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War of Wars(2007) HARVEY, ROBERTDrawing together the politics, personalities, battles and diplomacy of this tumultuous era, Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the mVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Corrupting Sea(2000) HORDEN, PEREGRINE (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON),PURCELL, NICHOLAS (ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD)An analysis of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region over 2000 years. It covers issues such as historiography, patterns of settlement and demographic change, religious cult sites, climate, disVezava: Mehka68,83 € -
Illustrated History of the Later Crusades(2011) PHILLIPS, CHARLESA chronicle of the crusades of 1200-1588 in Palestine, Spain, Italy and Northern Europe, from the Sack of Constantinople to the crusades against the Hussites, depicted in over 150 fine art images.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories (Penguin Classics)(2007) SALLUSTContains three stories from Sallust: "Catiline's War" - tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc; "The Jugurthine War" - describes Rome's fight in Africa against the king of the Numidians; and Histories" - depicts Rome after the death of the dictator Sulla.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mercurial Emperor(2007) MARSHALL, PETERIn the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his tiVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 4-6(1994) GIBBON, EDWARDThe six-volume Everyman edition - the only complete one now available-prints the entire text of the book with all Gibbon's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices and two magisterial essayVezava: Trda77,44 € -
1759(2008) MCLYNN, FRANKDrawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the CaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Commonwealth of Thieves(2007) KENEALLY, THOMASTells the story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Borgias(2011) HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHERWarlords, Popes, Poisoners - the true story of the Borgias, the first family of the Italian RenaissanceVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Wars of the Roses(2012) HICKS, MICHAELThe Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were a major turning point in English history. This title examines the difficult economic, military, and financial crises and explains the real reasons why the Wars of the Roses began, why they kept recurring, and why, evenVezava: Mehka32,30 € -
Men of the North(2010) CLARKSON, TIMThe North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or ignoredVezava: Mehka33,27 € -
Setting the East Ablaze(2006) HOPKIRK, PETER'A gripping account of the terrible, confused struggle for mastery of Central Asia that followed the Russian Revolution' Evening StandardVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings(2001)Were the Vikings, as contemporary description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or were they unusually successful merchants, extortionists, and pioneer explorers? This book, byVezava: Mehka35,04 € -
After the Reich(2008) MACDONOGH, GILESIn the chaos after the Reich an astonishing 2.5 million ordinary citizens were killed. This harrowing history uncovers the extraordinary stories of real German people from all walks of life in the aftermath of the Second World WarVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Pompeii(2009) BEARD, PROFESSOR MARYContains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Rome and Jerusalem(2008) GOODMAN, MARTINIn 70CE, after four years of Jewish rebellion, Roman legions devastated the great city of Jerusalem. Sixty years later, its ruin was completed when Emperor Hadrian built a new city on top of it that Jews were forbidden even to enter. This title explores tVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Pakistan(2012) KHAN, IMRANBorn only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, the author has lived his country's history. This title provides an insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a western audience.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €












