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- Random House USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 784 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4000-6855-5
EAN 9781400068555
From the bestselling and award-winning author of "Paris 1919" comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 976 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197695-2
EAN 9780141976952
Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael KennyThis classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history.E. P. Thompson shows how the ...
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Catastrophe
Europe goes to War 1914
- Harper Collins, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746764-8
EAN 9780007467648
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. 1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine-guns.What followed were the costliest days of the entire War. ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-797-9
EAN 9781848877979
The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting and new buildings at every ...
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The Sleepwalkers
How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102782-1
EAN 9780141027821
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark. Sunday Times And Independent Books Of The Year 2012. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps ...
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 364 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-280-2
EAN 9781782002802
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The Black Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Broadway Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 414 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-307-38247-4
EAN 9780307382474
WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar--because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers." But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 27,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-07233-6
EAN 9780674072336
The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war's beginning ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100554-6
EAN 9780141005546
In The Indian Mutiny: 1857 Saul David explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial battles. In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the British Empire.Combining formidable storytelling with ground-breaking research, Saul David narrates a tale at ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-861-9
EAN 9781848858619
The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history Trudi Tate ...
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The Dreyfus Affair
The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3057-4
EAN 9781408830574
Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies - many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented him because he was ...
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The Origins of the First World War
Diplomatic and Military Documents
Libro · 592 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7190-7421-9
EAN 9780719074219
Annika Mombauer's essential source reader translates, cross-references and annotates a vast range of international diplomatic and military documents on the origins of the First World War. It collects together documents which are newly discovered or were not previously available in English, drawn from a broad range of sources and countries into a single, indispensible text ...
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Former People
The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy
- Pan, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52029-4
EAN 9780330520294
Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. It is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of desperate flights from marauding ...
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1914-1918
The History of the First World War
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9795-7
EAN 9780718197957
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within the conflict's shadow.In this major new analysis, published some ninety years after ...
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- Faber, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-571-29069-7
EAN 9780571290697
Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces ...
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- Profile Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 488 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-343-5
EAN 9781846683435
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from ...
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- Vintage USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-307-73928-5
EAN 9780307739285
An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who ...
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- Osprey, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84908-696-7
EAN 9781849086967
The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the breakdown of relations between Russia and France, Napoleon assembled a vast Grande Armée drawn from the many states within the French sphere of influence. They crossed the river ...
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- Haymarket Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 818 páginas
PVP: 33,90 €
ISBN 978-1-60846-067-0
EAN 9781608460670
Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the "bourgeois revolution" has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this comprehensive rejoinder, Neil Davidson seeks to answer the question, How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions? by systematically examining the approach taken by a wide range ...
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- Picador, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-330-45748-4
EAN 9780330457484
In October 1839, a few months after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a cabinet meeting in Windsor voted to fight Britain's first Opium War (1839-42) with China. The conflict turned out to be rich in tragicomedy: in bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration. Yet over ...
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