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History
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Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction€10.99
A Very Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404.
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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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Spike Island: The Rebels, Residents and Crafty Criminals of Ireland's Historic Island€18.99
A compelling and accessible journey through Irish history, featuring interviews with former Spike Island residents, soldiers and convicts
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Bandit Country : The IRA and South Armagh€15.99Branded as ‘Bandit Country’ by the British government, South Armagh was the heartland of the Provisional IRA. It was the rebel Irish stronghold where Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy reigned supreme, bomb attacks on England were planned and the SAS tracked the IRA snipers who hunted British soldiers.
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Gerald Boland : A Life (Irish Historic Memoir)Special Price €15.99 Regular Price €19.99
Boland’s story thus offers readers a personal insight into many of the major military and political events which helped shape modern Ireland over the duration of his lifetime (1885-1973).
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians : True stories of the magic of reading€23.99
Features an exclusive interview with beloved author Judy Blume! To be a bookseller or librarian. You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magic by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going to love it'.
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Peace Comes Dropping Slow: My Life in the TroublesSpecial Price €15.19 Regular Price €18.99
Once played out in the shadows, Bradley’s pivotal role in Northern Ireland’s peace process is finally illuminated in this engrossing memoir.
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God's Ghostwriters€20.99
For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has credited the authorship of the New Testament to a select group of men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But the truth is that these individuals did not write alone.
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Nuclear War : A ScenarioSpecial Price €15.19 Regular Price €18.99
Nuclear War is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever.
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Four Shots in the Night : A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern IrelandSpecial Price €16.79 Regular Price €20.99
How the death of a spy in the IRA led to one of the biggest murder investigations in British history.
