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Decline And Fall Of The British Empire(2008) BRENDON, PIERSNo empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. Within a generation this mighty structure collapsed, often amid bloodshed, leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of an empire, the Commonwealth, overshadowed by ImpVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
My Life(2007) TROTSKY, LEONThis priceless historical document features firsthand accounts from top levels of leadership in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, chronicling the struggle to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.Vezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames(2009) TITFORD, JOHNA guide to the surnames that offers an insight into the place of origin, the occupations - and even the personality traits - of our ancestors. It is suitable for those intrigued by the story of their name and by the history of their family.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
William and Mary(2008) KISTE, JOHN VAN DERMary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, married William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the Dutch republic, who was eleven years older than her. This dual biography deals with both thVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Dancing into Battle(2007) FOULKES, NICHOLASThe social backdrop, vividly described, to one of the greatest battles in European history, Waterloo 1815.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Unfree French(2007) VINEN, RICHARDIn the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks all that changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their homVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Alfred the Great(2006) POLLARD, JUSTINIn an era darkened by the terror of the Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hollow Crown(2006) RUBIN, MIRIThere is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. This account brings the reader a long lost world, a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war, but coVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Never Had It So Good(2006) SANDBROOK, DOMINICA fresh, enlightening and comprehensive history of Britain in the early 1960s by a supremely talented young historian.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Origins of the Final Solution(2005) BROWNING, CHRISTOPHEROffers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan, this book explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination thVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands(2005) SEACOLE, MARYWritten in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole travelled widely before eventually arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with raVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Easter Rising(2000) KOSTICK, CONOR,COLLINS, LORCANDefying all the odds 1600 men, women and children went out on 24 April, Easter Monday, 1916 to fight for an independent Ireland. Vividly illustrated, this book takes you through the battle-torn streets of Dublin.Vezava: Mehka14,25 € -
Among the Bohemians(2003) NICHOLSON, VIRGINIASubversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, brVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Nathaniel's Nutmeg(2000) MILTON, GILESThe extraordinary adventure-filled story of how England came to own Manhattan in the seventeenth centuryVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rethinking the Holocaust(2002) BAUER, YEHUDAA study of the Holocaust, evaluating accepted views of its history and meaning. Yehuda Bauer offers his own interpretation of why the Holocaust occurred and how another can be prevented. He also examines topics such as the relationship between the HolocauVezava: Mehka24,70 € -
Penguin History of Britain(2001) BRIGDEN, SUSANNo period in British history retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. Here, the author sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of Protestantism and its battle with the the old world of uniform Catholicism.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Magnetic Mountain(1997) KOTKIN, STEPHENAn account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. It argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment. It depicts a whole range of life: from the blast furnace workers who labored in the iron and steVezava: Mehka56,55 € -
In Time of War(1996) FISK, ROBERTAward-winning journalist Robert Fisk's definite study of Ireland during the Second World War details factors from German U-boats to conscription attempts in Northern Ireland. A gripping study of Ireland's neutrality - and every bit as relevant for today'sVezava: Mehka30,83 € -
Periodic Table(1995) LEVI, PRIMOAn extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the elements in the periodic table.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
With the Jocks(2002) WHITE, PETERAs a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe.Vezava: Mehka26,62 €
