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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 €
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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: Mehka18,21 €
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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: Mehka23,82 €
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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: Mehka21,02 €
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1940s Childhood(2014) MARSH, JAMESA nostalgic look at life growing up in the 1940sVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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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 €
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’Tis(2005) MCCOURT, FRANKFrank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling ‘Angela’s Ashes’.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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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 €
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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 €
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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 €
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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 €
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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 €
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Spanish Holocaust(2013) PRESTON, PAULSelected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.Vezava: Mehka26,62 €
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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 €
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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 €
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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 €