A Short History of England
The Elephant Within Us
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jerusalem: the Biography
The History of History: A Novel of Berlin
The Detour
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Before I Go to Sleep
Thinking the Twentieth Century
by: Tony Judt
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 41,25 >> € 33,00
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, 'Thinking the Twentieth Century' unites the conflicted intellectual history of an epoch into a soaring narrative. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas - a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts ...
Jerusalem: the Biography
by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 16,50 >> € 15,00
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine ...
A Short History of England
by: Simon Jenkins
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 41,25 >> € 29,95
This is a definitive concise account of our remarkable past. From the Battle of Catterick (AD 598) to the premiership of Tony Blair, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in a book that characteristically ...
Vanished Kingdoms
by: Norman Davies
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 49,50 >> € 35,00
'The past is a foreign country' has become a truism, yet we often forget that the past is different from the present in many unfamiliar ways, and historical memory is extraordinarily imperfect. We habitually think of the European past as the history of countries which exist today - France, Germany, Britain, ...
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
by: Max Hastings
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 28,05 >> € 25,50
A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War: A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen, housewives, farm workers and children. Reflecting ...
A History of the World in 100 Objects
by: Neil MacGregor
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 33,00 >> € 29,95
This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. The book's range is enormous. It ...
The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45
by: Ian Kershaw
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 49,50 >> € 37,50
The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were dispossessed. By all kinds of criteria it was the end: the end of the Third Reich and its terrible empire but also, increasingly, it seemed to be ...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes
by: Steven Pinker
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 31,35 >> € 28,50
"Everyone should read this astonishing book" -- Guardian
Steven Pinker's riveting, myth-destroying new book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millennia ...
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
by: Julian Assange
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 24,75 >> € 22,50
Canongate Books: "In December 2010, Julian Assange signed a contract with Canongate Books to write a book - part memoir, part manifesto - for publication the following year. At the time, Julian said: "I hope this book will become one of the unifying documents of our generation. In this highly ...
The Internet of Elsewhere
by: Cyrus Farivar
Category: History & Politics
Price: € 37,50
Through the lens of culture, The Internet of Elsewhere looks at the role of the Internet as a catalyst in transforming communications, politics, and economics. Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet’s history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies — Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and ...