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Dadland : A Journey into Uncharted Territory
Costa Biography Award Winner 2016
- Vintage UK, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-315-8
EAN 9781784703158
It is shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War, in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm.But these were not always enough to sustain a family. As his memory began to fail, Keggie ...
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Torture and Twilight of Empire
from Algiers to Baghdad
- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17348-1
EAN 9780691173481
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139595-1
EAN 9780141395951
Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind.Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly translated a ...
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Digital Giza
Visualizing the Pyramids
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73123-3
EAN 9780674731233
The Pyramids on the Giza Plateau represent perhaps the most famous archaeological site in the world, capturing on tomb walls frozen moments from almost every aspect of life in ancient Egypt. This book, by one of the foremost experts on the history of Giza, explores new approaches to 'cataloging' the site, highlighting efforts at the ...
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Preparing for War
The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54573-1
EAN 9780674545731
The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically over time. J. P. Clark traces the evolution of the Army between the War of 1812 and World War I, showing how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of ...
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Winston Churchill is a renowned historical figure, whose remarkable political and military career continues to enthral. This book consists of short, highly readable chapters on key aspects of Churchill's career. Written by leading experts, the chapters draw on documents from Churchill's extensive personal papers as well as cutting-edge scholarship.Ranging from Churchill's youthful statesmanship to the ...
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Seth L. Sanders offers a history of first-millennium scribes through their heavenly journeys and heroes, treating the visions of ancient Mesopotamian and Judean literature as pragmatic things made by people. He presents each scribal culture as an individual institution via detailed evidence for how visionary figures were used over time. The author also provides the ...
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- Amberley Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-6034-9
EAN 9781445660349
The discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 has captured the imagination and stimulated renewed interest in the history and culture of the Anglo-Saxons. The discovery poses some interesting questions. Who owned the treasure and how did they acquire it? Was it made locally or did it originate elsewhere? Why was it buried in an ...
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PVP: 37,84 €
ISBN 978-1-107-57125-9
EAN 9781107571259
Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition introduces students to new approaches to the Revolution's political history and clears ...
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Who Killed Hammarskjold?
The UN, the Cold War and the White Supremacy in Africa
- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-802-6
EAN 9781849048026
The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century.Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjöld and his UN team crashed into dark forest in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), abruptly ending his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Many ...
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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which ...
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The Zimmermann Telegram
The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96826-0
EAN 9780241968260
Barbara Tuchman's The Zimmerman Telegram is one of the greatest spy stories of all time. Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born ...In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and America still neutral, ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-144-7
EAN 9781784531447
The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European lands bordering its northern shores, however tenuously many of those ...
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PVP: 24,81 €
ISBN 978-1-107-65828-8
EAN 9781107658288
This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kuhne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-994-5
EAN 9781780749945
Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, women wielded enormous power over their territories for more than a hundred years. In the sixteenth century, as in our own, the phenomenon of the powerful woman offered challenges ...
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A captivating and definitive account of the greatest natural disaster ever to hit the modern Western world. On All Saints' Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 or higher on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African coasts. Directly in their path ...
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A History of the Crusades III
The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29877-0
EAN 9780241298770
The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion'Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades remains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed the world and continue to resonate today. This ...
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A History of the Crusades I
The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198550-3
EAN 9780141985503
The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel'An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139682-8
EAN 9780141396828
'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, Guardian A new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the ...
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- Houghton Mifflin, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,70 €
ISBN 978-0-544-53580-0
EAN 9780544535800
Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. She is best known for her work during the Crimean War, when she vastly improved gruesome and deadly conditions and made nightly rounds to visit patients, becoming known around the world as the Lady with the Lamp. ...
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