Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
2248 rezultatov
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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 € -
Exploration Fawcett(2010) FAWCETT, COL. PERCYA lost city called 'Z'; lethal jungles; death-filled rivers: the last trip of a legendary explorer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Baltic Facades(2012) PURS, ALDISBaltic Facades presents a new history of the Baltic area, one that dispels the myth of a single, coherent regional identity. Aldis Purs describes the unique character of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, whilst also examining the anxiety that these peoples fVezava: Mehka27,97 € -
Island Wife(2013) FAIRBAIRNS, JUDYA memoir of a woman's life over 45 years on a remote Scottish island - from 19-year-old girl to wife of one to mother of five, hotelier, domestic miracle worker, to empty nester to writer.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Careless People(2014) CHURCHWELL, SARAHA fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds for The Great Gatsby were sownVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Battles for Monte Cassino Then and Now(2022) PLOWMAN, JEFFREY,ROWE, PERRYThe Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations. This work presenVezava: Trda68,36 € -
National Service(2013) SHINDLER, COLINA groundbreaking look at life as a conscript during Britain's postwar National Service, as told by the men who served. Published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the end of conscription.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain(2010) O'FARRELL, JOHNInforms and elucidates the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Bringing the House Down(2007) PROFUMO, DAVIDThe first ever personal account of the family at the heart of the Profumo AffairVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Her Brilliant Career(2014) COOKE, RACHELA witty and touching account of ten inspirational figures that makes us reconsider conventional ideas of the fifties woman.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bitter Fruit(2005) SCHLESINGER, STEPHEN,KINZER, STEPHENBitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. This book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the U.S. andVezava: Mehka31,76 € -
Aces Falling(2008) HART, PETERHow the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Ten Days That Shook the World(2007) REED, JOHNPresents an account of the Russian revolution. This book describes the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Cosmopolis(1992) TOULMIN, STEPHENIn the 17th century, the vision of Cosmopolis arose - a rationally ordered society. This vision perpetuated the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. This text confronts that agenda - its iVezava: Mehka43,72 € -
Great Britain's Great War(2014) PAXMAN, JEREMYLife in Britain during the First World War was far stranger than many of us realize. The author tells the story of the war through the experience of those who lived it - nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers, journalists and children - explainingVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Secret Flotillas Vol 1: Clandestine Sea Operations to Brittany 1940-44(2013) RICHARDS, BROOKSAs the fall of France took place, almost the entire coastline of Western Europe was in German hands. Clandestine sea transport operations provided lines of vital intelligence for wartime Britain. These secret flotillas" landed and picked up agents in andVezava: Mehka23,82 €
