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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 43,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78537-341-1
EAN 9781785373411
Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and Sinn Féin during the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles, they were agents of influence'. With codenames like INFLICTION, STAKEKNIFE, 3007 and CAROL, these spies played a pivotal role in the fight against Irish republicanism. Now, for the first time, some of these agents have emerged ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-64012-269-7
EAN 9781640122697
Before Chappaquiddick is a biography of Mary Jo Kopechne, a twenty-eight-year-old secretary who worked on the senatorial staff of Robert F. Kennedy and his 1968 presidential campaign. She was killed on July 18, 1969, when a car driven by Senator Edward M.Based on interviews with family, friends, and colleagues who worked with her on RFK's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-625-3
EAN 9781612006253
In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and sailors of the Rising Sun conquered an area even bigger than Hitler's empire at its largest extent. They seemed invincible.Hawaiians and Australians ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 404 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-925984-22-4
EAN 9781925984224
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 148 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-3-9815984-6-9
EAN 9783981598469
Artifacts are tangible objects to our past with each of them telling its own story. What can we learn from cartridges found at the Battle of Waterloo where Napoleon's Imperial Guard made its last stand? I how far did the invention of the ram change naval warfare in antiquity? Why did early guns end the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-1-913336-05-9
EAN 9781913336059
The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history. It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest. Initially an insignificant tribal leader, Genghis Khan gradually increased his power, overcoming one rival after another.After he had subjugated all tribes of Inner Asia, he struck southward into China and later attacked distant Khwarizm ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-64012-196-6
EAN 9781640121966
Tatiana L. Dubinskaya was a schoolgirl who ran away from home and served on the Eastern Front from 1916-17 as a soldier in the Russian army during World War I. She later became a writer and in 1930 recounted her personal experiences as a soldier in an autobiographical novel, called In the Trenches, published in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 59,00 €
ISBN 978-1-910221-21-1
EAN 9781910221211
Jonathan Wateridge was born in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1972. Today he lives and works in Norfolk, UK. This, the artist's first trade monograph, presents two significant bodies of work, 'Enclave' and 'Expatria'.In these series, Wateridge returns to his childhood memories of growing up within the privileged white ex-pat communities of Zambia in the 1970s and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 52,00 €
ISBN 978-1-916237-81-0
EAN 9781916237810
Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, this account of Thwaytes v. Sotheby's - one of the major art trials of recent times - will be of interest to dealers, conservators and lawyers as well as all admirers of Caravaggio. In 2006 the late Sir Denis Mahon, a renowned Caravaggio scholar then aged ninety-six, bought at Sotheby's ...
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The Crocker Art Museum has one of the finest and earliest German drawings collections in the United States. Featuring artists such as Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, The Splendor of Germany examines the major developments in German draughtsmanship over the course of the eighteenth century. Published to coincide with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 66,50 €
ISBN 978-1-911300-78-6
EAN 9781911300786
This lavish catalogue presents sketches made en plein air between the end of the eighteenth century and late nineteenth century. It accompanies a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (USA), the Fondation Custodia (France) and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK). In the eighteenth century the tradition of open-air painting was based in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-1-911300-76-2
EAN 9781911300762
Published in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, this engrossing publication accompanies an exhibition the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Raphael and the Pope's Librarian brings together for the first time one of the most fascinating works in the museum's collection - the Gardner Museum's portrait of papal librarian Tommaso Inghirami - and a ...
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Beasley, Tony; Couzens-Lake, Edward
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-840-0
EAN 9781612008400
An engaging first-hand memoir of life in the Royal Navy during the Cold War Tony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialisation as a telegraphist to being unexpectedly sent to work on submarines. He describes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-869-1
EAN 9781612008691
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young RAF pilots took off every day, ready to defend British skies against large-scale Luftwaffe raide. 'The Few' were young, but they were trained and they were determined.Eighty years on the last of the pilots to fly in the Battle of Britain ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,10 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-843-1
EAN 9781612008431
It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-855-4
EAN 9781612008554
Simo Hayha (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers all over the world and paved the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 32,30 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-586-7
EAN 9781612005867
The battle of Normandy ended as the Allied armies crossed the Seine at the end of August 1944, a month after Operation Cobra had broken the stalemate. The Allies harried the retreating Germans, who left their tanks and heavy weapons south of the Seine, and by mid-September the Allies were coming up against the defences ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-593-5
EAN 9781612005935
The First Jihad tells the story of Muhammad Ahmad, a Muslim religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and the uprising he led against British and Egyptian forces in the late nineteenth century. In 1881, Ahmad declared himself the Mahdi- the Expected One' - and travelled through Sudan, gathering support for his jihad. Initially, the Egyptian-Ottoman authorities ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-468-6
EAN 9781612004686
During the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of Transylvania which was then under Hungarian rule, he had naturally enough joined ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 150 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-419-8
EAN 9781612004198
The Normandy Battlefields: D-Day x{0026} the Bridgehead ended as the Allies fought to expand their D-Day foothold. In Bocage and Breakout, Leo Marriott and Simon Forty take the story forward as the success of the invasion continued into the Cotentin, with Cherbourg falling on 29 June, before it bogged down in face of determined German ...
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