4,222円 Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world. Hirshberg shows that the displacement of indigenous M...

3,315円 The Kingdom of Castile in the late Middle Ages suffered from regular civil strife, warfare, dynastic contests, and violence, such that only a century before the birth of the Spanish Empire, it is difficult to imagine a successfulworld empire centered in this tumultuous realm. The chaos that marke...

2,248円 A haunting exploration of the Cold War arms race that tells the story of a true, covered-up germ warfare incident in a remote part of Scotland, involving the US, Canadian, and UK governments. NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments ...

827円 Este reporte describe los efectos producidos por las bombas atómicas arrojadas sobre las ciudades de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, el 6 y el 9 de agosto de 1945 respectivamente. Resume toda la información que en 1946 estaba disponible acerca de los daños causados a estructuras, heridas a personas, muerto...

0円 This is an extract from the book Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (Headline Publishing Group, 2020).

2,989円 Het verhaal van de grootste natuurkundigen in de tijd van wereldoorlogen en revoluties '[Een] fascinerende reis door het gouden tijdperk van de natuurkunde, waarin revolutionaire ontdekkingen, politieke rampen en het persoonlijke lot van baanbrekende wetenschappers onlosmakelijk met elkaar verwev...

900円 Our world has changed drastically over the decades, we still have the negative aspects of wars, race relations, slavery and poverty but now we have to contend with globalization, social media, artificial intelligence, space exploration, cloning and scientific breakthroughs in the field of medicin...

3,562円 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and ...

1,617円 ‘Everyone should spend a couple of hours of their life reading it, to remind themselves that, even in the darkest depth of human misery, the bravest souls still exist.’ Sunday Times Since ISIS occupied Raqqa in eastern Syria, it has become one of the most isolated and fear-ridden cities on earth....

4,531円 The 1939-45 conflict was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the war economy. In this comprehensive and engrossing narrative Angus Calder presents not only the great events and leading figures but also ...

925円 I de sidste dage af Anden Verdenskrig, og kun kendt af en håndfuld mennesker, prøvede japanerne at gøre et sidste desperat forsøg på at vinde krigen. To ubåde blev sendt af sted til USA´s vestkyst lastet med en dødsensfarlig virus. Deres mission var at bringe helvede til fjendens hjemland. Ingen ...

925円 Flyvemaskinen med den dødbringende pest-organisme er styrtet ned. Man mener, den må liggge på bunden af Stillehave En pestorganisme så gruopvækkende, at Præsident Eisenhower giver ordre til at stoppe alle videre forsøg med den og udslette alle spor af dens eksistens. Men flyvemaskinen er ikke sty...