From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2... Zobraziť viac
A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities... Zobraziť viac
Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning... Zobraziť viac
In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all... Zobraziť viac
Only one elite Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer survived the cruel ocean battlefields of World War II. This is her story. Brett Walker, historian and captain, delves into questions of mechanics, armaments, navigation, training, and even indoctrination... Zobraziť viac
Kniha přináší detailní pohled na sovětskou perzekuci židovských uprchlíků, nabízí dvacet jedna rozhovorů s československými židovskými uprchlíky, kteří se v letech 1939-1941 ocitli v sovětských pracovních a zajateckých táborech... Zobraziť viac
A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regimeWhy did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end?... Zobraziť viac
The extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution. Zobraziť viac
An eminent historian of the Holocaust examines why Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, though faced with mounting evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews, were reluctant to speak out against the atrocities... Zobraziť viac
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people … Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished …... Zobraziť viac
This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag MontefioreThe definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front ... Zobraziť viac
A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen... Zobraziť viac
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military historian and author of Passchendaele and The Western Front. In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick Lloyd tells... Zobraziť viac
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades’ THE TIMES‘A hugely important book … elegantly written and persuasively argued’ DAILY TELEGRAPH Zobraziť viac
The Gulag was Russia’s forgotten holocaust. The largest network of concentration camps ever created, it murdered millions and haunted all those who came out alive... Zobraziť viac
Ivan's War is the first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front, ... Zobraziť viac
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the site of the largest mass murder in human history. Yet its story is not fully known. In Auschwitz, Laurence Rees reveals new insights from more than 100 original interviews with Auschwitz survivors and Nazi ... Zobraziť viac
When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a strange kind of battlefield. Zobraziť viac
'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976–84 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment... Zobraziť viac
Penguin: A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when... Zobraziť viac
