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Farewell Kabul
How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan
- William Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725693-8
EAN 9780007256938
How did the war in Afghanistan go so terribly wrong? This shocking account by the journalist who knows this story best provides answers that will surprise even the experts. An unmissable account of the conflict that has dominated foreign affairs since 9/11. Crouched in a ditch in Helmand, with Taliban gunfire exploding around her, Christina ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06250-5
EAN 9781250062505
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society for the better War!..../What is it good for?/Absolutely nothing, says the famous song but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-50377-9
EAN 9780674503779
The cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 continues to fascinate nearly two thousand years later. Darley's meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing, as it sifts through the ashes of Vesuvius to expose changes in our understanding of cultural and natural environments.
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-899-7
EAN 9781848668997
Great Military Disasters tells the dramatic stories behind the world's most calamitous conflicts. From the French army's failure to understand the impact of new technology at Crecy to Hitler's blatant overconfidence at Stalingrad, military historian Julian Spilsbury provides thrilling accounts of each disaster, covering exactly what went wrong, how and why. Of course, a disastrous ...
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The Spy with 29 Names
The Story of the Second World War's Most Audacious Double Agent
- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957824-6
EAN 9780099578246
He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo.To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist - and 24 other names. He ...
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- Unicorn, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-14-9
EAN 9781910500149
Kipling had been invited to Italy by the British Ambassador, Sir Rennell Rodd, who was concerned about the lack of understanding in England of the scale and cost of the Italian war effort. Rodd's proposal was that distinguished writers from England and Italy should visit each others' front lines and then write about their experiences ...
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- Unicorn, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-13-2
EAN 9781910500132
The pieces collected in this volume were written in response to a request by the Admiralty, as the British public wanted to know what the Navy, the 'silent service', on which so much money had been spent in the decade before the war, was doing. Sea Warfare was a compilation of a series of thirteen ...
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- Unicorn, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-1-910500-12-5
EAN 9781910500125
In 1915, during the second year of the Great War, Kipling made a tour as a journalist to the front of some of the French armed forces. His report of what he had seen of the military activity was published in six articles in The Daily Telegraph, in England, and in the New York Sun. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-966325-5
EAN 9780199663255
The story of the battle that ended Napolean's impreial dreams.Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved huge armies and heavy losses on both sides. For those who fought in it - Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312599-0
EAN 9780143125990
King George VI and Winston Churchill were not destined to be partners, let alone allies. Yet together as foils, confidants, conspirators, and comrades the unlikely duo guided Britain through war while inspiring renewed hope in the monarchy, Parliament, and the nation itself. In Churchill and the King, Kenneth Weisbrode explores the delicate fashioning of this ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 30,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18987-2
EAN 9780300189872
In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began, and the political consequences of defeat on the battlefield. ...
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Christendom Destroyed
Europe 1517-1648
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 752 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197852-9
EAN 9780141978529
Mark Greengrass' gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous change Sunday Times and Financial Times Books of the Year 2014. This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-74406-6
EAN 9780674744066
Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was a "prince" of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc's study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and ...
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War and Gold
A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3168-7
EAN 9781408831687
In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and politician Kwasi Kwarteng shows that this moment in world history ...
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Race to the Rhine
Liberating France and the Low Countries, 1944-45
- Casemate, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-294-1
EAN 9781612002941
The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944-this time with American forces-the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruction of German forces in Normandy's Falaise pocket, on August 14,was as quick as the Blitzkrieg ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-96763-2
EAN 9780674967632
With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in the early sixteenth century. But the arrival of the Spanish changed everything. Imperialism and the Origins of Mexican Culture chronicles this violent clash of two empires and shows how modern ...
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Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802.Patrice Gueniffey is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4516-6879-7
EAN 9781451668797
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- Headline, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7553-6566-1
EAN 9780755365661
The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-816-8
EAN 9781781688168
Through a forensic study of the personal papers of many of the key figures on both sides of the debate, historian Douglas Newton pieces together what really went on in the frenetic weeks between the assassination in Sarajevo and the declaration of war on August 4, 1914.Many recently published histories of Britain's Great War embrace ...
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