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29 produkter
De Gaulle
Häftad, 2023
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
183 kr
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Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he restored democracy on his return to France in 1944, bringing the Communists into his government. An …
Afghan Napoleon
The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud
Av Sandy Gall
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, the military strategist and political operator who …
Colonel
Häftad, 2011, 15+ år
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
130 kr
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It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memories of his children, who had joined the different …
Bismarck
The Iron Chancellor
Häftad, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
158 kr
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Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany set Europe down the path of disaster to World War I. But as Volker Ullrich shows in this new edition of his accessible biography, the real Bismarck was far …
Tazmamart
18 Years in Morocco’s Secret Prison
Häftad, 2021
120 kr
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This is the true story of Aziz BineBine who, unwittingly entangled in a failed coup against King Hassan II, found himself locked in a small, underground cell in a prison thought to be a mere horror story: Tazmamart. For 18 years, no one knew where the prison’s inmates were. No one knew if they were …
Leonard Cohen
A Novel
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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Dear Leonard Cohen,Could I ask you something, just between us? How was it that you never changed your name? You could have been Lawrence Cole. You could have been Lindsay Kohl, or Lionel Cone...So begins the story of an everyman Leonard Cohen, a would-be artist, a would-be lover, a would-be tragic …
In the Future of Yesterday
A Life of Stefan Zweig
Häftad, 2025
153 kr
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In the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, delving into his considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition.A world traveller from the outset, Zweig liked to uproot himself – but whether he …
My Palestine
An Impossible Exile
Häftad, 2025
153 kr
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Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family are forced to evacuate their village together with its entire population, after the Zionist victory that led to the establishment of the State of Israel. As now landless refugees in the West Bank, the family sinks into …
T.S. Eliot
A Short Biography
Av John Worthen
Häftad, 2011, 15+ år
187 kr
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Biographical writing about Eliot is in a more confused and contested state than is the case with any other major twentieth-century writer. No major biography has been released since the publication of his early poems, "Inventions of the March Hare," in 1996, which radically altered the reading …
Matter of Time
Av Alex Capus
Häftad, 2011
145 kr
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In November 1913, three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Ru ter, were ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm II to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble it on Lake Tanganyi- ka. Their initial aim of getting the task done quickly and returning home to …
Perla
Häftad, 2012, 15+ år
145 kr
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This is a coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic house guest. Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a …
Hidden Perspective
The Military Conversations 1906-1914
Av David Owen
Häftad, 2015
185 kr
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December 1905: Foreign Minister Edward Grey enters into secret talks with the French about sending British forces to their aid in the event of a German attack. The details were only revealed to the Cabinet and Prime Minister in 1911, by which point the 'hidden perspective' was firmly entrenched, …
Short History of the Silk Road
Häftad, 2017
127 kr
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The Silk Road is a route from the edges of the European world to the central plains of China. For thousands of years, its history has been a traveller’s history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and nameless forts. It was the conduit that first brought Buddhism, Christianity …
Reluctant Meister
Germany and the New Europe
Häftad, 2016
185 kr
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Germany is a country with a deep and complex history. Arguably there is no greater culture and no country has contributed more to the development of human ideas and creativity. Nor has any country sunk deeper into the abyss or experienced such redemption and renewal. It is this that instils the …
Peace That Never Was
A History of the League of Nations
Av Ruth Henig
Häftad, 2019
167 kr
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Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged, and how it was used in ensuing years to counter territorial ambitions and restrict armaments, as …
Dictatorship Syndrome
Häftad, 2021
113 kr
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The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated, and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, …
Shostakovich
A Coded Life in Music
Av Brian Morton
Häftad, 2021, 15+ år
131 kr
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Dmitri Shostakovich was the most popular Soviet composer of his generation. Internationally esteemed, he is widely considered to have been the last great classical symphonist, and his reputation has continued to increase since his death in 1975. Shostakovich wrote his First Symphony aged only …
Partition
How and Why Ireland was Divided
Av Ivan Gibbons
Häftad, 2022
127 kr
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The passion and emotion felt about the partition of Ireland has not dissipated in the 100 years since and, as the disorders occurred in Northern Ireland in the Spring 2021 show, it is as controversial now as it was then. To mark the centenary of partition, this much-acclaimed concise introductory …
Labour's Civil Wars
How infighting has kept the left from power (and what can be done about it)
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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The biblical adage that 'if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand' remains sound theological advice. It is also essential counsel for any political party in Britain that aspires to win elections. Though both major parties have been subject to internal conflict over the years, …
On the Back of an Envelope
A Life in Writing
Av Peter Hennessy, Polly Coupar-Hennessy
Inbunden, 2024
334 kr
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As one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and contemporary historians, Peter Hennessy has spent his professional life unpicking the arcane world of Whitehall and Westminster. He began his career as a journalist on The Times, the Economist and the Financial Times, developing a network of …
Kokoschka
The Untimely Modernist
Häftad, 2024
176 kr
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Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was an artist of his time, but he also stood out among his peers - not just because of his towering physical height but for his artistic range. Using both brush and pen to work against the tide, he wrote plays and stories as well as essays on art and politics, playing a …
Dervish Bowl
The Many Lives of Arminius Vambéry
Av Anabel Loyd
Häftad, 2025
172 kr
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Who was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist, traveller, and writer; or a sometime Zionist, inspiration for Dracula’s nemesis, and British secret agent?Vambéry wrote his own story many times over. And it was these often highly embroidered accounts of journeys through …
English Liberator
William Miller and the Independence of Spanish South America
Av John Hemming
Inbunden, 2025
288 kr
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During Admiral Thomas Cochrane’s demolition of imperial Spain’s naval presence in the Pacific during the revolutionary wars for Spanish South America, all the raids were carried out by his marines under a young officer called William Miller. He came from nowhere – one of three sons of a baker in a …
Emperor Incognito
Joseph II's Journey through Enlightenment Europe
Inbunden, 2026
249 kr
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The first complete account of Emperor Joseph II’s undercover journey through his kingdom.It is the middle of the eighteenth century, and across Europe signs of crisis are everywhere. Travelling incognito, and without the customary pomp and entourage, the young emperor Joseph II journeys through the …
Darkrooms of Edith Tudor-Hart
Stories of a Life
Inbunden, 2026
232 kr
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Why did you get yourself into this, Edith? Was it all worth it? Born and raised in a liberal Jewish family in Vienna, Edith Tudor-Hart’s legacy is defined by her pioneering social photography and her pivotal role in the recruitment of Kim Philby as a Soviet agent.Arrested for her involvement with …
African Exodus
Migration and the Future of Europe
Häftad, 2018
162 kr
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By 2050, Africa’s population is projected to have doubled. Already the UN is reporting a 20 per cent year-on-year growth in the number of refugees within Africa. For many of Africa’s economically strained nations the consequences could be catastrophic.In African Exodus, Asfa-Wossen Asserate argues …
Gandhi
The Man, His People and the Empire
Häftad, 2010, 15+ år
149 kr
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This monumental and authoritative biography of one of the most intriguing and complexfigures of the 20th century, written by his grandson, gives a complete and balanced accountof Gandhi's remarkable life, the development of his beliefs, his political campaigns,and his complex relationships with his …
28 June
Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: The War and Peace That Made the Modern World
Av Alan Sharp
Inbunden, 2014
307 kr
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On June 28, 1919, the Peace Treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, five years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggered Europe's precipitousdescent into war. This war was the first conflict to be fought on a global scale. By its end in …
Dervish Bowl
The Many Lives of Arminius Vambery
Av Anabel Loyd
Inbunden, 2024
280 kr
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Who was Arminius Vambéry? A poverty-stricken, Jewish autodidact; a linguist, traveller, and writer; or a sometime Zionist, inspiration for Dracula’s nemesis, and British secret agent? Vambéry wrote his own story many times over. And it was these often highly embroidered accounts of journeys through …
