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Levant
Splendour and Catastophe on the Mediterranean
- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6707-0
EAN 9780719567070
Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut challenge stereotypes.They were both cosmopolitan cities and centres of nationalism. Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-478-9
EAN 9781848544789
This is a story about a woman. And the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute. The old man she robbed and the hunters who smuggled her across the border.The woman whose name she stole, the wife who turned a blind eye. This is the story of a mother searching for her child. This ...
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Along the Enchanted Way
A Story of Love and Life in Romania
- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-9800-5
EAN 9780719598005
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In spring as the ...
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Arthur James Balfour possessed intellect and charm in legendary abundance. On becoming Prime Minister in 1902, it seemed that he had come into his inheritance as a true grandee. He held office longer than any other Cabinet minister and, in a fifty-year career, dealt with successes and defeats with similar equanimity.When he chose, he retreated ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 11,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-2093-8
EAN 9780719520938
September 1945. Bankrupt and desperate, Britain sends John Maynard Keynes to boom town Washington to beg for a loan. Under cover of the backup team, agent Peter Cotton is sent to investigate the break-up of America's wartime intelligence agency.Cotton finds himself caught up in a world of shadows involving an extraordinarily attractive girl from the ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6555-7
EAN 9780719565557
For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels -- several of which are now established classics -- Maugham expertly concealed a private life. Predominantly homosexual, and deeply in love with ...
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The Spitfire and the Lancaster were the two RAF weapons of victory in the Second World War, but the glamour of the fighter has tended to overshadow the performance of the heavy bomber. Yet without the Lancaster, Britain would never have been able to take the fight to the German homeland. Highlights the scale of ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6257-0
EAN 9780719562570
Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be deeply misplaced as people began to realise that the men they loved were never coming home. The Great Silence is the story ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 11,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6990-6
EAN 9780719569906
The latest in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to discover its charms, to rekindle his friendship with the divine Sarah Bernhardt and to collaborate with France's most celebrated actor-manager, Edmond La Grange.Oscar ...
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- John Murray, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6991-3
EAN 9780719569913
Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Home Secretary receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met.Maisie is invited into Scotland Yard's elite Special Branch as a special adviser ...
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When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In spring as the ...
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The Man who Invented History
Travels with Herodotus
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James Lees-Milne (1908-97) has been hailed as the greatest English diarist of the twentieth century. Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, his journals both reveal a fascinating personality and hold up a mirror to the times. This second compilation from the original twelve volumes (also incorporating interesting new material), covers his life during his ...
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-032-3
EAN 9781848540323
1944. Sent to Spain to arrest a rogue spy, British agent Peter Cotton expects an easy first assignment. But he arrives to find his quarry dead and all of Cadiz awaiting his arrival.In a hotbed of scandal and murder, Cotton must navigate through a labyrinth of international conspiracies, shifting political allegiances and a mysterious local ...
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James Lees-Milne (1908-97) - known to friends as Jim - is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the twentieth-century Pepys'. In this long-awaited biography, Michael Bloch portrays a life rich in contradictions, ...
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The Art of Conversation
or What to Say, and When
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84854-166-5
EAN 9781848541665
Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation and shows that when it works it can come close to heaven. With examples from Elizabeth I to Tommy Cooper, courtesans to nomads, The Art of Conversation is ...
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Despite advancing years, James Lees-Milne's descriptions of the people he meets, the houses he visits and country life on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate are sharper than ever. He continues to enjoy a wide variety of experiences, and vividly recaptures a weekend at Chatsworth, a monastic retreat, a journey in a helicopter, an encounter ...
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In Tearing Haste
Letters between Deborah Devonshire x{0026} Patrick Leigh Fermor
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6857-2
EAN 9780719568572
In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highly entertaining letters. There can rarely ...
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Venus of Empire
The Life of Pauline Bonaparte
- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6110-8
EAN 9780719561108
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- John Murray, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6102-3
EAN 9780719561023
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