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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 9,96 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9319-5
EAN 9780718193195
In Scotland's Empire, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no people had made a more essential contribution than the Scots - working across the globe ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-102079-2
EAN 9780141020792
With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11395-1
EAN 9780349113951
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,95 €
ISBN 978-0-547-75031-6
EAN 9780547750316
In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of its critics, alongside its generals and heroes. A brilliant new history of the Great War that raises the eternal question of why such a terrible war was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1264 páginas
PVP: 50,25 €
ISBN 978-1-59853-145-9
EAN 9781598531459
The Guns of August (1962), a riveting account of the outbreak of World War I and the weeks of fighting leading up to the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. Tuchman dramatizes the diplomatic debacles that precipitated the war and the intransigence of the German and French armies as they dogmatically adhered to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-906548-30-8
EAN 9781906548308
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91959-8
EAN 9780670919598
From the bestselling author of The English comes the story of the British Empire not only the way Britain influenced the world but how empire shaped Britain. Accompanies a major 6-part BBC TV series written and presented by Jeremy Paxman - one of the BBC's most expensive productions and will therefore be hugely promoted by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-349-12352-3
EAN 9780349123523
In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free market reaches its extreme limits in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-2865-6
EAN 9780753828656
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Burns, to Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Rossini and Liszt, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101350-3
EAN 9780141013503
The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15034-5
EAN 9780691150345
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104765-2
EAN 9780141047652
The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big, previously unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman Empire. McMeekin's book shows how incredibly high the stakes were in the Middle East - with the Germans ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 818 páginas
PVP: 51,70 €
ISBN 978-1-241-51292-7
EAN 9781241512927
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11588-7
EAN 9780349115887
A story of grand political pronouncements, uprisings and insurrections. This is also a story of survival against hunger, persecution and bewildering ideological demands, a story of how a state, even with the noblest of intentions, can turn on its people and almost crush them.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84603-682-8
EAN 9781846036828
On a sunny May afternoon in 1917, the peace of an English seaside town was shattered when a flight of German Gotha bombers appeared without warning. Twenty-three Gothas had set out to attack London in this first bomber raid, but heavy cloud forced them to target Folkestone and the Shorncliffe army camp instead. It was ...
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Arthur James Balfour possessed intellect and charm in legendary abundance. On becoming Prime Minister in 1902, it seemed that he had come into his inheritance as a true grandee. He held office longer than any other Cabinet minister and, in a fifty-year career, dealt with successes and defeats with similar equanimity.When he chose, he retreated ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-714720-5
EAN 9780007147205
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6257-0
EAN 9780719562570
Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be deeply misplaced as people began to realise that the men they loved were never coming home. The Great Silence is the story ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84595-067-5
EAN 9781845950675
The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. No political change has been more fundamental than its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere. In this hugely acclaimed book Archie Brown provides an indispensable history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development ...
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Born Lucie Dillon, to a half-French mother and an Anglo-Irish father, her world was Versailles and the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She married a French aristocrat, and narrowly survived the French Revolution, escaping to America at the time of Washington and Jefferson. Here, she lived a life of milking cows and chopping ...
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