The Bulwark of Christendom: the Turkish Sieges of Vienna 1529 & 1683-The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks by Karl August Schimmer & The Great Siege o, Pa

Reducere. The struggles for the city that saved Europe from the Ottoman Turkish Empire The battle between the Islamic east and the Christian west raged for c...

Reducere. The definitive account of the last serious threat to Western civilization by the armies of Islam. The siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the turnin...

Identifies and narrates 40 sieges of the city that was Byzantion, then Constantinople and now Istanbul.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): J...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore a major turning point in the history of Europe and the Middle East The fall of Constantinople was an event which had great reper...

DescriptionWhile European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas ...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): David CookeIllustration(s): 100 illustrations including mapsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2012Di...

Reducere. In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty year...

Reducere. "Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and importa...

This book examines through historical and archaeological research the sieges of Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury during th...

Warriors in the Medieval World examines the different roles of foot soldiers and knights in Medieval history as well as the development of heavier ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the standoffs by both sides *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Armenian Genocide, then keep reading...During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Armenian Genocide, then keep reading...During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian ...

Reducere. Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable pea...

DescriptionArt, music, literature, and science in Vienna at the turn of the last century presented a series of wrenching dualities: reality and ill...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David EdmondsIllustration(s): 23 b/w illus.Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 13...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Alys X. GeorgeIllustration(s): 43 halftonesNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimension...

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This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material...

The Vienna Action Group, known for their grotesque, iconoclastic, ritualistic, and sexual works, formed one of the most provocative art movements o...

Bartolome de las Casas's A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies stands as one of history's most damning narratives of Spanish colonizatio...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1683, Vienna endured a two-month siege and a battle with the Ottoman Turks. At the last minute, they were relieved by an army led by ...

Gregorian Chant, named after Pope Gregory II (715-31) probably originated in the Frankish lands with the chanting during church services of a group...

Gregorian Chant, named after Pope Gregory II (715-31) probably originated in the Frankish lands with the chanting during church services of a group...

This intellectual 2001 biography recovers the legacy of Karl Popper (1902-1945); the progressive, cosmopolitan, Viennese socialist who combated fas...

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the int...

The Book of Tea ( Cha no Hon?) by Okakura Kakuzo (1906) is a long essay linking the role of tea (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of J...

Reducere. One of Christianity's most celebrated mystics, St. John of the Cross, was a 16th century Spanish Carmelite monk whose inspired poetry and writings ...

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a m...

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. In five days that small fire...

Reducere. Benjamin Franklin AwardPorsche - Origin of the Species is the latest Porsche heritage book by renowned automotive historian Karl Ludvigsen, author ...

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art bega...

A long-overdue full-length biography of one of England's timeless greats

Reducere. The Siege of Burgos, the Retreat from Burgos, the Campaign of Vittoria, the Battles of the PyreneesBetween the Autumn of 1812 and the late Summer o...

Reducere. How Christendom defeated the Ottoman Turks. Historian Diane Moczar pulls back the curtain on one of the most important acts in the drama of Muslim ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...