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11 produkter
Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
The Uncrowned King
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
67 kr
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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback'After my death', George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself in 12 months'. From the death of his father in 1936 to the constitutional crisis provoked by his proposal …
Dark Valley
Häftad, 2001
280 kr
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Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, …
Dark Valley
E-bok, 2016
170 kr
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Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, …
Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
The Uncrowned King
E-bok, 2016
57 kr
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'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.'The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, …
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s
Häftad, 2002
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
276 kr
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Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
Häftad, 2008
188 kr
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No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no empire (except the Russian) disappeared more …
Eminent Elizabethans
Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher & Mick Jagger
E-bok, 2012
108 kr
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What links Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles and Mick Jagger? Each have illuminated our Elizabethan age in their own, inimitable, way.Margaret Thatcher - the first female Prime Minister, who dedicated herself with messianic zeal to breaking the mould of post-war British …
Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no empire (except the Russian) disappeared more …
Hawker Of Morwenstow
Portrait of an Eccentric Victorian
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet's rich personality. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Piers Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of truth, over-simplification and …
Churchill
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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This astute biography brilliantly captures, in one volume, the full range of Winston Churchill's astonishing career. perhaps the greatest political figure of modern times, Churchill's achievement extended well beyond his emblematic role in the Second World War. Piers Brendon brings great wit and …
British Empire
How it was built - and how it fell
Häftad, 2018
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
113 kr
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The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn’t trust the British in the dark. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland. Beginning in the 17th century with a few …
