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Cairo(2004) GOLIA, MARIACairo is a 1,400-year-old metropolis whose streets are inscribed with sagas, a place where the pressures of life test people's equanimity to the very limit. Packed with incident and anecdote, this book explores Cairo’s relationship with its ‘others’, fromVezava: Mehka34,98 € -
Secret State(2010) HENNESSY, PETERWhat were the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and 'breakdown' had occurred? When would the Queen have been informed and where would she have gone? How does the contingency planning for a national emergency work today? This book givVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rome in the Late Republic(2000) BEARD, MARY,CRAWFORD, MICHAEL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK)This textbook outlines the factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period, from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions.Vezava: Mehka40,61 € -
Highland Clearances(1973) PREBBLE, JOHNIn the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Offering a reconstruction of Culloden, the author recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. WhVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Now It Can Be Told(1983) GROVES, LESLIE"General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military"Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Glencoe(1973) PREBBLE, JOHN'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hostsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Oracle Bones(2007) HESSLER, PETERFrom the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare and authentic portrait - both intimate and epic - of twenty-first century China as it opens its doors to the worldVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Civil War(1976) CAESAR, JULIUSRecording the events of the author's life, who is a military leader, this title depicts his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Georgian London(2014) INGLIS, LUCYTakes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War(2005) ARTHUR, MAXThe Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Fascist Voices(2013) DUGGAN, CHRISTOPHERHe examines the extraordinary hold the Duce had on Italy and how he came to embody fascism. By making use of rarely examined sources, such as letters and diaries, newspaper reports, secret police files, popular songs and radio broadcasts, Duggan exploreVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Decision in Normandy(2004) D'ESTE, CARLOField Marshal Montgomery's battle plan for Normandy, following the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, resulted in one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. This book gives an account of the conception and execution of Montgomery's plan,Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Access to History Context: An Introduction to American History, 1860-1990(2002) FARMER, ALAN,SANDERS, VIVIENNEThis title introduces the major political and social themes of this period of American history in an accessible and progressive way. The Context series is designed to ease students' transition from GCSE to AS and A level, concentrating on key skills for tVezava: Mehka67,72 € -
Bradshaw’s Handbook (Premium Edition)(2012)Offers a snapshot of Britain in the 1860s. This is a facsimile of the actual book, often referred to as "Bradshaw's Guide", that inspired the "Great British Railway Journeys" television series, and is possibly the only surviving example of the 1863 editioVezava: Trda46,32 € -
Russian Origins of the First World War(2013) MCMEEKIN, SEANIn a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unVezava: Mehka33,35 €
