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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. 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Hardcover, first Irish edition 1983, a simultaneous UK edition was... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED159 Geoffrey Trease - D.H Lawrence - The Phoenix & the Flame , A Biography - HB 1st Ed 1973 A hardcover first edition, Macmillan 1973 , of Geoffrey Tease's biography of D.H Lawrence, The Phoenix and the Flame. D.H Lawrence was one of the major english language novelists of the 20th century, and the first novelist to break through the confined... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10335H Peter Popham / The Lady And The Peacock : The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and determination have captivated people around the globe. Celebrated today as one of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X94407H,X94524H Richard Downes / In Search of Iraq : From Babylon to Baghdad (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95073H,wW3883H Robert Dallek / An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Hardback) Chronicles John F. 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The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... 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It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... 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Quick view sku: BIG75 Owen Dudley Edwards - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes HB - Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle A hardcover first Irish edition, Dolmen Press, of Owen Dudley Edwards biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. Hardcover, first Irish edition 1983, a simultaneous UK edition was... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED159 Geoffrey Trease - D.H Lawrence - The Phoenix & the Flame , A Biography - HB 1st Ed 1973 A hardcover first edition, Macmillan 1973 , of Geoffrey Tease's biography of D.H Lawrence, The Phoenix and the Flame. D.H Lawrence was one of the major english language novelists of the 20th century, and the first novelist to break through the confined... 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Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12377H Frank McDonald / The Builders: How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has been more prominent than the astonishing boom in... 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SALE Quick view sku: 15179E Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice This is a portrait of one of America's First Ladies, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school through to the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair. The biography covers Hillary Clinton's love and ambition in life and in politics, and asks why would... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... 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He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... 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Quick view Payne, Robert - The Great Charlie - Vintage Pan PB 1957 Charlie Chaplin Biography A vintage paperback first Pan edition, 1957, of Robert Payne's biography of film star Charlie Chaplin, revised for this 1957 edition, illustrated with b&w photographsIn excellent condition, some very light bumping to corners, as well as normal... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12377H Frank McDonald / The Builders: How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has been more prominent than the astonishing boom in... 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He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87565H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 70826H Caroline Moorehead / Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7610H,rR12083H Noam Chomsky / Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83019H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... 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Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... 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Quick view sku: rR12377H Frank McDonald / The Builders: How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has been more prominent than the astonishing boom in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63253H,63323H Paul Strathern / Einstein And Relativity At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...E = mc2 is the world's most famous equation, but what does it mean and why were Einstein's theories so groundbreaking? Einstein's revolutionary papers on his Theories of Relativity... 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Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 70826H Caroline Moorehead / Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7610H,rR12083H Noam Chomsky / Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83019H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
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Quick view sku: 88196H Heinrich Harrer / Seven Years in Tibet A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81533H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87565H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 70826H Caroline Moorehead / Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7610H,rR12083H Noam Chomsky / Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83019H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 81533H Alistair Urquhart / The Forgotten Highlander Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 87565H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 70826H Caroline Moorehead / Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7610H,rR12083H Noam Chomsky / Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83019H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 87565H Antony Beevor / Stalingrad Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments.In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69873H Anthony Seldon / Cameron at 10: The Verdict The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron's government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 70826H Caroline Moorehead / Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7610H,rR12083H Noam Chomsky / Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83019H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... 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Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... 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Quick view sku: rR7610H,rR12083H Noam Chomsky / Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 83019H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... 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Quick view sku: 83019H Matt Cooper / Who Really Runs Ireland? Having money and not having it; making it and losing it; using it and misusing it; giving it and taking it . . . this is the story of Ireland during the boom, described in jaw-dropping detail in Who Really Runs Ireland?Leading journalist Matt Cooper has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 76059H Gavin Menzies / 1421: The Year China Discovered The World On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 56261H The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this features cranks and criminals.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: X96127H,wW4011H Bill Bryson / One Summer (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 82679H,82861H Andrew Hodges / Alan Turing: The Enigma This is the official book that inspired the film The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, and which has received eight Oscar nominations, including: Best film; Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Supporting Actress; Best... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
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Quick view sku: 88142H Niall Ferguson / Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 57069H Margaret Powell / Climbing the Stairs From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising. It's not just being at the beck and call of the people upstairs, when even the children of the family can treat you like dirt, but... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 82993H Laurence Rees / Auschwitz In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view IRISH LITERATURE | sku: rR7390H Maurice O'Sullivan / Twenty Years A-Growing - Fiche Bliain ag Fás - Kerry Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... 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The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 62693H Asne Seierstad / A Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal In January 2003 Asne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: rR11160H Geoff Tibballs / Voices from the Titanic The graphic, first-hand story of the first voyage and disastrous sinking of RMS Titanic - told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner, Titanic, has been told countless times since that fateful night on 14th April 1912 by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 81615H Bobby Aherne / D'you Remember Yer Man? Talk to anybody who has ever lived in Dublin, and they'll be able to tell you about some of the strange characters who have roamed this city's streets throughout the ages. With cheeky narration from storyteller Bobby Aherne and amusing illustrations by... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 80854H James Lucas / The Last Days of the Reich: Collapse of Nazi Germany May 1945 This is a book about old Europe, the old and awful order as it sank into the terminal wreckage of war. Not just about the military collapse of Nazi Germany, but also about the unremitting horror and suffering for the defeated in the weeks that followed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 81069H John Sweetman / The Dambusters Raid A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: 82884H Raymond Lamont-Brown / Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Samurai Comprehensive coverage of a complex and apparently wholly alien strategy Technical as well as psychological details Actual attacks described in full Includes human torpedoes * Kami Kaze: a 'Divine Wind' sent by the great Goddess of the Sun,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR5519H Michael Asher / Get Rommel: The Secret British Mission to Kill Hitler's Greatest General How the first ever SAS operation ended in disaster in the desert In summer 1941 Erwin Rommel was Hitler's favourite general: he had driven the British out of Libya and stood poised to invade Egypt. He seemed unbeatable. So the British decided to have him... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 5917M Ross Kemp / Ross Kemp on Afghanistan Ross Kemp risks all to tell the story of the British soldier in Ross Kemp on Afghanistan. He has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10682H Fatima Mernissi / The Harem within As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
SALE Quick view sku: 6014M Nien Cheng / Life and Death in Shanghai Originally published in 1986, a memoir in which the author recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution, during which she was falsely accused of being a British spy and was jailed for 6 years.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
SALE Quick view sku: 74477H Maria McCann / As Meat Loves Salt A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph 'Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the pond of a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
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This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR3857H,rR6314H Andrew Marr / A History of Modern Britain A History of Modern Britain" confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 63254H Helen Alice Dear / My Family is All I Have Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Just weeks after her arrival, she found herself unable to leave and struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and terrifying environment. Her... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72216H Christopher Ward / And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: x54664H Mark Logue / The King's Speech: Based on the Recently Discovered Diaries of Lionel Logue (Large Paperback) One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 66533H Bill Bryson / One Summer: America 1927 In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 3976M Patrick Hennessey / The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of war. Patrick Hennessey is pretty much like any other member of Generation X: he spent the first half of the noughties... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9116H Damien Lewis / Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away' Frederick Forsyth. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW8459H Penry Williams / The Later Tudors: England, 1547-1603 (Hardback) The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: wW5670H Antonia Fraser / The Six Wives Of Henry VIII (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 74987H Timothy Knatchbull / From a Clear Blue Sky This is a powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother, his grandparents and a family friend, published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity. It is the winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 76121H Claire Tomalin / Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 44276H Joe Klein / The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton Astute, even-handed and keenly intelligent, THE NATURAL is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today. We see how The... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X92197H Jung Chang / Mao: The Unknown Story (Hardback) Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Previous 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: rR8843H Erik Larson / The Devil in the White City The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR9653H Dee Brown / Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 45024H Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X94284H,wW3689H Paula Byrne / Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy (Large Paperback) The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and... 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