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Britain's Gulag(2014) ELKINS, CAROLINEOnly a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom.Vezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Constantinople(2006) MANSEL, PHILIP'Without question one of the best books ever written by an Englishman on the Turks' William DalrympleVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Last Days of Detroit(2014) BINELLI, MARKOnce America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England(2013) MORTIMER, IANThe past is a foreign country - this is your guide, from the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Brief History of the Wars of the Roses(2007) SEWARD, MR DESMONDA classic account of the bloody rivalry between the dynasties of York and Lancaster for the throne of England.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Australia(2001) KNIGHTLEY, PHILLIP,CRAWFORD, R MPart history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. This book describes Australia's journey through the eyes of ordinary peopleVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Britain AD(2005) PRYOR, FRANCISLeading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
1066(2011) REX, PETERA radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
End of the Bronze Age(1996) DREWS, ROBERTThe Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century bc with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. This title rejects the traditional exVezava: Mehka66,94 € -
Warsaw 1920(2014) ZAMOYSKI, ADAMThe dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily TelegraphVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Last Days Of The Incas(2008) MACQUARRIE, KIMThe haunting story of the destruction of a magnificent civilisationVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Europe in the High Middle Ages(2002) JORDAN, WILLIAM CHESTERPresents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Eyam(2012) PAUL, DAVIDA look in to the history behind the village of Eyam when the plague came killing the majority of the population.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070(2007) WOOLF, ALEX (LECTURER IN EARLY SCOTTISH HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS)This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence oVezava: Mehka43,23 €












