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Brief History of the Wars of the Roses(2007) SEWARD, MR DESMONDA classic account of the bloody rivalry between the dynasties of York and Lancaster for the throne of England.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Britain AD(2005) PRYOR, FRANCISLeading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1066(2011) REX, PETERA radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
The Making of the British Landscape(2011) PRYOR, FRANCISFrom our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere. This title includes over 250 maps and photographs that chaVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Warsaw 1920(2014) ZAMOYSKI, ADAMThe dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Woodbrook(1994) THOMSON, DAVIDWoodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. He stayed for ten years. This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Europe in the High Middle Ages(2002) JORDAN, WILLIAM CHESTERPresents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070(2007) WOOLF, ALEX (LECTURER IN EARLY SCOTTISH HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS)This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence oVezava: Mehka43,23 € -
War of Wars(2007) HARVEY, ROBERTDrawing together the politics, personalities, battles and diplomacy of this tumultuous era, Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the mVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Corrupting Sea(2000) HORDEN, PEREGRINE (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON),PURCELL, NICHOLAS (ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)An analysis of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region over 2000 years. It covers issues such as historiography, patterns of settlement and demographic change, religious cult sites, climate, disVezava: Mehka68,83 € -
Street Without A Name(2009) KASSABOVA, KAPKAA revealing personal portrait of a little-known country perched on the eastern edge of Europe - captured by one of its most eloquent and engaging expats.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories (Penguin Classics)(2007) SALLUSTContains three stories from Sallust: "Catiline's War" - tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc; "The Jugurthine War" - describes Rome's fight in Africa against the king of the Numidians; and Histories" - depicts Rome after the death of the dictator Sulla.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mercurial Emperor(2007) MARSHALL, PETERIn the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his tiVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6(1994) GIBBON, EDWARDThe six-volume Everyman edition - the only complete one now available-prints the entire text of the book with all Gibbon's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices and two magisterial essayVezava: Trda77,44 € -
1759(2008) MCLYNN, FRANKDrawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the CaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
More Boys and Girls of History(2012) POWER, RHODA,POWER, EILEENThe studies in this 1928 book illustrate the lives of children within various different times and social contexts. Created following the enthusiastic response which greeted the original Boys and Girls of History, this volume concentrates on the period subVezava: Mehka47,52 € -
Borgias(2011) HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHERWarlords, Popes, Poisoners - the true story of the Borgias, the first family of the Italian RenaissanceVezava: Mehka18,21 €











