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31 produkter
Stilla natt : när vapnen tystnade på västfronten julen 1914
Pocket, 2014
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
89 kr
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"Det är en välskriven, faktafylld bok, som fått en omsorgsfull svensk språkdräkt." BTJ Efterlängtad nyutgåva av bästsäljare om första världskriget Julnatten 1914. Första världskriget har pågått i några månader och redan skördat tiotusentals offer. Då börjar ett tyskt kompani plötsligt att sjunga …
Portable Oscar Wilde
Revised Edition
Av Oscar Wilde, Stanley Weintraub
Häftad, 1981
304 kr
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Includes the following works: Novels—The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays—Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings—De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No …
Shaw's People
Victoria to Churchill
Inbunden, 1996
636 kr
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How could Bernard Shaw have found anything to admire in Queen Victoria? Or in the passionate evangelical “General” William Booth of the Salvation Army? What possible connections could there be between Shaw, the passionate socialist, and the Tory Winston Churchill, who seemed to represent everything …
Whistler
A Biography
Häftad, 2001
260 kr
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He was the most notorious and misunderstood American artist of his time, and also the most influential. To this day James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is one of the most recognized names in painting because of his celebrated (and endlessly satirized) Whistler's Mother, one of the treasures …
Young Mr. Roosevelt
FDR's Introduction to War, Politics, and Life
Inbunden, 2013
338 kr
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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War I. Democratic vice-presidential …
Pearl Harbor Christmas
A World at War, December 1941
Häftad, 2012
195 kr
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Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shock- in some cases overseas, elation- was worldwide. While Americans attempted to go about celebrating as usual, the reality of the just-declared war was on everybody's mind. United States troops on Wake Island …
Christmas Far from Home
An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Häftad, 2015
171 kr
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In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a wartime Christmas season- the epic story of the 1950 holiday season in Korea, when American troops faced extreme cold, a determined enemy, and long odds. A Military …
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century
Häftad, 2008
345 kr
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11 Days in December
Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
E-bok, 2006
226 kr
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In 11 Days In December , master historian and biographer Stanley Weintraub tells the remarkable story of the Battle of the Bulge as it has never been told before, from frozen foxholes to barn shelters to boxcars packed with wretched prisoners of war. In late December 1944, as the Battle of the …
Dear Young Friend
The Letters of American Presidents to Children
Av Stanley Weintraub, Rodelle Weintraub
Häftad, 2017
181 kr
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Just a few of the words of presidential wisdom found in Dear Young Friend:“I rejoice that you have learnt to write,…for as this is done with a goosequill, you know the value of a goose.” –Thomas Jefferson, to his granddaughter, Cornelia Randolph“As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not …
Dear Young Friend
Av Rodelle Del Weintraub, Stanley Weintraub
E-bok, 2017
173 kr
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Just a few of the words of presidential wisdom found in Dear Young Friend: “I rejoice that you have learnt to write,…for as this is done with a goosequill, you know the value of a goose.” –Thomas Jefferson, to his granddaughter, Cornelia Randolph “As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you …
Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw?
Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. He turned Beatrice Webb into a witchlike virago in The Millionairess, Winston Churchill into an aspiring, blowhard politician in John Bull's Other Island, and Lawrence of Arabia into the eccentric …
Great Expectations
Av Charles Dickens, Stanley Weintraub
E-bok, 1998
111 kr
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From the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values. An orphan living with his older sister and her kindly husband, Pip is hired by wealthy and embittered Miss Havisham as a companion for …
General Washington's Christmas Farewell
A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783
Häftad, 2007
262 kr
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One of America's greatest Christmas stories and also one of its very first -- from the period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution -- was a creation of none other than George Washington. The story isn't just about Washington coming home for Christmas for …
Charlotte and Lionel
Häftad, 2007
315 kr
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Charlotte was young and beautiful. Lionel, almost ten years older, was rich and her cousin. Theirs was an arranged betrothal joining two branches of Europe's most powerful banking firm. It seemed an unlikely love match, and even their wedding had to survive catastrophe. Yet their marriage lasted …
Silent Night
The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
E-bok, 2001
226 kr
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From an acclaimed military historian comes the astonishing story of World War I''s 1914 Christmas truce—a spontaneous celebration when enemies became friends. It was one of history''s most powerful—yet forgotten—Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain, and …
MacArthur's War
Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero
Häftad, 2008
334 kr
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Douglas MacArthur towers over twentieth-century American history. His fame is based chiefly on his World War II service in the Philippines. Yet Korea, America's forgotten war, was far more "MacArthur's War" -- and it remains one of our most brutal and frightening. In just three years thirty-five …
Silent Night
The Remarkable Christmas Truce Of 1914
Häftad, 2014
127 kr
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SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with their new friends, the enemy. For a brief, blissful …
Silent Night
The Remarkable Christmas Truce Of 1914
E-bok, 2014
139 kr
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SILENT NIGHT brings to life one of the most unlikely and touching events in the annals of war. In the early months of WWI, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms, and joined in a spontaneous celebration with their new friends, the enemy. For a brief, blissful …
Iron Tears
America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783
Häftad, 2014
325 kr
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A startling new history of the Revolutionary War, told from the perspectives of both the colonists and the colonizers. For generations, Americans have been taught to view the Revolutionary War as a heroic tale of resistance, exclusively from the perspective of the Continental army and the Founding …
11 Days in December
Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
Ljudbok, 2006
205 kr
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11 Days in December tells the dramatic story of one of the grimmest points of World War II and its Christmas Eve turn toward victory. In December 1944, the Allied forces thought their campaign for securing Europe was in its final stages. But Germany had one last great surprise attack still planned, …
Final Victory
FDR’s Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign
Ljudbok, 2012
298 kr
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When the 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already been in office longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness, the Republicans mounted an energetic and expensive campaign, hitting hard at FDR''s liberal domestic policies and the …
Young Mr. Roosevelt
FDR’s Introduction to War, Politics, and Life
Ljudbok, 2013
685 kr
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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility during World War I. Democratic …
Young Mr. Roosevelt
FDR’s Introduction to War, Politics, and Life
Ljudbok, 2013
293 kr
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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility during World War I. Democratic …
Christmas Far from Home
An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Ljudbok, 2014
293 kr
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From an acclaimed historian comes the dramatic story of the Christmas escape of thousands of American troops overwhelmingly surrounded by the enemy in Korea''s harsh terrain. Just before Thanksgiving in 1950, five months into the Korean War, General MacArthur flew to American positions in the north …
Long Day's Journey into War
Pearl Harbor and a World at War—December 7, 1941
Häftad, 2021
340 kr
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Long Day's Journey Into War recaptures the whirlwind events sweeping the globe on the calendar day that may be the most momentous of the twentieth century. In this riveting re-creation, the vast, worldwide scope of the major turning point of World War II comes to unforgettable life.In Washington, …
Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court
American Encounters with Victoria and Albert
E-bok, 2011
1335 kr
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Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria''s day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little …
