Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
ISBN: 9780062749529 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister--soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to Prime Minister, the horrors of Blitzkreig witness one western European Democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when... From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Wins... |
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86,06 zł |
1917 - The Passchendaele Year: The British Army in Flanders: The Diary of Achiel Van Walleghem
ISBN: 9781911454403 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917. The Battle of "Third Ypres" - popularly known as "Passchendaele" - epitomized the worst slaughter on the western front of the First World War. Many thousands killed, to no avail; the trenches full of mud; the total annihilation of the landscape; attempts to break through to victory which only produced minor movement forward, and at a terrible cost.This book tells the previously untold story of daily life immediately behind the frontline during the tragic year of 1917.The...
This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917. The Battle of "Third Ypres" ...
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165,75 zł |
No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984
ISBN: 9781107176898 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
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322,39 zł |
No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984
ISBN: 9781316625606 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk's cultural development.
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95,66 zł |
Reconstructing modernity: Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities
ISBN: 9781526114143 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of characters who shaped these processes. It challenges traditional views of urban modernism and sheds new light on the importance of the immediate post-war for the trajectory of planned urban renewal in twentieth century. It examines plans and policies designed to produce and govern lived spaces - shopping centers, housing estates, parks, schools...
Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores ...
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450,71 zł |
Palestinians and British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath of the Balfour Declaration of 1917
ISBN: 9781845198961 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ottoman Turkey's decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of its people, 93 percent of them Arab, the November 1917 Balfour Declaration withheld the independence they rightly anticipated and for strategic reasons earmarked Palestine as a National Home for the Jewish People. Ronald Storrs, a British Foreign and Colonial Office official, remarked that 'The U.K. proposed to hand (Palestine), without consulting the occupants, to a third party; and what sort of...
Ottoman Turkey's decision to ally with Germany in the First World War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle East and sealed ...
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530,25 zł |
Russia and the British Left: From the 1848 Revolutions to the General Strike
ISBN: 9781788310642 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unknown story of the Rothstein family and their influence in British communism
Unknown story of the Rothstein family and their influence in British communism
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478,55 zł |
Secrets and Silence: Child Sex Abuse from Cleveland to Savile and Beyond
ISBN: 9781447341147 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Official Secrets reveals that the enquiry that followed the Cleveland child abuse scandal of 1987 was a cover-up. Doctors were discouraged and social workers disempowered - a legacy that leads all the way to the current Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Official Secrets reveals that the enquiry that followed the Cleveland child abuse scandal of 1987 was a cover-up. Doctors were discouraged and social ...
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65,44 zł |
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain
ISBN: 9781108425353 / Angielski / Twarda / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first modern history of the 1975 European Referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said 'Yes to Europe'.
The first modern history of the 1975 European Referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said 'Yes to Europe'.
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146,09 zł |
The Courage to Look Back
ISBN: 9781927755624 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,19 zł |
Peace Camping: A HIstory
ISBN: 9780953230563 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,64 zł |
The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain
ISBN: 9781350066595 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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554,12 zł |
The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual: 1939-1945
ISBN: 9781472833280 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A remarkable insight into the training and techniques of Allied agents operating behind enemy lines during the Second World War
A remarkable insight into the training and techniques of Allied agents operating behind enemy lines during the Second World War
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51,46 zł |
Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire
ISBN: 9781350069831 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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554,12 zł |
Black Country Dictionary & Phrase Book
ISBN: 9780993530166 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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34,40 zł |
Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to the Present Day: The Titan with Many Faces
ISBN: 9781350081390 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,84 zł |
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
ISBN: 9781631494918 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most miraculous military rescue missions in modern history comes alive in this "superb and panoramic" (Washington Post) account of Dunkirk.
One of the most miraculous military rescue missions in modern history comes alive in this "superb and panoramic" (Washington Post) account of Dunkirk.
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79,49 zł |
The British End of the British Empire
ISBN: 9781107070318 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.
The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.
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423,14 zł |
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
ISBN: 9780316506830 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A "fascinating, beautifully readable, compulsively readable book" (Douglas Preston) that tells the real-life story of the Great London Smog of 1952--an utterly preventable natural disaster that killed 12,000 people--and the serial killer, John Reginald Christie, who used the smog and its aftermath as a veritable cloak for his crimes.
A "fascinating, beautifully readable, compulsively readable book" (Douglas Preston) that tells the real-life story of the Great London Smog of 1952--a...
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86,06 zł |
Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster
ISBN: 9781509868223 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The horrific true story of the world's worst offshore oil disaster
The horrific true story of the world's worst offshore oil disaster
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51,46 zł |