Zbirka: Biografije in resnične zgodbe
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Little Prisoners(2012) WATSON, CASEYFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving memoir about two innocent and frightened ‘unfosterable’ children who do not know what it means to be loved. This is the third book in the series.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Permanent Present Tense(2014) CORKIN, DR SUZANNEWhen he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment, unable to remember anything for more than a few seconds. For nearly five dVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat(2007) CHURCHILL, WINSTONA collection of thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Winston Churchill gradually honed his rhetoric.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Fire Under The Snow(1998) GYATSO, PALDENIn 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. This powerful text is the story of his life and irrefutable testimony to the appalling suffering of the Tibetan nation at the hands of thVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
One That Got Away(2011) RYAN, CHRISNothing had prepared them for the vicious cold of the desert winter, and after a blizzard and a desperate search for food, Chris Ryan found himself the last man standing. Left on his own, Ryan narrowly escaped an Iraqi attack and set out alone, trying toVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Passage of Power(2014) CARO, ROBERT AProvides a perspective on Kennedy's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and penetrates deep into what it was like for him to assume a position of such power at a time of national crisis.Vezava: Mehka42,06 € -
Hitler 1889-1936(2001) KERSHAW, IANDrawing on a huge range of sources, this book recreates the world which first thwarted and then nurtured Hitler in the author's youth, from early childhood to the first successes of the Nazi Party. It charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfitVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Truth and Beauty(2005) PATCHETT, ANNFrom the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Patriot of Persia(2013) DE BELLAIGUE, CHRISTOPHEROn 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. Above all, the life of Muhammad Mossadegh is a warning to today's occupants of Downing Street and the White House, as theyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
American Caesars(2011) HAMILTON, NIGELThe twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. And who were these men in their private lives?Compulsively readable, packed with unforgettable characters as well as stories, lessons and revelations, American Caears is essential reading for oVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Tartan Pimpernel(2006) CASKIE, DONALDThis is the remarkable story of Donald Caskie, minister of the Scots Kirk in Paris at the time of the German invasion of France in 1940. Although he had several opportunities to flee, Caskie stayed behind to help establish a network of safe houses and escVezava: Mehka14,25 € -
Nelson(2005) LAMBERT, ANDREW'Fascinating . In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ill Met By Moonlight(2014) MOSS, W. STANLEYA classic real-life adventure story from the Second World War involving Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnap and a Nazi manhunt.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
William Pitt the Younger(2005) HAGUE, WILLIAMThe award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Blood Sisters(2013) GRISTWOOD, SARAHThe true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Eminent Victorians(2009) STRACHEY, LYTTONEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with scepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of CardVezava: Mehka15,41 €
