True Stories of Heroism, Endurance & Survival
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Born For War: One SAS Trooper''s Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War
Tony HoareCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabThe full, explosive, boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at the heart of the action, ...
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Born For War: One SAS Trooper''s Extraordinary Account of the Falklands War
Tony HoareCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabThe full, explosive, boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at the heart of the action, ...
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UNIMPAIRED: The Story of My Healing and Triumph
Felicia Stephen-MichaelCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the Worlds Greatest Survival Story
Pablo VierciCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILMIt was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends,...
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The Secret Prison Governor: The Brutal Truth of Life Behind Bars
The Secret Prison GovernorCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor of what it's really like behind bars.How do you bring ord...
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Kersten''s Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell
François KersaudyCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50It dawned on me that I was henceforth under his thumb. The vagaries of war had chained me to the man who, apart from Hitler, was considered to be t...
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom - A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR
Ilyon WooCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the Sout...
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Silent Village: The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane
Robert PikeCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pikes moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-su...
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Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
Keren BlankfeldCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the huma...
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster
Jon KrakauerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm an...
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Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky
Caro GilesCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. ...
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The Devil At Home: The horrific true story of a woman held captive
Rachel WilliamsCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99He pushed open the door, and I saw that he was pulling something out of a bag he was carrying. It was a gun a sawn-off shotgun.Featured on ITV's L...
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Brave: How I rebuilt my life after love turned to hate
Adele BellisCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Control. Jealousy. Isolation. Blame. Anger. Violence.The inspiring true story of a young woman who suffered a terrifyingly abusive relationship cul...
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Member of the Family: Manson, Murder and Me
Dianne LakeCurrent price €12.04Original price €14.50Following the recent death of Charles Manson the leader of the sinister 60s cult Dianne Lake reveals the true story of life with Manson and his f...
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The Call of the Road: The History of Cycle Road Racing
Chris SidwellsCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. Since the first road ra...
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What I Wish Id Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up
Alice ThomsonCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50A superb study brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew but...
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Up: My Lifes Journey to the Top of Everest
Ben FogleCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain o...
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The Bad Room: Held Captive and Abused by My Evil Carer. A True Story of Survival.
Jade KellyCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong this is her stag...
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The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique BaubyCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the...
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Taken
Rosie LewisCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate. A...
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The Dog, the Wolf and God
Folco TerzaniCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50A masterpiece Vanity Fair (Italy) After the best-seller The End is My Beginning, co-authored with his father Tixiano Terzani, the long-a...
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Lara The Runaway Cat: One cats journey to discover home is where the heart is
Dion LeonardCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Lara the Runaway Cat tells the story of Gobi, the loveable pup who followed Dion Leonard across a gruelling 155-mile trek across the Gobi Desert, a...
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The Wifes Tale: A Personal History
Aida EdemariamCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF TH...
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I Will Find You: In Search of the Man Who Raped Me
Joanna ConnorsCurrent price €14.55Original price €16.99A hard-hitting memoir about a womans search to understand the man who raped her Joanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at...
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The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away: A Death that Brought the Gift of Life
Cole MoretonCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Gripping so powerfully emotional that at times I had to put it down to wipe my eyesMail on Sunday How do you say thank you to someone fo...
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One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
Barbara WintonCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - GuardianSir Nicholas Win...
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Letters to Gil
Malik Al NasirCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure ...
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Devotion: A Memoir
Mickey HarteCurrent price €13.42Original price €16.99A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games. In a frenetic seven-year spell at the outset of...
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Cold-Water Eden
Richie FitzgeraldCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the worlds most captivating big-wave surfin...
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SBS Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History
Saul DavidCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A terrific book It really is one of the most enjoyable histories Ive read in many a year JAMES ...
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Lucky
Ed JacksonCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend. Joe Wicks A life-affirming story...
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Letters to Gil
Malik Al NasirCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure ...
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Enchanted Beings: A Trip Around the Wheel of the Year with 8 Practitioners
Jenny ChapmanCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99Current price €18.25Original price €21.99Save 17% -
Predators'' Paradise: A Journey of Survival and Resilience
Glen FisherCurrent price €22.83Original price €27.50Current price €22.83Original price €27.50Save 17% -
My Kaddish: A Child Speaks from the Warsaw Ghetto
Thérèse (Terri) MassonCurrent price €87.14Original price €104.99Elegant yet shattering Rendered in plainspoken yet devastating prose, Massons historical narrative is intercut with startling present-day moments T...
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Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France
Robert PikeCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pikes moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-su...
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We Were Warriors: A Powerful and Moving Story of Courage Under Fire
Johnny MercerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'An adrenalin-fuelled, gritty story of heroism on the frontline in Afghanistan' - Andy McNabUnflinching and laced with wry humour, Johnny Mercer's ...
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Yesterday''s Todays: a story of survival against the odds
Anneliese JohnsonCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Current price €14.53Original price €17.50Save 17% -
Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma
Martin L. FriedlandCurrent price €92.12Original price €110.99Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the t...
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Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma
Martin L. FriedlandCurrent price €45.64Original price €54.99Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the t...
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Don''t be Bitter be Better: From Terminal to Terrific, a Mother''s Raw Account of Her Son''s Aggressive Cancer Battle
Jennifer WebsterCurrent price €19.08Original price €22.99Current price €19.08Original price €22.99Save 17% -
The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary Abridged Edition
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday TelegraphWITH A NEW INTROD...
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Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
Levison WoodCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of cou...
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Hannah DurkinCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARYS BEST BOOKS ...
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