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  • The Desert War

    The classic trilogy on the North Africa campaign 1940-43

    door Alan Moorehead ...
    The seminal account of the battle between Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Rommel’s Afrika Corps, amidst the endless harsh wastes of the Western Desert.In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘African Trilogy’ – ... Meer lezen

    Was 7,83 € Nu 4,23 €

  • Eclipse

    door Alan Moorehead ...
    Serie series Second World War Voices
    Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.With a new introduction by James HollandEclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily and southern Italy in 1943, which culminated in the ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • Gallipoli

    door Alan Moorehead ...
    A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the German side, its ultimate objective was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey, thus ... Meer lezen

    Was 12,29 € Nu 10,70 €

  • Alan Moorehead

    door Tom Pocock ...
    Alan Moorehead was lionised as a literary man of action: the most famous war correspondent of the Second World War; the award-winning and best-selling author of books that vividly combin adventure and hisotry; the star travel-writer of the New Yorker; and a pioneer advocate of wildlife conservation. Drawing on Moorehead's diaries and correspondence, as well as interviews with his family and ... Meer lezen

    12,99 €

  • The Russian Revolution

    door Alan Moorehead ...
    The Russian Revolution dismantled the ancient Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced in February 1917. In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government. The Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir ... Meer lezen

    12,29 €

  • Det skæbnesvangre møde : fremstødet i det sydlige Stillehav 1767-1840

    door Alan Moorehead ...
    Vertaald door Mogens Boisen ...
    I slutningen af 1700-tallet hører Stillehavsøerne og Australien til blandt Jordens mest isolerede egne. Lige indtil de opdagelsesrejsende, med James Cook som den mest berømte, dukker op. I "Det skæbnesvangre møde" vækkes en uberørt verden til live, og med særlig vægt på Cooks tre ekspeditioner fra 1768-1780 beskriver Moorehead opdagelsen og udforskningen af Tahiti, Australien og Antarktis. ... Meer lezen

    9,10 €

  • 達爾文與小獵犬號:物種原始的發現之旅

    Darwin and the Beagle

    Vertaald door 楊玉齡 ...
    Serie series 科學文化
    如果你不清楚那趟歷時五年的航程中,究竟發生了什麼事,別說你認識達爾文!達爾文的演化巨著《物種原始》已發表了150年,這個想法撼動了全人類的思想,而且影響至今,愈加深刻。一切的源頭,都來自達爾文搭乘小獵犬號的環球航行,那可說是歷史上最重要的一趟旅程。我們邀請您打開這本圖文並茂的遊記,參與達爾文的探險旅程,你將會見識到各地繽紛的生命、特殊的地理、稀奇的風俗民情,並且目睹偉大思想的孕育歷程。一段改變人類思想的壯闊旅程一位青年環球航行的冒險故事<strong... ... Meer lezen

    9,07 €

  • Our Man Elsewhere

    In Search of Alan Moorehead

    A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Alan Moorehead.As a reporter, Moorehead witnessed many of the great historical events of the mid ... Meer lezen

    6,99 €

  • Sovietistan

    A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

    door Erika Fatland ...
    Vertaald door Kari Dickson ...
    "A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the ... Meer lezen

    7,99 €

  • King of Kings

    The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran

    door Scott Anderson ...
    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A brilliant tale of greed, paranoia and hubris... a good place to start for anyone seeking to understand the current crisis' Financial Times'If you want to understand the turmoil in Gaza, Syria and beyond, the Iranian Revolution of 1979 is a good place to start' The Times'<st... ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

  • Unreasonable Behaviour

    An Autobiography

    door Don McCullin ...
    'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man - like myself, as a matter of fact - for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember, he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death and risk, he seems to be implying quite ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • The Dam Busters

    door Paul Brickhill ...
    Serie Boek 20 - Pan 70th Anniversary
    A special edition of The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan’s 70th anniversary.On 17 May 1943, nearly 350 million tons of water crashed into the valleys of the Ruhr when the Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron breached the giant Moehne and Eder Dams with colossal ‘blockbuster’ bombs*. The Dam Busters* tells the story of the raid and the squadron of ... Meer lezen

    1,05 €