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Books
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Dresden : The Fire and the Darkness€10.99
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won?
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Undercover War : Britain's Special Forces and their secret battle against the IRA€12.99
When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 to keep apart rioting factions of loyalists and nationalists, they could not have known that they were being drawn into the longest campaign in the British Army's history, a battle against the threat of a new rising force - the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge : A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel€12.99
Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every cove, sound, inlet, island.
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A Woman of No Importance€11.99
In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to track down a mysterious 'limping lady' who was fighting for the freedom of France.
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Appeasing Hitler : Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War€11.99
A thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler and the Nazis to dominate Europe.
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Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89€11.99
Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and SpectatorIn 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule.
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The Five : The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper€10.99
An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed the Ripper myth.
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Uncrowned Queen (Hardback)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €23.99
The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch.
Nicola Tallis's gripping account of Margaret's life, one that saw the final passing of the Middle Ages, is a true thriller, revealing the life of an extraordinarily ambitious and devoted woman who risked everything to ultimately found the Tudor dynasty.
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Countdown to Valkyrie : The July Plot to Assassinate Hitler€14.31
Although there were more than forty plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler, none came closer to success than the 20 July Plot of 1944.
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The Border : The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics (Paperback)€10.99
'Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several MPs who ought to.' the Times'Ferriter's judicious book shows that Brexiters' recklessness, such "contemptuous arrogance", is nothing new, and that it has always been the ordinary people of Northern Ireland who have paid its price.