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A passage to Africa (Braille)

As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. This is Alagiah's shattering... more

Product code: 22606501

£17.00

A world by itself; a history of the British Isles (Braille)

Six distinguished British historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures from the... more

Product code: 22378901

£30.00

Alliance; the inside story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill won one war and began another (Daisy)

Throughout the war the 'Big Three' - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin - met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany - and, just as... more

Product code: 800993

£6.99

Battle cry of freedom; the Civil War era (Braille)

This text presents a history of the American Civil War. It starts with an account of the years before the civil war and its causes - placing slavery firmly back in the centre stage... more

Product code: 22180102

£16.99

Cosa Nostra; a history of the Sicilian Mafia (Daisy)

The Mafia has been given many names since it was founded in the mid-19th century - the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed,... more

Product code: 800074

£8.99

Days that changed the world (Daisy)

The currents of history run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an... more

Product code: 800558

£14.99

D-Day, 1944; voices from Normandy (Daisy)

This is the story of one day, fifty miles of French coast and about 200,000 men: of Operation "Overlord" and the events of June 6th, 1944. Told in the words of those who were... more

Product code: 801820

£7.99

Inuit (Contracted braille (Grade 2))

The Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia have all suffered at the hands of fur traders, whalers, missionaries and oil and gas companies who have stripped vital resources... more

Product code: 22608601

£4.99

Last of the few; the battle of Britain in the words of the pilots who won it (Braille)

After the fall of France in May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was miraculously evacuated from Dunkirk. Britain now stood alone to face Hitler's inevitable invasion attempt.... more

Product code: 22474701

£20.00

Mayflower; a voyage of war (Daisy)

From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet,... more

Product code: 800309

£9.99

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