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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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Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination ...
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- John Murray, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7195-6450-5
EAN 9780719564505
'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was ...
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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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Easter 1916
The Irish Rebellion
- Penguin UK, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101216-2
EAN 9780141012162
Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of that future: far more immediate was ...
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- Harper Collins, 2006
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,94 €
ISBN 978-0-00-721720-5
EAN 9780007217205
If only Flashman had got on with his dinner and ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel Well, American history would have been different, a disastrous civil war might have been avoided, and Flashman himself would have been spared one of the most hair-raising adventures of his misspent life. If ...
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The White Cities
Reports from France 1925-1939
- Granta Books, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,49 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-801-7
EAN 9781862078017
Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925 and, as an Austrian Jew, was exiled there for the rest of his life. Collected together here for the first time in English, these exhilarating pieces evoke a world of suppleness, beauty and promise. From the ...
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Trafalgar 1805
Nelson's Crowning Victory
- Osprey, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-1-8417-6892-2
EAN 9781841768922
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain on 21 October 1805 remains one of the greatest naval triumphs in history. Off Cape Trafalgar, 27 British and 33 Franco-Spanish ships pounded each other in an epic four-hour struggle on whose outcome rested nothing less than Britain's security against Napoleonic invasion. ...
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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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Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
- Penguin UK, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-100984-1
EAN 9780141009841
At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched ...
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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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