Zbirka: Zgodovina: Od prazgodovine do danes
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Barricades and Borders(2003) GILDEA, ROBERT (, PROFESSOR OF MODERN FRENCH HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)This is a survey of European history, from the coup d'etat of Napoleon, to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which often combined, but which increasingly became rival creVezava: Mehka79,60 € -
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Operation Fortitude(2012) LEVINE, JOSHUAOperation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Blood Sisters(2013) GRISTWOOD, SARAHThe true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Deterring Democracy(1992) CHOMSKY, NOAMFrom World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Orientalist(2006) REISS, TOMThe Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to researchVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
William Pitt the Younger(2005) HAGUE, WILLIAMThe award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
On the Crofter's Trail(2010) CRAIG, DAVIDIn the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. The author sets out to discover how many of their stories survive in the memories of their descendaVezava: Mehka21,37 € -
Fine Brother(2014) MILLER, LOUISEFirst full-length biography to explore the life of the first woman to be commissioned as an officer in the Serbian army and the only British woman to enlist as a soldier in World War IVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
God's Playground A History of Poland(2005) DAVIES, NORMAN (, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, AND SUPERNUMERARY FELLOW OF WOLFSON COLLEGE, OXFORD)This edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.Vezava: Mehka99,75 € -
Long Road Home(2011) SHEPHARD, BENAfter the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Ill Met By Moonlight(2014) MOSS, W. STANLEYA classic real-life adventure story from the Second World War involving Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnap and a Nazi manhunt.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Nelson(2005) LAMBERT, ANDREW'Fascinating . In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Tyrannicide Brief(2006) ROBERTSON, GEOFFREY, QCBut in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke. Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor farmer, but he had the cVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
German Trauma(2001) SERENY, GITTAGitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together her writing on Germany. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively anVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Bitter Revolution(2005) MITTER, RANA (, LECTURER IN THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF MODERN CHINA AT THE UNVERSITY OF OXFORD)China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This book goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition fromVezava: Mehka24,52 € -
Last Man in Russia(2014) BULLOUGH, OLIVERThe author travels across Russia, from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry. In this book, he tells the story of a nation: famine, war, the frozeVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Histories(2003) HERODOTUSDescribes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. Frequently giving rise to colorful digressions, this book blends fact and legend to offer a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth ceVezava: Mehka18,21 €
