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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Chatterton Square "'You don't mean you're going to divorce him?' Miss Spanner said with horror."A sophisticated, emotive novel, Chatterton Square concerns the complex web of relationships between two neighbouring families, the Blacketts and the Frasers. Framed by the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Tree of Heaven The Tree of Heaven follows the fortunes of the Harrison family as the children grow up in the shadow of the First World War and Dorothy's brothers go off, one by one, to the trenches, while she becomes involved with the suffrage movement, and later joins... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Day We Finally Came Back from Vietnam "10 Years Late", was the headline covering the 1985 parade in New York City. But as these authors and Tom Stack saw it, this parade really was the preface for the main event: the Chicago WELCOME HOME Vietnam Veterans parade on Friday, June 13, 1986. From... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Defying Hitler 'Long Live Freedom!'-Hans Scholl's last words before his executionThe White Rose (die Weie Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in the early 1940s secretly wrote and... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Owen and Sassoon Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, both suffering from shell shock, were sent to convalesce at Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh in 1917. Owen, who referred to himself as the 'poet's poet' was unpublished at the time. It was the influence and... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Grand Scuttle At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by... RRP: $22.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Taste for Treason A gripping true story of wartime espionage.Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of... RRP: $34.99 $34.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
