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Scotland(1992) LYNCH, MICHAELFrom Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, this book tells the history of a country that hasVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Myth Of The Blitz(1992) CALDER, ANGUSThe Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. Britain was not bombed into classless democracy. Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of 1940 and 1941 - when Britain 'stood alone' against the Luftwaffe - and of theVezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Microcosm(2003) DAVIES, NORMAN,MOORHOUSE, ROGERIn order to present a portrait of Central Europe, Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse have made a case study of one of its most colourful cities, the former German Breslau, which became the Polish Wroclaw after the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Into That Darkness(1995) SERENY, GITTAThe biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps.Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Only the Clothes on Her Back(2022) EDWARDS, LAURA F. (CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.Vezava: Trda63,66 € -
Trader, The Owner, The Slave(2008) WALVIN, PROFESSOR JAMESJames Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807. John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
How We Lived Then(2002) LONGMATE, NORMANAlthough nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold.Vezava: Mehka39,24 € -
Pendulum Of War(2005) BARR, NIALLIn late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Mapmakers(2002) WILFORD, JOHN NOBLEIt traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded in charting first the surface of the globe, then the earth's interior and the ocean floors, and finally the moon and the planetsVezava: Mehka33,65 € -
Man Who Drew London(2003) TINDALL, GILLIANYet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in his etchings. Drawing on numerous sources, Gillian Tindall creates a monVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
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 € -
Culloden(2002) PREBBLE, JOHNThe detail for the story told in Culloden has come from regimental Order Books and manuals, from contemporary newspapers and magazines, from the letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers, eye-witness accounts of atrocity and persecution, and the personVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Bright Shining Lie(1998) SHEEHAN, NEILLt Colonel John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, but soon became appalled by the slaughter, leaking his pessimistic assessments to the US press corps in Saigon. Neil Sheehan was among them, and became fascinated by the angry Vann, befriended him, and foVezava: Mehka42,06 € -
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 € -
Once They Moved Like The Wind 49(1998) ROBERTS, DAVIDThe combined military might of two great mations succeeded in capturing not a single Chiricagua, not even a child.' From the Preface. Of the many tales of conflict and warfare between the US Government and the Indian tribes, perhaps none is more dramatiVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Berlin Diaries 1940-45(1999) VASSILTCHIKOV, MARIEThrough Adam Von Trott, for whom she worked in the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry, she became involved in the Resistance and the diaries vividly describe her part in the drama of July 1944 and its appalling aftermath.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
In the Blood of Our Brothers(2021) SANJURJO, JESUSProvides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition.Vezava: Trda77,00 € -
To Lose a Battle(2007) HORNE, ALISTAIRIn 1940 Hitler sent his troops to execute the Fall of France. A six-week battle with lightning 'blitzkrieg' warfare and combined operations techniques, the offensive ended the Phony War and sent the French forces reeling as their government fled from occuVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
The Republic(2014) TOWNSHEND, CHARLESA narrative of the critical years in modern Ireland's history. This book presents the never loses sight of the ordinary forms of heroism performed by Irish men and women trapped in extraordinary times.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
