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Quick view sku: rR12222H Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... 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Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 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... 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Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... 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However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. 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Quick view sku: 7251F Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive reports of economic and trade growth seem... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38870H Stephen Alford / The Watchers : A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen AlfordElizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28049H Eric Hobsbawn / The Age Of Extremes : 1914-1991 THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 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... 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Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... 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Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... 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However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. 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Quick view sku: rR38870H Stephen Alford / The Watchers : A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen AlfordElizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR28049H Eric Hobsbawn / The Age Of Extremes : 1914-1991 THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 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... 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Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8750H Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38835H Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38355H Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916 Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... 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However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR28049H Eric Hobsbawn / The Age Of Extremes : 1914-1991 THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised the legendary maritime disaster. Why was the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8750H Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38835H Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38355H Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916 Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR24754H Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised the legendary maritime disaster. Why was the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8750H Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38835H Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38355H Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916 Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR7314H Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised the legendary maritime disaster. Why was the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8750H Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38835H Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38355H Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916 Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38807H Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75 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... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38986H Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised the legendary maritime disaster. Why was the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8750H Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38835H Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38355H Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916 Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38986H Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised the legendary maritime disaster. Why was the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X92120H Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback) 'If anything happens to me, write a book and tell it like it is' This book provides the answers to the many still unanswered questions about Diana, Princess of Wales, and why she did the things she did. Which of her lovers did she rate 'a ten, the... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR31720H Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7049E Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR37088H Donald Thomas / Cochrane Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR8750H Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38835H Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38355H Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916 Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23564H Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... 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It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... 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He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... MSRP: €3.50 Was: €3.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39083H Max Hastings / Warriors An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 506547E Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic monuments in history - the Sphinx. But Khafra has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 81324H The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens of Britain, a magisterial and entertainingly... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR38883H Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR33419H Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW20955H Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback) An endearing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy's personal assistant and occasional nanny-and the lessons about life and love she learned from the glamorous first lady. In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just... 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Quick view sku: 39441H Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR32417H,rR37175H Peter De Rosa / Rebels ( The Irish Rising of 1916) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35621H Simon Winchester / Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Vintage Book Club Editions- CBC / Foyle's Book Club | sku: MED1845 Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952 Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He gained an international reputation... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30492H Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan; the most crucial battle of the cold... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR35591H Jared Diamond / Guns Germs And Steel A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36442H Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view Russia | sku: rR38108H William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and signalled the beginning of the end of the Third Reich of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR33424H Laurence Rees / Their Darkest Hour : People Tested to the Extreme in WWII How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi concentration camp? Award-winning... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR3018H Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR18006H Doctor X / The Bitter Pill : An Insider's Shocking Expose of the Irish Health System Dr X has worked in Ireland's health service over the past six years. Like hundreds of other junior doctors, he has witnessed first-hand the problems facing the system, such as: * the effects of a culture of fear, bullying and rank-closing in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 78786H Raymond Seitz / Over Here OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't return home, but decided to stay on in the UK... MSRP: Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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