Zbirka: Splošna in svetovna zgodovina
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Cash Nexus(2002) FERGUSON, NIALLShows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, the author offers an analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Justinian's Flea(2008) ROSEN, WILLIAMIn the middle of the 6th century, the Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of 25 million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. ThVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
All The King's Men(2013) DAVID, SAULBetween 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace, despite appalling treatment. This book tells their story: of brutal discipliVezava: Mehka29,43 € -
Beware of Small States(2011) HIRST, DAVIDTo understand Lebanon's history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has come to assume a disproportionate, dangerous power of its own.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Somme(2013) MACDONALD, LYNThe year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever beVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Train in Winter(2012) MOOREHEAD, CAROLINEOn an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistaVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Afgantsy(2012) BRAITHWAITE, SIR RODRICExamines the Russian experience in that most recent war in Afghanistan (after Alexander's conquests and the many British imperial wars and skirmishes). Largely basing his account on Russian sources and interviews, the author shows the war through the eyesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Dam Busters(2013) HOLLAND, JAMESThe night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland,Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Finding Poland(2011) KELLY, MATTHEWIn Finding Poland Matthew Kelly embarks on a journey through his ancestor's footsteps, travelling through places they lived, and landscapes they survived, to provide an account of these extraordinary people and their unique history.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Exploration Fawcett(2010) FAWCETT, COL. PERCYA lost city called 'Z'; lethal jungles; death-filled rivers: the last trip of a legendary explorer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Blood, Iron and Gold(2010) WOLMAR, CHRISTIANChristian Wolmar's biggest paperback yet. Blood, Iron and Gold tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways and how the railways changed the world. 'Full of wondrous curiosities... This authoritative and highly readabVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Second World War(2001) PARKER, R. A. C. (, QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)This is a compact but comprehensive and absorbing history of the Second World War. It examines the causes of the war, how it was won and lost, and its far-reaching consequences for humanity.Vezava: Mehka21,71 €
