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- Harper Collins, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-820975-9
EAN 9780008209759
The Battle of the Somme as described by The Times is republished in this highly illustrated volume. Photographs, maps and accounts are shown along with a comprehensive history of the battle. When war was declared in August 1914 The Times under its chief editor, Wickham Steed, embarked on an extraordinary project. As well as authoritative ...
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To the Finland Station
A Study in the Acting and Writing of History
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53345-8
EAN 9780374533458
One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik RevolutionEdmund Wilson's "To the Finland Station "is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-176-3
EAN 9781780761763
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, ...
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German Machine Guns of World War I
MG 08 and MG 08/15
World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme. Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile role on the battlefield. As the British and French ...
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The Emperor's Shadow
Bonaparte, Betsy and the Balcombes
- Atlantic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-76011-351-3
EAN 9781760113513
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the ...
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- Basic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
EAN 9780465048984
As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of Englands country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes.In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamourous history of English country houses during ...
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Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the circumstances that led a young radical to commit a cold-blooded act of violence ...
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The Kitchener Enigma
The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916
- The History Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7509-6729-7
EAN 9780750967297
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20473-5
EAN 9780300204735
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability, and bring the guilty to justice. She corrects many misconceptions about particular poisons ...
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Lusitania
Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
- St. Martin's Griffin, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-250-08035-6
EAN 9781250080356
Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet ...
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Disraeli
The Novel Politician
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-13751-4
EAN 9780300137514
Lauded as a "great Jew," excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain's most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli's ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-1-4742-8275-8
EAN 9781474282758
Latin eugenics was a scientific, cultural and political programme designed to biologically empower modern European and American nations once commonly described as 'Latin, sharing genealogical, linguistic, religious, and cultural origins. Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective offers a comparative, nuanced approach to eugenics as a scientific programme as well as a cultural and political phenomenon. It ...
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Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris. Offenbach's immensely popular ...
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139974-4
EAN 9780141399744
Financial Times Books of the Year 2015. The Russian decision to mobilize in July 1914 may have been the single most catastrophic choice of the modern era. Some articulate, thoughtful figures around the Tsar understood Russia's fragility, and yet they were shouted down by those who were convinced that, despite Germany's patent military superiority, Russian ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21944-9
EAN 9780300219449
One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in 'Bloody Week' - the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-350-2
EAN 9781784533502
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In ...
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The Great Explosion
Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95676-2
EAN 9780241956762
This is the Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place. In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured ...
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War
- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 784 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14772-7
EAN 9780691147727
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years.Weaving together a ...
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The Russian Civil Wars: 1916-1926
Ten Years that Shook the World
This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth century. Indeed, the reverberations of those decade-long wars echo to the present day - not despite, but because of the collapse of the ...
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