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Hitler talked about his Fortress Europa but it was a rampart without a roof. Above all the western allied air fleet relentless bombed Nazi-Germany. After the failed battle at Kurks in 1943, the allied landings in Normandy and the collapse of army group Mitte, it was clear thatHitler lost the war on military and production ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312681-2
EAN 9780143126812
In 1820, the whaleship "Essex "was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. "In the Heart ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812683-4
EAN 9780008126834
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in March 2015. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged sperm whale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-1-925228-15-1
EAN 9781925228151
An enthralling, behind-the-scenes account of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain. Citizens of London brings out of history's shadows the three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking news reporter; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR's Lend-Lease programme in London; and John G.Winant, the shy, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97500-8
EAN 9780241975008
George Mikes' perceptive manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Having been born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than forty years in the field, and the fruits of his labour include insights on important topics including the weather, how to be rude ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84831-926-4
EAN 9781848319264
Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalised her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumoured affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full.But her glamourous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was ...
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As the proud possessors of a fiercely independent creative heritage, the Scots were a race apart even before Hadrian built the wall. Scotland has produced an indomitable bunch of fighters, builders, thinkers and drinkers, poets, players and pedagogues that have shaped the course of modern history. "Scotland: 1,000 Things You Need To Know" is the ...
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PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-102-6
EAN 9781784781026
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07025-8
EAN 9781250070258
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PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35186-6
EAN 9780393351866
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz club and Miss ...
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PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08810-8
EAN 9780674088108
To continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer.At the center was Hitler himself-obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion.
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Based on extensive original research, this book reveals how trade worked in early ninteenth-century Southeast Asia through the study of one merchant and his wide-ranging network: Gillian Maclaine, a young Scottish 'adventurer (his word) who established an enduring business in Batavia around 1816. The book demonstrates that Southeast Asian maritime trade was just as important ...
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he entity known (in one of many variants) as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has come to feature regularly in the news, and in our imaginations. The dreadful, Grand Guignol spectacle of beheadings, abductions, cages, flames and triumphalist proclamations arouses powerful emotions: disgust, rage, hatred, grief, a yearning for vengeance - and ...
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PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84954-939-4
EAN 9781849549394
From the famous cases - the kidnapping of Eichmann from Argentina, the systematic tracking-down of those responsible for the Munich Massacre - to lesser-known episodes, shrouded in darkness, this extraordinary book describes the dramatic, largely secret history of the Mossad, the greatest intelligence service in the world.Bloody, violent, daring and astonishing, Mossad reveals the covert ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,65 €
ISBN 978-977-41-6728-7
EAN 9789774167287
The Sinai peninsula holds a unique strategic and political significance for Egypt and its neighbors. Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged eastern province has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended ...
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Lee Kuan Yew was anything but a coaster, giving it all he had until the very end. And when his long and exceptional life came to its natural end in March 2015, at 91, the outpouring of respect was worldwide. This man, whatever his faults, had been a giant of his time.Over a few decades, ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-28604-7
EAN 9780674286047
Patrick Iber tells the story of left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars who worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations during the Cold War. Ultimately, they could not break free from the era's rigid binaries, and found little room to promote their social democratic ideals without compromising them.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197998-4
EAN 9780141979984
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of ...
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