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Hardcover History Treasure Trove
Hardcover History Treasure Trove Explore pivotal moments and gripping narratives from history in this exceptional collection of historical hardcover books. Each volume offers insights into extraordinary events, influential figures, and...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Author: Timothy Garton Ash (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by...
Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral
Author: Kathy Borrus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 On April 16, 2019, five days before the celebration of Easter, a blazing fire engulfed the world famous Notre-Dame de Paris....
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia
Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...
Hitler's British Isles
Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
Rome: Eternal City
Author: Ferdinand Addis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history....
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
Author: Jean-Pierre Vernant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup
Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book...
The Channel: The Remarkable Men and Women Who Made It the Most Fascinating Waterway in the World
A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust
Author: Katie KnowlesFormat: Hardback, 186mm x 156mm, 580g, 224 pagesPublished: National Trust, United Kingdom, 2022The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and...
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon
Author: Professor Glenda Sluga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814,...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis
Author: Charles Spicer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It's one of the great 'what ifs' of history. What if Britain had stood up to Hitler much earlier? Coffee with...
Einstein in Bohemia
Author: Professor Michael D. Gordin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Physics Today, Notable Books of 2020 A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...
London: City of Cities
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *New Statesman, Books of the Year* *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020* On June 22, 1936, the...
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health
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The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game
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Author: Jonathan Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The story of the vibrant and revolutionary soccer culture in Hungary that, on the eve of World War II, redefined the...
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
Dante
Author: John Took Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy. For all that has been written about the...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea that nothing...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to
Author: Bernard Wasserstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in...
Robert Peel: A Biography
Author: Douglas Hurd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our...
Berlin
Author: Joseph Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed...
Homer and His Iliad
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A "compelling and impressive" (Sunday Times) reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful The Iliad is the world's greatest epic poem--heroic...
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
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Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...
An Ordinary Youth: A Novel
Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of...
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World
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"Tomalin's The Young H.G. Wells is hard to beat, being friendly, astute and a pleasure to read." -Michael Dirda, Washington Post"Claire Tomalin's short, engaging biography The Young H.G. Wells is...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece
Author: Regius Professor of Greek John M Dillon (Trinity College Dublin) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 235 Athenian society is brought vividly to life in John M. Dillon's exploration of...
The House of Orange in Revolution and War: A European History, 1772-1890: 2022
Author: Jeroen Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Three rulers from the House of Orange-Nassau reigned over the Netherlands from 1813 to 1890: King William I from 1813 to...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS: The Final Testament of the
At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium's citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and...
They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague
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