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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
219 kr
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A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871—yet today, Germany is the world’s fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy.“There’s no point studying the past unless it sheds some light on the present,” writes James Hawes in this brilliantly concise history that has already captivated hundreds of thousands of readers. “It is time, now more than ever, for us all to understand the real history of Germany.”The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.
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Shortest History of Germany
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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Shortest History of Ireland
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2023
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Britten James Hawes skildrar Englands historia från Caesar till brexit via erövring, imperium och världskrig, och upptäcker ett land som skiljer sig mycket från standardberättelsens. Denna tjurnackat oberoende stabila öfästning, som givit upphov till parlament och globalt imperium, är delat av en uråldrig skiljelinje som fanns på plats före romarna. Dess öde har alltid varit sammanflätat med grannarnas, och under de senaste tusen åren har landet härbärgerat ett klassamhälle som inte liknar något annat på jorden. Det har aldrig funnits en bättre tid att förstå varför England är som det är och det finns ingen bättre vägvisare än denna.
JAMES HAWES, född 1960, har tidigare skrivit en rad böcker och är aktuell med en dokumentärserie för BBC, "The art that made us". Lind & Co har tidigare utgivit hans bästsäljare Tysklands historia.
"James Hawes syn på brittisk historia är skarp, levande och extremt övertygande."Philip Pullman
"Ingen skriver historia så väl som James Hawes, eller använder det förflutna så skickligt för att förstå nuet. ... Gör dig själv en tjänst, läs den." The Observer
"[Hawes] kanske största förtjänst är att han för berättelsen fram till vår tid, och lyckas ta ett steg bort från samtidens galenskap ..."The New European
"Äntligen en chans att få grepp om Englands hela historia, allt på bara ett fåtal timmar." Mail on Sunday
"Hawes [...] har en skarp blick för likheter mellan då och nu." Spectator
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
94 kr
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Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was knocking on forty), which was also the day he met Shnade again, he had never noticed the shape of his own skull-to-be; and until the night of that same day, he had never seen a living skull being crunched deliberately, wetly inwards. Perhaps it all happened because Harry had got lost in his work for too long. Or perhaps because Shnade had got lost doing nothing for too long. Or perhaps because all of us, Harry and Shnade included, are lost full stop. She's not really Shnade, of course. Shnade was what we heard, and is what we called her, and is what she will be, to me any rate, for as long as I have. When Shnade swung round, I saw her dress flick along with the movement of her hips and brush Harry's thigh. It was a light, small, flimsy dress of reddish cotton; she wore it over some kind of black, shiny, strappy, swimsuitish thing. You could see this big tattoo of a lizard that ran right from her shoulder to her wrist. And you could tell that when her dress swished across the thigh of Harry's jeans, it felt to him like it was made of chain-mail. And I think, looking back, we all knew, right then, that Harry was fucked.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
125 kr
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A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe. Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts. But why? Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent? Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy? Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria's cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale.
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Engelska, 2014102 kr
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A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe. Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts. But why? Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent? Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy? Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria''s cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany''s ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors'' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale.
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Engelska, 202088 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
535 kr
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429 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
535 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
415 kr
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Engelska, 200897 kr
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John Goode is a leftie lecturer who just wants to give his beloved wife and kids a normal life. You know: north London, good schools, nice neighbours, sash windows... yes, you know. But who can afford that kind of normal these days? Goode can only daydream of becoming a television academic, or else of a bloody great economic crash that would make his job worth something again. So when he stumbles on a long-buried assault rifle whilst planting plum-trees for his children, he soon begins to wonder if this might be just the tool to seriously renegociate his family's future...
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Engelska, 201297 kr
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Take four ne'er-do-wells: a 28-year-old ex-public schoolboy who can't bear the idea of setting down; Suzy the Black Widow, who has a deliciously flat stomach and drives like she's breathing through the carbs; Brady the Reservoir Dogs fetishist; and Chico the fat Portuguese waiter. Add some plastic guns, the IRA and a white Merc with fins and you have a plan. What plan? The plan to walk into Michael Winner's private bank and walk out with half a million quid. Fast, clever, stylish, funny and utterly compulsive, this is a first novel with everything.
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Engelska, 2012100 kr
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Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was knocking on forty), which was also the day he met Shnade again, he had never noticed the shape of his own skull-to-be; and until the night of that same day, he had never seen a living skull being crunched deliberately, wetly inwards. Perhaps it all happened because Harry had got lost in his work for too long. Or perhaps because Shnade had got lost doing nothing for too long. Or perhaps because all of us, Harry and Shnade included, are lost full stop. She's not really Shnade, of course. Shnade was what we heard, and is what we called her, and is what she will be, to me any rate, for as long as I have. When Shnade swung round, I saw her dress flick along with the movement of her hips and brush Harry's thigh. It was a light, small, flimsy dress of reddish cotton; she wore it over some kind of black, shiny, strappy, swimsuitish thing. You could see this big tattoo of a lizard that ran right from her shoulder to her wrist. And you could tell that when her dress swished across the thigh of Harry's jeans, it felt to him like it was made of chain-mail. And I think, looking back, we all knew, right then, that Harry was fucked.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
262 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
152 kr
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Del 3 - Shortest History
Shortest History of England
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
117 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
123 kr
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Häftad, Tyska, 2019
187 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2017
730 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2017
728 kr
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Tyska, 2019113 kr
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Der historische Bestseller zum Lebenslauf der Deutschen spannend erzählt vom britischen Germanisten: kurzweilig, unterhaltsam und nicht aus der Hand zu legen!»Eine umfassende, souveräne Erzählung.« The Guardian»Dieses Buch muss man lesen!« EconomistVon 500 vor Christus bis zur Gegenwart: Die Geschichte der Deutschen!Auf 250 Seiten einmal durch 2000 Jahre deutscher Geschichte: Überzeugend und souverän führt James Hawes von den alten Römern bis in die Gegenwart. Eine große Tour durch die Jahrhunderte, die in einer leidenschaftlichen Hommage an die Bundesrepublik endet.Gehört Deutschland dem Westen oder Osten an?Der Sieg gegen die Römer im Teutoburger Wald, die barbarische Grausamkeit des Dreißigjährigen Kriegs, der Aufstieg des militaristischen Preußens im 18. Jahrhundert ― wie Blitzlichter scheinen diese historischen Ereignisse in James Hawes'' fulminantem Parforceritt durch die deutsche Geschichte auf. Die alles beherrschende Frage, die sich wie ein roter Faden durch die Seiten zieht: Gehört das Herzstück Europas zum Westen oder zum Osten?Für Hawes ist klar, dass dieses Land zum Westen zählt. Die Bundesrepublik, so wie wir sie kennen, sieht er in der Tradition des wahren, historischen Deutschlands, dem Staatshörigkeit, puritanischer Eifer und narben gesichtiger Militarismus stets fremd waren. Hawes ist sich sicher: Deutschland ist heute »Europas größte Hoffnung«.»Ambitioniert, meinungsstark und unterhaltsam.« Süddeutsche Zeitung*** Wer unterhaltsame historische Sachbücher mag, wird diesen Bestseller lieben! Absolute Pflichtlektüre für jeden Deutschen und für alle, die sich für die Geschichte Deutschlands interessieren! ***
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Tyska, 202234 kr
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Mit dem Bestseller Die kürzeste Geschichte Deutschlands hat James Hawes eine kühne Deutung der Deutschen vorgelegt. Jetzt widmet er sich seinen britischen Landsleuten – und folgert: England ist zweigeteilt, nicht erst seit dem Brexit. Auf der einen Seite der reiche, selbstzufriedene Süden, auf der andern der raue, ärmere Norden. Der Graben existiert schon seit Jahrhunderten, doch in den letzten Jahren hat sich die Kluft zwischen Konservativen und Liberalen gefährlich vertieft: Die eine Hälfte sehnt sich nach der vermeintlich glorreichen Vergangenheit des British Empire, die andere will Teil eines weltoffenen Europa bleiben. Für diese Gefahr gibt es laut Hawes nur eine Lösung: die Überwindung der Brüche und ein gemeinsamer Kampf um ein neues Großbritannien.
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Ryska, 201855 kr
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S chego nachalas'' istoriya Germanii? Unichtozhili li germancy rimskuyu kul''turu ili unasledovali ee? Kakova misticheskaya glubinnaya svyaz'' mezhdu germanskoj koronoj i Rimskoj imperiej? Gde na samom dele zakanchivaetsya territoriС чего началась история Германии? Уничтожили ли германцы римскую культуру или унаследовали ее? Какова мистическая глубинная связь между германской короной и Римской империей? Где на самом деле заканчивается территория Германии? Как эта страна стала средоточием силы и власти в Европе? Можно ли допустить, что ЕС – это всего лишь декорация для нового германского господства? Британский историк и автор научно-популярных книг Джеймс Хоус предлагает уникальный обзор главных событий истории одного из крупнейших европейских государствya Germanii? Kak ehta strana stala sredotochiem sily i vlasti v Evrope? Mozhno li dopustit'', chto ES – ehto vsego lish'' dekoraciya dlya novogo germanskogo gospodstva? Britanskij istorik i avtor nauchno-populyarnyh knig Dzhejms Hous predlagaet unikal''nyj obzor glavnyh sobytij istorii odnogo iz krupnejshih evropejskih gosudarstv
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Rumänska, 202282 kr
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De la Iuliu Cezar la Angela Merkel – O repovestire pentru vremurile noastre# 1 Bestseller internațional„O lectură obligatorie" – The Economist„Cea mai provocatoare carte a anului" – Der SpiegelDe citit într-o după-amiază, de reținut pentru o viațăO țară deopotrivă admirată și temută, Germania s-a situat în epicentrul evenimentelor mondiale nu de puține ori: Reforma, cele două Războaie Mondiale, căderea Zidului Berlinului. S-a conturat ca națiune modernă de-abia în 1871 – și totuși, astăzi, Germania este a patra economie a lumii și purtător de stindard al democrației liberale. „Nu are rost să studiezi trecutul dacă acesta nu luminează prezentul", scrie James Hawes în această concisă istorie care a captivat deja sute de mii de cititori în mai multe țări. Astăzi, poate mai mult decât oricând, avem mare nevoie să înţelegem, după cum spune autorul, „adevărataistorie a Germaniei".
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PDF, Svenska, 202399 kr
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Britten James Hawes skildrar Englands historia från Caesar till brexit via erövring, imperium och världskrig, och upptäcker ett land som skiljer sig mycket från standardberättelsens. Denna tjurnackat oberoende stabila öfästning, som givit upphov till parlament och globalt imperium, är delat av en uråldrig skiljelinje som fanns på plats före romarna. Dess öde har alltid varit sammanflätat med grannarnas, och under de senaste tusen åren har landet härbärgerat ett klassamhälle som inte liknar något annat på jorden. Det har aldrig funnits en bättre tid att förstå varför England är som det är och det finns ingen bättre vägvisare än denna.