An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success.Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by... Zobraziť viac
The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two... 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
A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist... Zobraziť viac
Approximately 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. No one will ever know the exact figure. Of those, some six million were Jewish, including one million children.The remainder comprised numerous ethnic and social groups deemed the ... Zobraziť viac
Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past, and anticipate in the future, in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world... Zobraziť viac
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST • “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”—The Washington Post “Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America’s... Zobraziť viac
A remarkable, eyewitness-based view of the outbreak of the First World War. As war broke out in the summer of 1914, not a nation on Earth understood the magnitude of what they were about to face. To win it, whole populations must be mobilised, and ... Zobraziť viac
A stunning elegy to a vanished time, Caroline Heller’s memoir traces the lives of her parents, her uncle, and their circle of intellectuals and dreamers from Central Europe on the eve of World War II to present-day America... Zobraziť viac
Discover the key themes and big ideas behind the major events and milestones in the history of warfare – from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century. Tracing the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror, ... Zobraziť viac
The author of the international bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers a personal account of life in Nazi Germany at the start of WWII. By the late 1930s, Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Nazi Party, had consolidated power in Germany and... Zobraziť viac
A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary timesBased on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch... Zobraziť viac
Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also... Zobraziť viac
'With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail, [Fisher's] book on D-Day is sure to impress a vast audience' Dan Snow'Stephen Fisher... is a very rare beast - a man who can bring stunning research and scholarship hand-in-glove with the gifts... Zobraziť viac
Atlantic Books: Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At... Zobraziť viac
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER 'Reads like a thriller… I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL 'Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of... Zobraziť viac
An in-depth analysis of the air conflict between Russia and Ukraine, exploring the failures and successes of both sides' air forces and their impact on the ground campaign. On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched an all-out invasion of ... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images... Zobraziť viac
In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight... Zobraziť viac
Dvojjazyčné slovensko-anglické dielo aj o osudoch generálmajora Ivana Otta Schwarza. Definitívny útok bombardéra Liberator 311. čs. bombardovacej perute RAF sa začal 27. decembra 1943 o 16.07 hod.. Kapitán Doležal odvážne... Zobraziť viac
