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The Empire of Necessity
The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty
- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-645-6
EAN 9781780746456
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver. He spent all day on the ship, sharing food and water, yet failed to see that the slaves, having slaughtered ...
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The News from Waterloo
The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory
- Faber, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-31525-3
EAN 9780571315253
The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century. It took three days and two hours for word to travel from Belgium in a form that people could rely upon. This is a tragi-comic midsummer's tale that begins amidst terrible carnage and weaves ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197926-7
EAN 9780141979267
The true story, told minute by minute, of the soldiers who defeated Napoleon - from Brendan Simms, acclaimed author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy Europe had been at war for over twenty years. After a short respite in exile, Napoleon had returned to France and threatened another generation of fighting across the devastated and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022735-7
EAN 9780190227357
World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality.In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. ...
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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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- 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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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-74398-4
EAN 9780674743984
The Civil War did not end with Confederate capitulation in 1865. A second phase commenced which lasted until 1871-not Reconstruction but genuine belligerency whose mission was to crush slavery and create civil and political rights for freed people. But as Gregory Downs shows, military occupation posed its own dilemmas, including near-anarchy.On April 8, 1865, after ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103218-4
EAN 9780141032184
In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being born.Adam Tooze's panoramic new book tells a radical, new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles ...
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A Higher Form of Killing
Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
- Bloomsbury USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 340 páginas
PVP: 29,55 €
ISBN 978-1-62040-212-2
EAN 9781620402122
The Zeppelin, the torpedo, and poison gas--Diana Preston offers a startling new window onto WWI with her chronicle of the birth of weapons of mass destruction.
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In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In defending its independence, Ethiopia cast doubt on the assumption that all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans, and opened a breach that would lead to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-96764-9
EAN 9780674967649
Anders Engberg-Pedersen shows how the Napoleonic Wars inspired a new discourse on knowledge in the West. Soldiers returning from battle were forced to reconsider what it is possible to know and how decisions are made in a fog of imperfect knowledge. Chance no longer appeared exceptional but normative-a prism for understanding the modern world.Napoleon's campaigns ...
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Beneath the Heart of the Sea
The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex
- Hesperus, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84391-560-7
EAN 9781843915607
Discover the amazing true story behind the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick and the feature film Heart of the SeaA tragic yet riveting narration of life and death and man against the elements, this is an extreme account of shipwreck survival. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean 2,000 miles ...
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The Tears of the Rajas
Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 784 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-2945-2
EAN 9781471129452
The Tears of the Rajas is a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrocities and retaliated ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15933-1
EAN 9780691159331
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How did the French Revolution's ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion and mistrust escalated and helped propel their actions.Between 1793 and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3058-1
EAN 9781408830581
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war,' Beatty writes, 'this one maps the multiple paths that led away from it.' Radically challenging the standard ...
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