The Atoms for Peace program was adopted in Russia to help the Soviet Union overtake the West's nuclear power superiority. Instead, it resulted in the creation of a radioactive cloud that terrified the entire world. What led to the catastrophe at ... Zobraziť viac
Kniha bývalého vojaka armády USA Jána Hudaniča, autora narodeného síce v USA, ale so slovenskými koreňmi, ku ktorým sa hrdo hlási. V roku 1965 bol Ján Hudanič odvelený do vojny v Južnom Vietname... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative... 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
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of... 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
Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might... 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
Find hope even in dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece by the 16 million copy bestselling author of <i>Man's Search For Meaning</i>. Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl delivered a series... 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
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
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
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
A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler In... Zobraziť viac
They fought on Utah Beach, in Arnhem, Bastogne, the Bulge; they spearheaded the Rhine offensive and took possession of Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden. Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, was as good ... 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
A revelatory account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on new and award-winning research, and... 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
Ebury Press: The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of... Zobraziť viac
In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins... Zobraziť viac