Zbirka: Britanska in irska zgodovina
2458 rezultatov
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Great and Terrible King(2009) MORRIS, MARCconquered Wales, extinguishing forever its native rulers, and constructed - at Conwy, Harlech, Beaumaris and Caernarfon - the most magnificent chain of castles ever created.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Behind Closed Doors(2012) VICKERS, HUGOHugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541(2009) PIERCE, HAZELBorn in 1473, Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, and the only woman, apart from Anne Boleyn, to hold a peerage title in her own right during the sixteenth century. This work presents the life and culture of this propertied titled lady against the sVezava: Mehka41,57 € -
King's Speech(2011) LOGUE, MARK,CONRADI, PETERHow an Australian commoner saved the British monarchy.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Battle of Britain(2011) HOLLAND, JAMES‘A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times‘Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war’ Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Welsh Castles(2000) PETTIFER, ADRIANHistory of and gazetteer to all surviving Welsh castles - the majority 13c - arranged by county, with full OS details.Vezava: Trda46,33 € -
Fields of Deception(2013) DOBINSON, COLINDuring the Second World War, a secret department was formed at Britain's Air Ministry to co-ordinate a strategy to defeat German bombing by means of deception. This is a study of Britain's bombing decoys, both at war, through their design, locations and oVezava: Mehka30,88 € -
Great Hatred, Little Room(2009) POWELL, JONATHANMaking peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. This book demonstrates how the events in Northern Ireland have valuable lessons for thoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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 € -
Priest Hunters(2013) MURPHY, COLINIreland in the aftermath of Cromwell – during this period Catholicism and nationalism became linked and priests were outlawed. The Priest Hunters shines a light on four of the men who hunted them: Sean na Sagart, Edward Tyrrell, Barry Lowe and John GarziaVezava: Mehka17,10 € -
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 € -
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 € -
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 € -
Roses of No Man's Land(2013) MACDONALD, LYNWalking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panoraVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
New Machiavelli(2011) POWELL, JONATHANIn his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing on his own unpublished diaries.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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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 €
