Zbirka: Avtobiografije: zgodovina, politika in vojaštvo
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Flying Forwards Facing Backwards(2022) WALLS, JIMSince he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft, he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front. Jim guides readers throVezava: Trda35,05 € -
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Dreams From My Father(2016) OBAMA, BARACKThis #1 New York Times bestselling memoir former president Barack Obama is a frank and personal account of his search for identity that has sold over a million copies in the UK aloneVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Auschwitz and After(2014) DELBO, CHARLOTTEWritten by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes.Vezava: Mehka32,30 € -
Narrative of Frederick Douglass(2014) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKDetails the life of the author from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man whoVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Better Ambition(2019) FARRON, TIMTim Farron’s account of his involvement in the turbulent politics of recent years offers a wealth of insight into life at the top of a major political party and the prospects for true liberalism in Britain today.Vezava: Trda32,23 € -
House Music(2008) KING, OONAReveals how the author chose to abandon her ambition to become Prime Minister in favour of another ambition - to have a life.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Gurkha(2016) LIMBU, CAPTAIN KAILASHIn Gurkha we hear, for the first time in two hundred years of service to the British crown, the authentic voice of a Gurkha soldier. Never before has a serving Gurkha written an account of his own life.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Solitary Spy(2020) BOYD, DOUGLASThe Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Landscape with Machines(2017) ROLT, L T CLandscape with Machines: The First Part of his AutobiographyVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Shadow of the Sun(2002) KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARDCreates an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. This book gives a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practices we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt toVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Letters to Friends, Volume I(2001) CICEROCicero’s letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Call Me Chef, Dammit!(2022) RUSH, ANDREAn inspiring, all-American story from the former White House head chef, who made his way from a farm in rural Mississippi to West Point and a twenty-four-year military career, to holding one of the most prestigious culinary positions in the United States.Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Ace in a Day(2022) BLICKENSTAFF, WAYNELieutenant Colonel Wayne Blickenstaff rose through the ranks of the 353th Fighter Group to become the Group Operations Officer. Ace in a Day is Blick's honest and gritty personal memoir of his air war in Europe during World War II.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Explosive(2022) TODD, CLIFFThe searing memoir from the man tasked with finding the world's deadliest bomb makers.Vezava: Trda36,59 € -
Hinterland(2017) MULLIN, CHRISA wry and revealing political memoir from the man behind the celebrated diaries: A View from the Foothills, A Walk-On Part and Decline & Fall.Vezava: Mehka16,81 €
