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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-681-2
EAN 9781841766812
The American attack on Quebec in 1775 was a key episode in the War of Independence. Capture of the city would give the Americans control of Canada a disaster for the British. The subsequent campaign involved a 350-mile trek across uninhabited wilderness, a desperate American attack on the city of Quebec that left one American ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-409-2
EAN 9781841764092
For much of the 16th century the Mediterranean was a battleground between Christians and Muslims. A decisive battle between two large galley fleets was expected to decide the fate of the entire Mediterranean basin. In August 1571, an Ottoman fleet of some 235 galleys encountered the slightly smaller Christian fleet of the Holy League. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 23,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6528-5
EAN 9780712665285
Ranging over a quarter of a millennium and four continents, Captives uncovers the experiences and writings of those tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence, but who got caught and caught out. Here are the stories of Sarah Shade, a camp follower imprisoned alongside defeated British ...
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When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a tiny coral island less than half a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-513-6
EAN 9781841765136
On a bitterly cold Palm Sunday, 29 March 1461, the army of King Edward IV met that of his Lancastrian enemies on a snow-covered battlefield south of the village of Towton in Yorkshire. The struggle lasted all day in the longest and bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses. With the arrival of Yorkist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 35,50 €
ISBN 978-0-486-40488-2
EAN 9780486404882
Famed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner, and an active journalist who reported "ship news" and interviewed surviving pirates, Defoe achieved a high degree of authority on the subject of buccaneers. His knowledge was such that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-340-79468-5
EAN 9780340794685
In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan. The traders were even more amazed to learn ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-8417-6333-0
EAN 9781841763330
Newbury 1643 is one of the decisive campaigns of the English Civil War, marking a turning point in the course of the conflict. This work shows that the battle of Newbury represented the last realistic chance for the king to win a military victory over Parliament. When on 10 August 1643, King Charles summoned the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 334 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-0-8006-3597-8
EAN 9780800635978
Voted the best complete biography of Martin Luther, the man and the reformer, available to the English reading world. Historically solid, factually authentic, perceptive, socially aware, and theologically knowledgeable. Kittelson brings us as close as we are likely to come to an appreciation of how Luther himself understood the dramatic transitions in his own life.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-1401-7
EAN 9780753814017
With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-5900-9
EAN 9780747559009
Horatio Nelson was a naval genius and a natural born predator. In his private life he was ruthless. Written with access to letters and documents, Terry Coleman offers a penetrating picture of Nelson in this text.
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Libro · 520 páginas
PVP: 18,85 €
ISBN 978-0-8154-1229-8
EAN 9780815412298
Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants in history, but few people among the general public know how he got such an infamous reputation. Relying on extensive research based heavily on original Russian sources, this definitive biography depicts an incredibly complex ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-653152-4
EAN 9780006531524
Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain's best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcasters. Red Coat is non-fiction Sharpe, filled with anecdote and humour as well as historical analysis. 'Redcoat is a wonderful book. It is not just a work of history -- but one of enthusiasm ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-1-8417-6378-1
EAN 9781841763781
More than three and a half centuries have passed since the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-48); but this most devastating of wars in the early modern period continues to capture the imagination of readers: this book reveals why. It was one of the first wars where contemporaries stressed the importance of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,99 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09451-0
EAN 9780300094510
Winner of a 1991 Wolfson Foundation History Prize Winner of the 1991 CWA Gold Dagger award in Non-Fiction Named one of the books of the year (1991) by The Daily TelegraphThis book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 44,45 €
ISBN 978-0-631-20704-7
EAN 9780631207047
This engaging narrative history introduces readers to the central features and main developments of sixteenth-century Europe. The author's account of the major events of the age - political and religious conflicts, statebuilding, and exploration - creates a vivid sense of how it would have been to live in this tumultuous century. Events are seen within ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,37 €
ISBN 978-0-300-09409-1
EAN 9780300094091
Edward VI was the son of Henry VIII and his second wife, Jane Seymour. He ruled for only six years (1547-1553) and died at the age of sixteen. But these were years of fundamental importance in the history of the English state, and in particular of the English church. This new biography reveals for the ...
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