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Paris After the Liberation(2007) COOPER, ARTEMIS,BEEVOR, ANTONYAn historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Making Of The British Army(2011) MALLINSON, ALLANEdgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has to be system and discipline, and therefore - eventuallyVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Terry Jones' Barbarians(2007) EREIRA, ALAN,JONES, TERRYNot only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, withVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Bankside(2013) BRANDON, DAVID,BROOKE, ALANThe story of historic district on the south bank of the Thames and beyond - the original playground of Londoners, complete with inns, bear pits, brothels and theatres.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Empire Made Me(2004) BICKERS, ROBERTShanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Threatened from within by communist workers and governed by desperate British-dominated administration, Shanghai was mesmerising and terrible. IntVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Last White Rose(2011) SEWARD, MR DESMONDA brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history: The Tudors and their Dynasty.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Children of England(2008) WEIR, ALISONWhen Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister, Mary Tudor.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Emperors of Rome(2013) POTTER, DAVIDThe Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Domesday Quest(2005) WOOD, MICHAELIn 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. By skilful use of the Domesday record historian Michael Wood examines Norman society and the Anglo-Saxon, Roman, and even the Iron Age cultures that precedVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Witch Craze(2006) ROPER, LYNDALIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thousands of women confessed to being witches and were put to death. This book presents an account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches, particularly in Germany, as well as a deeper expVezava: Mehka41,82 € -
America, Empire of Liberty(2010) REYNOLDS, DAVIDIt was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' This title takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
History of Ethiopia(2002) MARCUS, HAROLD G.A history of Ethiopia. It surveys the evolution of the oldest African nation from prehistory to the present.Vezava: Mehka48,47 € -
London Compendium(2012) GLINERT, EDThe streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. This title intendsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Inside the Kingdom(2010) LACEY, ROBERTSaudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Red Star(1984) BOGDANOV, ALEXANDERFocuses on the communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, this work sketches out the problems that face industrialized nations, whether socialist or cVezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Great Tales From English History(2007) LACEY, ROBERT* First volume of three recounting the dramatic story of England, from ancient times to the present day, by the No. 1 bestselling author of THE YEAR 1000Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Six Records of a Life Adrift(2011) SHEN FUA memoir of a life in the Qing dynasty. It reveals a sensitive and artistic man, who failed at the civil service examinations that were the gateway to official employment and had to settle for becoming an itinerant private secretary, dabbling unsuccessfulVezava: Mehka26,60 € -
Cochineal Red(2007) THOMSON, HUGHImagine that all the great discoveries of Ancient Egypt had happened in the last few years...and you will have some conception of the great excitement over recent finds in PeruVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Revolution Betrayed(2004) TROTSKY, LEONTrotsky was among the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution, but within a decade he had been forced into exile by Stalin. In this blistering indictment of Stalin's political doctrine, Trotsky foresaw the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union and the betraVezava: Mehka23,82 €











