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Europe''s Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War
Peter H. WilsonCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) to...
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The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
Martyn RadyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the g...
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Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life
Philip EadeCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The Sunday Times bestseller A Radio 4 Book of the Week, June 2021 Highly readable deserve...
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Malta Spitfire
George BeurlingCurrent price €12.18Original price €14.00Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes as they swept eastwards i...
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Roman Architecture in Malta
David Cardona€35.00Of the many facets of Roman architecture, we will here be dealing with one that had great importance for the overall visual appearance of the struc...
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Among Others – The Maltese in Egypt: Life, Crime and Death (1860s-1923)
Michael Refalo€40.00When Britain assumed its ‘veiled protectorate’, Egypt became more attractive to the Maltese who, themselves, were British subjects in virtue of the...
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Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944
Paddy AshdownCurrent price €3.99Original price €15.99Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time. ...
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Admirals of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John
Michael Galea€25.00The Order of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem was from its very beginnings a Hospitaller Order. It was founded in Jerusalem in the mid-11th cent...
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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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The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction
David M. GwynnCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills ...
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Save 10% Democracy: A Life
Paul CartledgeCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today -- and has been been for ove...
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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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Save 10% Victory in Europe 1944-1945: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #11)
James HollandCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50BOOK 11 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Kei...
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The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan
Eric BlehmCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Eric Blehm, author of the award-winning The Last Season, is back with another true adventure story, The Only Thing Worth Dying For. Set in the imme...
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
William DalrympleCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013 'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph 'Dazzling' Sun...
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Save 10% The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: Her Last Years and the Scandal That Made Her
Graham WatsonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50No one can know all she had to go through. The merciful judgement of all connected with that terrible life lies with God; And we may all be thankfu...
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Save 10% 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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Save 19% 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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The History Hit Miscellany of Facts, Figures and Fascinating Finds introduced by Dan Snow
History HitCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'History is a bottomless reservoir of all the bonkers, heroic, awful and weird things we eccentric humans have ever done. We can't help generating ...
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Grandma Gatewood''s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben MontgomeryCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.992014 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in History / Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometo...
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The Black Banners (Declassified): How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11
Ali SoufanCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99Widely heralded on publication as a must-read (Military Review) and important window on Americas battle with al-Qaeda (Washington Post), Ali Soufan...
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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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The Book of Tea
Okakura KakuzoCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Par...
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Save 19% Kairos: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Jenny ErpenbeckCurrent price €13.76Original price €16.99Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fu...
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Masters of the Battlefield: Great Commanders from the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era
Paul DavisCurrent price €29.91Original price €33.99In Great Commanders, Davis turns his attention to military leaders from throughout history who stand out for their abilities - indeed, individuals ...
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Save 14% 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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Save 17% 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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Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Alan TansmanCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, Japanese literature is infused from its beginnings with written traditions from around the globe...
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Save 10% 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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Save 10% Pax: War and Peace in Rome''s Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Tom HollandCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has long been revered ...
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Save 10% 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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Save 10% Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry KissingerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in t...
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Save 10% The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben MacintyreCurrent price €15.75Original 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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Save 10% Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia
Tobias BeckerCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of retro to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its...
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Save 10% Washington: A Life
Ron ChernowCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume lif...
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Save 17% Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity
Monica MaciasCurrent price €14.53Original 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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Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia
Louis FerranteCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99DISCOVER THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA - FROM A MAN WHO'S SEEN IT ALL FROM THE INSIDEIn BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former mafia member...
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Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World
Prof Jane OhlmeyerCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Irelandin a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campai...
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Save 10% Plague: A Very Short Introduction
Paul SlackCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was respons...
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Meghan Misunderstood
Sean SmithCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Oxford University PressCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'A companion to be cherished', 'judicious and authoritative', 'informative and entertaining', an 'invaluable work of reference' - these are just so...
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The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
Andy McNabCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first time ever, ...
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Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy
David CannadineCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, bec...
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The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
David J. BodenhamerCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constit...
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent
Judi DenchCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLet Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard as she shares her story with, and endur...
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Angela Y. DavisCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50From the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world...
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
Anthony KaldellisCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in...
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