Zbirka: Britanska in irska zgodovina
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Tunnel(2007) WILLIAMS, ERICTraces Peter Howard, who was to become one of The Wooden Horse escapers, from his being shot down, through his capture, and first two POW camps. This work gets into the mind of a man determined to escape his captors. It shows that for all the many schemesVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Tudors(2013) GUY, JOHN (FELLOW OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE)In this revised and updated edition of The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction, John Guy offers a compelling and authoritative guide to all aspects of the Tudor period. From politics, religion, and economics, to gender, art, and culture, this is a fascinatiVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
National Service(2013) SHINDLER, COLINA groundbreaking look at life as a conscript during Britain's postwar National Service, as told by the men who served. Published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the end of conscription.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain(2010) O'FARRELL, JOHNInforms and elucidates the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Bringing the House Down(2007) PROFUMO, DAVIDThe first ever personal account of the family at the heart of the Profumo AffairVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century(1996) DEVRIES, KELLY (CUSTOMER)DeVries has focused on an intriguing problem, and his detailed analysis of battles provides an important reassessment of the way in which infantry and dismounted cavalry achieved such striking successes. HISTORYVezava: Mehka37,31 € -
In the Footsteps of William Wallace(2010) YOUNG, ALAN,STEAD, MICHAEL JIn the footsteps of William WallaceVezava: Mehka27,78 € -
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Great Britain's Great War(2014) PAXMAN, JEREMYLife in Britain during the First World War was far stranger than many of us realize. The author tells the story of the war through the experience of those who lived it - nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers, journalists and children - explainingVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Garden Cities(2014) RUTHERFORD, SARAHGarden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism.Vezava: Mehka13,42 € -
Scourging Angel(2010) GUMMER, BENEDICTNothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles iVezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Great Hunger(1991) WOODHAM-SMITH, CECILThe Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almostVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Devonshires(2014) HATTERSLEY, ROYWilliam Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England.Vezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Secret History of Georgian London(2010) CRUICKSHANK, DANGeorgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.Vezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Myth Of The Blitz(1992) CALDER, ANGUSThe Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. Britain was not bombed into classless democracy. Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of 1940 and 1941 - when Britain 'stood alone' against the Luftwaffe - and of theVezava: Mehka34,74 € -
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Brief History of the Celts(2003) ELLIS, PETERUncovering one of the world's greatest civilisationsVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
King's Mistress, Queen's Servant(2010) BORMAN, TRACYHenrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyoVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Mary Queen of Scots(2008) WEIR, ALISONOn the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. For this reason Elizabeth I had opposed his family's longstanding wish to marry him to Mary Stuart, whVezava: Mehka20,83 € -
