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Books
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Winston Churchill : His Times, His Crimes€15.99
In this coruscating biography, Tariq Ali challenges Churchill's vaulted record. Churchill never questioned his imperial philosophy as he became one of the architects of the postwar world we live in today.
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The House of Dudley : A New History of Tudor England€15.99
Was the House of Dudley out to steal the throne?
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Sean O'Casey : Political Activist and Writer€50.00
On the hundredth anniversary of the production of Sean O'Casey's Dublin plays at the Abbey Theatre, this timely book, Sean O'Casey: Political activist and writer situates O'Casey in the literary and political context of his time.
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George III : The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch€22.99
Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty.
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Operation Chiffon : The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland€26.99
On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland. 'A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA - and how one meeting changed everything' Telegraph
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The Other Renaissance : From Copernicus to Shakespeare€29.99
Through the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of the northern European Renaissance, which rivalled its Italian counterpart.
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber : The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale€12.99
The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.
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An Enemy of the Crown : The British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey€16.99
In the early 1970s, Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret Service, MI6, embarked upon a decade-long campaign to derail the political career of Charles Haughey.
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Nurses and Mid-Wives in Borrisokane and Nenagh poor law unions, 1882-1922€13.99
This study examines how the professionalization and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh in Co. Tipperary between 1882 and 1922.
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The Paper Chase : The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers€11.99
In the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection.