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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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. 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He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... 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He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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This is a necessary book - painful,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 13066E Larry Collins / Freedom at Midnight : Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Viceroy's House Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... 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He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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This is a necessary book - painful,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 13066E Larry Collins / Freedom at Midnight : Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Viceroy's House Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 13066E Larry Collins / Freedom at Midnight : Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Viceroy's House Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 13066E Larry Collins / Freedom at Midnight : Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Viceroy's House Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: 2555F Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 22931H Bart Van Es / The Cut Out Girl WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 13066E Larry Collins / Freedom at Midnight : Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Viceroy's House Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 22931H Bart Van Es / The Cut Out Girl WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 13066E Larry Collins / Freedom at Midnight : Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Viceroy's House Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 13066E Larry Collins / Freedom at Midnight : Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Viceroy's House Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha.Seventy years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 23335H Martyn Whittock / A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends.Marytn Whittock provides an accessible overview while also assessing the current state of research regarding the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 8331F Judy Parkinson / Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has continued... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 30446H Mark Kurlansky / The Basque History Of The World The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 33511H Danny Conlon / Great Irish Heroes : Michael Collins, Billy the Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Ned Kelly: Fifty True Stories of Irish Men and Women Who Changed the World From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 8243M Chris Hunter / Extreme Risk BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 14087E Adam Robinson / Bin Laden : Behind the Mask of the Terrorist A zealous freedom-fighter who has galvanised Islamic fundamentalists worldwide into a fighting force capable of toppling evil western civilisation. A simple man, pious, upstanding and principled; the moral leader of the faithful. This is... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 7877M Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus These essays by Stephen Jay Gould, selected from the last six years of his writing, all examine aspects of natural history. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 32800H Martyn Whittock / A Brief History of The Third Reich : The Rise and Fall of the Nazis The abuse of power, genocide, the destruction of total war, unimaginable cruelty and the suffering of millions were all central features of Hitler's Nazi regime. Yet the Nazis were also highly successful in manipulating images and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 7799E James Hamilton-Paterson / Empire of the Clouds : When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 7668E Edward Lucas / Deception : Spies Lies and How Russia Dupes the West From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 7661E Robin Moore / Task Force Dagger : The Hunt for Bin Laden As the [al-Qaeda terrorists] charged one wall, three Green Berets leaned over the parapets. . . 'Focus, squeeze, focus, squeeze' they recited quietly . . . Each time the lifeless body of an al-Qaida terrorist would snap back through the desert air... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 28207H Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106499c Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets 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: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28828H Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7377F E. M. Nathanson / The Dirty Dozen The story of a daring mission carried out by 12 army convicts, made famous by the film of the same name.Twelve bearded, filthy GIs wait behind barbed wire, prisoners of their own army. Murderers, thieves, rapists, they wait to be sentenced... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28785H Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33180H Michael Pye / The Edge of the World : How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are Featured in New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 23413H John Burnett / Where Soldiers Fear To Tread In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: 30263H Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 28462H Marion Schreiber / The Twentieth Train 'This book is a memorial to a lost generation' Daily TelegraphOn 19 April 1943, three young men stopped a train. The train was transporting 1,631 Jews from the Belgian town of Mechelen to Auschwitz. Equipped only with four pairs of pliers,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 18698E John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 33094H,33142H Jung Chang / Empress Dowager Cixi : The Concubine Who Launched Modern China From the bestselling author of Wild Swans, comes the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 7511M Peter Harclerode / Fighting Dirty : The inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden From CIA operations in Eastern Europe after 1945 to the Afghan War and its legacy, FIGHTING DIRTY investigates the use of secret armies. As Peter Harclerode reveals, the Afghan War was not the first time western governments have resorted to secret... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 15703E Adrian Weir / Last Flight of the Luftwaffe The account of one of the most extraordinary stories to come from the closing days of the Second World War.Desperate times drive determined men to desperate measures. In April 1945, their cause already clearly lost, an ill-assorted, ill-equipped... 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 7158F David Boyd Haycock / Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 6869M 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: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 14779E Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view