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British Way of War(2021) LAMBERT, ANDREWHow a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyondVezava: Trda47,52 € -
War Beat, Pacific(2021) CASEY, STEVEN (PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS)The War Beat, Pacific is the first book to use a wealth of previously untapped documents to provide a comprehensive account of the reporting of the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor and Bataan, through Midway and Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, Leyte anVezava: Trda63,66 € -
Shadowy Third(2022) PARRY, JULIACritically acclaimed, this unique and compelling personal biography uncovers the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author’s grandparents.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Woman Who Censored Churchill(2021) IVE, RUTHThe story of the woman who ensured that Churchill never let state secrets slipVezava: Trda15,41 € -
Sisters of Battle Road(2017) MALONEY, J.M.In 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Refusing to be parted, they faced the unknown together, never imagining just how much their lives would chVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Scars on the Land(2022) SILKENAT, DAVID (SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.Vezava: Trda57,95 € -
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Paths out of the Apocalypse(2022) KONRAD, OTA (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE),KUCERA, RUDOLF (DIRECTOR OF THE MASARYK INSTITUTE AND ARCHIVES, DIRECTOR OF THE MASARYK INSTITUTE AND ARCHIVES, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES)Paths out of the Apocalypse fundamentally rethinks some key debates in the scholarship on early 20th-century Central Europe, the First World War, violence, nationalism and modern European comparative social and cultural history, considering the populationVezava: Trda196,09 € -
Hitler's First Hundred Days(2021) FRITZSCHE, PETER (W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)The chilling story of the hundred days in the spring of 1933 in which the Nazis laid the foundations for their Third Reich.Vezava: Trda45,54 € -
Charles I's Killers in America(2019) JENKINSON, MATTHEW (MEMBER OF THE SENIOR COMMON ROOM, NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD)After the Restoration the men who signed Charles I's death warrant fled to New England, becoming folk heroes for America's earliest historians and novelists. This is the story of the lives and afterlives of these regicides, and the truth behind the attempVezava: Trda38,54 € -
War and Religion(2021) MITCHELL, JOLYON (PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF CTPI, NEW COLLEGE, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH),REY, JOSHUA (CHAPLAIN TO THE LORD BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK)This book provides an overview of the history of religion and war, and a framework for analysing it. Ranging from ancient history to modern day conflicts, and touching on both religiously incited violence and pacifism, it offers a nuanced view on these isVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana(2021) BECKETT, IAN F. W. (HONORARY PROFESSOR OF MILITARY HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF KENT)The story of Isandlwana, the battle that shocked the British empire at its zenith, and Rorke's Drift, which immediately followed it and went some way to restoring wounded British pride: how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they meVezava: Mehka18,91 € -
Desert Insurgency(2020) SAUNDERS, NICHOLAS J. (UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, PROFESSOR OF MATERIAL CULTURE)This unique archaeological account from Nicholas Saunders tells the story of the origins of modern guerrilla warfare during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. The discovery of an unknown conflict landscape reveals the dramatic exploits of T. E. Lawrence, Emir FeVezava: Trda68,42 € -
Historicizing Roma in Central Europe(2022) SHMIDT, VICTORIA,JAWORSKY, BERNADETTE NADYAIn Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of episteVezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Humanitarians at War(2021) STEINACHER, GERALD (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND HYMEN ROSENBERG PROFESSOR OF JUDAIC STUDIES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND HYMEN ROSENBERG PROFESSOR OF JUDAIC STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN)How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its ambiguous wartime record to re-affirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs and help rewrite the rules of war in the Geneva ConventVezava: Mehka41,80 €










