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The Kaiser''s Mission to Kabul: A Secret Expedition to Afghanistan in World War I
Jules StewartCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99In 1915, at the height of World War I, the Central Powers sent a secret mission, led by Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig, to...
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Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne GlenconnerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'...
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World War II Map by Map
David GrannCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Explore World War II in unprecedented detail with this compelling geographical guide.If you're interested in finding out more about one of the dead...
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Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
Anne ApplebaumCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in ...
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UPROAR!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
Alice LoxtonCurrent price €28.79Original price €29.99**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historian...
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
John Julius NorwichCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held E...
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Women''s Experiences in the Holocaust: In Their Own Words
Agnes Grunwald-SpierCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50This book brings to light womens experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why womens difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken a...
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Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Vera BrittainCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of a...
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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land
Thomas AsbridgeCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99''Asbridge can''t help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along'' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume...
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Industry of Magic & Light
David KeenanCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Industry of Magic & Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its passing. The much-anticipated prequel to K...
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The Pendulum of Battle: Operation Goodwood - July 1944
Christopher DunphieCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99Operation Goodwood, the largest tank battle involving British troops ever to have taken place, has been a perpetual subject of controversy. Was it ...
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The King is Dead
Suzannah LipscombCurrent price €21.24Original price €23.60On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall. Just hours before his passing, his last will and testament had been rea...
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Putin''s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
Mark GaleottiCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50The Financial Times Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right bo...
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The Drowned And The Saved
Primo LeviCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, a...
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Archaeology: Discovering the World''s Secrets
Gaynor AaltonenCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The discovery of Richard III's skeleton has reignited interest in archaeology in the UK.
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Other Important American Documents
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A Ukrainian Christmas
Nadiyka GerbishCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'A wonderful little book of recipes and stories' - NIGELLA LAWSON'History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations' - OLIA HERCULES'Christmas ...
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm GaskillCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide histor...
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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome''s Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Phillip BarlagCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, its sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known...
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah EquianoCurrent price €10.91Original price €12.99A first-person narrative of Olaudah Equiano''s journey from his native Africa to the New World, that follows his capture, introduction to Christian...
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Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick
Nathen AminCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50On 22 August 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious. His disparate army vanquished the forces of Richard III and, accordi...
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Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
Dan PleschCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on...
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua LevineCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, ...
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Broken Legions: Fantasy Skirmish Wargames in the Roman Empire
Mark LathamCurrent price €15.54Original price €18.50The Roman Empire rules the civilised world with an iron fist, seemingly all-powerful and limitless. And yet, the power of Rome is secured not by it...
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Charles II (Penguin Monarchs): The Star King
Clare JacksonCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackCharles II has always been one of the mo...
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Aa Command
Dobinson ColinCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99'The bomber,' said Stanley Baldwin in 1932, 'will always get through'. AA Command is the story of one attempt to prove a politician wrong. Drawing ...
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Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
Richard Freiherr Von RosenCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contempo...
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Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and The Forgotten Heroes of Malta''s War
McDonaldCurrent price €17.59Original price €19.99The world premiere of the musical stage play Star of Strait Street took place in Valletta on 4 April 2017. It celebrates the life of Christina Ratc...
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Castle to Fortress: Medieval to Renaissance Fortifications in the Lands of the Former Western Roman Empire
H WCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Across western Europe the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later medieval period and then, in response ...
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The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell: Henry VIII''s Most Faithful Servant
John SchofieldCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIIIs chief minister and right-hand man during th...
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The First Helicopter Boys: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - The Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960
David TaylorCurrent price €28.16Original price €32.00The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challeng...
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Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch
Nicola TallisCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The first comprehensive biography in three decades of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.During the bloody and uncertain days of th...
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Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II
Wilhelm JohnenCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of second...
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James II (Penguin Monarchs): The Last Catholic King
David WomersleyCurrent price €8.09Original price €8.99'James was a king tragically trapped by principle. Yet was it wise to attempt to change the national religion?'The short reign of James II is gene...
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Nelson''s Arctic Voyage: The Royal Navys first polar expedition 1773
Peter GoodwinCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50In the summer of 1773 the 14-year old Horatio Nelson took part in an expedition to the Arctic, which came close to ending his naval career before i...
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House Plants
Mike MaunderCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Our penchant for keeping house plants is an ancient practice dating back to the Pharaohs. House Plants explores the stories behind the plants we br...
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Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold
John GuyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this...
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The Sugar Barons
Matthew ParkerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and t...
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The Norman Conquest
Marc MorrisCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50I loved it. A suitably epic account of one of the most seismic and far-reaching events in British history Dan SnowAn upstart French duke who sets o...
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions
Walter E. AufrechtCurrent price €104.39Original price €119.99This second edition of A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions presents all of the published inscriptions that have been identified as Ammonite in one vo...
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Charley''s War Vol. 3: Remembrance - The Definitive Collection
Joe ColquhounCurrent price €26.23Original price €31.99Volume 3 of the most celebrated war comic of all time, re-mastered and collected in a full size edition. THE GREATEST ANTI-WAR STORY EVER TOLD. ...
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