Zbirka: Avstralazijska in pacifiška zgodovina
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Pattern of Islands(2011) GRIMBLE, ARTHURLiving for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he was used as human bait for a giant octopus.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Commonwealth of Thieves(2007) KENEALLY, THOMASTells the story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Secret Country(1992) PILGER, JOHNExpatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high pVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All(2009) THOMPSON, CHRISTINAA book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounterVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In)(2011) AMBROSE, HUGHThe official companion book to the HBO miniseries from the producers of Band of BrothersVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942(2013) STILLE, MARK (AUTHOR)A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Horror In The East(2011) REES, LAURENCEThe brutal Japanese treatment of allied prisoners of war, as well as countless thousands of Chinese civilians, during World War 2 has been well documented.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sea Harrier Over The Falklands(2007) WARD, COMMANDER SHARKEYThe controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skiesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Battle for the Falklands(2022) HASTINGS, MAX,JENKINS, SIMONThe Battle for the Falklands is a vivid chronicle of the political decision-making and military strategy during the Falklands conflict.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
War Beat, Pacific(2021) CASEY, STEVEN (PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS)The War Beat, Pacific is the first book to use a wealth of previously untapped documents to provide a comprehensive account of the reporting of the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor and Bataan, through Midway and Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, Leyte anVezava: Trda63,66 € -
Replenishing the Earth(2011) BELICH, JAMES (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STOUT RESEARCH CENTRE, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON)Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how thisVezava: Mehka42,75 € -
USN Battleship vs IJN Battleship(2017) STILLE, MARK (AUTHOR)This fully illustrated study lifts the veil on two of history’s last battleship-vs-battleship battles as the US and Japanese navies clashed in the Pacific during World War II.Vezava: Mehka24,70 € -
Australian Army at War 1976–2016(2019) NEVILLE, LEIGHAn illustrated study of the radical evolution of the Australian Army's capabilities, and its combat operations, that has taken place since the end of the Vietnam War.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Hell in the Central Pacific 1944(2020) DIAMOND, JONCovers an early little known but hard fought Pacific War campaign. Classic amphibious operation.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Governing Natives(2018) SILVERSTEIN, BEN (POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY)This book examines both the turn to indirect rule as a way of mediating and resolving some of the contradictions that had tended to crisis, and the way both indirect rule and settler colonialism were transformed by this new political dispensation. -- .Vezava: Trda111,97 €
