Britain's Finest Hour revealed as a muddle of ineptitude and propaganda. Thoroughly researched and well written, Clive Ponting's book stands just about every preconceived notion concerning Britain's role in World War II on its head...more details Format:Paperback Pages:273
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780929587684
Britain's Finest Hour revealed as a muddle of ineptitude and propaganda. Thoroughly researched and well written, Clive Ponting's book stands just about every preconceived notion concerning Britain's role in World War II on its head...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:273
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781845950811
Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This book examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt and puts forward an argument that human beings have repeatedly built societies that have prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:448
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781409000723
Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This title examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire...more details Format:Electronic book text Pages:464
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780143038986
Clive Pontingas original and provocative history of human civilizationanow in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition Years ahead of its time...more details Format:Paperback Pages:452
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780701173906
The Crimean War is full of resonance - the battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the siege of Sevastopol...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:379
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780712636537
Here is the true story of "The Great War with Russia" -- the heroism of the ordinary soldiers, including eyewitness accounts of the men who fought and survived the terrible winter of 1854-55. The soldiers' views about Lords Raglan...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781844135431
For many, gunpowder is associated with Guy Fawkes and the attempt to blow up parliament on 5th November, 1605. Fewer people know that the formula for gunpowder was in fact discovered more than 1...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780701177522
The formula for gunpowder was discovered in China in 800 AD. Known as 'fire-drug', its origin was the alchemists' search for an immortality elixir...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780099516682
Like Jared Diamond's "Collapse", Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:464
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780712664707
Arranged thematically, this is a challenging interpretation of 20th-century history, combining a global sweep with an eye for detail and individual experiences....more details Format:Book
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781409002680
How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulence, this title provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century has meant to people throughout the world. It analyses the fundamental forces of population...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781856196109
How has the world changed in the last century? This text looks back across 100 years of turbulence, Clive Ponting providing a reassessment of what the 20th century has meant to people throughout the world. This book analyses the fundamental forces of population...more details Format:Hardback
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781407093116
The Crimean War is full of resonance - not least, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Sevastopol and Florence Nightingale at Scutari with her lamp. This book tells the true story of the heroism of the ordinary soldiers...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781409002826
How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulence, this title provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century has meant to people throughout the world. It analyses the fundamental forces of population...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9781407093154
Argues that the First World War occurred primarily because of the situation in the Balkans, giving full weight to Austria-Hungary's desire to cripple Serbia instead of negotiating...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780712668262
At the end of the First World War, Germany was demonised. The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' clause pinning the blame on the aggression of Germany and accusing her of 'supreme offence against international morality'...more details Format:Paperback
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780712665728
Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the expansion of Europe. The histories of the great civilisations of China...more details Format:Paperback
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Clive Ponting
ISBN:9780701168346
Provides a truly global sweep and produces a new and startingly different account of human history. It is a history of the world for the new century....more details Format:Hardback