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Space: A thrilling human history by Britain''s beloved astronaut Tim Peake
Tim PeakeCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future for...
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Emerson''s Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea
Tyler GreenCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emersons Nature urges Americans to value and immerse...
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
Henrietta HarrisonCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99A fascinating history of Chinas relations with the Westtold through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to Chin...
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How to Survive History
Cody CassidyCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50A humorous and informative guide to surviving historys most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive.Histo...
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Gerard RussellCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek pro...
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
R. B. BernsteinCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military...
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. BaptistCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's lat...
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Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa
Dipo FaloyinCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.'Warm, funny, biting and essenti...
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Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics)
George OrwellCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier i...
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A Brief History of History
Professor Jeremy BlackCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50In A Brief History of History, acclaimed historian Jeremy Black seeks to reinvigorate and redefine our ideas about history. The stories we tell abo...
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall FergusonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial h...
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Anne Frank: The Collected Works
Anne FrankCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99Anne Franks diary is one of the most recognised and widely read books of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people visit the Anne Fran...
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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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John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary
David WaldstreicherCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going s...
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Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
Guy HalsallCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to th...
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Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
Jo TeeuwisseCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99**An International Bestseller**Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world ...
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''Enemy Sighted'': The Story of the Battle of Britain Bunker and the World s First Integrated Air Defence System
Dilip AminCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Enemy Sighted is the story of the world's first integrated air defence system and how the coalition of Hurricanes and Spitfires, Fighter Command's ...
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Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Natalie HaynesCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Get ready to meet the goddesses.In Divine Might, Natalie Haynes, the bestselling author of Stone Blind and Pandora's Jar, introduces us to the stor...
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Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
Caroline MooreheadCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engro...
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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe
John GuyCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwa...
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Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA
Michael GrazianoCurrent price €35.99Original 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 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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Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939
Peter ShambrookCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Policy of Deceit is the work of a lifetime, a forensic, fair-minded examination of the Hussein-McMahon correspondence that exposes how the British ...
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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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Hope and Glory: Rugby League in Thatcher''s Britain
Anthony BroxtonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Hope and Glory recreates the extraordinary era of Thatcherite Britain with the dramatic tension of a novel, revealing it as a critical moment in ru...
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The Stonewall Reader
Penguin Books LtdCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activis...
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
Thomas GeveCurrent price €13.27Original 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 Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids
Bill ManleyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A brand-new translation of a philosophical classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt 4,000 years ago. The Teaching ...
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Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Brendan SimmsCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclai...
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A History of Modern Europe
John MerrimanCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Students and instructors alike praise A History of Modern Europe for its authoritative coverage from the Renaissance to the present day. Written in...
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Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John
John CarrCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need ...
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Grant
Ron ChernowCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A dramatic portrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow, author of ...
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Messiah
Jonathan KeatesCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses...
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The Byzantine Art of War
Michael J. DeckerCurrent price €19.35Original price €21.99Throughout its history the Byzantine empire faced a multitude of challenges from foreign invaders-the Hunnic hordes of Attila, the Arab armies of I...
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Splendour in the Honour of God
Cynthia de Giorgio€90.00St John’s Conventual Church of the Knights of Malta St John’s Co-Cathedral is not only a historical, cultural and artistic monument of internationa...
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Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World''s First Empire
Eckart FrahmCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the worlds very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable...
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Napoleon
Alan ForrestCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie o...
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Invasion: Russias Bloody War and Ukraines Fight for Survival
Luke HardingCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGThe first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving...
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The Devils Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of Americas Secret Government
David TalbotCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells Americas greatest untold story: the United States rise to world dominance un...
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Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world
Karen ArmstrongCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book,...
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Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life
Anne GlenconnerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the first....full of wit, joy, vivid vignettes and useful insights...she has another bestseller...
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The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War
Tom WhippleCurrent price €23.32Original price €26.50'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable char...
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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Dr Kit HeyamCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and mov...
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Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 18951945
Anthony Tucker-JonesCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99'Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' - Professor Peter C...
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