James Hawes - Böcker

Britten James Hawes skildrar Englands historia från Caesar till brexit via erövring, imperium och världskrig, och upptäcker ett land som skiljer sig mycket från standardberättelsens. Denna tjurnackat oberoende stabila öfästning, som givit upphov t...

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Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was knocking on forty), which was also the day he met...

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A completely fresh look at the culture clash between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe. Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as thei...

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John Goode is a leftie lecturer who just wants to give his beloved wife and kids a normal life. You know: north London, good schools, nice neighbours, sash windows... yes, you know. But who can afford that kind of normal these days? Goode can only...

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Take four ne'er-do-wells: a 28-year-old ex-public schoolboy who can't bear the idea of setting down; Suzy the Black Widow, who has a deliciously flat stomach and drives like she's breathing through the carbs; Brady the Reservoir Dogs fetishist; an...

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Harry MacDonald had seen plenty of skulls - arsing about with some poor sod or other's skull is what pays Harry's rent - but until the day of his official thirty-ninth birthday (actually, Harry was knocking on forty), which was also the day he met...

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For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War. Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a bas...

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For the first time, a Navy SEAL tells the story of the US's clandestine operations in North Vietnam and the Congo during the Cold War. Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine in his bag, and a bas...

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A country both admired and feared, Germany has been the epicenter of world events time and again: the Reformation, both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a modern nation until 1871-yet today, Germany is the world's four...

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Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of academics and critics have maintained the image of Franz Kafka as a tortured seer whose works defy interpretation. In...

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Der historische Bestseller zum Lebenslauf der Deutschen spannend erzÿhlt vom britischen Germanisten: kurzweilig, unterhaltsam und nicht aus der Hand zu legen!»Eine umfassende, souverÿne Erzÿhlung.« The Guardian»Dieses Buch muss man lesen!« ...

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Mit dem Bestseller Die kürzeste Geschichte Deutschlands hat James Hawes eine kühne Deutung der Deutschen vorgelegt. Jetzt widmet er sich seinen britischen Landsleuten ? und folgert: England ist zweigeteilt, nicht erst seit dem Brexit. Auf der ei...

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De la Iuliu Cezar la Angela Merkel - O repovestire pentru vremurile noastre# 1 Bestseller internationalO lectura obligatorie"e; - The EconomistCea mai provocatoare carte a anului"e; - Der SpiegelDe citit intr-o dupa-amiaza, de retinut pent...

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