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Storm of Steel
A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism that illuminates the horrors as well as the fascination of total First World War, presenting the conflict through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. It provides an account of the terrors of the Western Front and of the sickening allure that made men keep fighting on for 4 long years.
€ 14,95 -
Battles of Conscience
British Pacifists and the Second World WarThese are people who have gone on to leave an important but often hidden trace in the moral and cultural life of Britain and beyond.The story of the Second World War is usually told in tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against the Nazi threat.
€ 30,50 -
Ravenna
Capital of Empire, Crucible of EuropeHer magni?cent recent book Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe recaptures the excitement of discovering the history of a city where East Rome and Latin Europe joined for many centuries in ways that defy our neat divisions between ancient and medieval; Romans, Greeks, and barbarians; East and West.
€ 26,50 -
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Focusing on six momentous turning points that helped to shape Roman history, this work charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower - a political machine unmatched in its brutality, its genius, its lust for power. It also covers powerful men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine.
€ 20,95 -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 1-3
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appearance.
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The Twelve Caesars
Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero and the recovery that came with his successors.
€ 17,95 -
The Early History of Rome
The first five books of Livy's history of Rome record the city's foundations through the Republic to Rome's recovery after the Gallic invasion of the 4th century BC.
€ 17,95 -
The First World War
An Illustrated HistoryPresents an account of the First World War. This title tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. Containing photographs and maps, it offers an essential history of the war.
€ 20,95 -
A War Imagined
The First World War and English CultureBetween the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time.
€ 23,50 -
The Western Front
For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea.
€ 21,95 -
Mrs Mahoney's Secret War
The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Young Woman's Resistance Against the NazisGretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine. Finally arrested in 1945, she was liberated as the British Army advanced towards Hamburg. After the war, Gretel fell in love with a British officer.
€ 13,95 -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War
Offers accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. This book features personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us what it was really like to live through what was supposed to be the war to end all wars.
€ 23,50