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Quick view Humphreys, Margaret / Oranges and Sunshine Also published as Empty Cradles. In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Roberts, John / The Team That Wouldn't Die : Story of the Busby Babes The 6 February 1998 marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich air disaster. Twenty three people died as the plane carrying Manchester United home from a Euopean Cup tie crashed after refuelling in Germany. Eight of those were United players... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Cowley, Robert / What If? : Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been 'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events. Concentrating on some of the most intriguing military... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Woodward, Bob / Plan of Attack Award-winning journalist Bob Woodward has spent over thirty years in Washington's corridors of power. In All the President's Men it was he, together with Carl Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal and he has been giving us a privileged... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Bailey, Christopher J. / The Uncertain Power : Political History of the United States Since 1929 This is a short political history of the United States since 1929, focusing on the national political agenda. The book deals with civil rights, the anti-communist crusade, social reform, foreign policy and includes a discussion of military strategy... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Leonard, Hugh / Parnell and the Englishwoman : A Love Story This is the story of the great love affair between Charles Stewart Parnell and Katharine O'Shea that led to Parnell's downfall as leader of the Irish party at Westminster in 1889. It is a story of political wrangling and intrigue over Home Rule in... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kealy, Sr. Marie / Dominican Education in Ireland 1820-1930 (Large Paperback) Focusing on the part played by Dominican women in schools and colleges from 1820 to 1930, this book brings new findings to the history of the Catholic education of women and makes an important contribution to the general history of education in... €3.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Coates, Time / The Siege of the Peking Embassy, 1900 : Sir Claude MacDonald's Report on the Boxer Rebellion All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Feeney, Paul / A 1950s Childhood : From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Ellis, Nesta Wyn / John Major An analysis of the history and character of John Major, not even an MP until 1979 but Prime Minister at the age of 47. It charts his story from poverty to power and is updated to include details of the G7 summit, the BCCI affair and the Citizen's... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Coote, Stephen / Royal Survivor : Life of Charles II This sweeping narrative takes the reader from palaces and battlefields through exile, bitterness, triumph and deceit. Charles is revealed as a fascinating, brave and dangerous man - a gambler, a fixer, a survivor. The twists and turns of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Dimbleby, Jonathan / The Last Governor : Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong In July 1997, Hong Kong will ceased to be a British colony and will reverted to the People's Republic of China. Five million people lost their status as British subjects and became citizens of a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. It was... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Robinson, Jeffrey / Rainier and Grace A biography of the Grimaldi royal family of Monaco, in which Prince Rainier speaks of his romance with Grace Kelly; Princess Stephanie recounts the tragic car crash that killed her mother; and Prince Albert and Princess Caroline reveal the private... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Boston, Anne / Wave Me Goodbye/Hearts Undefeated An invaluable omnibus that brings together women as diverse as Barbara Cartland, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, a Soho street-sweeper and an air-raid warden. Containing fiction and non- fiction from some of the most well-known writers of the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Saylor, Steven / Rubicon Caesar is marching on Rome: his intent, civil war. Pompey and the terrified Senate prepare to flee the city. The murder of a visitor in the house of gordianus the Finder could not occur at a worse time, especially since the dead man is Pompey's... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Colville, John Rupert / The Fringes of Power: October 1941-April 1955 v. 2 : Downing Street Diaries, 1939-55 All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Kurson, Robert / Shadow Divers February 1945 - The war is almost over and Britain and America rule the waves. To enlist for a German U-boat is suicidal. But sixty young Nazi soldiers choose to enter the cramped underwater conditions of the U-869 for the most difficult mission of... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Tillyard, Stella / Aristocrats A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832. Passionate, witty and moving, the voices of the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Wright, Evan / Generation Kill Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Friedman, Thomas L. / The World is Flat The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization - a `flattening' of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Darylmple, William / From the Holy Mountain A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Ardagh, John / Germany And the Germans Aims to capture the diversity and contradictions of the Germany of the mid-1990s. This new edition looks at events such as Chancellor Kohl's re-election in 1994, the recession, the flare up of racial violence, and the continued malaise in the east... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Janik, Erika / A Short History of Wisconsin Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. "A Short History of Wisconsin" recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible,... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Collins, Stephen / People Politics and Power : From O'Connell to Ahern Politics in Ireland is something of a national obsession. Despite a decline in voter turnout in recent general elections, politics still attracts huge interest and controversy. Powerful political figures like Charles Haughey, Eamon de Valera,... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Mandela, Nelson / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1 : 1918-1962 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his beginning in the Transkei to his being... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Grant, Garvan / The Trueish History of Ireland Did you ever think there was something funny about Irish history? Turns out you were right. As the centenary of 1916 approaches, 'The True(ish) History of Ireland' reveals the funny side of Ireland's story. Using hearsay, rumour and some... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Woodward, Bob / Bush at War With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Moloney, Ed / A Secret History of the IRA For decades the British and Irish have "got used to" a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man -... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Amis, Martin / The Moronic Inferno And Other Visits to America A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog. At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Summers, Julie / Jambusters The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Fetherstonhaugh, Neil / They Never Came Home : The Stardust Story All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Walsh, Liz / The Final Beat : The Gardai Killed in the Line of Duty No member of the Garda Siochana died in the line of duty between 1942 and 1970. Since that date, fourteen members of the force have paid the supreme price. 'The Final Beat' is their story. From Richard Fallon, who died while trying to stop a bank... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Pressler, Mirjam / The Story of Anne Frank : Forew. by Rabbi Hugo Gryn Anne Frank's poignant story - her years spent hiding in Amsterdam's Secret Annexe' before discovery and death at the hands of the Nazis - has been immortalized in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, loved by millions around the world. This biography... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Earle, Phil / Heroic For the past five weeks I'd prayed that I'd never see my brother's name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.'Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that's where the similarities end. One is calm when the... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Keena, Colm / Haughey's Millions : Charlie's Money Trail In 1979, when Charlie Haughey was voted leader of Fianna Fail and Taoiseach he gave a press conference. At it, he was asked where his money came from. He said the question presumed he was rich, which mightn't be the case: 'Ask my bank... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Moore, Lucy / Liberty : The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France The bestselling author of `Maharanis' recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history... €2.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Northup, Solomon / Twelve Years a Slave This is an official tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany Steve McQueen's major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Quvenzhane Wallis. Solomon... €2.00 Add to Cart
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Quick view Adams, Gerry / Before the Dawn : An Autobiography Widely regarded as the most controversial figure in Irish politics, Gerry Adams has been President of Sinn Fein since 1983. This memoir follows the years of conflict and struggle, from the pogroms of 1969 to the hunger strikes of 1981; from the streets... €2.00 Add to Cart
