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- The History Press, 2014
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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War and Gold
A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4816-6
EAN 9781408848166
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history ...
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Some Desperate Glory
The First World War the Poets Knew
- Picador, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-4199-7
EAN 9781447241997
2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry -- words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets -- many of ...
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- Pimlico, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84595-212-9
EAN 9781845952129
In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. ...
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Catastrophe
1914 Europe goes to War
- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751974-3
EAN 9780007519743
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men ...
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- Cornerstone, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 720 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-0-434-02241-0
EAN 9780434022410
This is the cultural and political history of the watershed decade of the 20th century, as told by the New Yorker. The 1940s were a decade of upheaval and innovation: they saw the Nuremberg Trials and Israeli statehood, Casablanca and Duke Ellington, smallpox and skyscrapers, FDR and Le Corbusier, zoot suits and Christian Dior. It ...
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The Perilous Question
The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
- Phoenix, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2922-6
EAN 9780753829226
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its 'rotten boroughs' of Old Sarum and the disappearing village of Dunwich, and its lines of ...
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The Secret Ministry of Ag and Fish
My Life in Churchill's Secret Army
- Pan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 324 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-3702-0
EAN 9781447237020
The memoirs of the only surviving woman member of SOE's F (for France) Section"My mother thought I was working for the Ministry of Ag. and Fish". So begins Noreen Riols' compelling memoir of her time as a member of Churchill's "secret army", the Special Forces Executive. It was 1941 and, just before her eighteenth birthday, ...
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- Ebury, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84990-651-7
EAN 9781849906517
A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's enthralling exploration of a curious national obsession. Our fascination with 'a good murder' - from the Ratcliffe Highway Murders at the turn of the nineteenth century to Edith Thompson and Freddie Bywaters, hanged in 1922 for the murder of Edith's husband - became a form of national entertainment, ...
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The Devonshires
The Story of a Family and a Nation
- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
ISBN 978-0-09-955439-4
EAN 9780099554394
William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, Lord General of the North, fought to save the ...
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North Korea
State of Paranoia
- Zed Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78032-947-5
EAN 9781780329475
North Korea is a country that continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it is a nation that still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the internet, and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening ...
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The 40s
The Story of a Decade
- Random House USA, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
ISBN 978-0-679-64479-8
EAN 9780679644798
The cultural and political history of the watershed decade of the 20th century, as told by the New Yorker.The 1940s were a decade of upheaval and innovation: they saw the Nuremberg Trials and Israeli statehood, Casablanca and Duke Ellington, smallpox and skyscrapers, FDR and Le Corbusier, zoot suits and Christian Dior. It was also the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104367-8
EAN 9780141043678
What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences?
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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945
The Struggle for Survival
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103145-3
EAN 9780141031453
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia ...
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- Random House Uk, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955905-4
EAN 9780099559054
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 294 páginas
PVP: 33,85 €
ISBN 978-1-61148-522-6
EAN 9781611485226
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Veni, Vidi, Vici
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask
- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-390-0
EAN 9781782393900
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and coins, to our language and laws - but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of Veni, Vidi, Vici, which tells the remarkable, and often surprising, ...
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- Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 27,95 €
ISBN 978-1-4422-1574-0
EAN 9781442215740
What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling narrative of the crusades and their contemporary relevance. Placing all of the major crusades within their ...
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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England
How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
- Abacus UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13860-2
EAN 9780349138602
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of invasion and revolution. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived.From forced marriages and ...
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Trench
A History of Trench Warfare on the Western Front
- Osprey, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0132-6
EAN 9781472801326
An authoritative history of the trenches, drawing on the renowned resources and photographic collection of the Imperial War Museums, providing unique insight into trench warfare on the Western Front. Sometimes I clamber up beside the sentries and look out. There's little to see, rough ground, the barbed wire entanglement about 15 yards away, the vague ...
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