Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History, Paperback - Matthieu Auzanneau

Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs "Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction."--Nature Th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Antony WildCoffee trader and historian Antony Wild delivers a rollicking history of the most valuable legally traded commod...

DescriptionThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibilities of the international...

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Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers IncAuthor(s): Buddhika B. JayamahaNumber of pages: 197Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 20Cover typ...

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Lifts the lid on the history of one of the world's favourite foods.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Emma KayIllustration(s): 20 black and...

Delves into our evolutionary history to explain why sugar is so loved, yet is the root cause of so many bad things.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd...

Reducere. In August of 1942, Great Britain faced a desperate situation. German bombers hammered the nation's industrial cities and towns daily, and the toll ...

This is a story of an East Coast town during the Great War.

From the slaves used to build the Great Wall to the Tiananmen Square protests, the illustrated China - A Dark History takes an expert sweep across ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Bridget AshtonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 2...

DescriptionIdaho The compound They had finally made it After several months of harrowing, fraught with danger around every corner, never knowing wh...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Mike BrowneNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 229 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

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A Team of Rivals for World War II--the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, ...

The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the...

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The Irish Civil War was contested as bitterly in Clare as in any other part of Ireland. The pattern of the war in the country was similar to the mi...

The IRA Volunteers of County Clare were pioneers of the tactics of guerrilla warfare. In 1919, with the moral support of Dr. Michael Fogarty, Catho...

Reducere. How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance, " which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France ...

North Sea oil forms a crucial chapter in Scottish history. Written by an industry insider, a combination of lightly technical explanation and anecd...

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Why Does America Go to War? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect...

DescriptionAs the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From v...

Nationalism and War - John A. Hall, Sinisa Malesevic

Voici une evocation inedite, detaillee et complete du parcours d'Eugene B. Sledge, un servant de mortier de la 1st Marine Division qui combattit su...

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Reducere. "They'd never kill a reporter...." On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER. A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICE."This year's hottest crime novel". - Independent Nora hasn't seen Clare fo...

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A double biography of two forgotten Early Medieval queens: Brunhild and Fredegund.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Shelley PuhakIllustration(s): 1...

This Dark Business tells the riveting story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible.

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From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" ("Financial Times") comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the mod...

Reducere. Explore how the Korean War Started, the Aftermath and the Events in Between The narrative of the Korean War in the West, and particularly in the Un...

Reducere. Alabama's role in the Civil War cannot be understated. Union raids into northern Alabama, the huge manufacturing infrastructure in central Alabama ...

Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...

Reducere. The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlig...

Reducere. Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throug...

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Reducere. Explore the Cold War and Get a Deeper Understanding of the Korean and Vietnam WarTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Korean War: A Captivating...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertA "magisterial" (The New York Times) single-volume history of WWII It began with the German invasion of Polan...

Description☆☆☆ American Civil War ☆☆☆Beginning with the birth of the nation, slavery divided and caused conflict for the United States of America, ...

This is a compact but comprehensive and absorbing history of the Second World War. It examines the causes of the war, how it was won and lost, and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThey say all is fair in love and war, but how do you fight when you don't know the enemy is the one you love? Will the Hoover gang be ab...

Reducere. Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award (1990)Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1991) Joy Harjo is a powerful voice...