When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, Britain had a far-flung empire, Winston Churchill was prime minister, sweets were rationed, mums stayed at home and kids played on bombsites... Zobraziť viac
The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism... Zobraziť viac
A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war... Zobraziť viac
A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni... Zobraziť viac
General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet today, he is one of the least known. One of the top two German generals of World War I, Ludendorff dominated not only his superior-General ... Zobraziť viac
A compelling and masterly account of the D-Day landings from the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, author of Vietnam and Operation Pedestal... Zobraziť viac
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German... Zobraziť viac
Publikace shrnuje příspěvky z mezinárodního workshopu konaného v listopadu 2011 v Praze. Seminář se zabýval tématem šoa/holokaustu v literatuře, v divadle a filmu v padesátých a šedesátých letech... Zobraziť viac
On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German Chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. In a few months he installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his leftwing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population... Zobraziť viac
A dramatic and intensely moving reconstruction of the greatest border breach in Cold War history and its tumultuous aftermath... Zobraziť viac
Published for the first time in a faithful English translation, Unknown Soldiers is the story of a platoon of ordinary Finnish soldiers fighting their Soviet Union counterparts during the Second World War... Zobraziť viac
This is a moving true account of European society on the brink of war. A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever... Zobraziť viac
Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and... Zobraziť viac
n June 1944, the Allies launched a massive amphibious invasion against Nazi-held France. But under the cover of darkness, a new breed of fighting man leapt from airplanes through a bullet-stitched, tracer-lit sky to go behind German lines... 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
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian... Zobraziť viac
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an "age of forgetting.” Today's world is so utterly... Zobraziť viac
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event... Zobraziť viac
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
