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French Crime Fiction and the Second World War(2014) GORRARA, CLAIREBy investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoVezava: Mehka30,99 €
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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: Trda66,26 €
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Berlin at War(2011) MOORHOUSE, ROGERBerlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for Albert Speer's plans to forge a new 'world metropolis' and the scene of the final climactic bid to defeat Nazism.Vezava: Mehka20,83 €
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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: Mehka15,27 €
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Real Great Escape(2014) WALTERS, GUYIn early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. In this book Guy Walters takes a fresh look at this remarkable event and asks the question, what was the true story, not the movie version?Vezava: Mehka18,05 €
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Hitler's Spy Chief(2011) BASSETT, RICHARDHow Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort.Vezava: Mehka13,88 €
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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: Mehka15,27 €
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Bringing the House Down(2007) PROFUMO, DAVIDThe first ever personal account of the family at the heart of the Profumo AffairVezava: Mehka15,27 €
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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: Mehka15,27 €
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Aces Falling(2008) HART, PETERHow the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontVezava: Mehka15,27 €
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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: Mehka15,27 €
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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: Mehka42,26 €
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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: Mehka15,27 €
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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: Mehka23,61 €
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