Zbirka: Splošna in svetovna zgodovina
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Great Britain's Great War(2014) PAXMAN, JEREMYLife in Britain during the First World War was far stranger than many of us realize. The author tells the story of the war through the experience of those who lived it - nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers, journalists and children - explainingVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Scourging Angel(2010) GUMMER, BENEDICTNothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles iVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Great Hunger(1991) WOODHAM-SMITH, CECILThe Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almostVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Heinemann Advanced History: The Modernisation of Russia 1856-1985(2002) LAVER, JOHNThis resource is written for for students studying the economic and social development of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as the nature of Russian government and its impact on the Russian people in this period.Vezava: Mehka54,53 € -
Villa, The Lake, The Meeting(2003) ROSEMAN, MARKAt a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organized and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatiVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Destiny in the Desert(2013) DIMBLEBY, JONATHANA unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed ...Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Antony and Cleopatra(2011) GOLDSWORTHY, ADRIAN,DR ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY LTDThe epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of CAESAR.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
King's Mistress, Queen's Servant(2010) BORMAN, TRACYHenrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyoVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Mary Queen of Scots(2008) WEIR, ALISONOn the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. For this reason Elizabeth I had opposed his family's longstanding wish to marry him to Mary Stuart, whVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Heinemann Advanced History: Cold War in Europe and Asia(2001) PHILLIPS, STEVEThis series supports the AS and A-Levels starting September 2000. The series provides coverage of all the most popular topics, so you can cover the whole of the specification with up-to-date resources. This text concentrates on the Cold War.Vezava: Mehka66,65 € -
Fears of Henry IV(2008) MORTIMER, IANIn June 1405, King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm. In 1399, at the age of thirty-two, he was enthusiastically greeted as the saviour of the realm when he ousted from power the insecure and tyrannical King RichardVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Devils of Loudun(2005) HUXLEY, ALDOUSA gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldIn 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Henry VIII's Last Victim(2008) CHILDS, JESSIEHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War(2009) BAILEY, RODERICKThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines. This title tells the stories of SOE agents, HQ staff, diplomats, aircrew andVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Hiroshima Nagasaki(2013) HAM, PAULHiroshima Nagasaki challenges this deep-set perception, revealing that the atomic bombings were the final crippling blow to the Japanese in a stratgic air war waged primarily against civilians.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Covering Islam(1997) SAID, EDWARD WFrom the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the World Trade Centre bombing, the West has been haunted by a spectre called 'Islam'. As portrayed by the news media - and by a chorus of government, academic and corporate experts - 'Islam' is synVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hitler's Private Library(2010) RYBACK, TIMOTHY W.He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists. This title provideVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Bright Young People(2008) TAYLOR, D JThe Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. This book chronicles England's 'lost genVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Creating the Creole Island(2005) VAUGHAN, MEGANA historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.Vezava: Mehka53,22 € -
Auschwitz And The Allies(2001) GILBERT, DR MARTINWhen Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be 'the complete annihilation of the Jews', he did so in 1942, not only in public, but before an enormous crowd in Berlin.Vezava: Mehka35,05 €
