Welcome to the LitVox History Books Homepage
Reading history books can be a complete joy. George Santanaya famously said that those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it, but for far too long history texts were written with only experts or academics in mind. Thankfully, today there are a multidue of amazing historians who know how to write beautiful prose and make history come alive.
From Ancient history to modern, military campaigns to women’s social history, there is something here for everyone.
New History Books
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The Ship Beneath the Ice
By Michael Palin...
€ 17.95 -
The World: A Family History
By Simon Sebag...
€ 40.00 -
The History of the World in 100 Plants
By Leif Bersweden...
€ 35.00 -
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
by Philippe Sands...
€ 18.95 -
The Story of Russia
by Orlando Figes...
€ 20.95 -
China After Mao
by Frank Dikoetter...
€ 19.95 -
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle
by Ben McIntyre...
€ 16.95 -
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
by Jonathan Freedland...
€ 20.95 -
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
by Lea Ypi...
€ 13.50 -
France: An Adventure History
by Graham Robb...
€ 22.95 -
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
by Antony Beevor...
€ 40.00 -
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
by David De...
€ 20.95 -
Ten Cities that Led the World
by Paul Strathern...
€ 18.95 -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
by Rosemary Sullivan...
€ 17.95 -
The Treaty
by Gretchen Friemann...
€ 16.95 -
The Ticket Collector from Belarus
by Mike Anderson...
€ 15.95 -
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Renaissance
by Catherine Fletcher...
€ 16.95 -
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
by Richard Overy...
€ 50.00 -
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia
by Simon Kuper...
€ 13.00 -
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M....
€ 13.50 -
Dancing for Stalin: A Dancer's Story of Courage and Survival in Soviet Russia
by Christina Ezrahi...
€ 20.00 -
Himalaya: A Human History
by Ed Douglas...
€ 15.00 -
Tunnel 29: Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
by Helena Merriman...
€ 20.00 -
The Nine
by Gwen Strauss...
€ 16.95 -
The Lost Café Schindler
by Meriel Schindler...
€ 15.00
LitVox History Favourites
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill...
€ 13.50 -
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
by Christopher de...
€ 16.95 -
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
by David Abulafia...
€ 21.95 -
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
by David Abulafia...
€ 21.95 -
Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
by Simon Hall...
€ 13.00 -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson...
€ 17.95 -
A History of the World in 21 Women
by Jenni Murphy...
€ 13.00 -
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell...
€ 13.00 -
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
by Dr Cat...
€ 13.50 -
Boys in Zinc
by Svetlana Alexievich...
€ 13.50 -
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People
by Michael Wood...
€ 16.00 -
The Great Empires of Asia
by Jonathan Fenby...
€ 15.00 -
One Summer: America 1927
by Bill Bryson...
€ 15.00 -
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder...
€ 13.00 -
Burning the Books
by Richard Ovenden...
€ 13.50 -
Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bergman...
€ 13.00 -
Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
by Julia Boyd...
€ 15.00 -
House of Glass
by Hadley Freeman...
€ 13.50 -
An Atlas of Extinct Countries: The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map
‘This entertaining atlas of...
€ 16.00 -
The Spy and the Traitor
by Ben MacIntyre...
€ 13.00 -
Empire of Things
by Frank Trettman...
€ 20.00 -
Erebus
By Michael Palin...
€ 13.50 -
A Distant Mirror
By Barbara Tuchman...
€ 17.50 -
The Secret World
By Christopher Andrew...
€ 17.00 -
Histories of Nations
How do writers...
€ 15.00
Irish History Books
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Ireland's Guiding Lights: Celebrating Our Lighthouses
by Denis Horgan...
€ 24.95 -
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland
by Peter Pearson
€ 27.95 -
The Guardians: 100 Years of An Garda Siochana 1922-2022
by Stephen Moore...
€ 30.00 -
The Granite Coast: Dun Laoghaire, Sandycove & Dalkey
by Peter Pearson
€ 35.00 -
In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days
by Kevin C....
€ 24.95 -
Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets
by Donal Fallon...
€ 15.95 -
Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
by Brendan O'Leary...
€ 14.95 -
One Good Day: My Journey to the Good Friday Agreement
by David Donoghue...
€ 24.95 -
United Nation: The case for integrating Ireland
by Frank Connolly
€ 16.95 -
Making Sense of a United Ireland
by Brendan O'Leary...
€ 24.95 -
The Irish Civil War in Colour
by Michael B....
€ 25.00 -
Days in the life: Reading the Michael Collins Diaries 1918-1922
by Anne Dolan...
€ 19.95 -
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
by Sean Connolly...
€ 18.95 -
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Rose Dugdale
by Sean O'Driscoll...
€ 26.95 -
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP
by Ronan McGreevy...
€ 22.95 -
Death on Ireland's Eye
by Julie Kavanagh...
€ 16.95 -
The Treaty
by Gretchen Friemann...
€ 16.95 -
On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath
by Julieann Campbell ...
€ 22.95€ 18.95 -
The Green and White House
by Lynne Kelleher...
€ 11.50 -
Stories from the Sea
by Jo Kerrigan...
€ 17.95 -
Dublin in Sketches and Stories
by Róisín Curé...
€ 24.95 -
The Colour of Ireland: County by County 1860-1960
by Rob Cross
€ 21.95 -
In Fact: An Optimists Guide to Ireland at 100
by Mark Henry...
€ 23.95 -
Irish Women’s Speeches: Voices that Rocked the System
by Sonja Tiernan
€ 23.95 -
This Day in Irish History
by Padraic Coffey...
€ 15.00
European History Books
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
by Philippe Sands...
€ 18.95 -
The Story of Russia
by Orlando Figes...
€ 20.95 -
France: An Adventure History
by Graham Robb...
€ 22.95 -
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
by Antony Beevor...
€ 40.00 -
A Village in the Third Reich
by Julia Boyd...
€ 15.75 -
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe
by Anne Applebaum...
€ 21.00 -
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
by Anne Applebaum...
€ 21.00 -
Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches From Kiev
by Andrey Kurkov...
€ 17.95 -
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
by Tim Judah...
€ 15.00 -
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin
by Serhii Plokhy...
€ 15.00 -
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
by Serhii Plokhy...
€ 15.00 -
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
by Anna Reid...
€ 13.50 -
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
by Rosemary Sullivan...
€ 17.95 -
The Ticket Collector from Belarus
by Mike Anderson...
€ 15.95 -
The Chancellor
by Kati Marton...
€ 17.95 -
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
by David Abulafia...
€ 21.95 -
The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945
by John Foot...
€ 17.00 -
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
by Paul Preston...
€ 15.50 -
Poland: A History
by Adam Zamoyski...
€ 15.00 -
Shadowplay: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
by Tim Marshall...
€ 13.00 -
Tunnel 29: Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
by Helena Merriman...
€ 20.00 -
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
by Catherine Belton...
€ 13.00 -
The Nine
by Gwen Strauss...
€ 16.95 -
The Lost Café Schindler
by Meriel Schindler...
€ 15.00 -
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder...
€ 13.00 -
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
by Harald Jähner...
€ 15.75 -
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt...
€ 20.00 -
Agent Sonya
by Ben McIntyre...
€ 13.00 -
The Ratline
by Phillipe Sands...
€ 13.00 -
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes
€ 21.00
American History Books
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill...
€ 13.50 -
Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
by Simon Hall...
€ 13.00 -
How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr...
€ 15.00 -
Evil Geniuses: How Big Money Took Over America
by Kurt Anderson...
€ 15.95 -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson...
€ 17.95 -
We Were Eight Years in Power
by Ta-Nehisi Coates...
€ 13.00 -
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M....
€ 13.50 -
The Witches: Salem, 1692
by Stacy Schiff...
€ 13.50 -
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World
by Christina Lamb...
€ 17.00 -
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016
by Steve Coll...
€ 21.95 -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden
by Steve Coll...
€ 21.95 -
The American Civil War: A Military Histroy
by John Keegan...
€ 17.00 -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The American Civil War
by James McPherson...
€ 20.00 -
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Serhii Plokhy...
€ 17.95 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
by Robert Dallek...
€ 17.00 -
The Penguin History of the USA
by Hugh Brogan...
€ 21.00 -
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown...
€ 15.00 -
The American West
by Dee Brown...
€ 13.50 -
America: Empire of Liberty
by David Reynolds...
€ 19.50 -
I Alone Can Fix It
by Philip Rucker...
€ 17.95 -
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner...
€ 15.00 -
One Summer: America 1927
by Bill Bryson...
€ 15.00 -
The Yellow House
by Sarah M....
€ 13.50 -
Becoming
by Michelle Obama...
€ 15.00 -
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama...
€ 30.00
Asian History Books
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The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People
by Michael Wood...
€ 16.00 -
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
by Amy Stanley...
€ 13.50 -
The Great Empires of Asia
by Jonathan Fenby...
€ 15.00 -
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
by William Dalrymple...
€ 15.00 -
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
by Barbara Demick...
€ 13.50 -
Himalaya: A Human History
by Ed Douglas...
€ 15.00 -
Eat the Buddha: Life, Death, and Resistance in a Tibetan Town
by Barbara Demick...
€ 13.50 -
Pakistan: A Hard Country
by Anatol Lieven...
€ 15.00 -
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
by Anita Anand...
€ 13.50 -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor...
€ 13.50 -
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
by Sophy Roberts...
€ 15.00 -
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
by Jung Chang...
€ 13.00 -
Wrong About Japan
By Peter Carey...
€ 13.00 -
The New Silk Roads
By Peter Frankopan...
€ 15.00 -
The Silk Roads
By Peter Frankopan...
€ 19.95
African History Books
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Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller...
€ 13.00 -
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
by Chinua Achebe...
€ 15.00 -
Heroes of Jadotville: The Soldiers' Story
by Rose Doyle...
€ 17.95 -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
by Toby Green...
€ 15.00 -
Exterminate All the Brutes
by Sven Lindqvist...
€ 13.50 -
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
by Paul Kenyon...
€ 13.50 -
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch...
€ 13.50 -
Africa's Long Road Since Independence
by Keith Sommerville...
€ 15.00 -
The Looting Machine
by Tom Burgis...
€ 13.50 -
The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
by Martin Meredith...
€ 17.00 -
The Shadow of the Sun
By Ryszard Kapuściński...
€ 13.50