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PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-022-0
EAN 9781782390220
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated. ...
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ISBN 978-0-571-28034-6
EAN 9780571280346
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Resistance francaise' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian and even German anti-Nazis.The defence against ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0693-2
EAN 9781472806932
The Guadalcanal campaign began with an amphibious assault in August 1942 - the US's first attempt to take the fight to the Japanese. It escalated into a desperate attritional battle on land, air, and sea, and by the time the Japanese had evacuated the last of their forces from the island in 1943, it was ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16843-2
EAN 9780691168432
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Allies were almost as stunned by the surrender as the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,55 €
ISBN 978-0-520-28749-5
EAN 9780520287495
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War opens in 1954 with the signing of the Geneva accords that ended the eight-year-long Franco-Indochinese War and created two Vietnams. In agreeing to the accords, Ho Chi Minh and other leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam anticipated a new period of peace leading to national reunification under their ...
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PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-85789-220-1
EAN 9780857892201
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an ...
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PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07005-0
EAN 9781250070050
In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people were killed instantly by the atomic bombs, mostly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-307-6
EAN 9781784533076
In January 1942, the Declaration by United Nations forged a military alliance based on human rights principles that included over 24 countries, marking the beginning of the UN. But how did the armies of the United Nations co-operate during World War II to halt Nazi expansionism? When did the UN start to tackle the international ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84832-662-0
EAN 9781848326620
Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. However, until the publication of this remarkable book, he had never written about his time at Bletchley Park. Briggs himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s and his parents died without ever knowing about their son's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-4729-2248-9
EAN 9781472922489
War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the 'Dunkirk spirit' whenever the country is faced with major crisis or even minor adversity, and Roosevelt's famous description of Pearl Harbor as 'a date which will live in infamy' was echoed by many US commentators after the 9/11 attacks. ...
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PVP: 34,80 €
ISBN 978-0-521-61826-7
EAN 9780521618267
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-19-870366-2
EAN 9780198703662
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-0690-1
EAN 9781472806901
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ISBN 978-0-552-77086-6
EAN 9780552770866
Spanning fifty years, "Before the Fall-Out" tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it. And of how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists from many different nations transmuted into a secretive wartime race for the ultimate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21232-7
EAN 9780300212327
Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-62097-086-7
EAN 9781620970867
In August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a huge share of Iran s oil wealth. The blowback ...
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Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons. Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Jim ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78429-017-7
EAN 9781784290177
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A fascinating exploration of early to mid-twentieth-century politics as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat. History seems to repeat itself. With ongoing wars abroad and the collapse of financial institutions at home, Americans rely on President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to bring about positive change.When the US stock ...
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