Editorial Pimlico
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- Pimlico, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-5664-1
EAN 9780712656641
The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some ...
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- Pimlico, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1392 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-290-8
EAN 9781847922908
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. Chosen ten times as Book of the Year, it is the most ambitious history of the continent ever undertaken.
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- Pimlico, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6496-7
EAN 9780712664967
Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. Nor has the ...
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- Pimlico, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-097-2
EAN 9781845950972
Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be thought of ...
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- Pimlico, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-003-3
EAN 9781845950033
The Roman Empire was the largest and most enduring of the ancient world. From its zenith under Augustus and Trajan in the first century AD to its decline and fall amidst the barbarian invasions of the fifth century, the Empire guarded and maintained a frontier that stretched for 5,000 kilometres, from Carlisle to Cologne, from ...
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- Pimlico, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-067-5
EAN 9781845950675
The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. No political change has been more fundamental than its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere. In this hugely acclaimed book Archie Brown provides an indispensable history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development ...
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The Artist, the Philosopher and the Warrior
Leonardo.Machiavelli.Borgia
- Pimlico, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-121-4
EAN 9781845951214
In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. Cesare Borgia was a ferocious military leader whose name was synonymous with brutality and whose reputation was marred with the suspicion of incest. ...
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Teenage
The Creation of Youth - 1875-1945
- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-146-7
EAN 9781845951467
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-099-6
EAN 9781845950996
The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? Should you go to a castle or a monastic guesthouse? And what ...
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The Enemy at the Gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-741-1
EAN 9781844137411
* In 1683, two empires the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. * Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an ...
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- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-115-3
EAN 9781845951153
Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and ...
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The Red Prince
The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe
- Pimlico, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-120-7
EAN 9781845951207
Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his archduke mother, the German of his archduke father, the English ...
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- Pimlico, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6846-0
EAN 9780712668460
No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Where Britain's writ did not run directly, its influence, sustained by matchless ...
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- Pimlico, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-308-6
EAN 9781844133086
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. To the peoples living around its periphery, it has served at various times as a cradle and a grave, a bond and a barrier, ...
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- Pimlico, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-8459-5015-6
EAN 9781845950156
Vasily Grossman's masterpiece Life and Fate is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. A Writer at War is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing ...
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April Blood
Florence x{0026} The Plot Against The Medici
- Pimlico, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6787-6
EAN 9780712667876
In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family miscarried dramatically in the cathedral of Florence. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed in reprisal. All Italy was at once affected, as it emerged that ...
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- Pimlico, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,81 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-0694-3
EAN 9780712606943
A neglected event in history, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was not the final episode in the wars of intervention, but an independent enterprise on the Polish side with minimal support from the Entente Powers. In many English history books, it appears under the erroneous title of the 'Russo-Polish War', and is treated as just ...
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- Pimlico, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6554-4
EAN 9780712665544
'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958. The nineteen essays collected here show Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid: these short, ...
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- Pimlico, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6014-3
EAN 9780712660143
We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. The atmosphere of events is vividly recaptured.And though the lived experience of the participants is revealed the uniquely tragic essence of all civil war. 'Fascinating and brilliantly ...
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- Pimlico, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1088 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6725-8
EAN 9780712667258
This edition of the highly acclaimed one-volume Churchill: A Life, is the story of adventure. It follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and excitement of his story are ever-present, as are his tremendous qualities in peace and war, not least as an orator and as a ...
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