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  • The Shortest History of England

    by James Hawes ...
    READ IN A DAY. REMEMBER FOR A LIFETIME.In his bestselling, internationally-acclaimed The Shortest History of Germany, James Hawes told the story of a nation in 240 invigorating pages, tracing the roots of today's challenges back to the first encounters with Rome. In The Shortest History of England, he takes the same approach to his homeland. As he journeys from Caesar to Brexit via Conquest, ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shortest History of Germany

    From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe - A Retelling for Our Times

    by James Hawes ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    A highlight reel of the must-know moments across two millennia of world-changing history—from the Roman age to Charlemagne to von Bismarck to Merkel. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Secret Lives of Men - Ten Keys to Unlock the Mystery

    by James Hawes ...
    This book takes the reader into the inner world of men. Within the three parts of the book the reader will discover the complexity of relationships, the history of men and finally the ten keys that will unlock the secrets to men. Essentially this book will help women to understand what is going on inside his head and how he manages difficult emotions. Men will discover what other men think and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brilliant Isles

    Art That Made Us

    by James Hawes ...
    EXPLORE THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES THROUGH 80 EXTRAORDINARY CREATIONS, FROM BEOWULF AND THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY TO BANKSY, STORMZY, AND BEYONDA companion book to the landmark BBC series, Brilliant Isles tells the story of these islands through art, music, buildings and literature – the creations of visionaries, mavericks and rule-breakers who responded to their times and shaped the future. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Englanders and Huns

    The Culture-Clash which Led to the First World War

    by James Hawes ...
    A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe.Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Shortest History of Ireland

    by James Hawes ...
    Series Book 22 - Shortest History
    'After his masterpieces on Germany and England, James Hawes has done it again... a wonder to behold' PROFESSOR CIARAN MARTINFrom the Ice Age to the present, here is the real story of Ireland.In The Shortest History of Ireland, James Hawes turns his attention to Ireland, reaching beyond the clichés to tell a dramatic new story, backed up by the latest scholarship.Irish history is often seen as a ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • The Shortest History of England

    Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times

    by James Hawes ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Shortest History of Ireland

    From Earliest Settlers and Emigrant Exodus to the Only English-Speaking EU Country - A Retelling for Our Times

    by James Hawes ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    The #1 Irish Times bestseller, from the author of The Shortest History of Germany and The Shortest History of England—a brilliantly told brief history of Ireland, from medieval kingdoms to famines, religious conflict and civil war to todayThe Emerald Isle has no shortage of cultural touchpoints—from foam-topped pints of Guiness to the poetry of Yeats, raucous St. Patrick’s Day festivities to the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life

    by James Hawes ...
    Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely known in his own ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Shortest History of Germany

    From Julius Caesar to Angela Merkel-A Retelling for Our Times

    by James Hawes ...
    Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    2,000 YEARS OF HISTORY IN ONE RIVETING AFTERNOONA country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871—yet today, Germany is the world's fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy."There’s no point studying the past unless ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Shortest History of England

    Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit—A Retelling for Our Times

    by James Hawes ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    American Resistance

    The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation

    by David Rothkopf ...
    Narrated by David Rothkopf ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 15 min

    It could have been so much worse: a deeply reported, insider story of how a handful of Washington officials staged a daring resistance to an unprecedented presidency and prevented chaos overwhelming the government and the nation.Each federal employee takes an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic,” but none had imagined that ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook