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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58673H Julia Lovell / The Great Wall : China Against the World 1000 BC - AD 2000 Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China's Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the 'barbarians' at its borders. But behind 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: rR53697H Willy Lindwer / The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR40914H Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42051H Nathaniel Fick / One Bullet Away : The making of a Marine Officer The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career trajectory of high school to college to white... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58222H Carol Drinkwater / Suffragette 18th June, 1910 We marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. It was a glorious day. The sun shone warmly. Everyone was in good spirits. There were aristocrats, artists, even my mother looked happy. She who has been so opposed to... 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 Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED8085 Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years... MSRP: Now: €7.00 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: rR59000H,rR56758H Graham Robb / The Ancient Paths : Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39437H 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 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 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: rR59939H Anne Somerset / Elizabeth I An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court. Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50840H,rR51204H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41195H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers On a parched evening in the Philippines in 1945, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and... 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Quick view sku: rR52414H Tim Coates / Bloody Sunday, 1972 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: rR38355H,rR42083H 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: rR58673H Julia Lovell / The Great Wall : China Against the World 1000 BC - AD 2000 Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China's Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the 'barbarians' at its borders. But behind 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: rR53697H Willy Lindwer / The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. Here six women whose lives touched Anne Frank's in her final months... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39936H Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 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 Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW35842H Ryan Tubridy / JFK in Ireland : Four Days That Changed a President (Large Paperback) In his first book, award-winning radio and TV presenter Ryan Tubridy tells the fascinating story of the iconic president John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland. The idolized, handsome and glamorous John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the great-grandson of Irish... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41567H 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: rR40914H Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42051H Nathaniel Fick / One Bullet Away : The making of a Marine Officer The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career trajectory of high school to college to white... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58222H Carol Drinkwater / Suffragette 18th June, 1910 We marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. It was a glorious day. The sun shone warmly. Everyone was in good spirits. There were aristocrats, artists, even my mother looked happy. She who has been so opposed to... 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 Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED8085 Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years... MSRP: Now: €7.00 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: rR59000H,rR56758H Graham Robb / The Ancient Paths : Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39437H 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 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 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: rR59939H Anne Somerset / Elizabeth I An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court. Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50840H,rR51204H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41195H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers On a parched evening in the Philippines in 1945, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR40526H,rR45773H Russell Shorto / The Island at the Centre of the World : The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York It was situated on a perfect natural harbour at the mouth of a great river leading into a huge new land. Manhattan Island was to grow into the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world. THE ISLAND AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD... 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 sku: rR60070H Joby Warrick / Black Flags : The Rise of ISIS *WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR38355H,rR42083H 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: rR58673H Julia Lovell / The Great Wall : China Against the World 1000 BC - AD 2000 Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China's Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the 'barbarians' at its borders. But behind 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: rR53697H Willy Lindwer / The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. Here six women whose lives touched Anne Frank's in her final months... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39936H Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 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 Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW35842H Ryan Tubridy / JFK in Ireland : Four Days That Changed a President (Large Paperback) In his first book, award-winning radio and TV presenter Ryan Tubridy tells the fascinating story of the iconic president John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland. The idolized, handsome and glamorous John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the great-grandson of Irish... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41567H 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: rR40914H Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts readers inside the... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR42051H Nathaniel Fick / One Bullet Away : The making of a Marine Officer The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career trajectory of high school to college to white... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58222H Carol Drinkwater / Suffragette 18th June, 1910 We marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. It was a glorious day. The sun shone warmly. Everyone was in good spirits. There were aristocrats, artists, even my mother looked happy. She who has been so opposed to... 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 Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED8085 Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years... MSRP: Now: €7.00 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: rR59000H,rR56758H Graham Robb / The Ancient Paths : Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR39437H 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 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 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: rR59939H Anne Somerset / Elizabeth I An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court. Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50840H,rR51204H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41195H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers On a parched evening in the Philippines in 1945, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR40526H,rR45773H Russell Shorto / The Island at the Centre of the World : The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York It was situated on a perfect natural harbour at the mouth of a great river leading into a huge new land. Manhattan Island was to grow into the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world. THE ISLAND AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD... 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 sku: rR60070H Joby Warrick / Black Flags : The Rise of ISIS *WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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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 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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Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50840H,rR51204H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41195H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers On a parched evening in the Philippines in 1945, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and... 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Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50840H,rR51204H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41195H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers On a parched evening in the Philippines in 1945, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and... 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There were aristocrats, artists, even my mother looked happy. She who has been so opposed to... 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 Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED8085 Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years... 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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 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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Quick view Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome | sku: MED8085 Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years... MSRP: Now: €7.00 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... 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Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a man's world. With courage, brilliance and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR50840H,rR51204H The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR41195H Hampton Sides / Ghost Soldiers On a parched evening in the Philippines in 1945, 511 American POWs were saved from almost certain death. A force of elite US troops from the Sixth Ranger Battalion slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines and marched for three days through jungle and... 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Quick view sku: rR40526H,rR45773H Russell Shorto / The Island at the Centre of the World : The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York It was situated on a perfect natural harbour at the mouth of a great river leading into a huge new land. Manhattan Island was to grow into the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the world. THE ISLAND AT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD... 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 sku: rR60070H Joby Warrick / Black Flags : The Rise of ISIS *WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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 sku: rR60070H Joby Warrick / Black Flags : The Rise of ISIS *WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR60070H Joby Warrick / Black Flags : The Rise of ISIS *WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016**In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view
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