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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,30 €
ISBN 978-1-5417-6255-8
EAN 9781541762558
In 2013, President Obama began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. But only a year into the withdrawal, Obama began allowing the U.S. military to resume combat operations, relying almost entirely on U.S.Special Operations forces. It was the beginning of a new, covert war. Reporter Jessica Donati shows how policy shifted, and argues that the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 11,85 €
ISBN 978-0-00-839947-4
EAN 9780008399474
How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to read it, that's just the clue to know you do.' SARAH SILVERMAN 'a masterpiece.'STEPHEN FRY Jews Don't Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-4964-4
EAN 9781473649644
One of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century and an unforgettable saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement-all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war. While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas.Contingents from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-0-571-34177-1
EAN 9780571341771
A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit. 'Admirably lucid and measured, as well as studded with sharp pen portraits of the key players, Britain Alone gives us the fullest long-run political and diplomatic narrative yet of Britain's fateful, tragi-comic road to Brexit.'DAVID KYNASTON 'Philip ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2935-3
EAN 9781529329353
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-1-250-75816-3
EAN 9781250758163
A gripping and authoritative revisionist account of the German Winter Campaign of 1941-1942Germany's winter campaign of 1941-1942 is commonly seen as its first defeat. In Retreat from Moscow, a bold, gripping account of one of the seminal moments of World War II, David Stahel argues that instead it was its first strategic success in the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84188-375-5
EAN 9781841883755
They knew their survival depended on each other. They had to live for each other.It is 1940 and the Final Solution is about to begin. The Nazis have occupied The Netherlands but resistance is growing and two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - are risking their lives to save those being hunted, through ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-5321-1
EAN 9781529353211
The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats.Britain is only weeks away from starvation - and with that, crushing defeat. In the first week of 1942 a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828011-6
EAN 9780008280116
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199077-4
EAN 9780141990774
The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third ReichOne of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of ordinary Germans, during in the war's closing period. Some of these ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-507-7
EAN 9781784705077
Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, the Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41346-3
EAN 9780241413463
'Both hard to put down and brilliantly insightful ... a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Martin Bentham, Evening StandardThe renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' ageThe idea that nothing happens by chance in history, that nothing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-3793-7
EAN 9781529037937
The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of the forgotten war. 'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' - GuardianOn 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 58,70 €
ISBN 978-0-367-66219-6
EAN 9780367662196
At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom launched programmes of scientific and technological exploitation. Each occupying nation sought to bolster their own armouries and industries with the spoils of war, and Britain was no exception. Shrouded in secrecy yet directed at the top ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-9544-3
EAN 9781408895443
London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.Nandor Fodor a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research begins to investigate. In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss and the foreshadowing of a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24561-5
EAN 9780300245615
Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Britain reluctantly joined the Common Market, the European Community, and ultimately the European Union, but its ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23320-9
EAN 9780300233209
When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way home. Secret agents and resistance fighters risked their lives and those of their families to hide the men.Drawing on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98601-1
EAN 9780241986011
A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year'Powerful . . .there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city.I have never seen it better described' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesIn February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-484-0
EAN 9781787474840
"A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espionage finally has its expert chronicler." - WILLIAM BOYD'Gripping and intoxicating, it unfolds like the best screenplay.'NICHOLAS SHAKESPEAREThe gripping story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198644-9
EAN 9780141986449
'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the ...
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