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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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In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century. Focusing on the conquest of the Ahaggar Tuareg, a Berber people living in a mountain area in central Sahara, he goes on to describe the bizarre exploits ...
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Citizens
A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 848 páginas
PVP: 29,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101727-3
EAN 9780141017273
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing.'Monumental...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist'Eugen Weber, The ...
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- Presidio, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 8,35 €
ISBN 978-0-345-47609-8
EAN 9780345476098
The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the first month of World War I is now in mass market paperback. "Fascinating . . . One of the finest works of history written."--"The New York Times."
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- Penguin UK, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101408-1
EAN 9780141014081
Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, ...
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- Harper Collins, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-655096-9
EAN 9780006550969
From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa - 'Most Excellent ...
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