Editorial Amberley Publishing
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8655-4
EAN 9781445686554
This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated Cats, and scantily dressed Female ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8852-7
EAN 9781445688527
Before the war, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took one look at the gentle, sloping sands and announced They will come here!' He was referring to Omaha Beach - the primary American D-Day landing site. The beach was subsequently ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6011-0
EAN 9781445660110
Like his crusading father before him, Simon de Montfort's combination of charisma and fearlessness made him one of the greatest men of his age. This biography follows his life from his birth in France and arrival in England to his defeat and death at Evesham in 1265. Along the way he succeeded in establishing a ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8289-1
EAN 9781445682891
The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight an epic campaign. Cnut sailed in two hundred longboats, landing first in ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8287-7
EAN 9781445682877
1066 saw three kings of England, the last of whom was William, Duke of Normandy. Tradition tells us the conquest of England by the powerful Normans was inescapable, and suggests England benefited almost at once from closer links with Europe. But new discoveries have thrown doubt on these long accepted beliefs.The Battle of Hastings itself ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8284-6
EAN 9781445682846
Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and Westminster, and later at the palaces of Whitehall, Bridewell and St James's, built by Henry VIII to host his glittering court. Anne Boleyn ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8282-2
EAN 9781445682822
Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the British monarchy from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, through to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of the land. The Historia was a medieval bestseller, and ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 36,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8419-2
EAN 9781445684192
'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography...For all the corruption and repression that marked his reign, Louis Napoleon may have done more for France than his famous uncle.' (Alan Massie, Wall Street Journal)This is the definitive biography, and the first ...
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Julius Caesar is part historical figure and part legend. He was a complex individual, a brilliant politician, a successful general, an accomplished psychologist. He grew up in a world where political and military careers were inextricably intertwined, and he excelled at both.In his youth he was considered vain and a little foppish, but showed nerves ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6270-1
EAN 9781445662701
Whilst Richard I is one of medieval England's most famous kings he is also the most controversial. He has variously been considered a great warrior but a poor king, a man driven by the quest for fame and glory but also lacking in self-discipline and prone to throwing away the short-term advantages that his military ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 27,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-7147-5
EAN 9781445671475
This book brings to light women's experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why women's difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles.Women like Andrew Sachs' mother had to deal with organising departure for ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-7717-0
EAN 9781445677170
From what the Ancient Greeks might have talked about in bed to women's health and the intricacies of Greek marriage, Paul Chrystal shines a much-needed light on sex and sexuality in ancient Greece, one of the world's most influential civilizations. This is a balanced, comprehensive and well-researched analysis of the many aspects of sexual desire ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6035-6
EAN 9781445660356
The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingmaker, the Princes in the Tower, Henry Tudor. But the whole era also creates a level of bewilderment among even keen readers. ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6669-3
EAN 9781445666693
In recent times, globalisation has made the world more interdependent than ever before. W. B. Bartlett's masterly new history of the world narrates the great - and small - events that have shaped the planet on which we live. The great religions, civilisations, peoples and empires of the world and how they interacted are all ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-5215-3
EAN 9781445652153
Pirates have fascinated people for several centuries. The master terrorists of their age, the sailors of the early eighteenth century, who went 'on the account' hoping to gain fortune and fame, often led a short but exciting life ...albeit one supplemented by rum and debauchery. Theirs was a harsh life, overshadowed each day by the ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6615-0
EAN 9781445666150
The tragic news of the ISIS-inspired massacres in Paris, Brussels, Nice, Orlando, and countless other locations throughout the Middle East, in conjunction with the recent failed political coup against Erdogan in Turkey, have raised the spectre of an ideological struggle that is more than a century old. As the West struggles with the consequences and ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6034-9
EAN 9781445660349
The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 has captured the imagination and stimulated renewed interest in the history and culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The discovery poses some interesting questions. Who owned the treasure and how did they acquire it? Was it made locally or did it originate elsewhere? Why was it buried in an ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 420 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6548-1
EAN 9781445665481
Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833-25 March 1913) was an Anglo-Irish officer. The number of letters after his name indicate just how glittering his career was. What first made him a household name - he is the original 'Modern Major-General' - was campaigning in ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 21,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-5176-7
EAN 9781445651767
Whatever you think of it, the United States is a superpower that has loomed large over the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Its actions around the world have affected not just Americans, but citizens of every nation in the world, and in some sense, none more so than citizens of the ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-5051-7
EAN 9781445650517
Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England's queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her military hero of a father (St ...
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