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Fatal Path(2013) FANNING, RONANThis is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was a time, argues Ronan FanniVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Age of Alexander(2012) PLUTARCHOffers a collection of ten biographies that spans the period from the start of the fourth century BC to the early third, and covers some of the most important figures in Greek history, such as the orator Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, as well as lesVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
English Civil War(2007) PURKISS, DIANEA remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
English Canals Explained(2003) YORKE, STANThe story of how canals work and their development from the early days in the 18th century to their modern renaissance after the Second World War. This book is fully illustrated with photographs by the author and detailed drawings by his son, Trevor.Vezava: Mehka15,43 € -
Tribes of Britain(2006) MILES, DAVIDWho are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Crisis? What Crisis?(2013) TURNER, ALWYN W.An acclaimed account of the most colourful and controversial decade in the history of modern Britain.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
The Republic(2014) TOWNSHEND, CHARLESA narrative of the critical years in modern Ireland's history. This book presents the never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Contesting Democracy(2013) MULLER, JAN-WERNERIn this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the cenVezava: Mehka32,30 € -
England's Mistress(2007) WILLIAMS, KATEA dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become EnglVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Imperial Spain 1469-1716(2002) ELLIOTT, J. HTells the story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European countries. This book charts the rise and fall of Habsburg Spain.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371(2004) BROWN, MICHAEL (UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS)This book discusses the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in detail as a single period of both developing and fragmenting political hierarchies and communities. It provides a political narrative which places events in their immediate context as well asVezava: Mehka41,69 € -
Crete(2005) BEEVOR, ANTONYReissue with a new Introduction by acclaimed historian Antony Beevor vividly bringing to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War CreteVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Nations and Nationalism since 1780(2012) HOBSBAWM, E. J.Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. This second edition has been updated in light of those events, with a final chapter addressing the impact of the dramaticVezava: Mehka28,50 € -
Strange Laws Of Old England(2013) CAWTHORNE, NIGELAn entertaining tour of the wilder shores of the British legal systemVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Hundred Years War Vol 3(2012) SUMPTION, JONATHANContemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great achievement, of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism, of extremes of wealth and poverty, fortune and failure.Vezava: Mehka42,06 € -
Lancaster And York(2009) WEIR, ALISONThe war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton, - some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's soil.Vezava: Mehka21,02 €










