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Making Of The British Landscape(2017) CRANE, NICHOLASThe history of 12,000 years of the British landscape, from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century, by prizewinning author Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of COAST.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Queens Consort(2009) HILTON, LISAEngland from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Vertigo Years(2009) BLOM, PHILIPPA panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Shadows Of The Workhouse(2012) WORTH, JENNIFER, SRN, SCMA fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestselling author of CALL THE MIDWIFEVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Slave-Trader's Letter-Book(2019) JORDAN, JIMThis was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades and shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. In 1886 the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar’s letters from the 1850s,Vezava: Mehka33,09 € -
William Gregg's Civil War(2019) GREGG, WILLIAM H.Gregg served as William Clarke Quantrill’s de facto adjutant from December 1861 until the spring of 1864, making him one of the closest people to the Confederate guerrilla leader.Vezava: Mehka33,09 € -
City of Refuge(2020) NEVIUS, MARCUS P.Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons—networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examinVezava: Trda93,44 € -
Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates(2022) KENNEDY, HUGH (SOAS, UK)The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed.Vezava: Mehka71,74 € -
We Are At War(2006) GARFIELD, SIMONOf all the accounts written about the Second World War, none are more compelling than the personal diaries of those who lived through it.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
40, 001 Best Baby Names(2004) STAFFORD, DIANEWritten by Diane Stafford, this title includes helpful steps to naming your baby, plus solid information about your choices, and much more including celebrity names from around the world, names that are out, names that are in, exotic names, saintly names,Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust(2006) SMITH, LYNFollowing the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Boudica(2006) COLLINGRIDGE, VANESSABoudica has been immortalised throughout history as the woman who dared take on the Romans - an act of vengeance on behalf of her daughters, tribe and enslaved country. Her known life is a rich tapestry of wife, widow, mother, queen and Celtic quasi-GoddeVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Our Hidden Lives(2005) GARFIELD, SIMONThe result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten Voices or indeed Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman. 'I love these diaries.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Light in the Window(2005) GOULDING, JUNEBut worst of all was that the young women were expected to raise their babies during these three years so that they could then be sold - given up for adoption in exchange for a donation to the nuns. Shocked by the nuns' inhumane treatment of the frighteVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War(2005) ARTHUR, MAXThe Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War(2003) ARTHUR, MAXOffers accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. This book features personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us what it was really like to live through what was supposed to be the war to end allVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Tunguska(2022) BRUNO, ANDY (NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY)This engaging new account of the powerful Tunguska explosion of 1908 provides a fresh look at the enigmatic disaster and the generations of researchers who have tried to understand it. Taking readers inside expeditions and investigations to explore the roVezava: Trda62,73 € -
Human Frontiers(2022) BHASKAR, MICHAELA provocative, exciting exploration of the future of ideas - and the history of technological and cultural progress that has taken us to todayVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
England, Arise(2015) BARKER, JULIETA fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of Agincourt.Vezava: Mehka21,02 €
