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Gutenberg Revolution(2009) MAN, JOHNThe invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen. Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Muslim Spain Reconsidered(2014) HITCHCOCK, RICHARD (EMERITUS PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER)Covers the period from 711 to1502, giving readers a substantial overview of what it was that made Muslim Spain a unique and successful society, and of its powerful legacy in the formation of modern Spain.Vezava: Mehka44,78 € -
At Home with the Brontes(2013) DINSDALE, ANNThe story of the world-famous home of the Bronte sisters. Explores the impact of the Brontes' home on their writing and what it was like for their successors living in a literary shrine. New exhibition focusing on the building starts at the Bronte ParsonaVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944(2007)This remarkable booklet, often unintentionally humorous and sometimes crudely stereotypical reads by turns like a travel guide and a crash course in psychological warfare. It is very much a document of the period, revealing as much about British wartime aVezava: Trda10,80 € -
Castle(2012) MORRIS, MARCBe it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home. To understand castles – who built them, who lived in them, and why – is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Prometheans(2010) ADAMS, MAXThe story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Leprosy in Medieval England(2009) RAWCLIFFE, CAROLEA major reassessment, based on hitherto unpublished manuscript material, of a disease whose history has attracted more myths and misunderstandings than any other.Vezava: Mehka70,67 € -
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E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester(2010) PEARSON, CATHERINEE J Rudsdale's journals of wartime ColchesterVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Guillemont: Somme(1997) STEDMAN, MICHAELThe battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916. Like so many of the battles into which the 'Big Push' degenerated, the struggle centred around a wood, Trones, and a heavily fortified village. It was in this battle that Noel Chavasse won the firstVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Attila The Hun(2006) MAN, JOHNHe launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless devastation, and brought an end to Rome's pre-eminence in Europe. Attila was coarse, capricious, arrogant, rVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Road Past Mandalay(2012) MASTERS, JOHNThe second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world warVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
In Search of the Greeks (Second Edition)(2015) RENSHAW, JAMES (GODOLPHIN AND LATYMER SCHOOL, LONDON, UK)Vezava: Mehka49,88 € -
Bradshaw’s Handbook(2012) BRADSHAW, GEORGECollector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile.Vezava: Trda20,07 € -
Fall of Carthage(2003) GOLDSWORTHY, ADRIANThe greatest conflict of antiquity, the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Carthage.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Black Death(2009) HATCHER, JOHNHow the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €










