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Inconvenient People(2013) WISE, SARAHUncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes - their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence - and chillingly evoke the black motives at thVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
History of the Vikings(2001) JONES, GWYN (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CARDIFF)Illustrated throughout, this classic study traces the development of the northern peoples and kingdoms from their origins and legendary pre-history to the triumphs of Canute and the defeat of Harald Hardradi at Stamford Bridge in 1066.Vezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Anglo-Saxon Age(2000) BLAIR, JOHN (FELLOW AND PRELECTOR IN MODERN HISTORY, FELLOW AND PRELECTOR IN MODERN HISTORY, THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory at Hastings in 1066. This booVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Grey Eminence(2005) HUXLEY, ALDOUSA gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composiVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War(2003) ARTHUR, MAXOffers accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. This book features personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us what it was really like to live through what was supposed to be the war to end allVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Ross Kemp on Afghanistan(2009) KEMP, ROSSHe has played an East End hardman, an SAS soldier and investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all - the Taliban. In order to prepare for this ordeal, Ross Kemp trains with the First Battalion Royal AnVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe(2022)Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting.Vezava: Mehka79,94 € -
Christians and Jews in Angevin England(2016)The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims.Vezava: Mehka66,63 € -
Oilfields and Airpower in African Conflict(2020) IGNATUS, ONIANWA OLUCHUKWUNoted Nigerian historian Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates the air war component of the Nigerian-Biafran War, a crucial postcolonial conflict in Africa. The book focuses on the Biafra's air operations against oil installations and facilities owned byVezava: Trda150,48 € -
Berlin Then and Now (R)(2016) GAY, NICK,GAY, NICKBerlin Then and Now features the dramatic changes wrought by the Nazi building programme, Allied bombing, Cold War division and the post-reunification building boom.Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
Co-Op's Got Bananas(2017) DAVIES, HUNTERPoignant, and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
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New Man of the House(2022) GIBSON, BRIANThe modern-day suburb began in 19th century Britain. As suburbia spread, the ‘New Woman’ arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt increasingly besieged. This study traces themes of suburban masculinity in popular genres - speculative fictiVezava: Mehka124,25 € -











