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1913
The World Before the Great War
- Random House UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957578-8
EAN 9780099575788
Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features - last summers in grand aristocratic residences, a flurry of extravagant social engagements - or its most ...
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Drelichman, Mauricio; Voth, Hans-Joachim
Lending to the Borrower from Hell
Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15149-6
EAN 9780691151496
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can this type of lending work? As the United States and many European nations struggle with mountains of debt, historical precedents can offer valuable insights. Lending to the Borrower from Hell looks at one famous case--the debts and defaults ...
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- IBTauris, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-194-7
EAN 9781780761947
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The First World War
Illustrated
- Bodley Head, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 456 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-298-4
EAN 9781847922984
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre, it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twentieth century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death - and the ideas which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-958069-9
EAN 9780199580699
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- Pan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-4393-9
EAN 9781447243939
In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, including Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach and 'Black Sam' Bellamy, joined forces. This infamous 'Flying Gang' was more than simply a thieving band of brothers. Many of its members had come to piracy as a revolt against conditions in the merchant fleet and in the ...
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After Auschwitz
A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-6071-2
EAN 9781444760712
Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection of her mother Fritzi, who was deported with her. When Auschwitz was liberated, Eva and Fritzi began the long journey home.They searched desperately for Eva's ...
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- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1264 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-443-1
EAN 9781846144431
This is the completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers.The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human endeavour laid out in all its grandeur and ...
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The Fateful Year
England 1914
- Viking, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91921-5
EAN 9780670919215
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchildren going on strike in support of ...
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- Vintage UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958384-4
EAN 9780099583844
A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax ...
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Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3159-5
EAN 9781408831595
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-1-137-27853-1
EAN 9781137278531
The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. One hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!, acclaimed political psychologist Richard Ned Lebow examines the chain of events that led to war ...
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Bidlack, Richard; Lomagin, Nikita
The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 : A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 552 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19816-4
EAN 9780300198164
Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed ...
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The Lost
A Search for Six of Six Million
- William Collins, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755012-8
EAN 9780007550128
A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unmentionable ...
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- Pan, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-1098-6
EAN 9781447210986
An epic true-life journey to the heart of Hitler's Berlin.Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past.What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class ...
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East Sails West
The Voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 49,30 €
ISBN 978-988-820-820-3
EAN 9789888208203
In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a travelling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. ...
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The Faithful Executioner
Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- Picador USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-250-04361-0
EAN 9781250043610
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more ...
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- Picador USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 12,85 €
ISBN 978-1-250-04506-5
EAN 9781250045065
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few bad apples. However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 54,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19658-0
EAN 9780300196580
A remarkable photographic record of World War One, its relentless progression and the destruction it wrought, as seen from the skies above Flanders FieldsAerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As ...
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- Polity, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 650 páginas
PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-5077-7
EAN 9780745650777
Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the Great Terror' during which 1 million ...
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