Frank McLynn
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Genghis Khan
The Man Who Conquered the World
- Vintage UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-350-9
EAN 9781784703509
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon? Credited by some with ...
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The Road not Taken
How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, 1381-1926
- Vintage UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-524-0
EAN 9781844135240
Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years, has it known a true revolution - one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with her European neighbours - with France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia - is dramatic. All have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and ...
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Marcus Aurelius
Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor
- Vintage UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 710 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-527-1
EAN 9781844135271
Marcus Aurelius the last of Rome's five good emperors' is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, more than 2,000 years after his death. We may thrill to the exploits of Alexander the Great, Hannibal or Julius Caesar but the only voice from the Greco-Roman world that still seems to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952639-1
EAN 9780099526391
Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in arduous campaigns on ...
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Lionheart and Lackland
King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest
- Vintage UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-9417-9
EAN 9780712694179
Anyone who has seen 'The Lion in Winter' will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets: the towering, almost psychopathic Henry II, commander of the slaughter of Thomas a' Becket, at war with both his wife the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his sons (including the subjects of this remarkable book, Richard and John). ...
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- Pimlico, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6672-5
EAN 9780712666725
Everyone 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. In this new study, underpinned by biographical sketches of the great warriors who fought for the crown of ...
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