Zbirka: Biografije: zgodovina, politika in vojaštvo
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Bare Feet and Tackety Boots(1988) CAMERON, ARCHIEThe last survivor of those who were born and raised on the isle of Rhum before World War I presents a social history and personal anecdote of a way of life gone not long ago but already almost forgotten.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown(2012) BROWN, JANELancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Diana Mosley(2004) DE COURCY, ANNEDiana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as Mosley's mistress - a course of action that horrified her family and scandaVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Hitler's Priestess(2000) GOODRICK-CLARKE, NICHOLASA study of the ideology of Savitri Devi, whose beliefs combined Aryan supremacism and anti-semitism with Hinduism, social Darwinism and a fundamentally biocentric view of life. This book examines how Devi has been lionized by the fringe radical right as aVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Scandalous Life(1996) LOVELL, MARY S.The biography of Jane Digby, an ‘enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart – and hormones – ruled her head.’ Harpers and QueenVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Daughter Of Persia(1993) FARMAN-FARMAIAN, SATTAREHSattareh Farman Farmaian, the daughter of a once-powerful and wealthy Iranian prince, was raised and educated in the 1920s and 1930s in a Persian harem compound, along with numerous mothers and more than 30 brothers and sisters.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Fisher's Face(2007) MORRIS, JANAdmiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. This book offer an evocation that is both biography and a love letter, an expression of the author's passionate interest in mavericks and outsiders, iVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
My Feudal Lord(1996) DURRANI, TEHMINABorn into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. She was expected to marry a wealthy Muslim, bear him children and lead a sheltered life of leisure. This is the story of TehVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Knife Man(2006) MOORE, WENDYWINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Colonel of Tamarkan(2006) SUMMERS, JULIEThe gripping and fascinating story of the man who was really in charge of the construction of the infamous bridge on the river Kwai, by his granddaughter.Vezava: Mehka36,44 € -
Karl Marx(2000) WHEEN, FRANCISA major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
England's Mistress(2007) WILLIAMS, KATEA dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become EnglVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Nelson: A Dream of Glory(2012) SUGDEN, DR JOHNNelson: A Dream of Glory is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vVezava: Mehka49,07 €
