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In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz(2001) WRONG, MICHELA‘Joyous … a book that makes other journalists weep with envy’ The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written … an eloquent, brilliantly researched account’ Sunday Times One of The Economist’s best books by foreVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America(2002) WERNER, CRAIGA Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown;Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Elizabeth I(2011) SOMERSET, LADY ANNEAn acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret(2007) GANNON, PAULThis is the last untold story of BletchleyPark. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Margaret of Anjou(2005) MAURER, HELEN E (ROYALTY ACCOUNT)Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeare's rendering, she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captiveVezava: Mehka50,48 € -
Trees in Anglo-Saxon England(2013) HOOKE, DELLAA powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape.Vezava: Mehka38,60 € -
Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to the Somme 1918(2006) HOLT, TONIE,HOLT, VALMAIUpdated edition, published to conincide with the 100th AnniversaryVezava: Mehka9,80 € -
Sky Wept Fire(2013) ELDIN, MIKAILA lyrical and searing account of life on the front line of the wars between the Russian state and the Chechen peopleVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Ukraine Diaries(2014) KURKOV, ANDREYGoing beyond the headlines, this title gives an insight into what it's like to live through - and try to make sense of - times of intense political unrest.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Gallipoli(2013) HART, PETERAn account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli. It explains that from the initial landings - which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from aircraft overhead - to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition tVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
War: What is it good for?(2015) MORRIS, IANA bold and controversial rethinking of the role of war in human history and how it will shape our future, sure to provoke debate, from the bestselling author of Why the West Rules - For Now.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Adventures in Stationery(2015) WARD, JAMESFrom Bronze Age India to a Surrey Stationers via pencil wars and accidental inventions: a hilarious insight into the familiar yet unexpectedly bizarre world of stationery.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
1930s House Explained(2006) YORKE, TREVORThis easy-reference guide provides a definitive guide for those who are renovating, tracing the history of their own house, or simply interested in this notable and ever popular period. Using his own drawings, diagrams and photographs, author Trevor YorkeVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Stolen Village(2008) EKIN, DESIn 1631 Barbary pirates kidnapped the inhabitants of Baltimore, West Cork in a daring night time raid. Only two of them ever returned. Here is the story of their kidnap, sale in the slave markets of Algiers and the political fallout from the attack.Vezava: Mehka22,80 € -
I Was a Boy in Belsen(2016) REICHENTAL, TOMI, BEMTomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust and was the subject of the documentary “Till The Tenth Generation”, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp.Vezava: Mehka19,95 € -
By the Emperor's Hand(2015) DAWSON, TIMOTHY,SUMNER, GRAHAMThis title traces the development of court regalia and military clothing from the end of Late Antiquity to the end of the Empire in 1453 and beyond and pioneers a largely unexplored realm, both in terms of Roman and Byzantine Studies, and dress history.Vezava: Trda42,06 € -
Unconsidered People(2021) DUNNE, CATHERINENew updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Half a million Irish people left Ireland in the nineteen-fifties,Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Three Castles Burning(2022) FALLON, DONALA companion to the hugely successful podcast of the same name by Donal Fallon, THREE CASTLES BURNING is an enjoyable wander through some of Dublin's less obvious but more interesting streets.Vezava: Mehka19,62 €
