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After Gorbachev(1993) WHITE, STEPHEN (UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW)Fourth time around for bestselling text on collapse of Soviet communism. New chapter takes story up to Yeltsin's referendum victory.Vezava: Mehka62,73 € -
Bloody White Baron(2009) PALMER, JAMESRoman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ghosts of Empire(2012) KWARTENG, KWASIThis fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatismVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Assassins' Gate(2007) PACKER, GEORGEThe Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where heVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
King Stephen(2012) KING, EDMUNDA biography that provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its 'nineteen long winters' of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, the author shows witVezava: Mehka33,25 € -
Past is Myself & The Road Ahead Omnibus(2011) BIELENBERG, CHRISTABELThe Past is Myself is her story of that experience - and an unforgettable portrait of an evil time. The Road AheadFollowing the extraordinary success of her wartime memoir, The Past is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg received thousands of letters from reaVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
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Brief History of the Samurai(2010) CLEMENTS, JONATHANA superb insight into the history of the SamuraiVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Our Queen(2012) HARDMAN, ROBERTHistory has known no monarch like her. She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together and lived longer than any of them - Queen Elizabeth II. This title tells her story.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Ancient Warfare(2004) SIDEBOTTOM, HARRY (MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD)Examines various aspects of ancient warfare from philosophy to the technical skills needed to fight. This work looks at war in a wider context and explores the ways in which ancient society thought about conflict: can a war be just? Why was siege warfareVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
One Minute To Midnight(2009) DOBBS, MICHAELOctober 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. Dobbs's thrilling narrative features a cast of characters - including Soviet veterans never before interviewed by a western writer - with unique stories to tell, witnesses to one ofVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Matilda(2012) BORMAN, TRACYRead the thrilling, tempestuous story of the 'first' Queen of England. Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England takes us from the courts of Flanders to the opulence of royal life in England.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons(2006) HINDLEY, GEOFFREYChildren of Beowulf, Warriors of God, Pioneers in EuropeVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
1066(1999) MCLYNN, FRANKEveryone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Rifles(2004) URBAN, MARKAs part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. This book traces the stVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
War Of Nerves(2002) SHEPHARD, BENI cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'A War of Nerves is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century - an authoritative, accessible account drawing on a vast range of diaries, interviews, medical papers anVezava: Mehka28,04 €












