
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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Great Uncle Harry
By Michael Palin...
€ 17.95 -
Emperor of Rome
By Mary Beard...
€ 33.95 -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird...
€ 16.95 -
The Shortest History of India
by John Zubrzycki...
€ 17.95 -
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By Tom Holland...
€ 18.95 -
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
by Phillipe Sands...
€ 19.95 -
This is Europe: The Way We Live Now
by Ben Judah...
€ 20.95 -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King
by Jonathan Eig...
€ 18.95 -
Young Queens
by Leah Redmond...
€ 19.95 -
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
by Otto English...
€ 16.95 -
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
by Jacob Mikanowski...
€ 28.95 -
Fatherland
by Burkhard Bilger...
€ 20.95 -
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation
by Leon McCarron...
€ 18.95 -
Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story
by Levison Wood...
€ 18.95 -
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
by Vaudine England...
€ 22.95 -
In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology
By Lucy Moore...
€ 13.95 -
The Darkness Echoing
By Gillian O'Brien...
€ 13.95 -
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War
by Alan Philips...
€ 20.95 -
Foreign Bodies
by Simon Schama...
€ 19.95 -
The Wager
by David Grann...
€ 18.95 -
The Lion House
by Christopher de...
€ 15.35 -
Courting India
by Nandini Das...
€ 22.99 -
A Stranger in Your Own City
by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 'A...
€ 34.99 -
Homelands
by Timothy Garton...
€ 23.99 -
The West
by Naoise Mac...
€ 20.99
LitVox History Favourites
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Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
by Otto English...
€ 13.95 -
Danubia
by Simon Winder...
€ 15.35 -
Seashaken Houses
by Tom Nancollas...
€ 13.95 -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
by Malcolm Gaskill...
€ 13.50 -
Ten Cities that Led the World
by Paul Strathern...
€ 14.50 -
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
Irish History Books
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Old Ireland in Colour 3
by John Breslin...
€ 24.95 -
Stakeknife’s Dirty War
by Richard O'Rawe
€ 18.95 -
The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
by Aoife Moore...
€ 18.95 -
The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who armed the IRA with Gaddafi's Money
by Jennifer O'Leary...
€ 18.95 -
A Year of Glory and Gold
by Kevin C....
€ 24.95 -
A Little History of Dublin
by Trevor White...
€ 17.00 -
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
by Mark O'Connell...
€ 19.00€ 14.95 -
The Murderer and the Taoiseach
by Harry McGee...
€ 22.00€ 17.95 -
Is Ireland Neutral: The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality
by Conor Gallagher...
€ 19.00 -
In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology
By Lucy Moore...
€ 13.95 -
The Darkness Echoing
By Gillian O'Brien...
€ 13.95 -
Killing Thatcher
by Rory Carroll...
€ 18.95 -
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland
by Peter Taylor...
€ 17.95 -
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea
By Jon Gower...
€ 24.95 -
Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
by Elaine Farrell...
€ 18.95 -
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...
€ 13.95 -
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
European History Books
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The Basque History Of The World
by Mark Kurlansky...
€ 17.95 -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
by Max Egremont...
€ 15.35 -
Espana: a Brief History of Spain
by Giles Tremlett...
€ 15.95 -
Berlin: Imagine a City
by Rory McLean...
€ 15.35 -
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
by Lawrence Durrell...
€ 15.35 -
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
by Phillipe Sands...
€ 19.95 -
This is Europe: The Way We Live Now
by Ben Judah...
€ 20.95 -
Young Queens
by Leah Redmond...
€ 19.95 -
Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
by Otto English...
€ 16.95 -
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
by Otto English...
€ 13.95 -
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
by Jacob Mikanowski...
€ 28.95 -
The New Spaniards
by John Hooper...
€ 15.35 -
The Italians
by John Hooper...
€ 15.35 -
Danubia
by Simon Winder...
€ 15.35 -
Fatherland
by Burkhard Bilger...
€ 20.95 -
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
by Victoria Belim...
€ 18.95 -
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War
by Alan Philips...
€ 20.95 -
How The French Think
by Sudhir Hazareesingh...
€ 15.00 -
A Brief History Of Paris
by Cecil Jenkins...
€ 15.00 -
Homelands
by Timothy Garton...
€ 23.99 -
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
American History Books
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird...
€ 16.95 -
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America
by Lawrence Wright...
€ 15.35 -
Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann...
€ 13.95 -
King: The Life of Martin Luther King
by Jonathan Eig...
€ 18.95 -
Escape from Kabul: The Inside Story
by Levison Wood...
€ 18.95 -
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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Abroad in Japan
by Chris Broad...
€ 17.95 -
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
by Jeevan Vasagar...
€ 15.35 -
The Shortest History of India
by John Zubrzycki...
€ 17.95 -
The Roads to Sata: A 2000-mile walk through Japan
by Alan Booth...
€ 15.35 -
The Nine Lives of Pakistan
by Anatol Lieven...
€ 13.95 -
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
by Vaudine England...
€ 22.95 -
The Lion House
by Christopher de...
€ 15.35 -
Courting India
by Nandini Das...
€ 22.99 -
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
African History Books
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Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa
by Martin Meredith
€ 17.95 -
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