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Regional & National History
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Immortal Torino : How the Superga Air Crash Robbed Italian Football of its Champions€22.99
It was just after five o'clock on 4 May 1949 as the Avio Linee Italiane Fiat G.212, carrying 18 players of AC Torino and 13 other passengers, was preparing to land at Turin's Aeritalia airport. Thick fog meant visibility was poor, and strong winds had blown the plane off course.
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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets (Irish Memoir Hardback)€24.99
How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. . .
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia€12.99
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates.
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Cleopatra's Daughter : Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen€15.99
Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at the Battle of Actium.
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Noble Ambitions : The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House€15.99
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values.
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Why We Fight : The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace€12.99
Why do human beings fight one another? In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.
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Pax : War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age (Paperback)€20.99
The definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness.
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I : The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History€21.99
Piecing together evidence from original documents and artefacts, this book tells the story of Anne Boleyn's relationship with, and influence over her daughter Elizabeth. In so doing, it sheds new light on two of the most famous and influential women in history.
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The Russo-Ukrainian War : From the bestselling author of Chernobyl€29.99
On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine.
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet : The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects€15.99
On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: 'Yes, yes, wonderful things.