The nine Expeditions SPQR is a new look

SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists

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The nine Expeditions SPQR is a new lookThe nine were ordinary women, some still in their teens, who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror and oppression. Caught out in heroic acts against the brutal regime, they were each tortured and sent East to a forced labour camp, where they formed a powerful friendship, determined to survive, together. This harrowing interlude was only the beginning. In 1945, as the war turned against Germany, they were forced on a Death