Ebooks de Charles Allen en EPUB

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Télécharger le livre : Aryans
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Aryans
Charles Allen
Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed to alter the course of civilization.This is Charles Allen's definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and...

Editeur : Hachette India
Parution : 2023-11-15

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Télécharger le livre : Coromandel
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Coromandel
Charles Allen
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2017-11-02

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3,99 €
Télécharger le livre : The Savage Wars Of Peace
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The Savage Wars Of Peace
Charles Allen
Since the Second World War the British Army has been engaged in armed conflicts around the globe in every year except 1968. Some have been full-scale military campaigns, but most have been undeclared wars, fought out in such widely differing theatres as Malaya, Kenya,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2016-01-28

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1,99 €
Télécharger le livre : Tales From the Dark Continent
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Tales From the Dark Continent
Charles Allen
Charles Allen captures the vanished world of British Colonial Africa in the recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there.

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-12-10

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Télécharger le livre : Duel in the Snows
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Duel in the Snows
Charles Allen
In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army ordered to stop it by non-violent means. It was a clash between the mightiest political power in the world and the weakest....

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2015-11-19

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Télécharger le livre : Plain Tales From The Raj
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Plain Tales From The Raj
Charles Allen
The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre : The Search For Shangri-La
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The Search For Shangri-La
Charles Allen
The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his novel LOST...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre : Kipling Sahib
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Kipling Sahib
Charles Allen
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre : Tales From The South China Seas
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Tales From The South China Seas
Charles Allen
This work chronicles the adventures of the last generation of British men and women who went East to seek their fortunes. Drawn into the colonial territories scattered around the South China Sea, they found themselves in an exotic, intoxicating world. It was a land of...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2015-11-05

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Télécharger le livre : The Buddha and the Sahibs
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The Buddha and the Sahibs
Charles Allen
Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on learning their...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2015-09-24

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Télécharger le livre : A Mountain In Tibet
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A Mountain In Tibet
Charles Allen
Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2013-01-17

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Télécharger le livre : Soldier Sahibs
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Soldier Sahibs
Charles Allen
This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-06-21

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Télécharger le livre : Ashoka
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Ashoka
Charles Allen
India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set up a new yardstick for government. But Ashoka's bold experiment ended in tragedy and...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-02-21

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Télécharger le livre : God's Terrorists
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God's Terrorists
Charles Allen
What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who sought the...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2009-03-05

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8,99 €