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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 736 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4000-6876-0
EAN 9781400068760
An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers'from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Simon Schama'continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 204 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-2570-2
EAN 9781529125702
Re-write the course of WWII with this revolutionary new approach to history. Take the chair of Winston Churchill and other leaders. Make the decisions that will change the war - and the world.What might have happened if Poland was never invaded? Or if Hiroshima never happened? Or if the great evacutation at Dunkirk was scrapped? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-51904-2
EAN 9780241519042
Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the past and the present. For the many readers who found the narrative voice, craftsmanship and originality ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-633-6
EAN 9781781256336
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the crumbling of the West from Empire into kingdoms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-833-5
EAN 9781786498335
For the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's imperial legacies are still shaping the thorniest issues we face today.From Russia's incursions in the Ukraine to Brexit; from Trump's 'America-first' policy to China's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95445-4
EAN 9780241954454
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was first the capital of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199149-8
EAN 9780141991498
The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes is as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-552-17690-3
EAN 9780552176903
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American and Canadian troops were dropped ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98695-0
EAN 9780241986950
A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His best book yet' The Times'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause' Sunday TimesDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER - FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITORUrsula ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78633-099-4
EAN 9781786330994
'An absolute masterpiece.' DAN SNOW'A rich trove of ancient wonders.' IAN MORTIMERSixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-833958-6
EAN 9780008339586
What happens when our values change, but what we have set in stone does not? Humankind has always had the urge to memorialise, to make physical testaments to the past. There's just one problem: when we carve a statue or put up a monument, it can wind up holding us hostage to bad history.In this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78497-877-8
EAN 9781784978778
Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece into a globe-spanning empire. In so doing, they changed the course of history. By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had eclipsed the power of Persia, crossed the Hindu Kush and marched into what is now Pakistan, redrawing the map ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-836495-3
EAN 9780008364953
An epic, intimate new account of one of the greatest naval dramas of World War II, from number one bestselling historian Max Hastings.Operation Pedestal was a crucial relief mission that became an epic, bloody naval battle and a pivotal moment in the Second World War. In 1942, the Luftwaffe had a stranglehold on Malta. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-982143-35-0
EAN 9781982143350
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb, must ...
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Barth, Rüdiger; Friederichs, Hauke
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-073-5
EAN 9781788160735
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the Reichstag.In the shadows, would-be saviours of the nation vie for control. The great rivals are the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-77619-116-1
EAN 9781776191161
The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain's side, the German government secretly contacted the political opposition, and the leadership of the anti-war movement, the Ossewabrandwag. The Nazis' ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198029-4
EAN 9780141980294
From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-47128-9
EAN 9780241471289
This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history. Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative history of the Vietnam War examines the key figures and events of the conflict, and its lasting effects on the world. Combining compelling text with maps and archive photography, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-500-29588-5
EAN 9780500295885
A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, in ten comprehensive chapters, taking in the empires of New Kingdom Egypt; the Hittites; Assyria and Babylonia; Achaemenid Persia; Athens; Alexander; Parthian and early Sasanian Persia; Rome; India; and Qin and Han ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78537-341-1
EAN 9781785373411
Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and Sinn Féin during the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles, they were 'agents of influence. With codenames like INFLICTION, STAKEKNIFE, 3007 and CAROL, these spies played a pivotal role in the fight against Irish republicanism. Now, for the first time, some of these agents have emerged ...
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