The Penguin History of the World, Paperback - J. M. Roberts

DescriptionThe completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the W...

Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic persona...

Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish an...

The Second World War lasted for 2, 174 days and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? Why did the Ax...

DescriptionThere is an old adage that says, "Truth is stranger than fiction." This is the way it was told in the fascinating stories about the famo...

Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, the author argues provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as par...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): edited by Hugh Malcolm RobertsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 166Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Reducere. "Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects...

An erudite and affectionate history of the Basque people, a nation without a country, the origins of which go back to pre-Roman times, and whose ow...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): edited by Hugh Malcolm RobertsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 166Publication date: 2021Dimension...

During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was shaped by four titanic figures: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, and their...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel Prize-winning author completes his hauntin...

The author of }A People's History Of The Russian Revolution{ presents a tour de force of radical history comparable to Howard Zinn's }A People's Hi...

Men dominate history because they write it. This book offers a reappraisal which aims to re-establish women's importance at the centre of the world...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Alex WoolfNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 234 x 278 x 27Cover type: Paperback / ...

Presents an account of the First World War. This title tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gall...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Patrick RobertsNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 358 x 38Cover type: Paperback / s...

Offers expectant parents a chance to choose a name for their newborn from a list of countries, each with a list of names. This book offers a descri...

This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especial...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous pr...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World is the story of humanity itself, from earliest times to the present day, and the changes-good and bad-w...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is twenty-four years since the First Crusaders conquered Jerusalem. Robert of Bures is a young knight whose father rose to power and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher Lascelles'A clearly written, remarkably comprehensive guide to the greatest story on Earth - man's journey from...

Why do oil and diamonds lead to economic disaster more often than boom? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine? Why might believing in God be good for you...

DescriptionOf the more than one hundred books that H. G. Wells published in his lifetime, this is one of the most ambitious. Spanning the origins o...

Reissued with a major new chapter on the 2008 financial crisis. A history of the world through the lens of money, indicating the financial stories ...

Reducere. For more than 5, 000 years the Ancestral Puebloans--Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans--occupied the Four...

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publica...

E. H. Gombrich's bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not ...

DescriptionBased on The New York Times Best-Selling series, this timeline of world history gives a fresh take on global events, from King Tut to Ma...

Istoria lumii. Din preistorie pina in prezent - J. M. Roberts, Odd Arne Westad

Reducere. Take a profound journey into the mysterious esoteric symbolism of the largely forgotten Dream Vision, buried deep within the ancient Book of Enoch....

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World traces the development of peoples, cultures, and faiths between the coming of the barbarian inva...

Presents the biography of Napoleon who lived one of the extraordinary of all human lives. This book shows how after seizing power in a coup d'etat ...

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 ...

This definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength - and weakness...