History
The Freshwater Five
JOD 12.50
The shocking true story of five fishermen sentenced to 104 years for a crime they didn't commit. It was the biggest haul of cocaine ever discovered in the UK ? GBP53m worth stashed inside eleven rucksacks that had snarled underneath fishing nets on the Isle of Wight. Within three hours, the police p..
The Global Merchants
JOD 16.50
The Sassoons Were One Of The Great Business Dynasties Of The Nineteenth Century, As Eminent Traders As The Rothschilds Were Bankers. This Book Reveals The Secrets Behind The Family's Phenomenal How A Handful Of Jewish Exiles From Ottoman Baghdad Forged A Mercantile Juggernaut From Their New Home In ..
The Golden Road
JOD 33.00
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched fr..
The Golden Thread – How Fabric Changed History
JOD 19.00
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultur..
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
JOD 16.50
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it "The Great Game," a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began, the two..
The Great Imperial Hangover
JOD 13.50
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face today. From Russia's incursions in the Uk..
The Guns Of August
JOD 16.00
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tu..
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...
JOD 14.50
Instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long' Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into an epic narrative shot through with insight, irony and incisive character analysis. ..
The Hunt For History
JOD 57.40
Each day, people from all over the world contact Nathan Raab for help understanding what they have, what it might be worth, and how to sell it. The Raab Collection’s president, Nathan is a modern-day treasure hunter and one of the world’s most prominent dealers of historical artifacts. Most weeks, h..
The Indian Empire At War
JOD 14.50
A brilliantly original history of the First World War, retracing the footsteps of the Indian army's 1.5 million men who, in 1914-18, served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean. After years of neglect, The Indian Empire at War raises the curtain on the Indian soldiers' p..
The International Brigades
JOD 16.50
The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from fifty-two countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled..
The Iran–Iraq War
JOD 35.00
From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of cities. The Iran-Iraq War offers an unflinching lo..