Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
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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: Mehka21,02 € -
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: Mehka18,21 € -
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: Mehka23,82 € -
1940s Childhood(2014) MARSH, JAMESA nostalgic look at life growing up in the 1940sVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
History of Contemporary Italy(1990) GINSBORG, PAULContemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. This book presents an account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past decades. IVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ayatollah Begs to Differ(2009) MAJD, HOOMANIntroduces readers to an Iran that few people see, meeting opium-smoking clerics, women cab drivers and sartorially challenged presidential officials, among others. This work reveals a country where both t-shirt wearing teenagers and religious martyrs expVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Spanish Civil War 1936–39 (1)(2014) DE QUESADA, ALEJANDROFeaturing full-colour artwork, this is the first detailed English-language study of Franco’s German-allied forces in the devastating Spanish Civil War, the ‘rehearsal’ for World War II.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Six Days(2004) BOWEN, JEREMYA brilliantly compelling new history of the 1967 Six-Day War, by the BBC's distinguished former Middle East correspondent.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
1939(2010) OVERY, RICHARD24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense ifVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
In The Garden of Beasts(2012) LARSON, ERIKDodd and his family, notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes - some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifically violent - that signal Hitler's consolidation of power.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Classless Society(2014)The first popular history of a decade that is yet to be defined or anatomised as the 1960s or 1970s have been, A Classless Society goes in search of a Britain still reeling from the conflicts of the Thatcher years.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
1950s Childhood(2009) FEENEY, PAULA nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up in the 1950s.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Histories of the Hanged(2006) ANDERSON, DAVIDThe true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars(2013) LONG, MARTHAAfter a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show MartVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Fatal Path(2013) FANNING, RONANThis is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was a time, argues Ronan FanniVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Crisis? What Crisis?(2013) TURNER, ALWYN W.An acclaimed account of the most colourful and controversial decade in the history of modern Britain.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
The Republic(2014) TOWNSHEND, CHARLESA narrative of the critical years in modern Ireland's history. This book presents the never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Contesting Democracy(2013) MULLER, JAN-WERNERIn this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the cenVezava: Mehka32,30 €
