John Julius Norwich is a leading writer, historian and broadcaster and author of two bestselling collections of Christmas Crackers.
Quentin Blake is one of Britain's finest illustrators, and best known for his own picture books and his collaboration with Roald Dahl. He was appointed the country's first Children's Laureate in 1999.
31 Ebooks von John Julius Norwich
John Julius Norwich: Shakespeare’s Kings
In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history plays, from Edward III to Richard III. In a time of uncertainty …
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€11.15
John Julius Norwich: Normans in the South, 1016-1130
The Normans in the South is the first of two volumes that recount the dazzling story of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. It is the story of Robert Guiscard who was perhaps the most extraordinary …
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€11.22
John Julius Norwich: Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194
When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to …
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€11.21
John Julius Norwich: History of France
An “engaging, enthusiastic, sympathetic, funny” journey through French history from the New York Times–bestselling author of Absolute Monarchs (The Wall Street Journal). …
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€3.73
John Julius Norwich: The Illustrated Christmas Cracker
For over forty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers – a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends – to his friends instead of a Christmas card. …
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€2.99
John Julius Norwich: The Twelve Days of Christmas
My dearest darling-
That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you and thank you.
Your deeply loving Emily
Everyone knows the 'Twelve …
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€3.99
John Julius Norwich: Sizilien
Mitreißend und elegant erzählt John Julius Norwich die turbulente Geschichte der »Königin der Inseln«, die ein einzigartiges Kaleidoskop der Völker und Kulturen war und ist. Unterhaltsam führt er uns …
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€14.99
John Julius Norwich: Venice
Views of the city of lagoons and gondolas; Henry James was passionate: ‚You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it…‘, whereas Mark Twain found St Mark’s ’so ugly…Propped on its long …
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€3.99
John Julius Norwich: Four Princes
‚Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.‘ Four great …
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€3.99
John Julius Norwich: France
‚For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their …
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€5.49
John Julius Norwich: English Christmas
‚If I could work my will, ‚ said Scrooge indignantly, ‚Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly …
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€3.99
John Julius Norwich: Duff Cooper Diaries
The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)’This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read‘ SUNDAY TIMES’Duff Cooper was as close to …
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€3.99
John Julius Norwich & John Julius Norwich: History of England in 100 Places
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic …
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€3.99
Ursula d’Abo: Girl With The Widow’s Peak
Born in November 1916 to the Marquess of Granby, Lady Ursula d’Abo is a sprightly and still charming lady whose memoirs of her uniquely glamorous life make riveting reading. She records life at …
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€15.56
Джон Норвич: Краткая история Франции
Известный британский историк и автор Джон Норвич дает всесторонний обзор прошлого страны, сделавшей для европейской культуры больше любого другого государства.
‚История Франции — это не только …
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€7.99
John Julius Norwich: Short History of Byzantium
With wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the …
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€12.99
John Julius Norwich: A History of Venice
“Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done“ Sunday Times “Will become the standard English work of Venetian history“ Financial Times __________________ …
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€12.99
John Julius Norwich: Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
When did humans first come together in cities and what were they like to live in? Illustrated with spectacular photographs of the sites of ancient cities today, as well as fabulous objects and works …
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€16.27
John Julius Norwich: Great Cities in History
A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they …
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€13.75
John Julius Norwich: Four Princes
“Bad behavior makes for entertaining history” in this bold history of Europe, the Middle East, and the men who ruled them in the early sixteenth century (Kirkus Reviews). John …
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€25.03
John Julius Norwich: Ultimate Christmas Cracker
In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he’d come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat …
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€3.99
John Julius Norwich: Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
An illuminating and evocatively illustrated tour of forty of the greatest cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations, from China and Mesoamerica to Europe and Ethiopia Today we take l …
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€38.99
John Julius Norwich: The Great Cities in History
A portrait of world civilization told through the stories of the world’s greatest cities from ancient times to the present. Today, for the first time in history, the majority of people in the world l …
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€43.99
Robert Graves: Count Belisarius
The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian“s greatest …
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€8.99
Duff Cooper & Ewen Montagu: Operation Heartbreak and The Man Who Never Was
The greatest deception of the Second World War – and possibly in the whole of military history – took place in April 1943 when a body was found floating in the sea off the Spanish coast. The …
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€6.99
John Julius Norwich: Sicily: Land of Love and Strife
In Sicily: Land of Love and Strife, A Filmmaker’s Journey, the process of capturing the island nation on film is revealed. A country rich with natural beauty and historic sites, and a people …
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€0.49
John Julius Norwich: Sicily: Land of Love and Strife : A Filmmaker’s Journey
In Sicily: Land of Love and Strife, A Filmmaker’s Journey, the process of capturing the island nation on film is revealed. A country rich with natural beauty and historic sites, and a people …
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€0.61
