Zbirka: Splošna in svetovna zgodovina
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Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior(2010) STRATHERN, PAULIn the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Orpheus(2012) WROE, ANNHe may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshippedVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Railway Man(2014) LOMAX, ERICDuring the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, withVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Hitler 1936-1945(2001) KERSHAW, IANBeginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation, from Czechoslovakia to Poland, this title addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism. It explores the Holocaust and the poisonedVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Six Wives(2004) STARKEY, DR DAVIDANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to Henry changed England forever... JANE SEYMOUR: the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's radical and vampish style...Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Blair Years(2008) CAMPBELL, ALASTAIRThe Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the firVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Zakhor(1996) HAYIM YERUSHALMI, YOSEFDiscusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography.Vezava: Mehka36,58 € -
Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words(2010) CLARK, ALANSome of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Finest Years(2010) HASTINGS, MAX'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a result' James HVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Elsie and Mairi Go to War(2010) ATKINSON, DR DIANEWhen they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home and borrowing tools from her brotVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Secret Life of Bletchley Park(2011) MCKAY, SINCLAIRThe first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war effort.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Hillsborough Voices(2016) SAMPSON, KEVIN,HILLSBOROUGH JUSTICE CAMPAIGNOn 15 April 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Not only was he there as a fan to witness the horror first-hand, he also helped organise the Hillsborough benefit concert13,89 € -
Nazi Germany(2008)An authoritative and up-to-date history of Nazi Germany, with each chapter written by an internationally acknowledged expert in the field, covering everything from the ideological origins of Nazism, through the history of politics and society in the 'ThirVezava: Mehka66,51 € -
Cretan Runner(2009) PSYCHOUNDAKIS, GEORGEGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. This book presents an account of George's actVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Captives(2003) COLLEY, LINDALinda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look differenVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Scandinavians from the Vendel Period to the Tenth Century(2012)Ethnographic studies trace the background to and impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period.Vezava: Mehka50,95 € -
Waugh in Abyssinia(2000) WAUGH, EVELYNIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. This title captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Another Day of Life(2001) KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARDIn 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his experiences there, of a city and a country that seemed, for a prolonged period, to have taken leave of thVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Who Paid The Piper?(2000) SAUNDERS, FRANCES STONOR'Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history; the cultural cold war. Who Paid The Piper? is an extraordinarily good book and I do recommend it to anyone who's remotely interested in the period'- Ian McEwan authorVezava: Mehka21,02 €
