Télécharger le livre :  Armageddon
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Fifty years after the end of World War II Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of the most destructive conflict in human history - one in which 85 million people died.Armageddon avoids conventional chronological accounts in order to concentrate on the deeper...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-02-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Gunpowder
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For many, gunpowder is associated with Guy Fawkes and the attempt to blow up parliament on 5 November 1605. Fewer people know that the formula for gunpowder was in fact discovered more than 1,000 years ago - in China - and by accident - and was initially a medicine.This...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Progress And Barbarism
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How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulence, Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century has meant to people throughout the world. Progress and Barbarism analyses the fundamental...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Pimlico History Of 20th Century
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How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulence, Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century hgas meant to people throughout the world. THE PIMLICO HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-05-31

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Télécharger le livre :  Thirteen Days
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At the end of WWI, Germany was demonised. The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' clause pinning the blame on the aggression of Germany and accusing her of 'supreme offence against international morality'. Thirteen Days rejects this verdict. Clive Ponting has...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  A New Green History Of The World
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Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilisations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that human beings...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crimean War
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The Crimean War is full of resonance - not least, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Sevastopol and Florence Nightingale at Scutari with her lamp. In this fascinating book, Clive Ponting separates the myths from the reality, and tells the true story of the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  World History
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Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the expansion of Europe. The histories of the great civilisations of China, India and Japan, and therefore the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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