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China Witness(2009) XINRANIncludes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have livedVezava: Mehka23,61 €
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Impaled Upon a Thistle(2010) CAMERON, EWEN A.Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom.Vezava: Mehka40,30 €
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Small Wars, Far Away Places(2014) BURLEIGH, MICHAELLonglisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, a trenchant and thought-provoking account of the death of empire by one of our finest historiansVezava: Mehka29,85 €
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In The Time Of Madness(2006) PARRY, RICHARD LLOYD** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in thVezava: Mehka18,05 €
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Cambodia's Curse(2012) BRINKLEY, JOELA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "cuts a clear narrative path through the bewildering, cynical politics and violent social life of one of the world's most brutalized and hard-up countries." (Foreign Affairs)Vezava: Mehka26,17 €
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1910s Scrapbook: the Decade of the Great War(2009)A nostalgic glimpse of a bygone age.Vezava: Trda22,32 €
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That Sweet Enemy(2007) TOMBS, ISABELLE,TOMBS, ROBERTTheir rivalry both on peace and war, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to India in the eighteenth century, in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it is still shapinVezava: Mehka34,74 €
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Cairo in the War(2013) COOPER, ARTEMISA history of the glamorous and military critical city of Cairo during the Second World WarVezava: Mehka20,83 €
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Heaven's Command(2012) MORRIS, JANTells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plVezava: Mehka18,05 €
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Farewell the Trumpets(2012) MORRIS, JANFarewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.Vezava: Mehka20,83 €
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Pax Britannica(2012) MORRIS, JANThe second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour.Vezava: Mehka18,05 €
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History(2003) PHILIP BOBBITTVezava: Mehka26,48 €
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Diana Mosley(2004) DE COURCY, ANNEDiana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley, and set herself up as Mosley's mistress - a course of action that horrified her family and scandaVezava: Mehka23,61 €
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Revolution 1989(2010) SEBESTYEN, VICTOR'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAYVezava: Mehka18,05 €
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1940s Childhood(2014) MARSH, JAMESA nostalgic look at life growing up in the 1940sVezava: Mehka15,27 €