Zbirka: Zgodovina 20. stoletja
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To Make a Village Soviet(2022) BARAN, EMILY B.Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out Jehovah’s Witness farmers for removal from society, arguing that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates both the sheer ambition of state plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities and aVezava: Mehka55,24 € -
Crack(2019) FARBER, DAVID (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS)Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocVezava: Trda60,81 € -
We Ain’t What We Ought To Be(2011) TUCK, STEPHENTuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama’s inauguration. We Ain’t What We Ought explores the dynamic relationships between those seeking new freedoms and those looVezava: Mehka41,31 € -
Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising(2008) HEGARTY, SHANE,O'TOOLE, FINTANThis bestselling book recreates the actual course of events during that tumultuous week, based on contemporary witnesses, memoirs and later recollections. It adds up to the most comprehensive and accessible account of Easter Week in print and has receivedVezava: Mehka30,83 € -
Scapa Flow(2019) BROWN, MALCOLM,MEEHAN, PATRICIAThe story of Britain’s greatest naval anchorage in two World WarsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Kursk 1943(2018) TUCKER-JONES, ANTHONYPutting a human face and voices to the Battle of Kursk (Operation Zitadelle)Vezava: Trda40,20 € -
Armoured Campaign in Normandy(2017) NAPIER, STEPHENBEGINNING with the D-Day landings, this is a brutally frank appraisal of the planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both German and Allied commanders in the major tank battles of the Normandy campaign, including operations Epsom, GoVezava: Mehka32,23 € -
Woman with Nine Lives(2016) KNILL, IBYHolocaust survivor Iby Knill picks up from where she left off in the best-selling 'Woman without a Number' arriving in England in 1947. Building nine separate lives, she also has to come to terms with her past. Poignant, moving and searingly honest, thisVezava: Mehka24,93 € -
1956, The World in Revolt(2016) HALL, SIMONAcross the American South, and in the Union of South Africa, black people risk their livelihoods, and their lives, in the struggle to dismantle institutionalised white supremacy and secure first-class citizenship. It was an epic contest, and one whicVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Fighters in the Shadows(2016) GILDEA, ROBERTThe story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Robert Gildea returns to the testimonies of those involved, asking who they were, and what compelled them to take the terrible risks they did, bringing toVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Taming Babel(2016) LEOW, RACHEL (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, it explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles toVezava: Trda137,00 € -
Crack(2022) FARBER, DAVID (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS)Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Crime and the Silence(2016) BIKONT, ANNAPart history, part memoir, part investigation, The Crime and the Silence is an award-winning journalist's account of the events of that day: both the story of a massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish toVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Battle of the Atlantic(2016) DIMBLEBY, JONATHANThe Battle of the Atlantic was the single most important - and longest - campaign of the Second World War. If Britain lost this vital supply route it lost the war. This book shows how this epic struggle for maritime mastery played out, from the politicianVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Trigger(2015) BUTCHER, TIMRetracing Princip's journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, this book illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him while uncoverVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Red Hangover(2017) GHODSEE, KRISTENKristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell, reflecting on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across EasteVezava: Mehka46,49 €
