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Building Stalinism

Today the 80-mile-long Moscow Canal is a source of leisure for Muscovites, a conduit for tourists and provides the city with more than 60% of

Hitler's British Isles

The answer lies closer to home than we think, in the experiences of the Channel Islanders – the only British people to bear the full

War on Peace

US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America’s place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after de...

From Battle of Britain Airman to PoW Escapee

This is the Second World War story of a champion cyclist turned airman who lived to tell the tale against almost impossible odds. A New

Monty’s Highlanders: 51st Highland Division in the Second World War

The 51st Highland Division was the most famous infantry division that fought with the British Army in WW2. It was the only infantry division in

The Complete Illustrated History of the Aztec & Maya

Această lucrare de referință oferă o perspectivă captivantă asupra artei și asupra arhitecturii, asupra miturilor și asupra vieții de zi cu zi a oamenilor din

The Century Girls

First-hand accounts of a century of radical change are recalled here as six women born before 1918 speak candidly about topics including work, family, sex

Clementine Churchill

Foreword by Harriet Walter. Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures is a fully illustrated and abridged edition of Sonia Purnell’s acclaimed biography, First Lady, inclu...

A Royal Experiment

Documents the American Revolution-era king's radical pursuit of happiness in his private life with Queen Charlotte and their 15 children, describing his resolve to avoid

Dictionar biografic de personalitati feminine

Dictionar biografic de personalitati feminine

Blood and Steel 3

Blood and Steel 3, The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945 is an extensive and colourful collection of translated German military

Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence

Essential work by a noted naval historian discusses all of the conflict's major sea battles, including those between England and America's French allies. Richly enhanced

Home Front 1939-1945 in 100 Objects

The ordinary objects featured in this book, whether those produced in their millions to the far from ordinary or unique, all portray and exude the

Vampirismul psihologic. Manual de conflictologie

Vampirismul psihologic. Manual de conflictologie

Mayday

Maritime supremacy was key to America's rise to superpower status. Over the past two decades, however, while Washington has been preoccupied with Middle East land

From Journey's End to The Dam Busters

Kingston playwright R.C. Sherriff came to fame with his First World War drama Journeys End, which was based on his own experiences as a young

Times Great Events

As one of Britain's leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles

Roosevelt and Churchill: A Friendship That Saved the World

Thrown together during World War II, their relationship was rarely straightforward. They disagreed politically, but maintained the greatest affection and respect for eac...

Tratat de psihologie pozitiva

Tratat de psihologie pozitiva

Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the Narratives of the Enlightenment

The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 opened the way for enormous change in Persia, heralding the modern era and creating a model for later political and

Glory and Honour

The Renaissance was the pre-eminent cultural and intellectual movement of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. It began in Italy and spread elsewhere along trade rou...

Mijlocul vietii

Mijlocul vietii

Sarbatorile la romani

Sarbatorile la romani

Etica neuitarii. Eseuri politico-istorice

Etica neuitarii. Eseuri politico-istorice

Boala ca o sansa

Boala ca o sansa

Empatie si sanatate mentala

Empatie si sanatate mentala

Escape Artist

The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison bre...

Under the Queen's Colours

In 1952, Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne and became the Sovereign Head of the Armed Forces. In the sixty years of her reign so

Iubirea. O celebrare a romantismului

Iubirea. O celebrare a romantismului

Landslide

Meditatii

Meditatii

Inteligenta emotionala editia a IV a

Inteligenta emotionala editia a IV a

Dialoguri de duminica

Dialoguri de duminica

Germany in the Great War - The Opening Year

Germany in the Great War - The Opening Year: Mobilisation, the Advance and Naval Warfare is the first volume of a projected six-part series that

Per Ardua

The path from 'Civvy Street' to operational on a fighter squadron was arduous and beset with obstacles. The prize was to fly the iconic Phantom

French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814

Between 1792 and 1814 London was home to a flourishing French émigré newspaper and periodical press that served both an exile audience and a Europe-wide

La Reine Blanche

Mary Tudor's childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and

No Ordinary Man

Love and Deception este povestea extraordinară a lui Eleanor, o femeie americancă capabilă și cultivată care trăiește în Beirutul anilor '50, un focar de spionaj,

Religia in limitele ratiunii pure

Religia in limitele ratiunii pure

Stauffenberg

Hitler, of course, did not die that day and Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators were rounded up and executed. But what motivated Stauffenberg to attempt such

INTERLOPER - LEE HARVEY OSWALD INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION

Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and hotly debated crimes in American history. Just as perplexing

Kitchener's Mob

This book tells the amazing story of 'Kitchener's Army' and its volunteer soldiers, the men of the 'First Hundred Thousand' and the many Pals' battalions

365 Aircraft You Must Fly

A fascinating plane-by-plane journey through aviation history, this beautifully illustrated book covers 365 of the most iconic aircraft in world history that enthusiasts,...

The Peer and the Gangster

In July 1964, the Sunday Mirror ran a front-page story headlined: PEER AND A GANGSTER: YARD ENQUIRY. While withholding the names of the principal subjects,

1066 Norman Bruisers

For the English, the Norman Conquest was an unmitigated disaster, killing thousands by the sword or starvation. But for Osbern and his compatriots, it brought

A French GI at Omaha Beach

Following his long military training, Bernard became a GI in the Military Intelligence Service, 2nd US Infantry Division, and landed on the infamous Omaha Beach

Fittest of the Fit

'Fittest of the fit' was the Royal Navy's boast about its personnel, a claim based on a recruitment process that was effectively self-selection. This book

Library

'Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes

H-Bombs and Hula Girls

H-Bombs and Hula Girls tells the extraordinary tale of ten bright and cheerful young British midshipmen who were part of Operation Grapple, the top secret

The Solitary Spy

Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed R...

A Chance Meeting

Each chapter ofA Chance Meetingtakes up an actual encounter between two historical figures. As Rachel Cohen writes in her introduction: 'They met in ordinary ways

Adolf Hitler

One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history's most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby child,

All the President's Women

Pe baza unor rapoarte originale inovatoare, o nouă privire amplă asupra relațiilor lui Donald Trump cu femeile, care dezvăluie noi acuzații de comportament sexual necore...

Death Was Our Bed-mate

The book tells the story of a little known artillery regiment, the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA which saw constant action during the ill-fated

Custer and His Commands

George Armstrong Custer was one of the most flamboyant and controversial officers ever to have served in the United States Army. This superbly illustrated book

The Soldier

De la infanteriștii experimentați din anii 1700 la războinicii hi-tech de astăzi, 'The Soldier' ne duce într-o călătorie interesantă prin 300 de ani de serviciu

O teza de doctorat la Dumnezeu

O teza de doctorat la Dumnezeu

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power. Even in his youth as a prince among thousands

album Romania - o amintire fotografica (romana/franceza)

album Romania - o amintire fotografica (romana/franceza)

Somme: 141 Days, 141 Lives

The Battle of the Somme was not only the costliest battle of World War I, but one of the bloodiest in human history, with more

The Battle of the Somme

Published to coincide with the commemoration of the centenary of the battle of the Somme, this new study comprises twelve separate articles written by some

World War II: An Illustrated History

A readable history of the war, this text features expert commentary on the political and economic factors leading to the conflict, the key turning points

Royal Renegades

Charles I was a loving father, but what became of his children after his execution in 1649? This history recounts the fortunes of the Stuart

Media and the Path to Peace

This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains

One Road, Many Dreams

This is the Asian century and China has a plan - to remake the world economy. Under its audacious One Belt, One Road strategy, China

First Blitz in 100 Objects

The centenary commemorations of the war, ending in 2018, brought renewed attention to this campaign, so often hidden in the shadow of the Blitz of

SOE Hero

Back in occupied France, Maloubier's SOE duties saw him commit large-scale industrial sabotage in Le Havre and Rouen, suffer gunshot wounds while evading capture and

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen

Johnson’s volumes are significant as the forerunners of the real life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early novels as Defoe’s Moll

The Essential Chomsky

In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the World .

From Calais to Colditz

From Calais to Colditz has never been published before but readers will surely agree that the wait has been worthwhile. The author was a young

An Eye in the Sky

This is the biography of Henry Crowe whose career encompassed time as an infantryman with the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War, an

SAS Zero Hour

The regiment has become a byword for the highest possible standards in both conventional and unorthodox methods of warfare. But where did it all begin?

101 eseuri care iti vor schimba modul de gandi

101 eseuri care iti vor schimba modul de gandi

Apprentice

It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the first time

The game. Jocul civilizatiei digitale

The game. Jocul civilizatiei digitale

Povestiri de psihanaliza relationala

Povestiri de psihanaliza relationala

Nuclear Terror

These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Syria, threats that biological warfare agents might be spread

Boala ca sansa

Boala ca sansa

Dan Chebac

Dan Chebac

D-Day 1944

D-DAY was unprecedented. An invasion of this scale and magnitude had never been carried out before. The landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy were

Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution - NU

This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solut...

Douglas Haig: From the Somme to Victory

Douglas Haig este cel mai controversat general din istoria Marii Britanii. În 1918, după ce armatele sale au jucat un rol major în Primul Război

Inainte spre trecut

Inainte spre trecut

O educatie care incepe inainte de nastere

O educatie care incepe inainte de nastere