Zbirka: Splošna in svetovna zgodovina
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Lenin, Stalin and Hitler(2008) GELLATELY, ROBERTBetween 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. This title argues that these tragedies are all inextricably linked and thatVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
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What If?(2001) COWLEY, ROBERTAnyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' The SpectatorVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Britain's Gulag(2014) ELKINS, CAROLINEOnly a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom.Vezava: Mehka23,61 € -
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Last Days of Detroit(2014) BINELLI, MARKOnce America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest.Vezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England(2013) MORTIMER, IANThe past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Splendid Exchange(2009) BERNSTEIN, WILLIAM L.As globalisation wobbles into world crisis, a vividly written, brilliantly original history of world trade, the first for a generation: 'A Splendid Exchange is a splendid book.' New York TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES / GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOVezava: Mehka27,79 € -
Australia(2001) KNIGHTLEY, PHILLIP,CRAWFORD, R MPart history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. This book describes Australia's journey through the eyes of ordinary peopleVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Strategy(2002) LUTTWAK, EDWARD N.In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Edward N. Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy goes beyond paradox to expose tVezava: Mehka60,43 € -
End of the Bronze Age(1996) DREWS, ROBERTThe Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century bc with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. This title rejects the traditional exVezava: Mehka60,55 € -
Trojan War(2008) STRAUSS, BARRYThe Trojan War may have been the inevitable consequence of expanding Greek maritime commerce. Written by a leading expert on ancient military history, the true story of the most famous battle in history is every bit as compelling as Homer's epic accountVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Warsaw 1920(2014) ZAMOYSKI, ADAMThe dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily TelegraphVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Corrupting Sea(2000) HORDEN, PEREGRINE (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON),PURCELL, NICHOLAS (ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)An analysis of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region over 2000 years. It covers issues such as historiography, patterns of settlement and demographic change, religious cult sites, climate, disVezava: Mehka68,82 € -
Ghosts of Happy Valley(2014) BARNES, JULIETThe Ghosts of Happy Valley is a mesmerising blend of travel narrative, social history and personal quest.Vezava: Mehka16,68 € -
Mercurial Emperor(2007) MARSHALL, PETERIn the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his tiVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
1759(2008) MCLYNN, FRANKDrawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the CaVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Commonwealth of Thieves(2007) KENEALLY, THOMASTells the story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting.Vezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Mediterranean in the Ancient World(2002) BRAUDEL, FERNANDPresents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to appreciVezava: Mehka23,61 €
