An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshine... Zobraziť viac
The Second World War destroyed countless cities in Europe and Asia. Naples 1944 is the story of the first major European city to be liberated by the Allies. The book describes not only what happened to Naples when the scourge... Zobraziť viac
How to maintain hope in the face of despair. In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that question and... Zobraziť viac
From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire... Zobraziť viac
The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence... Zobraziť viac
With real-life echoes of SAS Rogue Heroes – this is an astonishing account of Europe’s biggest major conflict,told through the eyes of a ragbag collection of foreign fighters.Three days after Russian tanks roll into Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky... Zobraziť viac
New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America’s southern border for nearly a decade, but the current emergency is the end of a much larger story. In this, his first book, Zobraziť viac
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America... Zobraziť viac
Istoriia svitu v tsikavykh faktakh, iaki ob’iednani za khronolohiieiu, — chudova nahoda dlia mandrivky v chasi... Zobraziť viac
On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed – beaten and stabbed in a conflict with Zobraziť viac
Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe maps the generation and growth of novel forms of belonging in the years after World War II, crisscrossing the continent from Madrid to Warsaw and from Athens to London. Even as Europe struggled to rebuild, new... Zobraziť viac
An exceptionally fine piece of scholarship... Malinowksi’s work is a near-masterpiece, relating a story not synthesised in this way before, and about which any number of self-serving myths exist' - Simon Heffer, The Telegraph‘Stephan Malinowski's ... Zobraziť viac
America's Fatal Leap deconstructs US geopolitics after the end of the Cold War, informed by its author's unsurpassed command of modern history. Paul W. Schroeder, an acclaimed historian of international diplomacy, was a conservative and a natural ... Zobraziť viac
This book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian militant and political thinker Antonio Gramsci. Author of the famous Prison Notebooks – over 2,000 pages of profound and influential reflections on history, culture,... Zobraziť viac
An urgent and incisive new framework for understanding the origins—and stakes—of global conflict with China, Russia and Iran We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century... Zobraziť viac
Petržalské Lido je posledným veľkým nezastavaným územím širšieho centra Bratislavy, zeleným ostrovom chladu, aj tajomným vágnym terénom, ktorý má byť premenený moderné centrum pod taktovkou dvoch najsilnejších slovenských finančných skupín. Zobraziť viac
Britain. Made in Europe. In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna... Zobraziť viac
Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing... Zobraziť viac
A visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission carried out on Hitler's hometown.In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets: a crucial transportation hub and communications centre, its railyards brimming with war materiel... Zobraziť viac
