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24 Hours at Balaclava
Voices from the Battlefield
- The History Press, 2019
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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- Pegasus, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 27,75 €
ISBN 978-1-68177-860-0
EAN 9781681778600
Forgotten Victory is the story of Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. As such, it has often been overshadowed by its predecessor, but it significance cannot be underestimated. Dragoon was ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-945-6
EAN 9781787479456
November 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall. One man is caught between East and West...The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. In the last few paranoid weeks of the Communist world one ...
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- Pan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,88 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-4789-1
EAN 9781509847891
Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized - and largely mythical - notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great English king, Edward I. The lives of ...
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An Impeccable Spy
Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5779-3
EAN 9781408857793
Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility.A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, ...
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- Pan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9041-5
EAN 9781509890415
Blom's hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right angle, a little optimistic. The idea can be put like this: climate change changes everything' John Lanchester, New Yorker In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom ...
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Gibraltar
The Greatest Siege in British History
- Little&Brown, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14239-5
EAN 9780349142395
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-789-6
EAN 9781787477896
'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsSAS NAZI HUNTERS is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not ...
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Catherine and Diderot
The Empress, the Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73790-7
EAN 9780674737907
A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The centurys most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived ...
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- Macmillan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 24,10 €
ISBN 978-1-250-13492-9
EAN 9781250134929
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day is a ground-breaking gripping account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied and Axis forces by one of the world's most lively historians, ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 548 páginas
PVP: 46,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15403-9
EAN 9780691154039
An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass ...
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- Yale University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22725-3
EAN 9780300227253
A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198385-1
EAN 9780141983851
'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights ... a masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its founding in 1918, as a response to the new terror of aerial warfare, the struggles to keep it alive amid controversy and opposition, ...
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- Pan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-2960-6
EAN 9781509829606
In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba to Catholic Toledo, from Salerno's ...
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- Vintage UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-357-8
EAN 9781784703578
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy... Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor.But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7056-3
EAN 9781473670563
Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy" - with race riots, anti-Vietnam marches and a wave of worker discontent sowing crisis from one nation to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 90,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4875-0367-3
EAN 9781487503673
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13754-4
EAN 9780691137544
A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations.Did ...
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Thirst of Empire
How Tea Shaped the Modern World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19270-3
EAN 9780691192703
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the ...
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- Robinson, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-3812-5
EAN 9781472138125
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . .By alerting readers to the ways that modernity's very origins are entangled with a seemingly benign and delicious substance, How Sugar Corrupted the World raises fundamental questions about our world.'Sven Beckert, the Laird Bell professor of American history at Harvard University ...
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