Harry's Famous History

Travel through time with Harry’s Famous History! A collection of compelling reads spanning ancient civilisations, landmark events, and unforgettable lives, all at a famously low price!

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Love Thy Neighbor by Peter Maass - 9780679763895
$11.95
Love Thy Neighbor
Peter Maass
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter Maass went to the Balkans as...
Lonely Courage by Rick Stroud - 9781471155666
$11.95
Lonely Courage
Rick Stroud
'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William...
$19.95
Lives Reclaimed
Mark Roseman
From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung...
Lincoln by Richard Carwardine - 9781400096022
$12.95
Lincoln
Richard Carwardine
As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves,...
$16.95
Lessons of History
Durant Will & Ariel
$22.95
Last Witnesses
Svetlana Alexievich
"A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences...
King's Dream by Eric J. Sundquist - 9780300118070
$16.95
King's Dream
Eric J. Sundquist
"I have a dream" - no words are more widely recognized, or more often repeated,...
Introducing The Holocaust A Graphic Guide
$9.95
Introducing The Holocaust A Graphic Guide
Bresheeth Haim & Hood Stuart
In the Shadow of Statues by Mitch Landrieu - 9780525559467
$12.95
In the Shadow of Statues
Mitch Landrieu
The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us...
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff - 9780679760238
$10.95
In Pharaoh's Army
Tobias Wolff
Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his...
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...
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill by Christopher Catherwood - 9781849010849
$11.95
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
Christopher Catherwood
'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to...
$12.95
Graven with Diamonds
Nicola Shulman
In this thrillingly entertaining book, Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry VIII's reign...
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...
Figuring Out The Past by Peter Turchin - 9781788161923
$13.95
Figuring Out The Past
Peter Turchin
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was...
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...
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...
$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,...
Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard - 9780062302991
$17.95
Devices and Desires
Kate Hubbard
"A dynamic portrait. . . . Bess of Hardwick emerges from Devices and Desires as...
Dear Mr Murray by David McClay - 9781473662698
$17.95
Dear Mr Murray
David McClay
The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained...
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...
Crown of Blood by Nicola Tallis - 9781681775555
$12.95
Crown of Blood
Nicola Tallis
"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned...
Command by Al Murray - 9781472284631
$12.95
Command
Al Murray
Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always...
Chinese Lives by Victor H. Mair - 9780500251928
$17.95
Chinese Lives
Victor H. Mair
China is the most populous country on earth, and has the longest history of any...
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...