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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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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 Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.As ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-182-8
EAN 9780857521828
On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone.For months, its submarines had brought ...
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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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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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PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-654-8
EAN 9781780746548
When Queen Victoria died, two gentlemen were commissioned with the monumental task of editing her vast correspondence: Viscount Esher, the consummate royal confidant hiding a secret obsession with Eton boys; and Arthur Benson, a schoolmaster plagued by depression. Together with King Edward VII these men would decide Victoria's legacy. In their hands 460 volumes of ...
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