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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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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets (Irish Memoir Hardback)€24.99
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. . .
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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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And There Was Light : Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment€41.99
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.
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The North American Indian. The Complete Portfolios€24.99
At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious, he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out.
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Worn : A People's History of Clothing€24.99
Exploring the social, economic and environmental impact of our most personal possessions, Worn looks beyond care labels to show how clothes reveal the truth about what we really care about.
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Between Two Hells : The Irish Civil War€24.99
Drawing on many previously unpublished sources and newly released archival material, one of Ireland's most renowned historians lays bare the course and impact of the war, the lives it cost, the reputations it forged, the fate of its survivors and how this tragedy shaped modern Ireland.
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Out of the Darkness : Greenham Voices 1981-2000€24.99
In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British soil.
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The Restaurant : A History of Eating Out€22.50
The fascinating story of how we have gone out to eat, from the ancient Romans in Pompeii to the luxurious Michelin-starred restaurants of today.
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Venus and Aphrodite€15.50
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.