Biografije in resnične zgodbe

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    Grey Eminence(2005) HUXLEY, ALDOUS
    A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composi
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    13,88 €
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    Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth(1996) SERENY, GITTA
    Gitta Sereny reveals how Albert Speer came to terms with his own acts and failures to act, his progress from moral extinction to moral self-education and the question of his real culpability in the Nazi crimes.
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    27,79 €
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    Henry VII(1999) CHRIMES, S. B.
    A study of the life and reign of Henry VII. S.B. Chrimes explores the circumstances surrounding Henry's acquisition of the throne, examines the personnel and machinery of government, and surveys the king's social, political and economic policies, law enfo
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    40,20 €
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    Don't You Have Time to Think?(2006) RICHARD FEYNMAN
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    20,83 €
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    John F. Kennedy(2013) DALLEK, ROBERT
    A single-volume biography of John F Kennedy that reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing the way we think about his life, his presidency and his legacy.
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    27,78 €
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    Fire Strike 7/9(2011) GRAHAME, PAUL,LEWIS, DAMIEN
    'Being a JTAC is the closest a soldier on the ground in the midst of battle can get to feeling like one of the gods - unleashing pure hellfire, death and destruction' - Duncan FalconerMeet Sergeant 'Bommer' Grahame, one of the deadliest soldiers on the ba
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    23,61 €
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    Reluctant Communist(2008) JENKINS, CHARLES ROBERT,FREDERICK, JIM
    Takes the reader behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.
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    39,05 €
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    Blood-Dark Track(2009) O’NEILL, JOSEPH
    A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.
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    12,50 €
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    White Rabbit(2000) MARSHALL, BRUCE
    The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.
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    13,88 €
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    Emperor Of Scent(2004) BURR, CHANDLER
    In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, a
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    15,27 €
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    Darwin(2001) HOWARD, JONATHAN (PROFESSOR OF CELL GENETICS, INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, PROFESSOR OF CELL GENETICS, INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, GERMANY)
    Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Analysing Darwin's major insights and arguments, this work reasserts the importance of his work for the d
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    12,50 €
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    Life In Secrets(2006) HELM, SARAH
    The definitive account of an absorbing double mystery: the fates of the missing female SOE agents and the truth about the woman who searched for them
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    18,05 €
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    Wings Of The Luftwaffe(2010) BROWN, CAPT ERIC
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    48,57 €
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    Reach for the Sky(2009) BRICKHILL, PAUL
    The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.
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    18,05 €
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    Ghetto Diary(2003) KORCZAK, JANUSZ
    Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biogr
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    29,39 €
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    Waugh in Abyssinia(2000) WAUGH, EVELYN
    In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. This title captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.
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    15,27 €
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    Joseph Plunkett(2012) O BROLCHAIN, HONOR
    Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) from Dublin was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, the designer of the military plan and the youngest signatory of the Proclamation. A recognised poet, he was already dying of TB when, aged 28, he married Grace Gifford
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    22,04 €
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    Captives(2003) COLLEY, LINDA
    Linda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look differen
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    26,39 €
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    Cretan Runner(2009) PSYCHOUNDAKIS, GEORGE
    George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. This book presents an account of George's act
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    15,27 €
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    Elsie and Mairi Go to War(2010) ATKINSON, DR DIANE
    When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brot
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    13,88 €

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