Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
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After They Killed Our Father(2008) UNG, LOUNGIn 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings. This book follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closeVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Behind Closed Doors(2012) VICKERS, HUGOHugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
King's Speech(2011) LOGUE, MARK,CONRADI, PETERHow an Australian commoner saved the British monarchy.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ataturk(2001) KINROSS, PATRICKThe definitive biography of the father of modern Turkey, a powerful figure in the still-unfolding drama of the Middle East.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Battle of Britain(2011) HOLLAND, JAMES‘A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times‘Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war’ Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Freedom at Midnight(1997) COLLINS, LARRY,LAPIERRE, DOMINIQUEThe electrifying story of India’s struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants – from Mountbatten to the assassinsVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Great Hatred, Little Room(2009) POWELL, JONATHANMaking peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. This book demonstrates how the events in Northern Ireland have valuable lessons for thoVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Citizen Sailors(2012) PRYSOR, GLYNDuring the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across globe in battleships and claustrophobic corvettes and silent submarines. They endured nerve-wracking convoys, fought epic gun battles, caVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Man Who Broke into Auschwitz(2011) AVEY, DENIS,BROOMBY, ROBThe international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
When God Made Hell(2011) TOWNSHEND, PROFESSOR CHARLESA cautious strategic invasion by British forces led - within seven years - to imperial expansion on a dizzying scale, with fateful consequences for the Middle East and the world.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Bible and the flag(1990) STANLEY, BA scholarly examination of the relationship between Protestant missions and imperialism in the past 200 years.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
House By The Thames(2007) TINDALL, GILLIANthey have seen the countrified lanes of London’s marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements – and then seen these, too, become dust and empty air. Rich with anecdote and colour, this fascinating book breathes life into tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Love and War in the Apennines(2010) NEWBY, ERICHailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Meaning Of Hitler(2011) HAFFNER, SEBASTIANA remarkable historical and psychological study of the enigma of Adolf Hitler and his impact on the twentieth century - by the bestselling author of DEFYING HITLER. 'Dazzlingly brilliant' OBSERVERVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Heinemann Advanced History: Mussolini & Italy(2002) TOWNLEY, EDWARDContaining sample exam questions at both AS and A2 levels, this text aims to show students what makes a good answer and why it scores high marks. It should help students grasp the difference between a GCSE and an A-level mark in history.Vezava: Mehka72,71 € -
Lights that Failed(2007) STEINER, ZARA (EMERITUS FELLOW, NEW HALL, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.)Challenging the common assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war, this book provides an analysis of the attempts to reconstruct Europe during the 1920s. It examines the efforts that failed but also those which gaVezava: Mehka101,50 € -
Roses of No Man's Land(2013) MACDONALD, LYNWalking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panoraVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
New Machiavelli(2011) POWELL, JONATHANIn his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece, The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing on his own unpublished diaries.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
