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Why Does Britain Have the Lion and the Unicorn
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Caligula: A Biography
Aloys WinterlingCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty m...
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Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War
Shawna M. QuinnCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World Wa...
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Conquerors of the Roman Empire: The Goths
Simon MacDowallCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99In the late 4th century, pressure from the Huns forced the Goths to cross the Danube into the Roman Empire. The resultant Battle of Adrianople in 3...
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Soldiers of Revolution: The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune
Mark LauseCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the organization of armies, and upset the continental balance ...
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The Real Enigma Heroes
Phil ShanahanCurrent price €23.32Original price €26.50For almost sixty years after their deaths, three men, whose brave actions shortened the Second World War by as much as two years, remained virtuall...
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
Michael FarquharCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Current price €17.09Original price €18.99Save 10% -
My Country Wept: One Man''s Incredible Story of Finding Faith, Hope and Forgiveness in the Burundian Civil War
Jessica KomanapalliCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99One man's amazing story of how God protected and provided for him in the midst of the Burundian civil war and brought him to a place of grace, forg...
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Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream
Blair ImaniCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
The Etruscans: A Captivating Guide to the Etruscan Civilization of Ancient Italy That Preceded the Roman Republic
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El Imperio Romano: Una Guía Fascinante sobre el Ascenso y la Caída del Imperio Romano que incluye las historias de Emperadores como Augusto Octavio, Trajano, y Claudio
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Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West
Peter GoughCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99At its peak the Federal Music Project (FMP) employed nearly 16,000 people who reached millions of Americans through performances, composing, teachi...
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The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain
Angela BartieCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99This book deals with post-war culture and society and the Edinburgh Festivals. The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has ...
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The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome
J. G. ManningCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Me...
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Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz
Lauren ArringtonCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a boh...
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Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
Nicholas McDowellCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...
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The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
Jan BrokkenCurrent price €24.89Original price €29.99The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of th...
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Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Guilded Age
Martin BillheimerCurrent price €22.05Original price €24.50Current price €22.05Original price €24.50Save 10% -
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner
Harriet I. FlowerCurrent price €44.36Original price €50.99The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Ro...
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Antisemitism: A World History of Prejudice
Dan Cohn-SherbokCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Anti-Semitism has featured in the history of Western civilization since the Greeks. What the twentieth century has seen through the lens of the hol...
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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
Michael C. C. AdamsCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flo...
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The Canberra in the Falklands War: A Very Strange Way to go to War
Andrew VineCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99This fascinating and insightful book tells the thrilling story of the SS Canberra, the luxury passenger liner which was requesitioned as a troop tr...
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The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa: Accommodating workers and urban residents
De GruyterCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how...
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An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin''s Master Agent
Owen MatthewsCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE ''The most formidable spy in history'' IAN FLEMING ''His work was impeccable'' KIM PHILBY ''The spy to...
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Until Proven Safe: The gripping history of quarantine, from the Black Death to the post-Covid future
Geoff ManaughCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50'Manaugh and Twilley shed illuminating light on a phenomenon that seems utterly of the present moment.' Financial Times Best Books of the Year'Star...
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Red, White, and Blue on the Runway: The 1968 White House Fashion Show and the Politics of American Style
Kimberly Chrisman-CampbellCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99A behind-the-scenes look at the only fashion show held at the White House and the intersections of fashion and politicsOn February 29, 1968, the Wh...
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A Schoolmaster''s War: Harry Ree, British Agent in the French Resistance
Jonathan ReeCurrent price €14.52Original price €16.50The wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own wordsA beautiful collection of writings by schoolmaster-turned-secret ...
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The War Girls of Goodwill House: The start of a gripping historical saga series by Fenella J. Miller
Fenella J MillerCurrent price €12.79Original price €15.99'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...
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Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy: The ILO Contribution to Development (1930-1946)
Veronique Plata-StengerCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Founded in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles as part of the League of Nations'' system, the ILO is still today the main organization responsible ...
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The Dawn''s Early Light
Walter LordCurrent price €25.96Original price €29.50In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then set their ...
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Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps
Sarah KovnerCurrent price €35.19Original price €39.99A pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied pri...
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Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob MchangamaCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the first freedom, free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a ...
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Women Who Changed the World
Igloo BooksCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Discover the lives and stories of amazing women who shaped the modern world, from mathematicians and doctors to aviators, authors and code-breakers...
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SAS Great Escapes
Damien LewisCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' - Dan SnowIn SAS Great Escapes, bestselling author Damien Lewis tells the story of seven of the mo...
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The Moment I Met You: The unmissable and romantic read from the million-copy bestselling author
Debbie JohnsonCurrent price €10.52Original price €12.99*DEBBIE JOHNSON''S GORGEOUSLY ROMANTIC AND UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL, FOREVER YOURS, IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!*''Emotional, beautiful, wonderful. D...
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Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
Emily CockayneCurrent price €14.03Original price €16.50A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and...
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Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship
Andrew WilsonCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus - from independence to 2020''s contested election In 2020 Belarus made headlines aroun...
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The Kelly Hunters
Grantlee KiezaCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brav...
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Song Regained: Working with Greek Poetic Fragments
De GruyterCurrent price €114.89Original price €135.16Apart from relatively few exceptions of texts which survive intact, what we have of Ancient Greek literature remains, to a great degree, fragmentar...
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The War Girls of Goodwill House: The start of a gripping historical saga series by Fenella J. Miller
Fenella J MillerCurrent price €22.80Original price €28.50'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane As war looms, can they kee...
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Women Who Changed the World
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From Pole to Pole: the Life or Quintin Riley 1905-1980
Jonathon RileyCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
Roguery in Print: Crime and Culture in Early Modern London
Lena LiapiCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99The first comprehensive analysis of an extensive body of rogue pamphlets published in early modern London. Early modern England was fascinated by ...
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History of Britain and Ireland: The Definitive Visual Guide
DKCurrent price €27.00Original price €30.00Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from Stone Age Britain to the present day, in ...
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Thin Places
Kerri ni DochartaighCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Beautiful' Amy Liptrot'Powerful, unflinch...
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Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
David NirenbergCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as individuals and communities, shaping our psychologies,...
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