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Bailey, Matthew; Giles, Ryan D
Charlemagne and His Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography
The legend of Charlemagne is a strong motif in the literature of medieval and early modern Spain. The essays in this volume consider the narration of both the historical and imaginary events across differentgenres; how the figure of Charlemagne evolved and diversified; and the importance and influence of the Charlemagne legends in literary and historical ...
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- Vintage UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-09-953987-2
EAN 9780099539872
WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers.Over its course, the Third Reich expended and exhausted all ...
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Elvis's Army
Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73768-6
EAN 9780674737686
When the U.S. Army drafted Elvis Presley in 1958, it quickly set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean-cut GI. Trading in his gold-trimmed jacket for standard-issue fatigues, Elvis became a model soldier in an army facing the unprecedented challenge of building a fighting force for ...
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The Cold World They Made
The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 354 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-04657-3
EAN 9780674046573
In the heady days of the Cold War, when the Bomb loomed large in the ruminations of Washingtons wise men, policy intellectuals flocked to the home of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter to discuss deterrence and doomsday. The Cold World They Made takes a fresh look at the original power couple of strategic studies. Seeking to ...
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PVP: 31,05 €
ISBN 978-1-107-02079-5
EAN 9781107020795
In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context ...
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Elusive Refuge
Chinese Migrants in the Cold War
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97151-6
EAN 9780674971516
The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely forgotten. Elusive Refuge recovers the history of Chinas twentieth-century refugees. Focusing on humanitarian efforts to find new homes for Chinese displaced by civil strife, Laura Madokoro ...
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- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016
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PVP: 35,20 €
ISBN 978-0-297-86428-8
EAN 9780297864288
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace meant Roman victory ...
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine
Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
- Orion, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-657-6
EAN 9781780226576
'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore 'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus Hound It is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id, existentialism, chaos mathematics and postmodernism to contend with, the twentieth century, John Higgs argues, cannot fit easily ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-925-4
EAN 9781782399254
In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon - ...
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In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to whom the parcel was addressed: Reynald de Chatillon - ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29090-1
EAN 9780571290901
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range ...
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- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53592-6
EAN 9780374535926
The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration campsIn a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other ...
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- Haus Publishing Limited, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-1-910376-55-3
EAN 9781910376553
In May 1940, the British War Cabinet debated over the course of nine meetings a simple question: Should Britain fight on in the face of overwhelming odds, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives, or seek a negotiated peace? Using Cabinet papers from the United Kingdom s National Archives, David Owen illuminates in fascinating detail this ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-3374-6
EAN 9781473833746
The Han Empire equalled Rome in the scale of its territories and subject populations. With superior steel manufacturing techniques and crossbow weaponry, the Han created a system of Central Asian transport connections known as the Silk Routes. These conveyed unique Chinese goods as far as Persia and the Roman frontier.Ancient evidence suggests that one-tenth of ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-0744-7
EAN 9781501307447
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-8516-6
EAN 9781444785166
The story of the world's greatest civilisation spans more than 4000 years of history that has shaped the world. It is full of spectacular sites and epic stories, an evolving society rich in heroes and villains, inventors and intellectuals, artisans and pioneers. Now Professor Joann Fletcher pulls together the complete Story of Egypt - charting ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 41,45 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-1325-7
EAN 9781501313257
This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. With German as the only official language in the lager, communication was vital to the prisoners' survival. While in the last few decades there has been extensive research on the language ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-62892-286-8
EAN 9781628922868
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among other things. The meanings of hair are deep, powerful, and so ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-1487-2
EAN 9781501314872
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'identity theft' in the digital age if ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-42183-4
EAN 9780226421834
Germany's political and cultural past from ancient times through World War II has dimmed the legacy of its Enlightenment, which these days is far outshone by those of France and Scotland. In this book, T. J.Reed clears the dust away from eighteenth-century Germany, bringing the likes of Kant, Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Lessing into ...
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