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Books
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The Man in the Brown Suit : MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin€23.99
ON 16 JULY 1936 a man in a brown suit stepped from the crowd on London's Constitution Hill and pointed a loaded revolver at King Edward VIII as he rode past. 288 pages, 16 Illustrations, black and white
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One Day : The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America€24.50
A journalist pulls a random day in history from a hat to see if he can make a worthwhile news story from what happened.
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Franco and the Condor Legion : The Spanish Civil War in the Air€23.00
The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes.
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Chasing the Moon : The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo Landings€21.28
In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission.
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Yesterday We Were In America : Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop€20.99
ON 14 June 1919 - eight years before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic - two men from Manchester took off in an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy and flew into the history books.
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Origins : How The Earth Made Us€22.99
'A sweeping, brilliant overview of the history of not only of our species but of the world ... Dartnell has a rare talent in being able to see the big picture - and explaining why it matters' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads`Extraordinary...
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Stalin, Vol. II : Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941€23.99
Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways.
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The Bedroom : An Intimate History€23.80
An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives-the bedroom.
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardback)€21.99
Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations.
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Kissinger : 1923-1968: The Idealist€23.99
No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger.