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The Fateful Year
England 1914
- Viking, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91921-5
EAN 9780670919215
The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchildren going on strike in support of ...
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Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-3159-5
EAN 9781408831595
In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after ...
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East Sails West
The Voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 49,30 €
ISBN 978-988-820-820-3
EAN 9789888208203
In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a travelling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 54,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-19658-0
EAN 9780300196580
A remarkable photographic record of World War One, its relentless progression and the destruction it wrought, as seen from the skies above Flanders FieldsAerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As ...
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- Norton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34706-7
EAN 9780393347067
Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. ...
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- Unicorn, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 262 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-49-1
EAN 9781906509491
We discover how the Baltic and Black Sea fleet were organised to benefit the imperial cause and how the officers and seamen who served in them lived and worked, trained and fought. The Russian Imperial Navy is a remarkable look at a remarkable world, long gone in history but alive in the pages of this ...
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- Osprey, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78200-188-1
EAN 9781782001881
World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America, fought in a life or death struggle that would topple the crowned heads of Europe and redraw the map of the Continent. It was a conflict unparalleled in its scale, which in turn ...
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The Long Shadow
The Great War and the Twentieth Century
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,20 €
ISBN 978-0-85720-636-7
EAN 9780857206367
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The War that ended Peace
How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 512 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-272-8
EAN 9781846682728
This is the definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed ...
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- Yale University Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 744 páginas
PVP: 40,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18665-9
EAN 9780300186659
The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters, a politically astute thinker, and a canny diplomat as ...
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- Random House USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 784 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4000-6855-5
EAN 9781400068555
From the bestselling and award-winning author of "Paris 1919" comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I. The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-2082-1
EAN 9781472520821
The first shots of the Boer War were fired at Kraaipan on 12 October 1899. Winston Churchill, though he had left his Regiment, the 4th Hussars, in the previous March, was eager as ever to be within the sound of guns and wasted no time in getting himself accredited to the Morning Post as war ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 976 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197695-2
EAN 9780141976952
Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael KennyThis classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history.E. P. Thompson shows how the ...
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- Penguin UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95238-2
EAN 9780241952382
'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...' The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: ...
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles-the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg-that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one ...
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Catastrophe
Europe goes to War 1914
- Harper Collins, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746764-8
EAN 9780007467648
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. 1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine-guns.What followed were the costliest days of the entire War. ...
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- Unicorn, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 262 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-906509-40-8
EAN 9781906509408
Lavishly illustrated with over 400 evocative and compelling photographs of these pioneers and their first attempts at flight, the book brings together for the first time the renowned documentary collection of the Russian military historian G.E. Petrov. From these earliest days of flight in balloons and experimental 'heavier than air flying machines', Petrov's collection takes ...
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1914: Fight the Good Fight
Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War
- Bantam, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-06760-4
EAN 9780593067604
'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening', wrote Churchill. 'The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed. In fact the War was decided in the first twenty days ...
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Constellation of Genius
1922: Modernism and all that Jazz
- Cornerstone, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-955902-3
EAN 9780099559023
Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding everything that realistic fiction and Georgian poetry held dear. It was the year which began with the publication of Ulysses ...
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- Profile Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-604-7
EAN 9781846686047
This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he carved an extraordinary (though brief) life for himself in ...
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