Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust
£20.00Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust
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Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Ree – A British Agent in the French Resistance
£14.99A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Rée renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943. Harry showed a particular talent for winning the confidence of local resisters, and guided them in a series of dramatic sabotage operations, before getting into a hand-to-hand fight with an armed German officer, from which he was lucky to escape. This might seem like a romantic story of heroism and derring-do, but Harry Rée’s own war writings, superbly edited and contextualised by his son, the philosopher Jonathan Rée, are far more nuanced, shot through with doubts, regrets, and grief.
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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
£14.99A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes -
Crossing the Rubicon: Caesar’s Decision and the Fate of Rome
£25.00A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar’s autocracy When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops, he instead marched his soldiers across the Rubicon River, in violation of Roman law. The Senate turned to its proconsul, Pompey the Great, for help. But Pompey’s response was unexpected: he commanded magistrates and senators to abandon Rome – a city that, until then, had always been defended. The consequences were the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar’s autocracy.
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Little History Of Archaeology
£10.99The stories of some of the most notable archaeologists and their discoveries are conveyed across forty brief and exciting chapters, emphasising the plunder, surprise, expertise and danger that has caused the occupation to repeatedly capture the public imagination.
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Witch The: A History Of Fear From
£12.99Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs and origins in Europe’s history. The witch came to prominence – and often a painful death – in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake and sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective while tracing the major historiographical developments of witchcraft.
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Little History of Economics
£10.99A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field -
Medieval Europe
£11.99A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages -
Jane Austen: A Brief Life
£8.99Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz? In this graceful introduction to the author’s life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen’s six astonishing novels in the context of their time.
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A Little History of Religion
£9.99In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion – from the dawn of religious belief to the 21st century – with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those with faith and those without, and especially for young readers, he encourages curiosity and tolerance, accentuates nuance and mystery, and calmly restores a sense of the value of faith.
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Little History Of The United States
£10.99How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? In this history of the United States, James West Davidson guides his readers through 500 years, from the first contact between the two halves of the world to the rise of America as a superpower in an era of atomic perils and diminishing resources.
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Groucho Marx The Comedy Of Existence
£16.99A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius.