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Rebel Sisters

By Marita Conlon-McKenna - Published 2016

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The centenary of ‘The Rising’ in Ireland has despatched a battalion of excellent (mainly Irish) writers off on a research and remind mission. ...Read Review

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

Everyone has been taught that the sinking of the merchant liner R.M.S. Lusitania drove the United States of America to enter ...Read Review

The Mongol Empire

By John Man - Published 2014

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Nonfiction

John Man is an acknowledged authority on Mongolia and its history. His book presents a sweeping account of the Mongol empire, from its ...Read Review

Liberty Silk

By Kate Beaufoy - Published 2014

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This is the story of three generations of women linked by a silk dress. First there’s Jessie, whose artist husband inexplicably deserts ...Read Review

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

By M.C. Scott - Published 2012

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AdventureMilitary

This is the story of Demalion of Macedon, who joins the Twelfth Legion. The story opens in AD 57 in Hyrcania, where the young ...Read Review

We Fought at Arnhem

By Mike Rossiter - Published 2012

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MilitaryNonfiction

Operation Market Garden was an Allied plan in 1944 to capture Dutch bridges over the Rhine using airborne troops to outflank the German front ...Read Review

Eclipse

By Nicholas Clee - Published 2010

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Nonfiction

This is the story of perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time, unbeaten throughout his career and so feared by rivals that finally ...Read Review

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain

By John O’Farrell - Published 2007

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Nonfiction

This is essentially 1066 and All That for the 21st century. John O’Farrell, who is better known for his Guardian articles and novels ...Read Review