Télécharger le livre :  Three Corvettes
This is how the war at sea really was...Nicholas Monsarrat's war, in those dark years of 1939-1945, was a ferocious, unforgiving, terrible war: the Battle of the Atlantic. An RNVR officer, he served on His Majesty's corvettes, tough little ships charged with the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Churchill's Generals
John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the Second World War fluctuated according to the successes and failures of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ageing Brain
How and why our brains age, and what we can do to prevent brain ageing and mental deterioration.We joke about growing old. From the viewpoint of youth, old age holds few if any rewards - at best those of increased dignity and wisdom. But as Lawrence Whalley shows in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mary Tudor
A highly-readable popular biography of 'Bloody Mary' - winner of the James Tait Black prize.Mary I is notorious for her persecution of Protestants and has been vilified by generations of partisan historians. H.F.M. Prescott brings a more humane and measured perspective...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fall of Carthage
The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity.The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual...

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Parution : 2012-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Thirst
Steven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the face of global climate change.The planet faces a 21st-century global water crisis - but to what extent is this really new? Past...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Battle for Spain
The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and...

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Parution : 2012-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Napoleon
The definitve account of Napoleon's rise to power by one of our greatest historians.On June 25, 1807, Napoleon met and embraced his recent foe, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, on a raft in the middle of the River Niemen near Tilsit. This theatrical but historic occasion...

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Parution : 2012-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Harold Macmillan
A masterly biography of a great Conservative Prime Minister (and publisher) - Harold Macmillan (1894-1986).Harold Macmillan was a figure of paradox. Outwardly, it was Edwardian elegance and civilised urbanity. Inwardly, it was emotional damage from his wife's open...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-08-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Dead Reckoning
The dramatic story of the sinking of the Dunedin StarNovember 9th, 1942. Amid the cloaking gloom of the Liverpool docks lay the Dunedin Star. A ship of the Blue Star Line, she was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ages of Lulu
A stunning erotic novel that has sold over 1 million copies worldwide - FIFTY SHADES OF GREY for a more sophisticated and adventurous reader.Long before FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, Grandes was dazzling the literary world with this highly charged novel about a young woman...

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Télécharger le livre :  Samuel Johnson
The first new biography for a generation of one of the great figures of English literaturePoet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, critic, conversationalist and wit, Dr Johnson is one of the great figures of English literature, perhaps the most quoted English writer...

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Télécharger le livre :  Send Me Safely Back Again
The third novel in the series sees new challenges for the men of the 106th Foot, as the British army attempts to recover from the disaster of Corunna and establish a foothold in the Peninsula. Featuring the battles of Medellin and Talavera, the 106th will have their...

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Parution : 2012-08-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hairy Dieters
'Si & Dave's recipes are SO much more delicious than the average diet dishes, it's no wonder they lost nearly 6st between them!' WOMAN'Delicious recipes that are for "real people, not skinny minnies" - including hearty family meals and baked treats' EASY FOOD'Showcases...

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Parution : 2012-08-02
Collection : The Hairy Bikers ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  D-Day 1944
The story of D-Day, told in the words of those who were actually there.'The gigantic scale of the invasion is stunningly evoked' - MAIL ON SUNDAYAt fifteen minutes after midnight on June 6 1944, Operation 'Overlord', the Allied invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe,...

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Parution : 2012-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Dunkirk
A gripping account of the most famous military defeat and retreat in history, now the subject of a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and Mark Rylance.The NEW YORK TIMES of 2 June 1940 summed up the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fishing Fleet
The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With...

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Parution : 2012-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  All Woman and Springtime
In the tradition of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, a sweeping tale of friendship, hardship and redemption set in North Korea. Gi lives behind North Korea's iron curtain under the watchful eye of Dear Leader. As an orphan, growing up on a diet of thin soup and propaganda,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Barbarossa
The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly narrates the course...

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Parution : 2012-07-05
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Télécharger le livre :  In Southern Waters
Blackly comic novel which does for Brighton what WITHNAIL & I did for Camden TownCaroline Woolfit, non-smoking vegetarian and wannabe new-age traveller, soon discovers that her new housemates at 23 Bloomsbury Place are a strange lot. There's Blossom, the writer manqué...

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