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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104284-8
EAN 9780141042848
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq.Maclean's extraordinary adventures ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 768 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101192-9
EAN 9780141011929
Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial legacy of those such as the British, the Third Reich cast its shadow from the Channel Islands to the Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. Yet, as Mark Mazower's groundbreaking new account shows, it was an ...
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1948
A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
- Yale University Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-15112-1
EAN 9780300151121
Benny Morris demolishes misconceptions and provides a comprehensive history of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948 This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on the war's political dimensions. Benny Morris probes the motives and aims of the ...
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Russia in Transition
Coverage by American Newspapers in the 1990s
- Beuth-Verlag, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 191,45 €
ISBN 978-3-8364-7551-8
EAN 9783836475518
American foreign correspondence about Russia during the 1990s focused on neo-liberal political and economic reforms designed to Westernize the formerly Communist state. Some stories imagined the transition abstractly, relying on the preconceived and ideological notions of outsiders as well as national conceptions of Russian territory. Other stories emphasized regional geographies and historical events that were ...
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- Ebury, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-192441-6
EAN 9780091924416
On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug bunker. Living in the house above and protecting them ...
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- Granta Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-068-4
EAN 9781847080684
Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-emerged in their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin, she had reluctantly emigrated to hostile, volatile Palestine.Recounting Edith's story, Figes boldly argues that ...
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Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get ...
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- Pen & Sword Books, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84415-879-9
EAN 9781844158799
Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April - June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando Brigade, he was at the heart of the planning and conduct of the War. Under his direct command had been the Royal Marine Commandos and the two battalions ...
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The Whisperers
Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101351-0
EAN 9780141013510
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin, brilliantly conveying the reality of their terrible choices. Soviet history has generally been seen either as a story of a political system or the story of its victims. The ...
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- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103899-5
EAN 9780141038995
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and ...
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The Day of Battle
The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
- Henry Holt, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-8050-8861-8
EAN 9780805088618
In An Army at Dawn winner of the Pulitzer Prize Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way ...
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Blackwater
The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- Serpent's Tail, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-652-8
EAN 9781846686528
Meet BLACKWATER USA, the world's most powerful mercenary firm. Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, it is the fastest-growing private army on the planet with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater protects the top US officials in Iraq and yet we know nothing about the firm's quasi-military operations in ...
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- Grub Street, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-906502-04-1
EAN 9781906502041
Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitlers Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts the Battle of Britain seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, ...
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Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941
- Penguin UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101418-0
EAN 9780141014180
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part.Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, ...
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Berlin
The Downfall 1945
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103239-9
EAN 9780141032399
The storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Soviet soldiers had many accounts to settle when they finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. The result was the battle for Berlin; the most terrifying example of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103241-2
EAN 9780141032412
TPost liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages.
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- Penguin USA, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 493 páginas
PVP: 21,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028458-4
EAN 9780140284584
In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.' The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured ...
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches
- Penguin UK, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144206-8
EAN 9780141442068
The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103240-5
EAN 9780141032405
Antony Beevor's Stalingrad is a harrowing look at one of history's darkest moments. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the ...
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- Saqi, 2007
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-86356-540-3
EAN 9780863565403
People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries.Eminent professor Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of British blackness and black Britishness, has assembled a living visual history of their social life in the modern British Isles. Watershed moments include the rise and commercial circulation of ...
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