Eighty years on, D-Day The Oral History is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of Brothers in Arms comes the story of the most pivotal Allies campaign of World War II... Zobraziť viac
Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might... Zobraziť viac
On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Her passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone and its submarines were bringing terror to the Atlantic... Zobraziť viac
Sborník příspěvků ze stejnojmenné mezinárodní konference pořádané Slovanskou knihovnou a občanským sdružení Ruta ve dnech 21. - 22. října 2010 v Klementinu. Studie se nezabývají vojensko-politickým významem Ukrajinské povstalecké armády... Zobraziť viac
The second volume in a new, immensely readable narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third Reich. At the beginning of 1940 Germany was at the pinnacle of its power... Zobraziť viac
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue... Zobraziť viac
Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but itself and intent on subverting Western politics on a near-inconceivable scale... Zobraziť viac
A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In... Zobraziť viac
The Amritsar Massacre is an iconic episode that is often compared to Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday. The shooting in 1919 of hundreds of unarmed Indian civilians stands as one of the defining moments in the history of the British Empire and the Indian... Zobraziť viac
Hitler's panzer armies spearheaded the blitzkrieg on the Eastern Front. They played a key role in every major campaign, not simply as tactical tools but also as operational weapons that shaped strategy... Zobraziť viac
6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne assault in human history: D-Day. The landings on the five Normandy beaches, Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, will go down in legend as the first footsteps on the journey to end the war in northern Europe... Zobraziť viac
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan... Zobraziť viac
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye... Zobraziť viac
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to... Zobraziť viac
Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful... Zobraziť viac
The second title of the book series Focused on,Object brings the story of the Gold Star of the Hero,of CSSR, the highest state decoration of communist,Czechoslovakia, which was introduced in 1955. The,introduction of the book... Zobraziť viac
For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, and also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of their principal enemies... Zobraziť viac
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the Zobraziť viac
From the demonstrations for democracy, through the beginnings of the Free Syrian Army, to the arrival of ISIS, the author offers remarkable snapshots of soldiers, of children, of old men and women simply trying to stay alive... Zobraziť viac
