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Victoria's Wars(2007) DAVID, SAULExplores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This title shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expandVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Chartism(2007) CHASE, DR. MALCOLMNo British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did. This unique book is the only history to offer complete, in-depth coverage of the full chronological spread of its activities (1838-58), based throughout on detailed research. -Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Mary Tudor(2010) WHITELOCK, PROFESSOR ANNAIn the summer of 1553, against all odds, Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England. This title tells of Mary's Spanish heritage and the unbreakable bond between Mary and her mother, Katherine of Aragon; of her childhood, adolescence, rVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Wars of the Roses(2009) LANDER, J RThe dynastic struggles of the Wars of the Roses (1455-85) have traditionally been portrayed as belonging to one of the most dramatic periods in the history of England, an age of murder and melodrama.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Spartacus War(2010) STRAUSS, BARRYThe story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Waterloo 1815: Wavre, Plancenoit And the Race to Paris(2006) HOFSCHROER, PETERHistories of the Waterloo campaign and tours of the battlefield generally concentrate on the battle between the armies of Napoleon and Wellington and the role of Blucher's Prussians is left in the background. This account tells how the Prussians advancedVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
In The Time Of Madness(2006) PARRY, RICHARD LLOYD** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in thVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Cambodia's Curse(2012) BRINKLEY, JOELA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "cuts a clear narrative path through the bewildering, cynical politics and violent social life of one of the world's most brutalized and hard-up countries." (Foreign Affairs)Vezava: Mehka27,08 € -
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field(2014) SADLER, JOHN* Graphic new account of the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses * Reconstructs the fighting in vivid detail * Insight into the rival commanders Edward IV and the Duke of Somerset * Incorporates the results of recent archaeological research * Sets tVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire(2005) GIBBON, EDWARD,TREVOR-ROPER, HUGHAn abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a single epic narrative.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Byzantium(1993) NORWICH, JOHN JULIUSChronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
1910s Scrapbook: the Decade of the Great War(2009)A nostalgic glimpse of a bygone age.Vezava: Trda23,09 € -
Plimsoll Sensation(2007) JONES, NICOLETTEThe story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
That Sweet Enemy(2007) TOMBS, ISABELLE,TOMBS, ROBERTTheir rivalry both on peace and war, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to India in the eighteenth century, in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it is still shapinVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire(2012) LEWIS, MARK EDWARDThe Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age.” Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and inVezava: Mehka34,95 €










