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The first accessible, authoritative and complete account of Vasco da Gama's historic and audacious attempt to seize the spice routes and re-conquer the Holy Land.

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A tragic fire at the Stardust nightclub on Valentine's Day, 1981 in a working-class suburb of Dublin caused the deaths of 48 young people, with an average age of just 19 years. After years of families and survivors fighting to find out what really happened, new inquests held in 2024 finally revealed the full story.

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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.

In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight a duel to the death.

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The bizarre and little known story of how a hubristic Archduke became the puppet Emperor of Mexico - with tragic results and pivotal historical consequences for Europe and America.

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A view of the south of Ireland political, social, geographical through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it.

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In Jew Town in India's Cochin, two small communities descended from 'a lost tribe of Israel' are living side by side, on the brink of extinction. When their last two members of child-bearing age refuse to marry, their fate is sealed. This is their story.

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Haunting. Jonathan Freedland Powerful. Daniel Finkelstein

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish familys fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain.

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The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution

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The story of Britains colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.

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The extraordinary story of the UKs most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steels acclaimed portrait of the St Kildans lives is now updated in this reissued edition.

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This gripping and vivid book is, amazingly, the first comprehensive world history of the most important transport innovation of the modern age.

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The incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis, a tale virtually unkown.

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The incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis - a tale virtually unknown.

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The story of one of the Boston area s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and residents have influenced American culture When the Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Ha

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A lively and insightful study of the many roles played by women in the Tudor era, from queens to wet-nurses and countesses to serving maids.

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There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. The author uncovers the truth about them.

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One mans journey to uncover the final resting place of the historical King Arthur.

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A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory.

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A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.

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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the bestselling author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House.

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The history of 12,000 years of the British landscape, from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century, by prizewinning author Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of COAST.

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From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere. This title includes over 250 maps and photographs that changes the way you see your surroundings.