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(0)Norman Stone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stone--one of the greatest living historians of the 20th century--provides an unprecedentedly concise, utterly authoritative account of the deadliest war of human history. Over 60 million people perished in World War Two, and the story of how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of the Great War is shocking, tragic, and also completely preventable in hindsight.
Author
Language
English
Description
After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even more than stability and demanded a massive indemnity from Germany in order to keep it from rearming. The results, as eminent historian Norman Stone describes in this authoritative history, were disastrous.
In “World War Two”, Stone provides a remarkably concise account of the deadliest war of human history, showing...
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Series
Language
Español
Description
Entre granadas, ametralladoras, trincheras y banderas, las convicciones decimonónicas de la modernidad se disolvieron en la historia. El mundo se tambaleó en 1914, cuando Europa se desangraba en la Primera Guerra Mundial, y se estremeció en 1917, cuando Rusia proclamaba el poder para los sóviets en la Revolución de octubre. Previamente, desde el final de la década de 1870, los europeos habían estado viviendo inmersos en una atmósfera de inaudita...
Author
Language
English
Description
TIME TO GROW YOUR OWN!
The ability to grow vegetables in small spaces is something that has enabled just about everyone to live a healthier lifestyle—and save money—by creating micro-gardens for vegetables even if they stay in an apartment block!
In this book you will find an introduction to 4 of the most popular techniques in use at the moment, that has enabled this 'gardening revolution' to really get a hold and take back some control from...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi blitzkriegs. The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen before: Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, and four empires were destroyed. Even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. An overwhelming disaster from which the world is still recovering, World War One...
6) Hitler
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed actor John Rhys-Davies visits landmarks, explains relics, and leads us back into a darker time to discover this fascinating tale of saints and sinners, power and passion, as the greatest translation of Holy Scripture emerges into a world and culture that would never be quite the same again"--Container.
10) The Narnia code
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using dramatizations of C.S. Lewis' early life and career, this intriguing documentary travels the world, meeting experts, testing evidence, and uncovering surprising questions behind the best selling series.
12) Shadowlands
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, this film is about the agonizing spiritual crisis of C.S. Lewis when his wife died from cancer. The love, grief, pain, and sorrow were so shattering to Lewis that his basic Christian beliefs, magnificently communicated in his many books, were now called into serious doubt. But he picked up the pieces and moved out of the depressing "shadowlands, " realizing that "real life has not even begun yet."
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenged his unbelief.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 936 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.