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Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029334-0
EAN 9780140293340
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's ...
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- John Murray, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7195-6243-3
EAN 9780719562433
One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with ...
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The War of Wars
The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815
- Constable & Robinson, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 992 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84529-635-3
EAN 9781845296353
Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo. On land and at sea, throughout the four corners of the continent, from the frozen plains surrounding Moscow and terror on the Caribbean seas, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 880 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144205-1
EAN 9780141442051
Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at sea and in the air and the advent of tanks and U-boats. He vividly describes the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144212-9
EAN 9780141442129
Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders ...
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War of the World
History's Age of Hatred
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101382-4
EAN 9780141013824
The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal ...
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Victoria's Wars
The Rise of Empire
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100555-3
EAN 9780141005553
In the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of India, Russia ...
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Khartoum
The Ultimate Imperial Adventure
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-025855-4
EAN 9780140258554
The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of ...
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Constantinople
City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. This work charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople and its ruling family.
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Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
- Penguin USA, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 960 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-303775-0
EAN 9780143037750
Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations ...
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- Osprey, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-8460-3038-3
EAN 9781846030383
The first day of the battle of the Somme has always been perceived as a day of tragedy for the British Army, with the slaughter of 60,000 men on the battlefield. What seemed to be poor planning on the part of the British command meant that soldiers were sent into no man's land to face ...
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Natasha's Dance
A Cultural History of Russia
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029796-6
EAN 9780140297966
From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture. Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia, the lives of those who have shaped its culture, and the enduring spirit of a people. ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-004945-9
EAN 9780140049459
Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup ...
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- Abacus UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11662-4
EAN 9780349116624
Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it ...
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Zulu
The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879
- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101569-9
EAN 9780141015699
Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 is a fascinating look at the most controversial and brutal British imperial conflict of the nineteenth century. The real story of the Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception, dishonour, incompetence and dereliction of duty by Lord Chelmsford who invaded Zululand without the ...
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- Harvest, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 736 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-15-603259-9
EAN 9780156032599
At large during the most colourful period in American history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the U.S. Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband ...
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- Harper Perennial, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-0-06-108686-1
EAN 9780061086861
Napoleon dominated nearly all of Europe by 1810, largely succeeding in his aim to reign over the civilized world. But Britain eluded him. To conquer the island nation, he needed Russia's Tsar Alexander's help. The Tsar refused, and Napoleon vowed to teach him a lesson by intimidation and force. The ensuing invasion of Russia, during ...
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The Franco-Prussian War
The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,26 €
ISBN 978-0-521-61743-7
EAN 9780521617437
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European and American archives for the first time, Geoffrey Wawro's The ...
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- Faber & Faber, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-571-22735-8
EAN 9780571227358
On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what really went on in that room.
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Civil War
The War of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660
- Abacus UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11564-1
EAN 9780349115641
One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate battles like Marston Moor and Naseby. The fighting was also to rage through Scotland ...
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