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Odyssey of an Apple Thief(2019) ROZENBAUMAS, MOISHEMoishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris.Vezava: Mehka33,84 € -
Horace Kallen Confronts America(2019) KAUFMAN, MATTHEW J.During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how AmericanVezava: Mehka51,31 € -
Hitler's First Hundred Days(2021) FRITZSCHE, PETER (W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, W. D. & SARAH E. TROWBRIDGE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)The chilling story of the hundred days in the spring of 1933 in which the Nazis laid the foundations for their Third Reich.Vezava: Trda45,54 € -
Plague(2021) SLACK, PAUL (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN SOCIAL HISTORY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY)Throughout history plague has caused some of the greatest periods of hardship for humanity, from the Black Death to the Great Plague of London. This book explores the causes of plague, the presence of plague in art and literature, and the lasting impact oVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Battle of the Bulge(2014) VANSANT, WAYNEIn TheBattle of the Bulge, author and graphic artist Wayne Vansant brings readers into the frozen foxholes, haunting forests, and devastated villages of the Ardennes during the freezing cold winter of 1944– 1945.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Colonel of Tamarkan(2006) SUMMERS, JULIEThe gripping and fascinating story of the man who was really in charge of the construction of the infamous bridge on the river Kwai, by his granddaughter.Vezava: Mehka36,44 € -
Six Days(2004) BOWEN, JEREMYA brilliantly compelling new history of the 1967 Six-Day War, by the BBC's distinguished former Middle East correspondent.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Hygienic Apparatus(2022) DOBRYDEN, PAULTraces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction, the book explores cinema's material contexts alongside its representatioVezava: Trda170,24 € -
Pax Britannica(2012) MORRIS, JANThe second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Farewell the Trumpets(2012) MORRIS, JANFarewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Stalin and the Scientists(2017) INGS, SIMONLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Heaven's Command(2012) MORRIS, JANTells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
History of the Arab Peoples(2013) HOURANI, ALBERTIn a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the presVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Magic Box(2022) YOUNG, ROBA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sandstorm(2013) HILSUM, LINDSEYThe overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Graves are Walking(2013) KELLY, JOHNWell-meaning civil servants were eager to modernise Irish agriculture and to improve the Irish moral character, which was utterly lacking in the virtues of the new age of triumphant capitalism.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Writing a War of Words(2021) MUGGLESTONE, LYNDA (PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH, PROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Writing a War of Words is the first investigation of a valuable archive of war-time notebooks documenting changes to the English language on the Home Front. Using unconventional sources, it explores the effect of war on the language of ordinary people, anVezava: Trda61,76 €
