00In one of the most decisive moments of World War II, two specks of British possessions in the Mediterranean, Malta and Gibraltar, were catapulted t...
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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: A History of Now
Michael BurleighCurrent price €13.99Original price €15.99In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the ...
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Paul StrathernCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50'A wickedly entertaining read' The TimesA Daily Mail Book of the WeekThe sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious famili...
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SAS Nazi Hunters
Damien LewisCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsPraise for Sunday Times No.1 bestse...
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Malta: The Order of St John (PB)
Thomas Freller€25.00The urban, cultural and political profile of the Maltese islands is deeply marked by the presence for 268 years of the Knights of St John. The Orde...
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Strait Street – An irresistible invitation
George Cini€15.00To the casual visitor, Strait Street, popularly known as Strada Stretta was an irresistible invitation to fly in the face of inhibition and give in...
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Story of Malta - 9th edition: 2022
Brian Blouet€15.00This compact, comprehensive book, covers all periods of Maltese history and prehistory, including the Temple Culture, Malta in Antiquity, the Arab ...
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Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US
Jane MayerCurrent price €15.99Original price €18.50A LITHUB BOOK OF THE DECADE. The US is one of the largest democracies in the world - or is it? America is experiencing an age of profound economi...
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
Agenda BookshopCurrent price €12.47Original price €12.99By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had kn...
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Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor CleghornCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, fel...
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Jiena Malala: It-Tifla li Tkellmet Favur l-Edukazzjoni u Sparawlha t-Taliban
Malala Yousafzai€15.00Jiena Malala: It-Tifla li Tkellmet Favur l-Edukazzjoni u Sparawlha t-Taliban / I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the...
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The Art of War: Annotated Edition
Sun TzuCurrent price €9.89Original price €10.99For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with enduring insights...
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
DKCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civi...
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Suleyman The Magnificent and Malta 1565
Arnold Cassola€13.00In his latest book on the topic, Arnold Cassola utilizes exclusively primary Ottoman sources (1564-1566), supplemented by contemporary evidence bas...
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The Making Of The Atomic Bomb
Richard RhodesCurrent price €21.11Original price €21.99WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-cen...
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Hungover: A History of the Morning After and One Mans Quest for a Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-StallCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99We've all been there. One minute you're fast asleep, and in the next you're tumbling from dreams of deserts and demons, into semi-consciousness, mo...
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To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Ian KershawCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the contin...
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Churchill''s War in Words: His Finest Quotes, 1939-1945
Jonathan AsburyCurrent price €13.49Original price €14.99Churchill''s War in Words transports the reader back to the storm-struck days of the Second World War. Focussing only on words used at the time, it...
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World
Ann ShenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World...
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We went to the Moon
Gordon Caruana Dingli€30.00Man first landed on the Moon on the Apollo 11 flight. While Michael Collins remained in orbit, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed at Tranquility...
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. DavisCurrent price €13.75Original price €15.99Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical politi...
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The Maltese
Aldo Azzopardi€13.99‘The Maltese’ is a brief work by Aldo Azzopardi about Maltese history seen from the eyes of Xmun, a local inhabitant through the ages. Azzopardi i...
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Do Lets Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Gareth RussellCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull ...
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The Last Hours in Paris: A powerful, moving and redemptive story of wartime love and sacrifice for fans of historical fiction
Ruth DruartCurrent price €12.18Original price €14.50War brings them together.Will liberation tear them apart?''Wonderful. A heartbreaking story of the power of love and forgiveness'' JILL MANSELL''A ...
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Soviet T-62 Main Battle Tank
James KinnearCurrent price €35.19Original price €39.99A highly illustrated study of the T-62 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold W...
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron ChernowCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story...
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