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  • Christopher Columbus
    Ernle Bradford
    The “outstanding” biography of the Italian navigator and explorer from the bestselling author of The Great Siege (The New York Times). Christopher Columbus, credited with discovering America in 1492, was a great explorer who forever changed the world—but his iconic image obscures a far more complex and fascinating life story. Born Cristoforo Colombo, the son of a weaver from Ge...
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    21,05 €

  • Drake
    Ernle Bradford
    The authoritative biography of British explorer Sir Francis Drake, from the bestselling author of The Great Siege.   Long considered one of the great heroes of British history, Sir Francis Drake was a brilliant navigator, intrepid explorer, and fearsome warrior in Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Navy. He was also a pirate and profiteer who made a small fortune trading slaves. In this c...
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    20,92 €

  • The Great Siege, Malta 1565
    Ernle Bradford
    The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between the...
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    21,08 €

  • The Great Betrayal
    Ernle Bradford
    An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae. At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire, it was a center of art, culture, and commerce that had commanded trading routes between Asia, Russi...
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    18,47 €

  • The Great Ship
    Ernle Bradford
    The evolution of the battleship through centuries of war, told by a nautical expert and author of The Mighty Hood.   During its reign from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth, the battleship was the most powerful weapon of war known to man. Strategically, it determined a war’s outcome. Tactically, it dominated every sea battle. But at the Battle of Taranto in 1940 and th...
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    18,57 €

  • Hannibal
    Ernle Bradford
    The life of the great military commander of ancient Carthage from the bestselling author of Thermopylae and Gibraltar.   Born in Carthage in 247 BC, Hannibal Barca is considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time. Following the example set by his father, Hamilcar, he dedicated his life to the defeat of Rome. At the outbreak of the Second Punic War, Hannibal fam...
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    21,01 €

  • The Journeying Moon
    Ernle Bradford
    A memoir of life as an adventurer and sailor in the Mediterranean, by the noted naval historian.   Ernle Bradford spent his twenty-first birthday in Egypt, serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. It was there that he came across the profoundly affecting words of Anton Chekhov: “Life does not come again; if you have not lived during the days that were given to you, once o...
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    20,17 €

  • Julius Caesar
    Ernle Bradford
    The epic life story of the Roman statesman, military commander, and dictator, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae.   Born to Roman aristocracy in 100 BC, Julius Caesar became one of the most powerful men in history. He was a military genius, a fierce politician, and a brilliant writer and orator. When he formed an alliance with Pompey and Crassus, the triumvirate of offi...
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    22,71 €

  • The Shield and the Sword
    Ernle Bradford
    An authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights Hospitaller of Saint John dedicated themselves to defending the poor and sick. First formed in Jerusalem during the Crusades of the eleventh century, the Order of Saint John grew in ...
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    21,02 €

  • The Wind Off the Island
    Ernle Bradford
    The bestselling author of The Journeying Moon explores the history and culture of Sicily in this colorful travel memoir. In his memoir The Journeying Moon, historian Ernle Bradford recounts the call to adventure that brought him and his wife, Janet, to a life on the sea. Continuing their adventures aboard the Mother Goose, Bradford and Janet now voyage around the island of Sici...
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    18,46 €

  • The Siege of Malta, 1565
    Francisco Balbi di Correggio / Ernle Bradford
    This is the history of one of the great battles of the world, written by a private soldier who was an eye-witness. The siege of Malta was a crucial moment in the long struggle between Islam and Christendom for domination of the Mediterranean, fought out by unequal forces on the small island which commands the sea-routes at the centre of that sea. The Knights of St John were a s...
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    26,66 €

  • Thermopylae
    Ernle Bradford
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    17,41 €

  • The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands
    Ernle Bradford / Francis Pagan
    When Ernle Bradford’s ’Companion Guide to the Greek Islands’ first appeared it was immediately hailed as the very best guide to the diverse and endlessly fascinating islands of the Aegean and Ionian seas. Vivid accounts of island landfalls and the islanders’ traditional ways of life lead deeper, into the discovery of a hidden monastery, a hill-top village and quiet beaches, now...
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    40,70 €