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  • A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

    A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

    Nestled in the Bavarian mountains, the idyllic village of Oberstdorf becomes an unexpected microcosm of Nazi Germany in Julia Boyd's captivating chronicle, 'A Village in the Third Reich'. This Sunday Times bestselling author peels back the layers of history to reveal the intricate tapestry...
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  • At The Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell 9780099554882

    At The Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

    Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a...
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  • Beauty is in the Street : Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe by Joachim C. Haberlen 9780141994963

    Beauty is in the Street : Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe

    In the aftermath of World War II, Europe witnessed a surge of grassroots activism and protest movements that challenged the status quo on both sides of the Iron Curtain. From the bustling streets of Paris to the historic squares of Prague, from the industrial...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • Bloodlands : THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe by Timothy Snyder 9780099551799

    Bloodlands : THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe

    A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944. In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth...
    £12.99 GBP
    £12.99 GBP
  • Citizens : A Chronicle of The French Revolution by Simon Schama 9780141017273

    Citizens : A Chronicle of The French Revolution

    Regarded as a seminal work in the realm of modern historical publishing, Simon Schama's "Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution" stands as the most authoritative social, cultural, and narrative account of the French Revolution ever produced. This monumental tome offers a thought-provoking and...
    £20.00 GBP
    £20.00 GBP
  • East West Street : Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

    East West Street : Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

    Embark on a captivating journey with international lawyer Philippe Sands as he unravels the enigmatic threads of his family's past. Spurred by an invitation to lecture in Lviv, Ukraine, Sands finds himself on a trail of extraordinary coincidences that lead him to the very...
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  • Free : Coming of Age at the End of History-9780141995106

    Free : Coming of Age at the End of History

    In this Sunday Times bestseller and Ondaatje Prize winner, Lea Ypi presents a captivating memoir that has been lauded as "the best book" by critics. With wit and poignancy, Ypi recounts her formative years in Albania, one of the world's most secluded nations and...
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  • Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326

    Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land

    Embark on a grand odyssey through the 'other' Europe, a realm where conflict and harmony, faith and folklore intertwine. This meticulously researched and eloquently penned narrative invites readers to explore the enigmatic tapestry of Eastern Europe before bidding it adieu. From the Baltic shores...
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  • Greece : Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton 9780141986524

    Greece : Biography of a Modern Nation

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2021A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for...
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    £14.99 GBP
  • Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 9780141183053

    Homage to Catalonia

    Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage...
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  • If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi 9780349100135

    If This Is A Man/The Truce

    With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was...
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  • Naples 1944 : War, Liberation and Chaos by Keith Lowe 9780008339593

    Naples 1944 : War, Liberation and Chaos

    The Second World War left countless cities in Europe and Asia in ruins. Naples 1944 chronicles the story of the first major European city liberated by the Allied forces. The book delves into not only the devastation that befell Naples during the scourge of...
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  • Paris '44 : The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop 9780241492963

    Paris '44 : The Shame and the Glory

    Behold, the instant Sunday Times bestseller that has captivated the literary world! Lauded as a 2024 Book of the Year by esteemed publications and booksellers alike, Patrick Bishop's 'Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory' has been hailed as nothing short of extraordinary. This...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Russia : Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor 9781474610162

    Russia : Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

    A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists...
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    £10.99 GBP
  • Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614818

    Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar

    Crowned as the British Book Awards History Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, this riveting account of Stalin and his inner circle during his reign of terror revolutionises our perception of the Soviet tyrant, Marxist leader, and Russian autocrat....
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  • The Guns of August : The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War

    The Guns of August : The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War

    In "The Guns of August", Barbara Tuchman masterfully unravels the gripping tale of Britain's entry into war and the tumultuous first month that followed. As conflict loomed on every horizon, nations found themselves suddenly thrust into a maelstrom, their frantic efforts to stave off...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • The Hare With Amber Eyes : The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller-9780099539551

    The Hare With Amber Eyes : The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

    Crowned with the Costa Biography Award, Edmund de Waal's masterpiece unravels a century of family history through the lens of 264 exquisite objects. A collection of miniature wood and ivory carvings, each no larger than a matchbox, captivated de Waal upon discovering them in...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt 9780241316757

    The Origins of Totalitarianism

    How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from...
    £9.99 GBP
    £9.99 GBP
  • The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way-9781838957421

    The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way

    Embark on an extraordinary 35-day pilgrimage with Anthony Seldon, as he traverses 1,000 kilometres from the French-Swiss border to the English Channel. This remarkable journey, inspired by the forgotten vision of a young British soldier from the First World War, follows the historic Western...
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    £10.99 GBP
  • The Romanovs : The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918

    The Romanovs : The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918

    The Romanov dynasty, ruling over a staggering sixth of the globe, stands as the most triumphant royal lineage of recent centuries. This gripping narrative unravels the extraordinary tale of how a modest principality, ravaged by conflict, metamorphosed into the world's mightiest empire—and the dramatic...
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    £14.99 GBP
  • The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark 9780141027821

    The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914

    The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher ClarkFINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012Winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book Prize...
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    £18.99 GBP
  • A People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction by Orlando Figes 9781847924513

    A People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction

    Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. 'A modern masterpiece' Andrew MarrOpening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Borderlines : A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston 9781399723763

    Borderlines : A History of Europe, Told From the Edges

    Hailed as 'beautiful' and 'a true gem' by the Irish Independent, Lewis Baston's 'Borderlines' offers a captivating exploration of Europe's history through the lens of its frontiers. This 'thrillingly unique' narrative, as described by Ian Dunt, takes readers on an enlightening journey along twenty-nine...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett 9780141979991

    Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89

    With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)Selected as a Book of the Year in...
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    £10.99 GBP
  • Revolutionary Spring : Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark 9780141988313

    Revolutionary Spring : Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

    Hailed as "One of the best history books you will read this decade" by History Today, and described as "Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive" by The Times, this work delves into one of the most exhilarating and daunting epochs in European annals. The spring of...
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    £18.99 GBP
  • The Basque History Of The World by Mark Kurlansky 9780099284130

    The Basque History Of The World

    Delve into the enigmatic world of Europe's most ancient people, the Basques. With origins shrouded in mystery and a language unrelated to any other, this small yet remarkable group hails from the rugged borderlands of Spain and France. Despite their modest numbers, the Basques...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • The Curtain and the Wall : A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips 9781783785780

    The Curtain and the Wall : A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border

    Embark on an extraordinary expedition spanning 5,000 kilometres and eight decades, as Timothy Phillips unravels a fresh narrative about the Cold War's enduring legacy. Despite the Berlin Wall's collapse seemingly relegating East-West divisions to the annals of history, current tensions suggest the past still...
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    £10.99 GBP
  • The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778

    The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

    In this masterful work of accessible scholarship, Ryan Gingeras unravels the complex tale of the Ottoman Empire's twilight years. Once a formidable presence in European history since medieval times, the Empire's ill-fated alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914 set the stage for its...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • The Revolutionary Temper : Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton 9780713996562

    The Revolutionary Temper : Paris, 1748-1789

    A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year, this brilliant account delves into the genesis of the French Revolution, culminating the distinguished historian's life's work. "Events do not emerge naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes,...
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    £35.00 GBP
  • The Stasi Poetry Circle : The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann 9780571331208

    The Stasi Poetry Circle : The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

    Imagine a world where the secret police believed that writers were embedding subversive messages in their works, and their solution was to train their own poets, weaponizing poetry in the battle against their perceived enemies. This extraordinary true story takes you into the heart...
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    £10.99 GBP
  • The Unwomanly Face of War

    The Unwomanly Face of War

    Hailed as 'a must read' by Margaret Atwood and lauded for its importance and originality, this groundbreaking work by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich unveils the hidden world of Soviet women who fought in the Second World War. Alexievich, driven by the realisation that women's...
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    £9.99 GBP
  • The Writers' Castle : Reporting History at Nuremberg by Uwe Neumahr 9506194489642

    The Writers' Castle : Reporting History at Nuremberg

    A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness itNuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Tomorrow Perhaps the Future : Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling 9781529920772

    Tomorrow Perhaps the Future : Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War

    In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance. 'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so powerful'ANNA FUNDER, author of WifedomIn the 1930s, women and men from across the...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • Vertigo : The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jahner 9491568165162

    Vertigo : The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

    *An Observer Book of the Year, 2024*'This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Young Stalin

    Young Stalin

    Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's...
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    £12.99 GBP