Harrys Fantastic History

Travel through time with Harry’s Fantastic History — a collection of accessible, compelling reads spanning ancient civilisations, landmark events, and unforgettable lives. Whether you're after sweeping biographies or fascinating historical insights, these titles offer depth, variety, and endless stories to uncover.

Showing 367 products
Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss - 9781780226231
$11.95
Ill Met By Moonlight
W. Stanley Moss
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one...
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova - 9780805210156
$14.95
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Hana Volavkova
Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer...
Hitler, My Neighbor by Edgar Feuchtwanger - 9781590518649
$16.95
Hitler, My Neighbor
Edgar Feuchtwanger
An eminent historian recounts the Nazi rise to power from his unique perspective as a...
Gibraltar by Lesley Adkins - 9780349142395
$12.95
Gibraltar
Lesley Adkins
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of...
Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac - 9781631490316
$17.95
Fatherland
Nina Bunjevac
Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing...
Father Abraham by Richard Striner - 9780195183061
$16.95
Father Abraham
Richard Striner
Lincoln is the single most compelling figure in our history, but also one of the...
Euripides: Ion by Laura Swift - 9780715637449
$14.95
Euripides: Ion
Laura Swift
"Euripides' Ion" is the story of a young man's search for his identity, and a...
$13.95
Empires of the Indus Story of a River
Albinia Alice
$12.95
Emperor PMC
Kapuscinski Ryszard
$22.95
Emigre New York
Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University)
Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism, in the person of Maurice Maeterlinck,...
Eleni by Nicholas Gage - 9780345410436
$10.95
Eleni
Nicholas Gage
In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist "camps"...
$11.95
Dragon Throne
Fenby Jonathan
Dancing Bears by Witold Szablowski - 9780143129745
$11.95
Dancing Bears
Witold Szablowski
*As heard on NPR's All Things Considered* "Utterly original." -The New York Times Book Review...
Cold Warriors by Duncan White (Harvard University) - 9780062449818
$16.95
Cold Warriors
Duncan White (Harvard University)
In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets...
Clara's War by Clara Kramer - 9780061728617
$9.95
Clara's War
Clara Kramer
In the classic vein of The Diary of Anne Frank--a heart-wrenching and inspiring story of...
City of Fortune by Roger Crowley - 9780571245956
$12.95
City of Fortune
Roger Crowley
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian...
Churchill's Menagerie by Piers Brendon - 9781643131368
$19.95
Churchill's Menagerie
Piers Brendon
In this unique narrative, Piers Brendon looks deeply into Churchill's admiration of the animal kingdom--and...
Children and Youth in a New Nation by James Marten - 9780814757499
$16.95
Children and Youth in a New Nation
James Marten
In the early years of the Republic, as Americans tried to determine what it meant...
Children of the City by David Nasaw - 9780345802972
$10.95
Children of the City
David Nasaw
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities,...
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey - 9781510729179
$10.95
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
John Toohey
At dawn on April 28, 1789, Captain William Bligh and eighteen men from HMS Bounty...
Bomber County by Daniel Swift - 9780374533038
$11.95
Bomber County
Daniel Swift
In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the...
$19.95
Blood and Sand
Alex Von Tunzelmann
A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and...
Bethlehem by Nicholas Blincoe - 9781472128645
$11.95
Bethlehem
Nicholas Blincoe
The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that...
Berlin 1936 by Oliver Hilmes - 9781590519295
$17.95
Berlin 1936
Oliver Hilmes
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, and...
A Brief History of the Mediterranean by Jeremy Black - 9781472144409
$12.95
A Brief History of the Mediterranean
Jeremy Black
A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion...
A Brief History of Mutiny by Richard Woodman - 9781841197371
$11.95
A Brief History of Mutiny
Richard Woodman
The notorious uprising on the Bounty has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood, yet...
A Brief History of the Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne - 9781841197913
$12.95
A Brief History of the Dynasties of China
Bamber Gascoigne
Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so...
A Brief History of Slavery by Jeremy Black - 9781849016896
$12.95
A Brief History of Slavery
Jeremy Black
A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our...