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Powell Dilys
An Affair of the Heart
London: Reader's Union 1959 The people and village of Perachora from the time Humfry Payne excavated the Heraeum to their situation after the Nazi Occupation the Civil war in Greece "An unforgettable evocation of a country and its people .hailed as a classic when it was first published more than forty years ago and still regarded as one of the most outstanding books on Greece ever written. Dilys Powell spent many years in Greece before World War II returning there in 1945 after the tragic early death of her husband. In this personal odyssey she not only gives a deeply moving account of her journeys but draws us in to share her joy in a timeless land and its gallant indestructible people.". Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Slight Chips & Tear. Reader's Union hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31887
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Powell Dilys
Remember Greece
New York: Hastings House 1943 An affectionate and informed survey of Greece with a survey of the events leading up to the invasion by Italy and the eventual occupation by Germany in 1941. The original edition was published in 1941 and then this "American edition published 1943 in cooperation with the American Friends of Greece." 211p. frontis.maps.index. 1st.US Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hastings House hardcover
Bookseller reference : 32107
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Powell Dilys
Remember Greece
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1941 An affectionate and informed survey of Greece with a survey of the events leading up to the invasion by Italy and the eventual occupation by Germany in 1941. 191p. frontis.fold-out maps.index. 1st.UK Ed. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30929
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Powell Dilys
The Villa Ariadne
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1974 The Villa Ariadne was built at Knossos Crete by Sir Arthur Evans soon after he discovered the Minoan palace when the site was his own private property. The villa became home in turn to John Pendlebury who used it as a base for his excavations at Knossos and his explorations of the island. After Pendlebury's death at the hands of invading German paratroopers the Villa Ariadne was taken over by General Karl Kreipe who was living there when he was kidnapped by Patrick Leigh Fermor and marched across the island to captivity an episode immortalized in the film "Ill Met by Moonlight". Dilys Powell who knew Crete and the Villa Ariadne for over 40 years weaves her own memories of Evans and Pendlebury together with recollections of the Cretan people. Her classic account first published in 1973 is at once a chapter of autobiography and a portrait of a mythical island which captured her heart. It should appeal to all those who share her love for Greece and especially Crete. Reprint. Near Fine/Very Good Price Clipped. Hard Cover. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31890 ISBN : 0340177705 9780340177709
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Powell Dilys
The Villa Ariadne
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1974 The Villa Ariadne was built at Knossos Crete by Sir Arthur Evans soon after he discovered the Minoan palace when the site was his own private property. The villa became home in turn to John Pendlebury who used it as a base for his excavations at Knossos and his explorations of the island. After Pendlebury's death at the hands of invading German paratroopers the Villa Ariadne was taken over by General Karl Kreipe who was living there when he was kidnapped by Patrick Leigh Fermor and marched across the island to captivity an episode immortalized in the film "Ill Met by Moonlight". Dilys Powell who knew Crete and the Villa Ariadne for over 40 years weaves her own memories of Evans and Pendlebury together with recollections of the Cretan people. Her classic account first published in 1973 is at once a chapter of autobiography and a portrait of a mythical island which captured her heart. It should appeal to all those who share her love for Greece and especially Crete. Reprint. Near Fine/Very Good Price Clipped. Hard Cover. Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31891 ISBN : 0340177705 9780340177709
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POWELL John Undershell - BARBER Eric Arthur (A cura di).
Nuovi capitoli di storia della Letteratura Greca. Le scoperte recenti di prosa e di poesia greca del secolo IV e dei successivi secoli Av. Cr. Studi vari raccolti a cura di J.U. Powell e E.A. Barber. Traduzione dall'inglese di Nello Martinelli.
Firenze, Felice Le Monnier, 1935, in-8, legatura coeva in mezza tela blu ed angoli, titolo e filettature oro al dorso, piatti rivestiti in carta decorata a motivo geometrico, nastrino segnapagine, pp. XIV, (2), 242, (2). Oltre ai curatori hanno collaborato al volume: Gilbert Murray, C.J. Ellingham, F.W. Hall, L.C. St. A. Lewis, Rev. T. W. Lumb, Rev. G.C. Richards, J.L. Stocks, Rev. E.M. Walker. Esemplare numerato, autografato dal traduttore. Ottime condizioni.
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Powell, Anton
ATHENS AND SPARTA Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and creasing along bottom of spine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Book has minor shelfwear along bottom edge of boards. ; Athens and Sparta is an essential handbook to the study of fifth century Greek history and society. It encourages the reader to engage critically with the evidence, presenting a wide selection of ancient source material along with clear analysis and narrative.; 423 pages
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Powell, Anton
ATHENS AND SPARTA Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Athens and Sparta is an essential handbook to the study of fifth century Greek history and society. It encourages the reader to engage critically with the evidence, presenting a wide selection of ancient source material along with clear analysis and narrative.; 423 pages
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Powell,Dilys
An Affair of the Heart
The people and village of Perachora, from the first time Humfry Payne excavated the Heraeum to their situation after the Nazi Occupation the Civil war in Greece "An unforgettable evocation of a country and its people .hailed as a classic when it was first published more than forty years ago, and still regarded as one of the most outstanding books on Greece ever written. Dilys Powell spent many years in Greece before World War II, returning there in 1945 after the tragic early death of her husband. In this personal odyssey, she not only gives a deeply moving account of her journeys, but draws us in to share her joy in a timeless land and its gallant, indestructible people." 252P. Book
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Powell,Dilys
An Affair of the Heart
The people and village of Perachora, from the first time Humfry Payne excavated the Heraeum to their situation after the Nazi Occupation the Civil war in Greece "An unforgettable evocation of a country and its people .hailed as a classic when it was first published more than forty years ago, and still regarded as one of the most outstanding books on Greece ever written. Dilys Powell spent many years in Greece before World War II, returning there in 1945 after the tragic early death of her husband. In this personal odyssey, she not only gives a deeply moving account of her journeys, but draws us in to share her joy in a timeless land and its gallant, indestructible people." 304p. Vintage copy, Neat tight vintage copy but paper is age-toned and cover slightly scuffed. Book
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Powell,Dilys
Remember Greece
An affectionate and informed survey of Greece, with an account of the events leading up to the invasion by Italy and the eventual occupation by Germany in 1941.191p. frontis. fold-out maps .index Book
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Powell,Dilys
Remember Greece
An affectionate and informed survey of Greece, with an account of the events leading up to the invasion by Italy and the eventual occupation by Germany in 1941. The original edition was published in 1941 and then this "American edition published 1943 in cooperation with the American Friends of Greece." 211p. frontis.maps.index Book
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Powers, H. H.
THE MESSAGE OF GREEK ART
Pages lightly tanned. Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and small tears with a bit of loss. DJ in plastic sleeve. ; Reprint of the 1913 ed. x, 340pp, 137 illustrations.; 340 pages
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Powers, H. H.
THE MESSAGE OF GREEK ART
Foreedges of boards have chipping with a bit of loss. Tear to spine (with some loss of spine cover). Fraying to spine ends. ; x, 340pp, 137 illustrations. ; 340 pages
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Pozzi, Henri (Signed)
La Guerre Revient...
363 pages. Signed and inscribed by author atop half-title page. Text in French. First edition of what was printed in English in 1935 with the title Black Hand Over Europe. "... An appalling expose of the situation of the national minorities in the Balkans and in Central Europe (which) tried heroically to call to the attention of the French people the dangers to which France and all Europe were exposing themselves should France continue to finance and support the criminal and ambitious political parties of the Little Entente, and especially of Yugoslavia... The book is prohibited in the Little Entente, Greece and Turkey, and in Yugoslavia; any government official or employee apprehended reading the book is given five years of hard labour." - from Translator's note to the English Edition. "Two months after the publication of my book the Supreme Court of Belgrade sentenced me by default to twenty years of hard labour and the White Hand (the Panserb terrorist and military organization) sentenced me to death." - from Author's Preface to the English Edition. Prior owner's name and date pencilled atop title page. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important work. Book
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POZZO DI BORGO Henry, MORNAND Pierre [ECONOMOS Gérard]
HERO ET LEANDRE
Guy Desforges, Paris , 1948
Bookseller reference : 1688
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Pradt M de
Parallèle de la puissance anglaise et russe relativement a l'Europe suivi d'un aperçu sur la Grèce
1823 A Paris chez Bechet 1823, in8, reliure demi chagrin, dos a nerfs, caissons ornés de fleurons dorés,nerfs soulignes de filets dorés, titre edoré, date dorée en queue du dos,254 pp , bon exemplaire dans sa reliure ancienne
Bookseller reference : 14531
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Prakken Donald Wilson
STUDIES IN GREEK GENEALOGICAL CHRONOLOGY Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy Columbia University
Lancaster Press. Very Good. 1943. Softcover. Small piece of wrap is missing from back corner. ; Contents: The Generation in Early Greek Literature; Herodotus' Chronological Method; Thucydides and Genealogical Chronology; Ephorus and His Use of the Generation. ; 113 pages . Lancaster Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 1917
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Praschniker, Camillo
Parthenonstudien
Includes black and white plates. 22x27 cm. XV+254 pages. Gilt Hardcover. Cover slightly chafed. Cover slightly bent. Spine slightly chafed. Inner back cover slightly stained. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
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PRAT Louis
L'art et la beauté, Kalliklès.
Paris, Félix Alcan, 1903. 14 x 23, 286 pp., broché, état moyen (couverture abîmée).
Bookseller reference : 98633
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Pratt Michael
Britain's Greek Empire : Reflections on the History of the Ionian Islands
London: Rex Collings 1978 Illustrated history of the Ionian islands whilst under British jurisdiction. 206p.plates. bibliography.index. Has owners bookplate inside. 1st.UK Ed. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs By Philip Boucas. Rex Collings hardcover
Bookseller reference : 34604 ISBN : 0860360253 9780860360254
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Pratt Michael
Britain's Greek Empire : Reflections on the History of the Ionian Islands
London: Rex Collings 1978 Illustrated history of the Ionian islands whilst under British jurisdiction. 206p.plates. bibliography.index. Has owners bookplate inside. 1st.UK Ed. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs By Philip Boucas. Rex Collings hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23823 ISBN : 0860360253 9780860360254
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Pratt, William V.; Fuqua Stephen O.
Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance: April 21, 1941 - Cover Photo of the 16-Inch Guns of the North Carolina
72 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Nash cars inside front cover; Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation; Nice one-page two-color ad for the April 19th issue of the Saturday Evening Post features photo of FDR's best friend, Harry Hopkins; Dictograph features photo of Mr. J.H. Victor, President of the Victor Mfg. & Gasket Co.; Brief obituaries for Loring C. Christie, Marcel Provost, Frederic William Wile, Isidore Witmark, Sen. Morris Sheppard, and Urbain J. Ledoux (Mr. Zero); Nice one-page ad for the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York illustrates its many amenities; Very attractive two-color one-page ad for New International Trucks features a red pickup; US Assumes Protection of Greenland; Submarine S-49; Photos of Pan-American Day in Greenfield, Iowa; Nazis overwhelm Yugoslavs and set up new Croation state; Pressure on Suez Mounts; The British in Greece; Kremlin treaty with Japanese follows hint of displeasure at Reich; Nice one-page color photo ad for American Cyanamid features geologist at work in beautiful wild country; Lots of war coverage; Great one-page color Cadillac ad; Nice centerfold color ad by GM features letter to their dealers from Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Nice one-page color ad for Owens-Illinois packaging service shows lady tending cosmetics display; Photo of Air Secretary Robert A. Lovett; One-page color Calvert Whiskey ad features antelope; Great one-page color ad for Texaco features ill-looking boy who has just tried smoking a guitar; Cutting the $2 million Presidente Vargas diamond; Nazis and Drugs; Photo of boxer Jack Johnson; Nice Chevrolet ad; Nice 2/3-page ad for Moore-McCormack Lines shows incredible Rio; Mennonite conscientious objectors (COs) do bit at their camp, the Grottoes; Nice photo of new Lone Ranger Brace Beemer; Nice color-photo ad for Monsanto Plastics inside back cover features lady using Resinox adding machine; Back cover ad for Old Overholt whiskey. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Prattas, Zaharias Jack C.
Democracy at 2500
Text of address given in June 1993 for the "Celebrations of 2,500 Years of Democracy" Book
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Praz, Mario
Viaggio in Grecia
Mm 135x205 Volume rilegato in tela con sovraccoperta figurata a colori, 94 pagine. Timbro di biblioteca privata al frontespizio, peraltro opera in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
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PREAUX Claire
"Le monde hellénistique (2 volumes); La Grèce et l'Orient, de la mort d'Alexandre à la conquête romaine de la Grèce (323-146 av. J.-C.), tomes 1 et 2. Collection : Nouvelle Clio, L'histoire et ses problèmes."
Paris, Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), 1978. 14 x 19, 2 volumes, 770 pages, (pagination continue), broché, bon état (couvertures plastifiées).
Bookseller reference : 81441
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PREAUX Claire, BYL Simon et NACHTERGAEL Georges
Le paysage grec. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres : Sources et instruments, IV.
Bruxelles, Editions de L'Université de Bruxelles, 1979. 16 x 24, 143 pp., broché, très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 83219
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PREAUX Claire, BYL Simon, NACHTERGAEL Georges
Le paysage grec. Université Libre de Bruxelles, faculté de philosophie et lettres, Sources et instruments IV.
Bruxelles, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1979. 16 x 24, 143 pp., broché, bon état.
Bookseller reference : 83911
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PREAUX, Cl. - BYL, S. et NACHTERGAEL, G.
Le Paysage Grec.
Bruxelles, Ed. de lU.L.B./Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres (« Sources et Instruments, IV »), 1979. grand in-8°, 143 pages, -, broche, couv.
Bookseller reference : 3575
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PREAUX, Cl. - BYL, S. et NACHTERGAEL, G.
Le Paysage Grec.
grand in-8°, 143 pages, -, broche, couv. Bel exemplaire. [MI-17]
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Preaux, Claire
Le monde hellénistique. La Grèce et l'Orient de la mort d'Alexandre à la conquête romaine de la Grèce (323 - 146 av. J.-C.). [2 Volumes]. Par Claire Préaux. (= Nouvelle Clio, Volumen 6). 2 Bände (= vollständig).
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1978. 770 Seiten. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Bibliotheks-Halbleinenbände mit montiertem Deckel der Orig.-Broschur. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
Bookseller reference : 3131572
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Prenner Antonella
Lucano. Nostalgie di libertà
8vo, br. ed. pp.144. Incombe la furia delle armi, il potere del ferro sconvolgerà il diritto, l'empio crimine avrà il nome di virtù, e un tale furore si scatenerà per lunghi anni. Che giova chiederne la fine agli dèi? La pace viene con un padrone. Attraverso la poesia epica, il mondo antico celebra le proprie origini e la propria grandezza. Ma nella «Pharsalia» di Lucano, giovane e irrisolto nipote di Seneca, non è la voce degli dèi, né quella delle muse a farsi poesia, ma quella di un uomo che racconta una storia vicina e tragica, la guerra civile, che al popolo romano ha tolto la libertà. Un poema dunque tutto umano, un canto dell'inquietudine che tenta di risalire alle cause del male, indagando gli animi di coloro che il male lo hanno voluto, come Cesare, abbagliante e inarrestabile, e Pompeo, antica quercia priva di linfa. E che rintraccia un unico disperato barlume di speranza in colui che non si è piegato alle ragioni del potere, Catone, modello di virtù magnanimo e dolente. I versi di Lucano riecheggiano così l'età di Nerone e di una generazione infelice, che assiste all'esercizio di un potere politico iniquo e impossibile da contrastare perché assoluto, e che vagheggia di tornare a un tempo irripetibile, quando Res publica romana significava libertà.
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Prep by VLADISLAV TOPALOV, STEFAN DOJNOV et alli.
Etudes historiques Tome XII: A l'occasion du Veme Congres International des Etudes Balkaniques et Sud-Est Europeennes - Belgrade.
Very Good English Original cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). Articles in English, French, German, and Bulgarian. B/w plates. 303, [1] p. Etudes historiques Tome XII: A l'occasion du Veme Congres International des Etudes Balkaniques et Sud-Est Europeennes - Belgrade.
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Prep. by MEHMET RUYAN SOYDAN.
Album de la Guerre Balkanique. Panorama. Turquie, Bulgarie, Serbie, Grece et Montenegro.= Balkan Muharebâti tesâviri. Panorama. Avrupa-yi Osmani, Yunanistan, Karadag, Sirbistan, Bulgaristan. REPRINT.
New English Original decorative bdg. Oblong 4to. (23 x 36 cm). In Ottoman script, Turkish and French. [112] p. B/w ills. Reprint Edition. Album de la Guerre Balkanique. Panorama. Turquie, Bulgarie, Serbie, Grece et Montenegro.= Balkan Muharebâti tesâviri. Panorama. Avrupa-yi Osmani, Yunanistan, Karadag, Sirbistan, Bulgaristan. REPRINT. This is a facsimile edition with Turkish transcription. BALKANS Ottoman culture International relations Collection Balkan Wars, (1912-1913).
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Prep. by NEVAL KONUK.
Ottoman architecture in Greece.= Yunanistan'da Osmanli mimarisi.
New English Original bdg. HC. [xviii], 534 p. In English, Greek, and Turkish. 4to. (32 x 24 cm). Color ills. Ottoman architecture in Greece.= Yunanistan'da Osmanli mimarisi.
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Prep. by P. FIORENZO FALCINI, O.F.M.; P. CLAUDIO CECCHERELLI, O.F.M.
La missione dei frati minori in Turchia e Grecia. Numero unico nel cinquantesimo anniversario del passaggio alla Provinca Toscana, (1930-1980): Istanbul, Kadikoy, Buyukada, Izmir e stazioni dipendenti Bornova, Atene, Ankara.
Fine Italian Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Italian. 188 p., b/w and color ills. La missione dei frati minori in Turchia e Grecia. Numero unico nel cinquantesimo anniversario del passaggio alla Provinca Toscana, (1930-1980): Istanbul, Kadikoy, Buyukada, Izmir e stazioni dipendenti Bornova, Atene, Ankara.
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Prep. by SEVIM PILICKOVA.
Makedonya Sosyalist Cumhuriyetinde yasayan Türklerin manileri.= Manichata kaj Turtsite od sr Makedonija. [= Les manelers chez les Turcs en RS de Macedoine].
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish and Macedonian (Cyrillic). 141, [3] p. Makedonya Sosyalist Cumhuriyetinde yasayan Türklerin manileri.= Manichata kaj Turtsite od sr Makedonija. [= Les manelers chez les Turcs en RS de Macedoine].
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PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.
Why TRNC? Let us embrace. "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (TRNC) a new born independent state in this beautiful world. (It was only after our visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus that we could perceive the existence of the Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus. May 13, 1983, Chei. [Propaganda brochure].
Very Good English Paperback. 12mo. (17 x 12 cm). In English. [14] p., color ills. Why TRNC? Let us embrace. "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (TRNC) a new born independent state in this beautiful world. (It was only after our visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus that we could perceive the existence of the Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus. May 13, 1983, Chei. [Propaganda brochure]. It's written verso: "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will be recognized. Must be recognized. This is the only way out of the dilemma., June 6, 1984, Lord Hanword, Member of the British House of Lords". Not in OCLC. A rare propaganda brochure.
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Pressfield Steven
The Virtues Of War: A Novel Of Alexander The Great
New York: Doubleday 2004 Alexander the Great 356 - 323 B.C. ascended to the throne of Macedon at the age of twenty. He fought his greatest battles -- including the conquest of the mighty Persian Empire -- before he was twenty-five and died at the age of thirty-three still undefeated by any enemy. His reputation as a supreme warrior and leader of men is unsurpassed in the annals of history. In the brilliantly imagined first-person voice of Alexander the Great acclaimed novelist Steven Pressfield brings to life his epic battles his unerring command of his forces and the passions and ambitions that drove him. A full-blooded multidimensional portrait THE VIRTUES OF WAR captures Alexanders complex character. Alexander was a fearless commander who moved with such daring and speed that no army could withstand him; a driven leader whose ambitions knew no limits; and a man with boundless compassion for his troops deep friendships with his generals and profound respect for his enemies. Yet in the end his noble qualities were subsumed by his insatiable lust for glory. No one writes about battles as brilliantly as Pressfield and in THE VIRTUES OF WAR he vividly describes the seminal conflicts of Alexanders career revealing the tactics behind them and capturing the blood heat and terror of the battlefield. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Doubleday hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23778 ISBN : 0385500998 9780385500999
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Pressfield, Steven
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. 442p.maps (Plus an un-numbered appendix with a preview of his next novel "The Tides of War") Book
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Pressfield, Steven
Last of the Amazons
With an epic scope and keen sense of detail, Steven Pressfield has created an entertaining and vital reimagining of the Amazon legend with his historical novel, Last of the Amazons. Combining myth with history, Pressfield offers a conjectural account of the legendary female warrior tribe as it may have existed in the years leading up to its extinction.400p. maps on end papers, Book
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Pressfield, Steven
Last of the Amazons
"With an epic scope and keen sense of detail, Steven Pressfield has created an entertaining and vital reimagining of the Amazon legend with his historical novel, Last of the Amazons. Combining myth with history, Pressfield offers a conjectural account of the legendary female warrior tribe as it may have existed in the years leading up to its extinction. ". Book
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Pressfield, Steven
Tides of War : A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens' favorite son and the city's greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory. But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess, and ambition. Accused of crimes against the state, he was banished from his beloved Athens, only to take up arms in the service of his former enemies. For nearly three decades, Greece burned with war and Alcibiades helped bring victories to both sides ? and ended up trusted by neither. Narrated from death row by Alcibiades' bodyguard and assassin, a man whose own love and loathing for his former commander mirrors the mixed emotions felt by all Athens, Tides of War tells an epic saga of an extraordinary century, a war that changed history, and a complex leader who seduced a nation. Book
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Pressfield, Steven
Tides of War : A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens' favorite son and the city's greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory. But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess, and ambition. Accused of crimes against the state, he was banished from his beloved Athens, only to take up arms in the service of his former enemies. For nearly three decades, Greece burned with war and Alcibiades helped bring victories to both sides ? and ended up trusted by neither. Narrated from death row by Alcibiades' bodyguard and assassin, a man whose own love and loathing for his former commander mirrors the mixed emotions felt by all Athens, Tides of War tells an epic saga of an extraordinary century, a war that changed history, and a complex leader who seduced a nation.Audio book abridgment in 4 double sided audio cassettes read by Derek Jacobi. Playing time 6 Hours. Audio Book
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Prevas John
Envy of the Gods : Alexander the Greats Ill-Fated Journey Across Asia
Cambridge MA: Da Capo Press 2004 "By the time Alexander the Great was twenty-six he had conquered the world's mightiest empire Persia. He possessed more wealth than any Greek had ever imagined existed. He was the envy of every man.Alexander however had an even higher aspiration - to be the envy of the gods. Like the legendary Heracles he wanted to reach the ends of the earth: surpassing Heracles he wanted to rule the world." 242p. plates.bibliography. index may have remainder mark. 1st US Ed. Hard Cover. New/New. Da Capo Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 14762 ISBN : 0306812681 9780306812682
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Prevas John
Hannibal Crosses the Alps: The Invasion of Italy and the Second Punic War
8vo, br. ed. 256pp.
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PREVELAKIS GEORGES
GEOPOLITIQUE DE LA GRECE
COMPLEXE. 1997. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 144 pages - nombreuses cartes en bicolores dans et hors texte - texte en 2 colonnes.. . . . Classification Dewey : 949.5-Grèce
Bookseller reference : RO20206338
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Prevelakis,Eleutherios
British policy towards the change of dynasty in Greece, 1862-1863
Based on a thesis the author produced while at Oxford University this book discusses both the internal and international difficulties created by the forced abdication of King Otto and the ensuing negotiations in finding a possibly acceptable successor amongst the scions of some aspiring royal families of Europe.This analysis of British involvement also includes the transfer of the Ionian Islands to Greece. Eventually the " Greeks and Great Powers winnowed their choice to William of Denmark.Aged only 17, he was elected King of the Hellenes on 30 March1863 by the Greek National Assembly under the name of George I" 194p,. bibliography, index. Inscription on ffep." To Jack - El. Prevelakis". However the pages are uncut and it remains unread, but the paper covers show some wear and tear Book
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Prevelakis,Pandelis
The Sun of Death
Aunt Roussaki takes the orphaned 14 year old Yorgaki to her small village in Crete during WWI - where he where he has many lessons to learn "A novel of rare simplicity,beauty and compelling strength". Crisp tight unmarked copy 206p. Book
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PREVOST (Antoine François) dit l'abbé Prévost
Histoire d'une Grecque moderne.
2 parties reliées en un volume in-12, pleine basane de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, (8), 232 p. et (4), 244 p. Amsterdam, Jean Catuffe, 1741.
Bookseller reference : 33302
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