Zbirka: Biografije: zgodovina, politika in vojaštvo
1886 rezultatov
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Perfect King(2008) MORTIMER, IANFrom the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like Elizabeth and Victoria after him - embodied the values of his age, forged a nation out of war and re-made England. He ordered hVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Two Lives of Charlemagne(2008) EINHARD,NOTKER THE STAMMERERA chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, Charlemagne. It describes his personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments inVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Strangest Family(2015) HADLOW, JANICEAn intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Sun King(2011) MITFORD, NANCYDuring his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute contrVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Guilty Thing(2017) WILSON, FRANCESThe life of Thomas De Quincey – a dynamic and unique biography of the most mysterious member of the Wordsworth circle and the last of the Romantics.Vezava: Mehka30,28 € -
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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 €
