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Sovrano di Spagna, Germania, Paesi Bassi e di buona parte dell'Italia e del Centro e Sud America, Carlo V coltivò per tutta la vita una grande aspirazione: l'immortalità. Posò per farsi ritrarre da pittori della levatura di Tiziano, finanziò narrazioni eroiche delle sue gesta, così come sontuosi monumenti e palazzi, spingendosi a scrivere un'autobiografia trionfale. Per non dire degli oltre 100.000 atti uf...

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During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea. From these modest and uncertain beginnings, they would go on to form one of the most powerful empires in history: the Persian Empire. In this book, Geoffrey and Brenda Parker tell the captivatin...

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Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker draw on a wealth of previously undiscovered evidence to tell the full story of the Spanish Armada. Deconstructing the mythology, they show how the rival fleets came into being, how they looked, sounded, and smelled, and what happened when they finally met in battle.

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The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in Classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

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Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire"Masterly."--William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal "Seldom does one find a work of such profound scholarship delivered in such elegant and engaging prose. Drawing deftly on an astonishing volume of documentary evidence, Parker has produced a masterpiece: an epic, detailed...

Karl V. (1500-1558) ist eine überwältigende Gestalt der Geschichte: Rund 100.000 Dokumente in sechs Sprachen sind eigenhändig von ihm unterschrieben erhalten, er herrschte über Spanien, Deutschland, die Niederlande, halb Italien und große Teile Mittel- und Südamerikas, kein Fürst vor und nach ihm sollte mehr Titel auf sich vereinen. Wer war dieser Kaiser, in dessen Reich die »Sonne nicht unterging«?Der Ausnahmehistoriker Geoffrey Parker nähert...

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The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

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