Product Description: Rome was always more than just a city, it was an idea. Its laws, government and religion came, through the growth of that idea, to dominate first Italy and then the known world. This book shows year by year how this happened. In it we experience the rise, evolution and eventual destruction of the Republic and encounter the heroes and villains of the period including the Patricians and the Plebeians; Caesar and Pompey; Scipio and Hannibal...read more

Product Description: The green fields of Britain hide a grim secret. Beneath the buttercups are the bones of untold numbers of soldiers who died for causes now lost in the mists of time. From hotels to houses, castles to council estates, these warriors walk reminding us of our bloody past.

Provides an account of the author's life with his family in the Irish countryside

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