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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8888-9
EAN 9780750988889
The Battle of Balaclava, 1854, is one of the Crimean War's stand out battles. The Russians took advantage of an ill-manned area near Balaclava, forcing the British back to the Thin Red Line. A heroic and unlikely victory from the heavy brigade's charge halted the Russian advance, putting them on the defensive.However, that was before ...
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Emerging from modern history as a remarkable and much-loved family, the Mitfords have remained largely unrepentant concerning theirs and particularly Unity's enthusiastic support of Hitler, the Nazis, Oswald Mosley and British fascism. However, having initially encouraged and supported Unity's affair with Hitler, they subsequently insisted that she had in fact been a rather unintelligent, clumsy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 22,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8255-9
EAN 9780750982559
It is no secret that the Antarctic is one of the most dangerous, forbidding places for explorers to step foot in. The terrain is treacherous, the wildlife predatory and the climate fatal if not adequately prepared for. For the first time, Icy Graves uses a selection of the tragic losses of such famous explorers as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8693-9
EAN 9780750986939
TELEVISION, PENICILLIN, THE TELEPHONE, A HAVERIN' HISTORY OF SCOTLANDAll of these have been created by a Scotsperson, although not all will appear on a tea towel listing great Scottish inventions.*Scotland is as old as any other country - maybe even more so, judging by the state of the pavements. This means that it has a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-7039-6
EAN 9780750970396
The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Liverpool offers an intimate portrayal of the town and its people living in the shadow of the Great War for five years. Written in association with Liverpool Central Library x{0026} Record Office, with content and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8549-9
EAN 9780750985499
The Second World War saw the role of espionage, secret agents and spy services increase exponentially as the world was thrown into a conflict quite unlike any that had gone before it. At this time, no one in government was really aware of what MI5 and its brethren did. But with Churchill at the country's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8683-0
EAN 9780750986830
Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the long-term consequences of his reign has gone too far. In spite of genuine idealism and flashes of considerable resourcefulness, James I remains a perplexing figure ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8587-1
EAN 9780750985871
The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria's reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians regard it as an irrelevant and unnecessary conflict despite its fame for Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light Brigade. Here Hugh Small shows how the history of the Crimean War has been manipulated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8410-2
EAN 9780750984102
Following the Armistice of 1918 the British Air Industry, including the newly founded RAF, held a low place in national priorities. The RAF was rapidly run down with the infant airlines being given the least possible help. Such neglect continued during the 1920s.The RAF's role was questioned and civilian air travel remained the province of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8423-2
EAN 9780750984232
DO you know what Aine's tiny spoon was used for? What was hiding up Mrs O'Flaherty's chimney? How did the fairy man help the tailor's apprentice? Who was the little flower of Castleknock Castle? What looks just like the skin of a rainbow? You'll find all the answers and loads more useful stuff inside this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-8241-2
EAN 9780750982412
`War is a duel written large.'How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles across a no-man's-land, from straightforward warfare to spies and insurgency? Here renowned military historian Martin van Creveld has compiled a concise guide to the history of war in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-7739-5
EAN 9780750977395
The English are often confused about who they are. They say `British' when they mean `English', and `English' when they should say `British.' But when England, more than the rest of the UK, voted to leave the EU, polls showed national identity was a big concern. So it's time the English sorted out in their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-6978-9
EAN 9780750969789
Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West. After training, they were sent ...
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1217: The war for the throne of England is far from over but as commoner-turned-earls-man Edwin Weaver waits to see where his lords loyalties lie, a messenger arrives from Roche Abbey: one of the monks has been murdered. The abbot needs help to find the killer and Edwin soon finds himself within the unfamiliar and ...
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When a teacher and student are found dead at an exclusive girls school in Bath, Jack Swann, the Regency Detective, becomes involved in one of the most intriguing cases of his career. Is it a tragic accident, a suicide pact, or murder? As Swann attempts to solve the mystery, his every move is observed by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-6729-7
EAN 9780750967297
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 26,11 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-6056-4
EAN 9780750960564
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-5215-6
EAN 9780750952156
The English criminal justice system has come a long way since the days when noses were cut off, heretics burned at the stake and rebels were hung, drawn and quartered. Yet the Common Law, which emerged from Henry II's conflict with Thomas a Becket, survives in England (and much of the English-speaking world) and magistrates ...
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In January 1942 senior officials of the Nazi regime met to discuss the 'final solution to the Jewish question', at a gathering that became known as the Wannsee Conference. As part of the resulting Operation Reinhard, camps were built with one aim in mind, not to imprison the Jews, but to kill them. By the ...
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