A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever... Zobraziť viac
Atlantic Books: Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At... Zobraziť viac
Little, Brown Book Group: 'A masterpiece' Norman Stone 'One of the most important works of history to appear in my lifetime'... Zobraziť viac
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever... Zobraziť viac
A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives... Zobraziť viac
The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. This book reveals the secrets behind the family's phenomenal success... Zobraziť viac
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history... Zobraziť viac
The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption. In 1972 Hunter S. Thompson, the creator and king of Gonzo journalism... Zobraziť viac
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup... Zobraziť viac
Esbozo de la Histor.de la Lit. - AP - Jazyk: CZ - 284 str. - ISBN: 80-902652-3-5 - Kniha Zobraziť viac
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians. This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus... Zobraziť viac
František Palacký (1798–1876) je vnímán jako Otec národa, politik a zakladatel české moderní historiografie, ale za touto oficiální fasádou se skrývá nevšední člověk, který zažil nejen slávu a ocenění, ale i nezdary a osobní utrpení... Zobraziť viac
In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?... Zobraziť viac
Autor predkladá čitateľom siedmy zväzok o potomkoch Alžbety Bátoriovej, v ktorom rozoberá obdobie rokov 1645 až 1649, najmä cez postavu grófkinho vnuka Františka Nádašdyho, ... Zobraziť viac
Zavedená obchodní značka představuje pouhé slovo či jednoduchý obrázek, a při tom může mít astronomickou hodnotu... Zobraziť viac
The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, ... Zobraziť viac
A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of its populations. Whether trying to escape war and persecution or to find a better life, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries... Zobraziť viac
In the ancient world the magicians of Egypt were considered the best. But was magic harmless fun, heartfelt hope, or something darker? Whether you needed a love charm, a chat with your dead wife, or the ability to fly like a bird, an Egyptian magician... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect us The Sacred History is an account of the workings of the supernatural in history. It tells the epic story of angels, ... Zobraziť viac
Kniha obsahuje vzpomínky třiapadesáti pamětníků ze severní Moravy z období 2. světové války, sovětské okupace, komunismu… Jde o jedinečné lidské osudy, je to kniha o zapomenutých hrdinech, o lidech, kteří se báli, nacházeli... Zobraziť viac
