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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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1916
Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition
- Pluto Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3632-9
EAN 9780745336329
The Easter Rising of 1916, in which just over a thousand Irish rebels seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the independence of the Irish Republic before being brutally suppressed by the vastly larger and better-equipped British Army, is an event whose meaning remains contested to this day. For some it represents a blood sacrifice ...
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The Austro-Prussian War
Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 41,75 €
ISBN 978-0-521-62951-5
EAN 9780521629515
This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of Austria, Germany, and Italy. Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Venetia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian army in ...
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- Penguin USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312681-2
EAN 9780143126812
In 1820, the whaleship "Essex "was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. "In the Heart ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35186-6
EAN 9780393351866
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz club and Miss ...
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Based on extensive original research, this book reveals how trade worked in early ninteenth-century Southeast Asia through the study of one merchant and his wide-ranging network: Gillian Maclaine, a young Scottish 'adventurer (his word) who established an enduring business in Batavia around 1816. The book demonstrates that Southeast Asian maritime trade was just as important ...
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Revolutionary Ideas
An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 888 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16971-2
EAN 9780691169712
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract notions like liberty ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1192 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16980-4
EAN 9780691169804
A comprehensive examination of the nineteenth century, "The Transformation of the World" offers a panoramic portrait of a world in flux. Jurgen Osterhammel, a scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era to present a sophisticated global history of breathtaking magnitude and ...
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- Imperial War Museum, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-904897-84-2
EAN 9781904897842
As the Imperial War Museum prepared their First World War galleries for 2014, they scoured their archives for the best materials of every kind - and that included the curious, the confusing and the amazing. From bizarre propaganda posters to cunning fake cities, from pigeon parachutes to the ventriloquist's dummy that saved his master's life, ...
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In the Kingdom of Ice
The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-745-3
EAN 9781780747453
In 1879 the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and a frenzy of publicity. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were heading for glory and one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. But it was not long before the Jeannette ...
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An Inconvenient Genocide
Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
- Biteback Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-1-84954-897-7
EAN 9781849548977
The most controversial question that is still being asked about the First World War - was there an Armenian genocide? - will come to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians worldwide will commemorate its centenary and Turkey will deny that it took place, claiming that the deaths of over half of the Armenian ...
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Coetzee, Frans / Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn
Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries from the Great War
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-933607-4
EAN 9780199336074
Drawing upon recently discovered diaries, most previously unpublished, this book provides an intimate look at how ordinary soldiers and civilians experienced and reflected upon the physical and psychological strains of the First World War.For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-968556-1
EAN 9780199685561
This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the destruction of the materials he had ...
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The Trigger
The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip
- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-958133-8
EAN 9780099581338
The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight' Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the starting gun for modern history. It was a young teenage boy named Gavrilo Princip who fired that fateful shot which killed Archduke Franz ...
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Strange Intelligence
Memoirs of Naval Secret Service
- Biteback Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84954-884-7
EAN 9781849548847
Hector C. Bywater was perhaps the British secret service's finest agent operating in Germany before the First World War, tasked with collecting intelligence on naval installations. Recruited by Mansfield Cumming, the first C' (or head of what would become MI6), Bywater was given the designation H2O' in what was a rather obvious play on his ...
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The Ring of Steel
Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104203-9
EAN 9780141042039
"For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. For four years the fighting now turned into a siege on a quite monstrous scale. Europe became the focus ...
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Enemy on the Euphrates
The Battle for Iraq 1914-21
- Saqi, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 503 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-170-2
EAN 9780863561702
Between July 1920 and February 1921, in the territory known as Mesopotamia (now the modern state of Iraq), an Arab revolt came perilously close to inflicting a shattering defeat upon the British Empire. A huge peasant army besieged British garrisons with sand-bagged entrenchments and bombarded them with captured artillery; columns and armoured trains were ambushed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-973003-2
EAN 9780199730032
At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions ...
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