The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of…

Kniha 9780140291773 Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything Steven Levy…

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The first book of the next crisis. A history of interest rates by a leading financial commentator, updated with a new…

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WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEES The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and…

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a…

Deals with the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the…

The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the 19th century from slavery to…

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the…

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Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or…

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In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger,…

Follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. This title presents a critique of inequality between…

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Offers an account of the war in former Yugoslavia and contains material that discusses the end of the five-year conflict and…

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this title provides an account of depravity and violence. Exploring…

Mesopotamia, AD 260. Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid…

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Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war. Here ruthless Captain Kit Vane and beautiful Martha Crowl, passionate patriot…

Written when the author was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester,…

Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The…

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Kniha 9780141396026 Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2 Philip Hensher…

A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to…

Kniha 9780593083697 New Class War Michael Lind…

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Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is a sprawling epic covering the impact of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia on five…

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Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor…

A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming,…

Produkt Battle of Britain: Book 2 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od…

Tells the story of Five's early years on Earth when he was just a young teen on the run, discovering his abilities and…

Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell…

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A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding…

The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous…

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