2113 rezultatov
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Churchill's Bodyguard(2006) HICKMAN, TOMThe official biography of Churchill's closest bodyguard during the Second World War, based on his complete memoirVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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John Aubrey(2016) SCURR, RUTH'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Gate(2004) BIZOT, FRANCOISIn 1971, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of American imperialism, he was chained and imprisoned. Four years later, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Francois Bizot became the official inVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Unreturning Army(2015) GORDON, HUNTLYIn the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Reckoning(2002) NICHOLL, CHARLESThe circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as dubious. For the first time tracing Marlowe's shadowy political and intelligence dealings, Charles Nicholl uncovers critical new evidVezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Hillsborough Voices(2017) SAMPSON, KEVIN,CAMPAIGN, HILLSBOROUGH JUSTICEOn 15 April 1989, the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Please, Mister Postman(2015) JOHNSON, ALANPaints a picture of England in the 1970s, where no celebration was complete without a Party Seven of Watney's Red Barrel, smoking was the norm rather than the exception, and Sunday lunchtime was about beer, bingo and cribbage.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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I Fought at Dunkirk(2017) ROSSITER, MIKESURVIVOR STORIES FROM DUNKIRK, NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR FILM FROM CHRISTOPHER NOLANWhen Britain declared war against Germany in September 1939, thousands of young men sailed across the English Channel to fight for their country.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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For the Good of the World(2022) GRAYLING, A. C.A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.Vezava: Trda28,26 €
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Reflections on the Revolution in France(1982) BURKE, EDMUNDPresenting a scathing attack on the French revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, this work makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs. It argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionaVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Mitterrand(2014) SHORT, PHILIPAesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into thVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Snow and Steel(2015) CADDICK-ADAMS, PROF. PETER, TD, VR, BA (HONS), PHD, FRHISTS, FRGS, KJSnow and Steel will be a huge reassessment of Hitler's last great throw of the dice: 'The Battle of the Bulge', the battle for the Ardennes 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Black Prince of Florence(2017) FLETCHER, CATHERINE‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and aVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Gender: A World History(2021) KENT, SUSAN KINGSLEY (ARTS & SCIENCES PROFESSOR OF DISTINCTION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARTS & SCIENCES PROFESSOR OF DISTINCTION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER)Vezava: Mehka47,51 €