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- Doubleday, 2015
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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- 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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- Oneworld, 2015
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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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- 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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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 64 páginas
PVP: 1,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198024-9
EAN 9780141980249
'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich.' Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work of mass social observation, and the ultimate account of ...
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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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Dubbed an 'agent of British imperialism' by Joseph Stalin, Reginald Teague-Jones (1889- 1988) was the quintessential English spy whose exceptional story is recounted in this new biography. He studied in St Petersburg, participated in the 1905 Revolution and spent the rest of his life working for various branches of British secret intelligence. Plunging into the ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
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PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-735836-6
EAN 9780007358366
From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this book is about the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo - from pauper to painter, poet to prince, soldier to civilian. Midnight, Sunday, 17 June 1815. There was no town in England that had not sent its soldiers, hardly a household that was not holding ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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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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- Vintage UK, 2015
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PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955604-6
EAN 9780099556046
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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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Four Sisters
The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the ...
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- Princeton, 2015
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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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PVP: 54,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-965658-5
EAN 9780199656585
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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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Family Politics
Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950
- Yale University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 528 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-11211-5
EAN 9780300112115
An exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th century's first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life.In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at center stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and ...
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