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Books
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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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Empires of the Steppes : The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation€20.99
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These tribes produced some of the world s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others.
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Fake Heroes : Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History€22.99
Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a saint? Is Henry V actually England's greatest king? And why does JFK's legend continue to grow?
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Titanic (Hardback)€24.99
On 14 April 1912, less than a week into a transatlantic trip from Southampton to New York, the largest luxury cruise liner in the world struck an iceberg off the coast of Labrador, causing the hull to buckle.
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Amid Shifting Sands : Ancient History, Explosive Growth, Climate Change and the Uncertain Future of the United Arab€22.99
The United Arab Emirates are renowned for their enormous production of oil and the rise of great cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which attract millions of tourists annually. It is as if the great aridity of the country did not exist. Yet the UAE is essentially a vast desert, thinly peopled for thousands of years by nomads, grazing sheep, camels and growing a few crops in great oases like Al Ain and Liwa.
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The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD€20.99
A powerful, probing book about PTSD. In this powerful and intensely personal book, Keane interrogates what it is that draws him to the wars, what keeps him there and offers a reckoning of the damage done.
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A Ukrainian Christmas€21.99
Christmas brings the indestructibility of hope in times of the greatest hopelessness. As long as we celebrate this holiday, we can neither be defeated nor destroyed. This is the message that Ukraine is trying to convey to the world.
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The History of Russia : From the Rus' people to President Putin€23.99
From monarchy to the world's first socialist state, from Communism to Capitalism, from mass poverty to Europe's new super rich, Russia has seen immense revolutions in just the past century, including purges, poisonings, famines, assassinations and massacres.
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The Auschwitz Protocols : Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews€23.99
As Adolf Eichmann sent hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz gas chambers, the Jews of Budapest needed the eyewitness testimony of Auschwitz escapees Ceslav Mordowicz and Arnost Rosinto save them.
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Pride, Pop and Politics : Music, Theatre and LGBT Activism, 1970-2022Special Price €22.49 Regular Price €24.99
This informative, eye-opening book is the first to focus on the relationship between gay nightlife and political activism in Britain.