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Colin Powell(2019) MATTHEWS, JEFFREY J.For the past three decades, Colin Powell has been among America's most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell's decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise from a workVezava: Trda37,42 € -
Scars on the Land(2022) SILKENAT, DAVID (SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.Vezava: Trda57,95 € -
Penguin Dictionary of British Surnames(2009) TITFORD, JOHNA guide to the surnames that offers an insight into the place of origin, the occupations - and even the personality traits - of our ancestors. It is suitable for those intrigued by the story of their name and by the history of their family.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Pagans and Christians(2006) LANE FOX, ROBINThe transition from pagan to Christian in the ancient Mediterranean world was a process whose effects we still live with today. How did this monumental conversion come about? How did Christianity compare and compete with the pagan gods in the Roman EmpireVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
1776(2006) MCCULLOUGH, DAVIDPresents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazingVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Gun(2011) CHIVERS, C. J.The AK-47, or 'Kalashnikov', is the most abundant and efficient firearm on earth. It is so light it can be used by children. This book tells an alternative history of the world as seen through these terrible weapons. It traces them back to their origins iVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Homo Britannicus(2007) STRINGER, CHRISWhen did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunteVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Black Diamonds(2008) BAILEY, CATHERINEWentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. This title tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden lovVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire(2006) DALZIEL, NIGELTraces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles, through its ascendancy in Victorian times, to its ultimate collapse in the mid-20th century. This title examines the impact of British dominance in AmerVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Singled Out(2008) NICHOLSON, VIRGINIATells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society. This title is about those women, and about how they were forced, to stop depending on mVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Luck and the Irish(2008) FOSTER, PROFESSOR R FFrom 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic Tiger had finally woken, and the rules for everything from gender roles and religion to international relations were being entirely rewritten. This title examines how the country has weathered thirtyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Children of the Revolution(2009) GILDEA, ROBERTNineteenth-century France was renowned for its literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars,Vezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Citizens(2004) SCHAMA, SIMONOffers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Mystery of Olga Chekhova(2005) BEEVOR, ANTONYOlga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev,Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Bicycle(2017) MIRRORPIXCelebrating 200 years of the humble bicycles, in stunning photographsVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Female Tommies(2017) SHIPTON, ELISABETHThis book tells the story of women in the First World War at the front line, under fire, and in combat.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Armoured Campaign in Normandy(2017) NAPIER, STEPHENBEGINNING with the D-Day landings, this is a brutally frank appraisal of the planned use and actual results of the deployment of armour by both German and Allied commanders in the major tank battles of the Normandy campaign, including operations Epsom, GoVezava: Mehka32,23 €
