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  • 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 €

  • 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

    7,30 €

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    Reinforce knowledge and develop exam skills with revision of key historical content, exam-focussed activities and guidance from experts as part of the Access to History Series.· Take control of revision with helpful revision tools and techniques, and content broken into easy-to-revise chunks.· Revise key historical content and practise exam technique in context with related exam-focussed ...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

    12,99 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    8,91 €

  • 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

    11,54 €

  • 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

  • Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories of Prisoners Surviving the Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories and Heroes of Auschwitz

    Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #2

    by Cyrus J. Zachary ...
    Series Book 2 - Holocaust Survivor Accounts
    The Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, leading into and during the Second World War. The word itself means, "Sacrifice by fire".The Holocaust has no other comparison in the annals of human history because of the sheer extent of the terror it spread.In 1933 the ... Read more

    Free

  • 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

  • On Politics

    by Alan Ryan ...
    This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question:how should human beings best govern themselves? That question raises innumerable others: can we manage our own affairs at all? Should we even try? Many people in the past have thought that only some individuals were either able or entitled to ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • The Killer Book of True Crime

    Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder and Mayhem

    by Tom Philbin, Michael Philbin ...
    Series series The Killer Books
    The perfect read for any true crime junkie!You've read all the stories…but can you match the mobster with the way he met his end? Do you know how they caught the Boston Strangler? Can you define chickens, a Shotaro complex or Colombian neckties?The Killer Book of True Crime is the ultimate collection of in-depth stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes and photos gruesome and interesting enough to make ... Read more

    8,68 €

  • The System of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe

    by Teresa Fazan, Jan Burzyński, Anna Wolff-Powęska, Paweł Kras ...
    Series Book 36 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth century, the papacy launched concerted efforts to hunt out heretics, mostly Cathars and Waldensians, and directed operations against them all across Latin Christendom. The bull of Pope Lucius III Ad ... Read more

    Free

  • Bilderberg Group: What Don’t You Know? Conspiracy Theories Surrounding The Top Secret Society

    Secret Societies, #1

    by William Myron Price ...
    Series Book 1 - Secret Societies
    Every year since 1954 a Bilderberg Meeting has been held in an exclusive hotel in Europe or North America. Attendance is by invitation only and includes some of the most powerful and influential people in the Western World.However, just what happens during meetings is unknown because none of the people who attend will talk about what they do. The people who organize these meetings insist that this ... Read more

    Free

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • Freud and Beyond

    A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought

    by Stephen A. Mitchell, Margaret J. Black ...
    **The definitive history of a century of psychoanalytic thought“Absolutely crucial in reformulating the psychoanalytic project to meet the intellectual and emotional demands upon it a century after its birth.” —The Guardian**Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • Silencing the Past

    Power and the Production of History

    by Michel-Rolph Trouillot ...
    **20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Discover the pioneering classic of history, anthropology, and post-colonial studies—now with a new foreword by renowned scholar Hazel Carby.Part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck**Placing the West’s failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution—the most successful slave revolt in history—alongside denials of the ... Read more

    11,65 €

  • 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

    17,90 €

  • 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 Knight in History

    by Frances Gies ...
    Series series Medieval Life
    A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight“A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination.” —Los Angeles TimesBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobile knight revolutionized warfare and quickly became a mythic figure in history. From the Knights ... Read more

    8,68 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History

    Edited by Karl F. Friday ...
    Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader explorations of social structures, and a re-examination of many key assumptions. As a result, the picture of the early Japanese past now ... Read more

    59,65 €