Early on the morning of 23 August 1942, the 16th Panzer Division raced eastwards over the steppe from the river Don. That same evening, it halted on the bank of the Volga. The tank crews gazed across towards Asia... Zobraziť viac
How could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle , one... Zobraziť viac
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas—- Zobraziť viac
Známý historik Antony Beevor se setkal s pozůstalostí sovětského publicisty a spisovatele Vasilije Grossmana během psaní své oceňované knihy Stalingrad – Osudové střetnutí 1942 - 1943... Zobraziť viac
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire... Zobraziť viac
Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Antony Beevor vividly brings to life the epic struggles that took place in Second World War Crete - reissued with a new introduction.'The best book we have got on Crete' ObserverThe Germans expected their... Zobraziť viac
Berlin: The Downfall 19145 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich. The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945... Zobraziť viac
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era... Zobraziť viac
Příběh rodiny, která přežila ruskou revoluci, občanskou válku, nástup Hitlera, stalinistický teror a vpád nacistů do Sovětského svazu. Olga, neteř spisovatele Antona Čechova, odešla z Moskvy v roce 1920 a v Berlíně, především díky svému slavnému jménu... Zobraziť viac
Velkolepost Dne D ohromila i samotného Stalina. „V dějinách válek dosud nikdo nic takového nevykonal,“ napsal Churchillovi. Účastníci velké invaze přes Kanál – vojáci, námořníci nebo letci – na ten pohled nikdy nezapomněli... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand... Zobraziť viac
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar ... Zobraziť viac
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian... Zobraziť viac
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, ... Zobraziť viac
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes. 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' ... Zobraziť viac