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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-1-64421-098-7
EAN 9781644210987
Fabián Escalante, the founder of the Cuban intelligence services, and head of the Cuban State Security Department, provides a clear-eyed first-person account of his experiences defending Fidel Castro from the extraordinary attempts to take his life. From lethal poisons to plastic explosives to bazookas, Escalante introduces and describes an array of assassination plots and historical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97969-3
EAN 9780241979693
'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this fascinating study of two monsters, Rees is extraordinarily perceptive and original' Antony Beevor Two tyrants. Each responsible for the death of millions. This compelling book on Hitler ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-0-06-303093-0
EAN 9780063030930
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp mainly Jewish women and girls were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop called the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311099-6
EAN 9780143110996
In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators were left behind in Germany, a nation in ruins. British and American soldiers attempted to repatriate the refugees, but more than a million displaced persons remained in Germany: Jews, Poles, Estonians, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0023-3
EAN 9781526600233
'The Precipice is a powerful book . . .Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator'Ord's analysis of the science is exemplary . . .Thrillingly written' Sunday TimesWe live during the most important era of human history. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves - without developing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-46726-8
EAN 9780241467268
'Superb' David Aaronovitch, The Times'A punchy account that is a proper page-turner' Financial Times'The last days of the Third Reich have often been told, but seldom with the verve, perception and elegance of Volker Ullrich's rich narrative' Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the ...
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We Don't Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O'Toole's birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O'Toole's life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78954-468-8
EAN 9781789544688
At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945 Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a disastrous defeat.Hitler had failed to achieve his aim of making Germany a super power and had left her people to cope with the endless shame of the Holocaust.In The Hitler Years ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-585-3
EAN 9781786495853
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition. Yet their ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-83895-213-6
EAN 9781838952136
A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' Antony Beevor'Gripping... Will appeal to anyone who relishes Ben Macintyre's tales of wartime espionage and cryptic codes.' Sunday TelegraphSummertime, 1935.On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-698-5
EAN 9781781256985
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over war debts, arms, currency, tariffs and Germany. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 50,70 €
ISBN 978-1-4728-3982-4
EAN 9781472839824
As the course of World War II turned against the Third Reich after Stalingrad some of the most inventive and radical proposals, and designs, were put forward by armaments manufacturers, scientists and technicians, aircrew and even private individuals to the Reichsluftministerium (German Air Ministry) for consideration. Some proposals were destined never to leave the drawing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80018-028-4
EAN 9781800180284
'Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious . . .like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outrageous stories' Sunday TimesThis is the definitive history of London's most notorious drinking den, the Colony Room Club in Soho. It's a hair-raising romp through the underbelly of the post-war scene: during its ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199149-8
EAN 9780141991498
The idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing is quite what it seems to be at first sight, that everything that occurs is the result of the secret machinations of malign groups of people manipulating everything from behind the scenes is as old as history itself. But conspiracy theories are becoming more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-552-17690-3
EAN 9780552176903
This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault on Sicily on 10 July 1943 remains the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted in world history, landing more men in a single day than at any other time. That day, over 160,000 British, American and Canadian troops were dropped ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-635-7
EAN 9781847926357
In 1965 the German journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-665-4
EAN 9781784706654
It began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer's Armchair is the story of what happened next, as Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and family secrets, to uncover the life of one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-782-1
EAN 9781781257821
A Times Book of the Year'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' Dominic SandbrookIn the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98695-0
EAN 9780241986950
A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His best book yet' The Times'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause' Sunday TimesDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER - FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITORUrsula ...
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