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Télécharger le livre : The Dark Valley
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The Dark Valley
Piers Brendon
Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2016-05-12

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14,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
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Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
Piers Brendon
'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.'The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2016-04-28

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4,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Eminent Elizabethans
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Eminent Elizabethans
Piers Brendon
What links Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles and Mick Jagger? Each have illuminated our Elizabethan age in their own, inimitable, way.Margaret Thatcher - the first female Prime Minister, who dedicated herself with messianic zeal to breaking the mould of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-09-13

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9,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Churchill
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Churchill
Piers Brendon
This astute biography brilliantly captures, in one volume, the full range of Winston Churchill's astonishing career. perhaps the greatest political figure of modern times, Churchill's achievement extended well beyond his emblematic role in the Second World War. Piers...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-08-31

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14,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Hawker Of Morwenstow
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Hawker Of Morwenstow
Piers Brendon
This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet's rich personality. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Piers Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-08-31

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14,99 €
Télécharger le livre : The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
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The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
Piers Brendon
No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no empire (except the...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-07-06

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12,99 €