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Trees in Anglo-Saxon England(2013) HOOKE, DELLAA powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.Vezava: Mehka38,60 €
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First Crusade(2013) FRANKOPAN, PETERThe First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade from the perspective of the east, examining the role of the Byzantine Empire and its ruler, Emperor AlexiosVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Book that Made Your World(2012) MANGALWADI, VISHALIndian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the framework for societal structure throughout the last millennium.Vezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Swerve(2012) GREENBLATT, STEPHENWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf.Vezava: Mehka21,02 €
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German 1918 Offensives(2009) ZABECKI, DAVID T., PHD.This study evaluates in detail the German planning and decision-making process, from November 1917 to the start of August 1918, prior to their eventual defeat in World War One.Vezava: Mehka80,49 €
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Sky Wept Fire(2013) ELDIN, MIKAILA lyrical and searing account of life on the front line of the wars between the Russian state and the Chechen peopleVezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Justice at Nuremberg(2004) SCHMIDT, U.This book traces the history of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial of 1946-47, through the eyes of the Austrian émigré psychiatrist Leo Alexander, whose investigations helped the US prosecution. Schmidt provides a detailed insight into the origins of human righVezava: Mehka141,85 €
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Origins of the First World War(2001) HENIG, RUTHFirst published in 2003. There is an enormous literature on the origins of the First World War. This pamphlet focuses on the major issues involved in the topic and assesses the validity of the different interpretations advanced Beginning with the legacy oVezava: Mehka74,12 €
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Minoans(1992) CASTLEDEN, RODNEYBang up to date, and thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete.Vezava: Mehka76,02 €
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Chronicles of the First Crusade(2011) TYERMAN, CHRISTOPHERThe fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an exhausted army of Western European soldiers was one of the extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile aVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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House of Wisdom(2010) LYONS, JONATHANFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages. Arab culture, however, was thriving, and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and discussion that dazzled the likes of British aVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Why Socrates Died(2010) WATERFIELD, ROBINThe picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in a fit of folly by the ancient Athenian democracy.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Tank Men(2009) KERSHAW, ROBERTTANK MEN is the gripping first-hand story of the men and women who fought in tanks by a top military historianVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Decline And Fall Of The British Empire(2008) BRENDON, PIERSNo empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. Within a generation this mighty structure collapsed, often amid bloodshed, leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of an empire, the Commonwealth, overshadowed by ImpVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Dancing into Battle(2007) FOULKES, NICHOLASThe social backdrop, vividly described, to one of the greatest battles in European history, Waterloo 1815.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Unfree French(2007) VINEN, RICHARDIn the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks all that changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their homVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Battle For Singapore(2006) THOMPSON, PETERThe true story of the 'the greatest defeat and largest capitulation' in British military history.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Origins of the Final Solution(2005) BROWNING, CHRISTOPHEROffers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan, this book explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination thVezava: Mehka18,21 €