Zbirka: Biografije: zgodovina, politika in vojaštvo
1955 rezultatov
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Map That Changed the World(2002) WINCHESTER, SIMONHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life waVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 € -
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 € -
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 € -
Fine Brother(2014) MILLER, LOUISEFirst full-length biography to explore the life of the first woman to be commissioned as an officer in the Serbian army and the only British woman to enlist as a soldier in World War IVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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: Mehka21,02 € -
Tyrannicide Brief(2006) ROBERTSON, GEOFFREY, QCBut in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke. Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor farmer, but he had the cVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pictures and Tears(2004) ELKINS, JAMES (SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, USA)This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past.Vezava: Mehka75,24 € -
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 € -
Spy Who Came In From the Co-op(2013) BURKE, DAVIDA story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood.Vezava: Mehka38,60 € -
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Black Count(2013) REISS, TOMBy walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti tothe Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto – Reiss, like the novelistbefore him, triumphantly resurrects this forgotten hero. ‘Entrances from first to last.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 € -
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: Mehka28,04 €
