Editorial Pimlico
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- Pimlico, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7126-6845-3
EAN 9780712668453
Harold Nicolson, born in the late Victorian age, scion of a privileged family, was a man of extraordinary gifts. As a diplomat a glittering career beckoned.But his talents extended well beyond the conference chamber, for he was also a renowned politician, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster and gardener. His position in society and ...
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- Pimlico, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-0098-9
EAN 9780712600989
The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a shareholder had to draw some 1,500 to ...
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- Pimlico, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 25,36 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-3565-3
EAN 9780712635653
The indiscretions, thought engaging, are of course only part of the story. Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and the focus of growing interest and discussion. Above all, he is one of the best modern exponents of the disappearing art of letter-writing. When this volume opens Berlin is eighteen, ...
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- Pimlico, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6650-3
EAN 9780712666503
'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence,' wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can this knowledge have? In this magisterial new ...
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- Pimlico, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-1-8441-3738-1
EAN 9781844137381
The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Most studies of generalship have focused on individual character and behaviour. While these are not neglected in this remarkable book, its central argument is that, like warfare itself, generalship is a cultural enterprise, ...
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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, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6498-1
EAN 9780712664981
The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed and sustained the Greek intellectual tradition which, in the astronomy of Ptolemy, the medicine of Galen and the philosophy of Plotinus, ...
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- Pimlico, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-4617-8
EAN 9780712646178
Congenial Spirits, selected and edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks, brings together the finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters in a single volume. This is a marvellous collection - spontaneous, witty, often flirtatious, powerfully moving. Whether bemoaning some domestic travail, commenting publicly on the state of the nation, or taking up her pen, inspired, ...
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- Pimlico, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6842-2
EAN 9780712668422
Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal?< is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, ...
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- Pimlico, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 29,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6723-4
EAN 9780712667234
In addition to being a great composer, Igor Stravinsky was one of the most fascinating personalities of his time. His life spanned an amazing range of events and places - pre-revolutionary Russia, Europe in the years between the wars, and the United States between 1941 and his death in 1971. Such masterworks as The Firebird, ...
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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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- Pimlico, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6580-3
EAN 9780712665803
Marie Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hilter s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941 - picnics, house-parties, dinners at the Eden ... Before long, ...
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- Pimlico, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6645-9
EAN 9780712666459
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity which extended far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era and unleashed the demons of the twentieth century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death - and also the ...
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- Pimlico, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6672-5
EAN 9780712666725
Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology. In this new study, underpinned by biographical sketches of the great warriors who fought for the crown of ...
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The Proper Study Of Mankind
An Anthology of Essays
- Pimlico, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 26,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-7322-8
EAN 9780712673228
Isaiah Berlin is one of the leading thinkers of our day, and one of the finest writers. This book selects some of the best of his essays and represents the full range of his work. The opening sections include Berlin's defence of philosophy and history against assimilation to the methods of science;his seminal essays on ...
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A People's Tragedy
Russian Revolution 1891-1924
- Pimlico, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-291-5
EAN 9781847922915
Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympath, A People's Tragedy is the definitive account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. It has won the Wolfson History Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award.
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- Pimlico, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-7333-4
EAN 9780712673334
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