Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
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Vertigo Years(2009) BLOM, PHILIPPA panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Edwardians(2006) HATTERSLEY, ROYFollowing on from the success of A N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS, Roy Hattersley's major new appraisal of Edwardian Britain is his finest book to dateVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Born Red(1987) GAO, YUANThis is a personal account of the Cultural Revolution. As a student, the author was caught up in dramatic events as, with jeers and chants, students-turned-Red Guards held mass rallies. The interplay between the perceptions of father and son offer an addiVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Britain's Gulag(2014) ELKINS, CAROLINEOnly a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom.Vezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Constantinople(2006) MANSEL, PHILIP'Without question one of the best books ever written by an Englishman on the Turks' William DalrympleVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Last Days of Detroit(2014) BINELLI, MARKOnce America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Australia(2001) KNIGHTLEY, PHILLIP,CRAWFORD, R MPart history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. This book describes Australia's journey through the eyes of ordinary peopleVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Warsaw 1920(2014) ZAMOYSKI, ADAMThe dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily TelegraphVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Nazism 1919–1945 Volume 2(2000)Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of terror,Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
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Setting the East Ablaze(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'A gripping account of the terrible, confused struggle for mastery of Central Asia that followed the Russian Revolution' Evening StandardVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
After the Reich(2008) MACDONOGH, GILESIn the chaos after the Reich an astonishing 2.5 million ordinary citizens were killed. This harrowing history uncovers the extraordinary stories of real German people from all walks of life in the aftermath of the Second World WarVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pakistan(2012) KHAN, IMRANBorn only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, the author has lived his country's history. This title provides an insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a western audience.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Hope and Glory(2004) CLARKE, PETERChallenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. This title examines the political, social and economic changes that transformed Britain. It looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Making of Modern Colombia(1993) BUSHNELL, DAVIDThis historical study traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation and reform in the 19th century, to economic development and social and political democratization in the 20th century.Vezava: Mehka43,62 € -
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: Mehka23,82 € -
Impaled Upon a Thistle(2010) CAMERON, EWEN A. (READER IN SCOTTISH HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom.Vezava: Mehka43,23 €
