wyszukanych pozycji: 3
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
ISBN: 9780140145151 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British 'obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance' - and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire 'solutions' - largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith...
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to em...
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66,76 zł |
Florence Nightingale: 1820-1910 - Biography of the Nursing Pioneer
ISBN: 9781789875522 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,12 zł |
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
ISBN: 9780140012781 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War's Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so...
This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign hist...
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103,82 zł |