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Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been...
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped...
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra
Author: John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his...
Wood Called Bourlon: The Cover-Up After Cambrai 1917
Author: William Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 After the great victory in the famous tank battle at Cambrai in 1917 the church bells, having been silent for three...
The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard
Author: Ollivier Pourriol Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 We've often been told that anything worthwhile can only be achieved through sustained effort, hard work or 10,000 hours of practice....
Achtung Panzer!
Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
Author: Simon Winder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharinigia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe. In 843 AD,...
The Outsider
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is...
The French Promise
Author: Fiona McIntosh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Postwar Paris is alive with optimism but lavender keeper Luc Ravens and his love Lisette remain haunted by the...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
The Civil War
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
The History of Rome
Author: Professor Michael Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...
Don Vito and the Mafia Living with My Fathers Secrets
Author: Francesco La Licata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone - spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics,...
Kokoda: 75th Anniversary Edition
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Persian Expedition
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...
Paris Street Style: Shoes
Author: Isabelle Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 With their signature, opinionated sense of style, Thomas and Veysset, the authors of the bestselling Paris Street Style, explore...
Orwell in Spain
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and...
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
Author: Christopher Tyerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle...
Napoleon's Last Island
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she...
The Library: A Fragile History
Author: Arthur der Weduwen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' - Richard Ovenden, author of Burning...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the...
The One Impossible Labyrinth: From the creator of No.1 Netflix thriller INTERCEPTOR
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Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 THE BRAND NEW JACK WEST THRILLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Spectacular...Part-Jack Reacher, part-Indiana Jones' SMH THE END IS HERE Jack West...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
A Ukrainian Christmas
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 'History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations' - OLINA HERCULES 'A wonderful little book of recipes and stories' - NIGELLA LAWSON 'Christmas...
Earthly Powers: The Conflict between Religion & Politics from the French Revolution to the Great War
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Michael Burleigh Format: Paperback...
The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It
Author: Mark B. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 We can all treat history with more respect. If we do, we might find that the cure for...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany
Author: Sebastian Haffner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty...
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...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
Author: Professor Nigel Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin,...