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Big House(2005) SYKES, CHRISTOPHER SIMONThe highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years.Vezava: Mehka15,27 €
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Great Hunger(1991) WOODHAM-SMITH, CECILThe Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almostVezava: Mehka18,05 €
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Secret History of Georgian London(2010) CRUICKSHANK, DANGeorgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.Vezava: Mehka23,61 €
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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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Brief History of the Celts(2003) ELLIS, PETERUncovering one of the world's greatest civilisationsVezava: Mehka15,27 €
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Villa, The Lake, The Meeting(2003) ROSEMAN, MARKAt a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organized and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatiVezava: Mehka16,66 €
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Battleships of the Bismarck Class(2014) KOOP, GERHARD,SCHMOLKE, KLAUS-PETERReprint of a series constituting the best all-round monographs on German surface warships First editions command a high premium on the secondhand market Large format affordable paperbackVezava: Mehka23,61 €
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Children's Games in Street and Playground(2008) OPIE, IONA,OPIE, PETERA magnificent survey of over 85 games played by children, largely out of sight of adults, in the 1960s, in the street, playground and wasteland.Vezava: Mehka13,88 €
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Spanish Galleon 1530-1690(2004) KONSTAM, ANGUSDuring the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of the Americas to Spain. This book traces the development of the Spanish galleon, and outlines the constructional methods, the ordnance and the crewing needed to pVezava: Mehka19,40 €
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Industry and Empire(1999) HOBSBAWM, E JThis outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the underdevelopedVezava: Mehka20,83 €
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Disenchanted Night(1995) SCHIVELBUSCH, WOLFGANGTells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. This title reveals the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. It discusses a range of subject including the political symboli40,53 €
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