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Germany's Eastern Front Allies (2): Baltic Forces
ISBN: 9781841761930 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - enjoyed a brief independence between the World Wars before being annexed by the USSR in 1940 during World War II. The grim experience of Soviet occupation made it inevitable that after the German invasion of Russia in 1941 they would fight beside the Wehrmacht as allies against the Red Army while always hoping for restored independence. That hope was crushed again in 1944-45; yet 'Forest Brother' guerrillas continued to fight against hopeless odds for years after the second Soviet occupation. This extraordinary story is illustrated here...
The Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - enjoyed a brief independence between the World Wars before being annexed by the USSR in 1940 duri...
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67,92 |
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If I Could Paint the Moon Black: Imbi Peebo's Wartime Journey from Estonia to America
ISBN: 9781644381380 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,96 |
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Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20
ISBN: 9781472830777 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,15 |
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Legacy of a Lithuanian Grandmother
ISBN: 9781984549815 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,29 |
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Circle of Amber
ISBN: 9780995386808 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Circle of Amber Kristina’s life in the tiny village of Ventuva, northwest Lithuania, seems idyllic until her husband Romas is brutally murdered. Forced to raise three young children on her own, she relies on the ancient gods and her mother Elena for guidance. Trying to retain her country’s traditions during two world wars, Kristina battles to overcome poverty and the villagers’ suspicions. On the other side of the world, in Australia, Gaila fights her own demons. Then she finds a small leather bound book amongst her mother’s possessions. Does it... Circle of Amber Kristina’s life in the tiny village of Ventuva, northwest Lithuania, seems idyllic until her husband... |
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Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (2): The Stone Castles of Latvia and Estonia 1185-1560
ISBN: 9781841767123 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the Brethren of the Sword. In 1236 this order was incorporated into the Teutonic Knights following a catastrophic military defeat. The knights had always consolidated their conquests through networks of castles and fortified places, and the Livonian Chapter of the Teutonic Order built castles of stone. This title covers the developmental and operational history of these fortresses over the length of the Middle Ages. It details how the Baltic...
The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the...
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78,38 |
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Die Ägyptologie an Den Prager Universitäten 1882-1945: Gesammelte Aufsätze Und Vorträge (Egyptology at the Prague Universities 1882-1945. Collected Ar
ISBN: 9788073083410 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intensive research in the archives of the university and the academy of sciences, especially in the collection of the former German University in Prague, has brought to light an abundance of new material, new insights and hitherto unforeseen connections. They show the beginnings of Egyptology in Bohemia resp. the Czech Republic in an altogether new light, as an Egyptology which had originally defined itself as Bohemian and only later constituted itself as a Czech one. The essays, collected and updated according to the most recent state of knowledge, for the first time in this volume, also...
Intensive research in the archives of the university and the academy of sciences, especially in the collection of the former German University in Prag...
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82,46 |
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The Crossing: Searching for My Baltic German Ancestry and Discovering Latvia
ISBN: 9781535617437 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,30 |
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Yugoslavia Dismembered
ISBN: 9780853459224 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,34 |
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Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435
ISBN: 9781472851505 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,61 |
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Hazardous Duty
ISBN: 9780380727421 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller About Face, Colonel David H. Hackworth is one of America's most decorated soldiers, having served at the end of World War II, and in Korea and Vietnam. Retired from the military since 1971, he has completed second tour of battlefield duty -- this time as a war correspondent -- accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea and Haiti. What he learned of high-level military incompetence, futility and corruption in the heat and fury of Desert Storm -- and in the desperation... The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller About Face, Colonel David H. Hackworth is one of America's most decorated... |
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86,12 |
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Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
ISBN: 9780719568800 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Weddingelegant prose withimpeccable historical research, this highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinoplethe city of the world's desireand its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries Constantinople, with its enormous racial and cultural diversity, was the center of the dramatic and often depraved story of an...
Weddingelegant prose withimpeccable historical research, this highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmop...
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86,31 |
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The Long Winter of 1945: Tivari
ISBN: 9781487543297 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,37 |
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Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation: Ocean Travel in Anutan Culture and Society
ISBN: 9780873387880 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After fourteen months of field research in 1972-73 and an additional four months of field work with the Anutans in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara in 1983, Richard Feinberg here provides a thorough study of Anutan seafaring and navigation. In doing so he gives rare insights into the larger picture of how Polynesians have adapted to the sea. This richly illustrated book explores the theory and technique used by Anutans in construction, use, and handling of their craft; the navigational skills still employed in interisland voyaging; and their culturally patterned attitudes toward the...
After fourteen months of field research in 1972-73 and an additional four months of field work with the Anutans in the Solomon Islands capital of Honi...
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94,33 |
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Making It Through: Bosnian Survivors Sharing Stories of Trauma, Transcendence, and Truth
ISBN: 9781630518462 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,29 |
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Magical Britain: 650 Enchanted and Mystical Sites - From healing wells and secret shrines to giants’ strongholds and fairy glens
ISBN: 9781910636305 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,46 |
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Discourses of Modernity: The Case of Estonian Literature
ISBN: 9781943596447 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,91 |
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Smuggled in Potato Sacks: Fifty Stories of the Hidden Children of the Kaunas Ghetto
ISBN: 9780853038245 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,10 |
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The Yugoslav Air Force Volume 2: In the Battles for Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1991-1992
ISBN: 9781914059179 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,35 |
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Displaced - A Modern Baltic Saga
ISBN: 9780646860114 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,79 |