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Books
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks€20.99
From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with ancient treasures, a Viking warship made for King Cnut himself, Henry VIII's spectacular Mary Rose and the golden age of the Tudor court, to the exploration of the Arctic, the tragic story of HMS Terror and tales of bravery and endurance aboard HMS Gairsoppa in World War Two.
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The Secret History of the Mongols€15.99
A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan.
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Why We Fight : The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace€12.99
Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.
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Berlin : Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century€11.99
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world.
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The Earth Transformed : An Untold History€22.99
In The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan, one of the world s leading historians, shows that the natural environment is a crucial, if not the defining, factor in global history and not just of humankind.
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Ten Cities that Led the World : From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity€12.99
Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made.
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The Will to See : Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope€17.99
Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world.
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War And Peace : On the Principle and Constitution of the Rights of Peoples€29.99
War and Peace by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originally published in 1861, is still one of the only extended accounts of anarchist international theory and is one of the earliest in the history of socialist thought.
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The Last Emperor of Mexico : A Disaster in the New World€15.99
In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been lured into the voyage by a duplicitous Napoleon III.