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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-176-3
EAN 9781780761763
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-309-0
EAN 9781784533090
6 June, 1944. 156,000 troops from 12 different countries, 11,000 aircraft, 7,000 naval vessels, 24 hours. D-Day - the beginning of the Allied invasion of Hitler's formidable 'Fortress Europe' - was the largest amphibious invasion in history.There has never been a battle like it, before or since. But beyond the statistics and over sixty years ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-850-3
EAN 9781848858503
The termination of the British Mandate in Palestine was a momentous turning point in Middle Eastern history, marked by the failure of the British to bring about a workable political composition between the Arab and Jewish communities, the subsequent referral of the problem to the United Nations and the emergence of the state of Israel, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-212-8
EAN 9781780762128
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band ...
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'Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace.Few places ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-350-2
EAN 9781784533502
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-487-5
EAN 9781784534875
Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity...But was Troy an actual place or just a legend of Homer's epic? It took the most unlikely of people, Heinrich Schliemann - a grocer's-apprentice turned self-made archaeologist, courageous and driven - to solve one of the greatest puzzles in history. His extraordinary discovery of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-449-3
EAN 9781784534493
At the height of World War II, while the Germans were setting their sights on Moscow, Free French, British and Australian forces launched an assault on the Vichy French army in the Middle East on 8th June 1941. This joint initiative of Churchill and de Gaulle - codename "Operation Exporter" - led to one of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-483-7
EAN 9781784534837
The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after The Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-426-4
EAN 9781784534264
Mustafa Kemal - latterly and better known as Ataturk - is without doubt the towering figure of modern Turkish history. But what was his path to power? And how did his early career as a soldier in the Ottoman army affect his later decisions as President? The Young Ataturk tracks the lesser covered period of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78076-163-3
EAN 9781780761633
Throughout his life Hugh Trevor-Roper sought to understand the forces that had allowed Nazism to emerge in German society. He was constantly in search of answers to his most pressing question: how was it possible that a regime so violent and barbarous, without effective opposition, emerged in a society which had seemed a stable and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-166-9
EAN 9781784531669
James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies. As both mentor and friend to Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and others, Klugmann was the man who manipulated promising recruits deemed ripe for conversion to the communist cause. This perception of him was reinforced following the release of his MI5 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78453-118-8
EAN 9781784531188
Ernest Hemingway was arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century, the Nobel Prize-winning author of such classics as For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, and a man who lived his life with as much passion and intensity as many of the characters in his novels. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-132-4
EAN 9781784531324
From Vietnam to Syria, politicians, commentators and journalists have argued for and against intervention, whether it is military or humanitarian. Simon Jenkins here presents his extensive writings, charting the history of and the arguments surrounding intervention in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Do nations intervene because of right and wrong? Is it simply a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-307-6
EAN 9781784533076
In January 1942, the Declaration by United Nations forged a military alliance based on human rights principles that included over 24 countries, marking the beginning of the UN. But how did the armies of the United Nations co-operate during World War II to halt Nazi expansionism? When did the UN start to tackle the international ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-140-9
EAN 9781784531409
In October 2013 a jeep ploughed through a busy crowd before exploding in Tiananmen Square. The Chinese authorities identified the driver as Uyghur - one of an Islamic ethnic minority, 10 million strong, who live in Chinas North West province of Xinjiang. Six months later, eight knife-wielding Uyghurs went on a rampage at a train ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-965-3
EAN 9781780769653
In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence traveled to northern Italy. He spent nearly a year on the shores of Lake Garda, lodged in elegantly decaying houses set amid lemon groves and surrounded by the fading life of traditional Italy.It was here that he wrote Sons and Lovers and here too that we see the early ...
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