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The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava
Author: Nick Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "Into the Valley of Death" tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the...
Christine: A Search for Christine Granville
Author: Madeleine Masson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Christine Granville, G.M., O.B.E. and Croix de Guerre, one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War and...
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The essential book for understanding the history of Britain's place in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the present...
City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
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Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...
The Quest for Queen Mary
Author: James Pope-Hennessy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'...
The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492
Author: Philipp Ther Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The history of Europe as a continent of refugees. European history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major...
Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this...
Goodbye Europe: The unique must-have collection
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection. In these pages...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33
Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic....
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
The Bitter Road to Freedom, a New History of the Liberation of Europe
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Author, MR William I Hitchcock (University of Virginia) Format, Microfilm Number of Pages, 454 American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from...
The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times 'One of the...
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,...
SAS Who Dares Wins
Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Life And Leadership Lessons From The Special Forces, From The Stars Of Channel 4 Series SAS: Who Dares Wins - Including...
The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert
Author: David Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second...
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera...
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,...
The Quest for Queen Mary
Author: James Pope-Hennessy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'...
Fatal Silence: The Pope, the Resistance and the German Occupation of Rome
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Robert Katz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 This is the epic story...
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory
Author: Brian Cathcart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century....
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...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the...
A War in Words
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: Svetlana Palmer Format: Paperback...
Passage to Ararat
Author: Michael J. Arlen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 310 In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain
Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
Making a Success of Brexit and Reforming the EU: The Brexit edition of The Trouble with Europe: 'Bootle is right on every count' - Guardian
Author: Roger Bootle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 FULLY REVISED EDITION FOR THE UK'S PATH TO BREXIT. THE TROUBLE WITH EUROPE is the authoritative text on the...
Inside the World of Bridgerton: True Stories of Regency High Society
Author: Catherine Curzon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Discover the true Regency history behind the TV phenomenon. In The Real World of Bridgerton, author and Regency period expert Catherine...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a...
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Author: Russell Shorto Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin...
Pompeii
Author: Alex Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
My Father's Letters: Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
Author: Georgia Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory...
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 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 Gunzburgs: A Family Biography
Author: Lorraine de Meaux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large family, a retinue of business staff and extensive...
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
Author: Philip Stephens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new...
Tommy Goes to War
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The armies that marched to...
Whose Europe?: The Turn Towards Democracy
Author: Dennis Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 270 A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of democracy. How can the European Union be made more democratic?...