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American History
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1929 : The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street HistorySpecial Price €12.99 Regular Price €15.99
From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,”* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society today.
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On Democracies and Death Cults : Israel, Hamas and the Future of the WestSpecial Price €11.19 Regular Price €13.99
Clear-eyed and deeply reasoned, On Democracies and Death Cults is a gripping and essential read for all who seek to understand the complexities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and its implications for the future of democracy – and for the world itself.
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Annals of Tyranny : Ireland, America and the British Empire 1760-89€40.00The first of two volumes, this informative and insightful book on the first 30 years of the reign of King George III revives Ireland’s treasured tradition of annals to explore its rich and complex history. It shows how political developments in Ireland were strongly influenced by events in Britain, its Empire, and the American colonies.
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A Short History of America : From Tea Party to Trump€29.99The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum, Guinness and the flushing toilet. In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday.
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107 Days€33.00For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.
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We the People : A History of the US Constitution (Hardback)€36.99We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitution was never intended to be preserved, but was expected to be gradually altered. At a time when the risk of political violence is all too real, it hints at the prospects for a better, amended America.
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When the Clock Broke : Con Men, Conspiracists and the Origins of Trumpism€14.99A rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era.
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The CIA : An Imperial History€19.99The CIA is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy both at home and abroad.
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Ask Not : The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed (Paperback)€13.99From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem—and the women who have paid the price for our obsession with Camelot.
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Native Nations : A Millennium in North America€18.99For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies.
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The Next One Is for You : A True Story of Guns, Country and the IRA’s Secret American Army€25.99Northern Ireland, 1975. Violence has erupted on the streets of Belfast. After years as a sleepy guerilla army, the IRA is clashing with Loyalist gangs and heavily armed British soldiers.
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Patria : Lost Countries of South America€33.00Patria tells an alternative history of South America, spanning thousands of miles and five centuries to the present. Looking beyond modern borders, Laurence Blair takes as his waymarks nine countries that can’t be found on a map: vanished realms, half-imagined utopias and dismembered homelands.
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The Myth of American Idealism : How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World€21.99From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future, The land of the free. The home of the brave.
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Holding the Line : A true story of female-led resilience€21.99It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment.
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How America Works ... and Why It Doesnt : A Brief Guide to the US Political System€12.99Twenty-first-century America isn't working the way it's supposed to. This book explains why. Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation's historic success.
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The Last Honest Man : The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy€24.99Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government.
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God's Ghostwriters€20.99For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But the truth is that these individuals did not write alone.
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Power Failure : The Rise and Fall of General Electric€24.99A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporation.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (Film Tie-In)€11.99Now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, and the Number One international bestseller The Wager, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI's first major homicide investigations.
