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Against Massacre
Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16669-8
EAN 9780691166698
Against Massacre looks at the rise of humanitarian intervention in the nineteenth century, from the fall of Napoleon to the First World War. Examining the concept from a historical perspective, Davide Rodogno explores the understudied cases of European interventions and noninterventions in the Ottoman Empire and brings a new view to this international practice for ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5289-7
EAN 9781408852897
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen.She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For years she worked tirelessly for her father, Karl Marx, ...
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A Mad Catastrophe
The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05795-5
EAN 9780465057955
The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.As ...
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Waterloo
The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-753940-6
EAN 9780007539406
Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny.The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of ...
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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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- Vintage UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
ISBN 978-0-09-956379-2
EAN 9780099563792
This was the scene after midnight, 19 June 1815: On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded; the wreckage of a once proud French Grande Armee was struggling in abject disorder to the Belgian frontier pursued by murderous Prussian lancers; caked in dust and sweat, the Duke of Wellington ...
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A History of the Armenian Genocide
They can live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 45,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14730-7
EAN 9780691147307
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent'more than a million people. A century later, ...
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Fracture
Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938
- Basic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 496 páginas
PVP: 31,95 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02249-6
EAN 9780465022496
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an ...
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- Doubleday, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-293-1
EAN 9780857522931
On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. "Lusitania"-pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat-became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of ...
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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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