Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900
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Napoleon the Great
Andrew RobertsCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard C...
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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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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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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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Voices From the Napoleonic Wars: From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier''s life in the early 1800s
Jon E. LewisCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years ...
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The Maltese in Scicli and Capo Passero (1675-1777)
Arnold Cassola€15.00This book deals with the presence of Maltese people in the Sicilian town of Scicli in the course of the 17th century and with a number of Maltese b...
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 18711918
Katja HoyerCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Otto von Bismarck had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine indiv...
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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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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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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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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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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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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
Mark SingletonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world-practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping ma...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Peninsular War Atlas (Revised)
Colonel Nick LipscombeCurrent price €56.31Original price €63.99The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and...
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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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A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
Toby WilkinsonCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the...
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Bismarck: A Life
Jonathan SteinbergCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between ...
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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Shashi TharoorCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharo...
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The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
William DalrympleCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZ...
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