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Regional & National History
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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets€23.99
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. Born in a Mother and Baby Home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an institution not far from the farm where Clair spent happy childhood summers. Yet she was never told of her existence.
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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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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.
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Palestine : Matters of Truth and Justice€27.99
This book compellingly argues that Palestine is not simply a dilemma awaiting creative policy solutions, but a problem requiring the application of justice.
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The Will to See : Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope€17.99
Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world.