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Greatest Traitor(2010) MORTIMER, IANThe first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II. One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Philip the Bold(2002) VAUGHAN, RICHARD,VALE, MALCOLMA biography of Philip and a study of the emergence of the Burgundian state under his aegis in the years 1384-1404, paying particular attention to his crucial aquisition of Flanders. There is comprehensive analysis of how Philip'sgovernment worked.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Pol Pot Regime(2008) KIERNAN, BENOffering an account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide, this book includes a preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal.Vezava: Mehka38,00 € -
Victorians(2003) WILSON, A.N.People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. WilsVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rejoice! Rejoice!(2013) TURNER, ALWYN W.An acclaimed history of the biggest, brashest and most tumultuous decade in recent British history.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Ouidah(2004) LAW, ROBINOuidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study of the town's history and its role in the Atlantic slave trade.Vezava: Mehka54,51 € -
Secret State(2010) HENNESSY, PETERWhat were the secret plans for Britain if World War Three had erupted and 'breakdown' had occurred? When would the Queen have been informed and where would she have gone? How does the contingency planning for a national emergency work today? This book givVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Glencoe(1973) PREBBLE, JOHN'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hostsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Civil War(1976) CAESAR, JULIUSRecording the events of the author's life, who is a military leader, this title depicts his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Georgian London(2014) INGLIS, LUCYTakes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Razor's Edge(2007) BICHENO, HUGHThe controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands WarVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Fascist Voices(2013) DUGGAN, CHRISTOPHERHe examines the extraordinary hold the Duce had on Italy and how he came to embody fascism. By making use of rarely examined sources, such as letters and diaries, newspaper reports, secret police files, popular songs and radio broadcasts, Duggan exploreVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Reflections on the Revolution in France(1987) BURKE, EDMUNDIncludes "Burke's Reflections" and "Pocock's Reflections on Burke and the Eighteenth Century".Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Bradshaw’s Handbook (Premium Edition)(2012)Offers a snapshot of Britain in the 1860s. This is a facsimile of the actual book, often referred to as "Bradshaw's Guide", that inspired the "Great British Railway Journeys" television series, and is possibly the only surviving example of the 1863 editioVezava: Trda46,32 € -
Russian Origins of the First World War(2013) MCMEEKIN, SEANIn a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unVezava: Mehka33,35 € -
Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918(1971) TAYLOR, A. J. P.A. J. P. Taylor examines the relations of the Great Powers, when Europe was still the centre of the world. Written in characteristically vigorous prose, this is a challenging and original diplomatic history, that also considers the political and economicVezava: Mehka72,22 € -
Time's Anvil(2013) MORRIS, RICHARDA personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Vermeer's Hat(2009) BROOK, TIMOTHYOffers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €











