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  • The Assyrian Empire: Explore the Thrilling History of the Assyrians and their Fearful Empire in the Ancient Mesopotamia

    by History Compacted ...
    Explore the Intense History of the Assyrians.The ancient masters of war and conquest became the most powerful force in the Near East thousands of years ago. One of the first empires in world history. The Assyrians rose to power through the strength of its sophisticated military. The creation of the professional soldier, advanced iron weapons technology, and siege warfare tactics made the Assyrians ... Read more

    Free

  • Ιστορία της κάθε χώρας σε όλο τον κόσμο στα ελληνικά

    History of Each Country around the World in Greek

    by Nam Nguyen ...
    Ιστορία της κάθε χώρας Around The World στο στόχο Ελληνική είναι να γεμίσετε το μυαλό σας με απλές ιστορικές γνώσεις με αυτό το ebook . Το ebook είναι εύκολο στη χρήση , δροσιστικό και είναι εγγυημένη για να είναι συναρπαστικό ! Μπορείτε να διαβάσετε αυτό το ebook , χωρίς καμία προηγούμενη γνώση των γεγονότων του παρελθόντος . Αυτό το ebook είναι μια εξαιρετική πηγή για να ξεκινήσει ορισμένες από ... Read more

    9,09 €

  • Διαφέροντα και περίεργα τινά ιστορήματα

    by Αλέξιος Κουτσαλέξης ...
    Τα γνωστά με τον τίτλο "Διαφέροντα και περίεργα τινά ιστορήματα" Απομνημονεύματα του Γιαννιώτη Αλέξη Κουτσαλέξη. ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • Access to History for the IB Diploma: Authoritarian States Study and Revision Guide

    Paper 2

    by Paul Grace ...
    Series series Prepare for Success
    Reinforce knowledge and develop exam skills with revision of key historical content, exam-focussed activities and guidance from experts as part of the Access to History Series.· Take control of revision with helpful revision tools and techniques, and content broken into easy-to-revise chunks.· Revise key historical content and practise exam technique in context with related exam-focussed ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Veterans, Victims, and Memory

    The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland

    by Machteld Venken, Joanna Wawrzyniak ...
    Translated by Simon Lewis ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in Contemporary History
    In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to ... Read more

    Free

  • The Thirty-Year Genocide

    Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924

    by Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi ...
    A Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year“A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.”—Times Literary Supplement“Brilliantly researched and written…casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects... ... Read more

    15,25 €

  • From the Holy Mountain

    A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple’s previous work.In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an extraordinary journey across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Their aim: to collect the wisdom of the sages and ... Read more

    11,65 €

  • Forged

    Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

    by Bart D. Ehrman ...
    Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God’s Problem reveals which books in the Bible’s New Testament were not passed down by Jesus’s disciples, but were instead forged by other hands—and why this centuries-hidden scandal is far more significant than many scholars are willing to admit. A controversial work of historical reporting in the tradition of Elaine ... Read more

    7,41 €

  • Chinese Civil War

    History of China

    by Hourly History ...
    Series series History of China
    "Chinese Civil War: A History from Beginning to End" offers a detailed historical timeline and an in-depth discussion of the Chinese Civil War in its entirety. The book covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final and most well-known phase of the war, from 1946-1949. Learn about the causes, ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • The Dirt

    Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

    by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars ...
    NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE.Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt—the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity ... Read more

    11,33 €

  • Marie Curie: The Mother of Modern Physics

    by History Titans ...
    Marie Curie is renowned for her remarkable achievements and discoveries as a scientist. The fact that she's a female scientist may not be that controversial in our time, but that wasn't the case back in the 1800s when women were expected to marry, cook, and raise children. Maire set out on a road that was completely uncharted for women. Not only did she prove that women can do everything that men ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • The Art of War: Master Sun's Rules for Soldiers

    (With Audiobook Link)

    by Sun Tzu ...
    Series series Classic Books
    The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics of its time. It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mighty Dead

    Why Homer Matters

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New StatesmanLonglisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson sets out to explain why these great ... Read more

    10,91 €

  • The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures

    Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of Postcatastrophic Narration

    Edited by Anna Artwinska, Anja Tippner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region.Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays ... Read more

    Free

  • Il Dizionario della Mitologia Greca dalla A alla Z

    La guida definitiva a dèi, eroi, creature leggendarie e miti dell'antica Grecia

    by Andrew Bould ...
    Il Dizionario della Mitologia Greca dalla A alla Z - LA GUIDA DEFINITIVA a dèi, eroi, creature leggendarie e miti ✨ Scopri i misteri dell'Antica Grecia! Entra nel mondo affascinante della mitologia greca, dove dèi e dee ⚡️, eroi ed eroine ️, e creature leggendarie danno vita a storie senza tempo. Il Dizionario della Mitologia Greca dalla A alla Z è il tuo compagno definitivo, offrendoti un ... Read more

    3,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Killer Book of Cold Cases

    Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time

    by Tom Philbin ...
    Series series The Killer Books
    Shocking stories of the most infamous cold crimes!The perfect gift for any true crime fan! Every criminal dreams of committing the perfect crime. A crime that is so well executed, with clues and evidence so scarce, that even the experts are left baffled. The Killer Book of Cold Cases takes you behind the crime scene tape and deep into the investigations of some of the most puzzling and notorious ... Read more

    8,68 €

  • The Holocaust Industry

    Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

    by Norman G Finkelstein ...
    In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the ... Read more

    7,52 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Look of the Past

    Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice

    by Ludmilla Jordanova ...
    How can we use visual and material culture to shed light on the past? Ludmilla Jordanova offers a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the role of images, objects and buildings in the study of past times. Through a combination of thematic chapters and essays on specific artefacts – a building, a piece of sculpture, a photographic exhibition and a painted portrait – she shows how to analyse ... Read more

    39,63 €

  • La fata dai piedi di mula

    Licantropi, streghe e vampiri nell’Oriente Greco

    by Tommaso Braccini, Maurizio Bettini ...
    «In questi racconti il lettore vedrà spesso dispiegarsi una fantasia cupa, perversa, imprevedibile, che certo non ha molto della pretesa luminosità attica. Si tratta spesso di storie che hanno il potere di esplorare le pieghe della paura e dell’orrore, ma anche della comicità e dell’ironia, con un’efficacia e una ricchezza di invenzioni che difficilmente un moderno sceneggiatore di film pulp, ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • King Edward VIII

    by Philip Ziegler ...
    The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most distinguished biographers.In this masterly authorized biography, Philip Ziegler reveals the complex personality of Edward VIII, the only British monarch to have voluntarily renounced the throne.With unique access to the Royal Archives, Ziegler overturns many myths about Edward and tells his side of the story ... Read more

    13,77 €

  • Knowing What We Know

    The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

    by Simon Winchester ...
    “A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.” — New York TimesFrom the creation of ... Read more

    18,22 €

  • Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: The American West, c.1835-c.1895

    by Dave Martin ...
    Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the leading History publisher for secondary schools.Blends in-depth coverage of topics with activities and strategies to help students to acquire... ... Read more

    8,49 €

  • Outlandish Knight

    The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman

    by Minoo Dinshaw ...
    ECONOMIST AND SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia'As rich, funny and teemingly peopled as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time ... Dinshaw writes with wit and elegance, and the most elegiac passages of Outlandish Knight evoke a lost society London and way of life' Ben Judah, <em ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Access to History for the IB Diploma: The move to global war

    by Kenneth A Dailey ...
    A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 3: The Move to Global WarThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level, helping students to develop their knowledge and analytical skills.Provides:- Reliable, clear and in-depth content from topic experts- Analysis of the ... Read more

    8,49 €