Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
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Argumentative Indian(2006) SEN, AMARTYA, FBAIndia is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. This title brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Spy Who Loved(2013) MULLEY, CLAREThe remarkable story of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville – Churchill's favourite spy, the longest-serving during WW2, and recipient of the George Medal, an OBE and the Croix de Guerre.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cash Nexus(2002) FERGUSON, NIALLShows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, the author offers an analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942(2013) STILLE, MARK (AUTHOR)A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
War on our Doorstep(2012) SALISBURY, HARRIET,THE MUSEUM OF LONDON GROUPLondon's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. The old East End communities were gone forever. Told by the residents themselves, The War on Our Doorstep is an eye-opening, moving and laugh-out-loud depiction of the history ofVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Forgotten Voices of Burma(2010) THOMPSON, JULIANFrom the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War 2 - the Burma Campaign. In 1941 the Allies fought in a disastrous retreat across Burma against the Japanese - an enemy morVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Beware of Small States(2011) HIRST, DAVIDTo understand Lebanon's history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has come to assume a disproportionate, dangerous power of its own.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Dogs and Demons(2002) KERR, ALEXThe decades of Western adulation for the Japanese "economic miracle" failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this miracle, the Japanese had turned their country into a concrete shambles. This book describes the dazzling nature of Japanese culturVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
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Berlin Wall(2009) TAYLOR, FREDERICKThe astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new preface to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Auschwitz Kommandant(2010) CHERISH, BARBARA UHe was tried in the `Auschwitz Trial’ at Krakow, found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed in January 1948.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Somme(2013) MACDONALD, LYNThe year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever beVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Train in Winter(2012) MOOREHEAD, CAROLINEOn an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Afgantsy(2012) BRAITHWAITE, SIR RODRICExamines the Russian experience in that most recent war in Afghanistan (after Alexander's conquests and the many British imperial wars and skirmishes). Largely basing his account on Russian sources and interviews, the author shows the war through the eyesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Dam Busters(2013) HOLLAND, JAMESThe night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland,Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
