Zbirka: Splošna in svetovna zgodovina
2100 rezultatov
-
Doctor's War(2006) MCCARTY, AIDANAs an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Strangest Family(2015) HADLOW, JANICEAn intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Blitzkrieg in the West(1996) PALLUD, JEAN-PAULThis work offers an account of the 45 days, from May 10 to June 24, 1940, that made up the Battle of France. Battles great and small are described and Pallud's camera records the scenes today where 50 years ago, soldiers from six nations were locked in moVezava: Trda64,53 € -
House By The Thames(2007) TINDALL, GILLIANthey have seen the countrified lanes of London’s marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements – and then seen these, too, become dust and empty air. Rich with anecdote and colour, this fascinating book breathes life into tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cities of Ladies(2003) SIMONS, WALTER"The definitive study... A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject."-ChoiceVezava: Mehka49,88 € -
Heinemann Advanced History: Mussolini & Italy(2002) TOWNLEY, EDWARDContaining sample exam questions at both AS and A2 levels, this text aims to show students what makes a good answer and why it scores high marks. It should help students grasp the difference between a GCSE and an A-level mark in history.Vezava: Mehka66,65 € -
Roses of No Man's Land(2013) MACDONALD, LYNWalking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panoraVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
New Machiavelli(2011) POWELL, JONATHANIn his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing on his own unpublished diaries.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Horror In The East(2011) REES, LAURENCEThe brutal Japanese treatment of allied prisoners of war, as well as countless thousands of Chinese civilians, during World War 2 has been well documented.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
-
Deterring Democracy(1992) CHOMSKY, NOAMFrom World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Orientalist(2006) REISS, TOMThe Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to researchVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Codebreakers(2001)With anecdotes and descriptions, this is an account of daily life at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history.Vezava: Mehka24,52 € -
Long Road Home(2011) SHEPHARD, BENAfter the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Ill Met By Moonlight(2014) MOSS, W. STANLEYA classic real-life adventure story from the Second World War involving Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnap and a Nazi manhunt.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Nelson(2005) LAMBERT, ANDREW'Fascinating . In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
German Trauma(2001) SERENY, GITTAGitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together her writing on Germany. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively anVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Bitter Revolution(2005) MITTER, RANA (, LECTURER IN THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF MODERN CHINA AT THE UNVERSITY OF OXFORD)China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition fromVezava: Mehka24,52 €
