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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-012-8
EAN 9781804710128
Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in Washington, D.C. with her second husband, but enviable dinner parties aren't the only thing she is planning. Meanwhile, Charlie Leigh-Hunt has been posted to Washington as a replacement for Guy Burgess, last seen disappearing around the corner and into the Soviet Union.Charlie is surprised to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-002-9
EAN 9781804710029
As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovered philosophy and fell in love with its rationality, its abstractions, its beauty. What Penaluna didn't realize was that philosophy - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-045-6
EAN 9781804710456
The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning - and in Kerala, water is everywhere.At the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-062-3
EAN 9781804710623
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbour or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbour, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80471-024-1
EAN 9781804710241
Tessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual connection promises more - but there are obstacles to this burgeoning relationship. While Tessa's husband Milton enjoys ...
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning - and in Kerala, water is everywhere.At the turn of the century a twelve-year-old girl, grieving the death of her father, is sent by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84884-404-9
EAN 9781848844049
On 7 September 1812 at Borodino, 75 miles west of Moscow, the armies of the Russian and French empires clashed in one of the climactic battles of the Napoleonic Wars. This horrific - and controversial - contest has fascinated historians ever since. The survival of the Russian army after Borodino was a key factor in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5267-4360-2
EAN 9781526743602
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 127 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5267-1627-9
EAN 9781526716279
While in exile on St Helena, Napoleon dictated a commentary on the wars of Julius Caesar, later published in 1836. In each chapter he summarized the events of one campaign, then added comments from the standpoint of his own military knowledge. Over the nearly two millennia between Caesar and Napoleon some aspects of warfare had ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 35,15 €
ISBN 978-1-5267-0292-0
EAN 9781526702920
The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japans acquisition of Germanys Micronesian islands. Japans naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States naval strategy of projecting force westward.The campaign to relieve ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-9564-5
EAN 9781473895645
The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of thrusts, parries, and counter-thrusts, as first one side then the other ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-5928-9
EAN 9781473859289
It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen. In addition to this iconic flying ace, the author presents the thrilling biographies of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-5908-1
EAN 9781473859081
Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered as great leaders of men in battle? What combination of personal and circumstantial influences conspire to produce great commanders? What makes a great leader great? Richard A Gabriel analyses the biographies of ten great generals who ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-3374-6
EAN 9781473833746
The Han Empire equalled Rome in the scale of its territories and subject populations. With superior steel manufacturing techniques and crossbow weaponry, the Han created a system of Central Asian transport connections known as the Silk Routes. These conveyed unique Chinese goods as far as Persia and the Roman frontier.Ancient evidence suggests that one-tenth of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-2747-9
EAN 9781473827479
With 200 illustrations. The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were critical stages in the struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for control of the southern Soviet Union. Anthony Tucker-Jones, in this volume in the Images ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 338 páginas
PVP: 40,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78159-120-8
EAN 9781781591208
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84832-941-6
EAN 9781848329416
In this sumptuous guide to twelve centuries of military development, Peter Connolly combines a detailed account of the arms and armies of Greece and Rome with his superb full-colour artwork. Making use of fresh archaeological evidence and new material on the manufacture and use of the weapons of the period, the author presents an attractive ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-4570-1
EAN 9781473845701
Byzantium Triumphant describes in detail the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The operations, battles and drama of their various bitter struggles unfold, depicting the new energy and improved methods of warfare developed in the late tenth century. These emperors were at war ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84832-662-0
EAN 9781848326620
Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. However, until the publication of this remarkable book, he had never written about his time at Bletchley Park. Briggs himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s and his parents died without ever knowing about their son's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 42,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84884-617-3
EAN 9781848846173
Marcus Agrippa personified the term 'right-hand man'. As Emperor Augustus' deputy, he waged wars, pacified provinces, beautified Rome, and played a crucial role in laying the foundations of the Pax Romana for the next two hundred years - but he served always in the knowledge he would never rule in his own name. Why he ...
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