195円 Nos parece interesante dedicar el presente libro a abordar la caída de la monarquía de Alfonso XIII, el advenimiento de la Segunda República y su estrepitoso fracaso culminado con la cruenta guerra civil que nos es a todos familiar y que detuvo la Historia de España durante casi cuatro décadas. L...

1,243円 In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from histori...

666円 The "Historia Regum Britanniae" (English: The History of the Kings of Britain) is a pseudo-historical account of British history, written circa 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand ...

500円 The Retreat to Corunna was a spectacular defeat for the British Army, yet it managed to save its reputation by carrying out one of the great fighting retreats of military history. In 1808 a British army under Sir John Moore advanced from its base at Lisbon into Spain to aid Spanish armies fightin...

2,334円 In this engrossing exploration of martyrdom, Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of the human species: its willingness to die to sanctify a deity, to defend a cause, or simply to prove a point. In telling the s...

1,081円 THE application of the historic method to the study of the Fine Arts, begun with imperfect means by Winckelmann one hundred and twenty years ago, has been productive of the best results in our own days. It has introduced order into a subject previously confused, disclosing the natural progress of...

369円 Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The ‘Great War’, from July 1914 to November 1918, was without parallel. It brought to an end four dynasties, ignited revolution, and forged new nations. It introduced killing on an unprecedented scale, costing an estimated nine million lives....

1,117円 Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted. 'One of the most creative intelligence operations of all time' – Kim Philby The story of how this web was woven is one of intrigue, personal dr...

1,709円 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Economist • The Christian Science Monitor • Bloomberg Businessweek • The Globe and Mail From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait o...

612円 This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS PREFACE. CHAPTER I. CATHOLICISM A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION CHAPTER II. THE POLITICAL MACHINERY OF THE PAPAL POWER CHAPTER III. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SOLITUDE CHAPTER IV. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SILENCE CHAPTER V. THE MONASTIC V...

199円 Taureaux, vaches , chevaux, porcs, truies, coqs, rats, mulots, limaces, fourmis, chenilles, sauterelles mouches, vers et sangsues: tous ont eu maille à partir avec la justice pour avoir nui aux hommes ou offensé Dieu, à des degrés divers. Les procès déploient toute la solennité et les moyens util...

500円 NOW UPDATED FOR POPE FRANCIS For at least five centuries scholars have puzzled over a document known as The Papal Prophecies that were ascribed to St Malachy, an Irish cleric who died in 1148. The Prophecies clearly state that both Rome and the Papacy will be destroyed at some date in the early 2...