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Secret State(2010) HENNESSY, PETERWhat were the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and 'breakdown' had occurred? When would the Queen have been informed and where would she have gone? How does the contingency planning for a national emergency work today? This book givVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Now It Can Be Told(1983) GROVES, LESLIE"General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military"Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Oracle Bones(2007) HESSLER, PETERFrom the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare and authentic portrait - both intimate and epic - of twenty-first century China as it opens its doors to the worldVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Razor's Edge(2007) BICHENO, HUGHThe controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands WarVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Fascist Voices(2013) DUGGAN, CHRISTOPHERHe examines the extraordinary hold the Duce had on Italy and how he came to embody fascism. By making use of rarely examined sources, such as letters and diaries, newspaper reports, secret police files, popular songs and radio broadcasts, Duggan exploreVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Russian Origins of the First World War(2013) MCMEEKIN, SEANIn a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unVezava: Mehka33,35 € -
Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918(1971) TAYLOR, A. J. P.A. J. P. Taylor examines the relations of the Great Powers, when Europe was still the centre of the world. Written in characteristically vigorous prose, this is a challenging and original diplomatic history, that also considers the political and economicVezava: Mehka76,02 € -
Angel Of Grozny(2009) SEIERSTAD, ASNE* 'I devoured this in a few hours - a powerful book of heartbreaking yet flamboyant reportage from a forgotten hell' Simon Sebag-MontefioreVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
True Tales of American Life(2002) AUSTER, PAULChosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Royal Marines Commandos(2007) PARKER, JOHNA gripping history of the elite brigade of the Royal NavyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother(2010) SHAWCROSS, WILLIAMThe official biography of the Queen Mother, published to great hardback acclaim, beautifully repackaged for mass-market paperbackVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Young Prince Philip(2012) EADE, PHILIP'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost seventy years to the most famous woman in the world, Prince Philip is the longest-serving royal consort in British historVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Gentrification of the Mind(2013) SCHULMAN, SARAHRecalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism.Vezava: Mehka30,69 € -
Russian Roulette(2014) MILTON, GILES1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin's plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. The spies, under MansfielVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Double-Cross System(2013) MASTERMAN, SIR JOHNWritten as an official report for MI5 in 1945, originally published with the permission of the British Government over twenty years later, The Double-Cross System details the Allied handling of enemy agents and the British infiltration of Nazi spy-rings.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Austerity Britain, 1945-1951(2008) KYNASTON, DAVIDThe groundbreaking series that will tell the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the coming of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 as never beforeVezava: Mehka26,62 €
