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Bletchley Park(2013) SMITH, MICHAELFeaturing previously unpublished photographs showing them at work and play, the story of the Enigma code-breakers.Vezava: Mehka12,34 € -
Prometheans(2010) ADAMS, MAXThe story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Freedom and Organization(2009) RUSSELL, BERTRANDWritten in the approachable style that has made Russell’s works so revered, this is a major work of political history in which significant economic and political forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century are examined.Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
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 € -
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 € -
Constance(2012) MOYLE, FRANNYThe fascinating story of the decadent and thrilling world of Oscar Wilde's wife Constance, and the world of scandal which would betray herVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Honourable Company(1993) KEAY, JOHNDuring 200 years the East India Company grew from an association of Elizabethan tradesmen into a powerful organization. As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an empire. This book looVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Citizens(2004) SCHAMA, SIMONOffers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Real Great Escape(2014) WALTERS, GUYIn early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. In this book Guy Walters takes a fresh look at this remarkable event and asks the question, what was the true story, not the movie version?Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Nineteenth Century(2000)In the 19th century Europe changed more rapidly and radically than during any prior period. This volume offers an approach to understanding one of the most complex periods of modern history, addressing all the major issues.Vezava: Mehka83,99 € -
Amazons of Black Sparta(2011) ALPERN, STANLEY B.This volume examines the "Amazons", whose existence has been verified via documents and eye-witness accounts from battles for the West African kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Cosmopolis(1992) TOULMIN, STEPHENIn the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. This text confronts that agenda - its iVezava: Mehka43,72 €











