Zbirka: Evropska zgodovina
5250 rezultatov
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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance(2013) GRADY, STEPHEN,WRIGHT, MICHAELAn extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War(1997) ZUBOK, VLADISLAV,PLESHAKOV, CONSTANTINECovering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy.Vezava: Mehka47,68 € -
Fears of Henry IV(2008) MORTIMER, IANIn June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. In 1399, at the age of thirty-two, he was enthusiastically greeted as the saviour of the realm when he ousted from power the insecure and tyrannical King RichardVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Spanish Galleon 1530-1690(2004) KONSTAM, ANGUSDuring the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of the Americas to Spain. This book traces the development of the Spanish galleon, and outlines the constructional methods, the ordnance and the crewing needed to pVezava: Mehka20,07 € -
Devils of Loudun(2005) HUXLEY, ALDOUSA gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldIn 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Outwitting the Gestapo(1994) AUBRAC, LUCIELucie Aubrac, of Catholic and peasant background, was teaching history in a Lyon girls' school and newly married to Raymond, a Jewish engineer, when World War II broke out and divided France. The couple, living in the Vichy zone, soon joined the ResistancVezava: Mehka31,59 € -
Henry VIII's Last Victim(2008) CHILDS, JESSIEHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Homo Britannicus(2007) STRINGER, CHRISWhen did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunteVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Industry and Empire(1999) HOBSBAWM, E JThis outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdevelopedVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War(2009) BAILEY, RODERICKThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines. This title tells the stories of SOE agents, HQ staff, diplomats, aircrew andVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Disraeli(2014) HURD, DOUGLAS,YOUNG, EDWARDA 'gripping, succinct and lethal' (Matthew Parris, THE TIMES) reappraisal of the life of Benjamin Disraeli, the most celebrated and colourful politician of the nineteenth century.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hitler's Private Library(2010) RYBACK, TIMOTHY W.He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists. This title provideVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Bright Young People(2008) TAYLOR, D JThe Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. This book chronicles England's 'lost genVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Major & Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Normandy Landing Beaches(2009) MAJOR AND MRS HOLTVezava: Mehka9,80 € -
Brief History of the Vikings(2005) CLEMENTS, JONATHANThe last pagans or the first modern Europeans? A consice history of the VikingsVezava: Mehka18,21 €
