That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914... Zobraziť viac
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines... Zobraziť viac
In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland... Zobraziť viac
Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona... Zobraziť viac
What if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not been told, involving the most unlikely group of heroes? What if I told you there was a group of men on the front lines who didn’t ... Zobraziť viac
From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed The Blood Telegram, a landmark, magisterial history of the postwar trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals – and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world... Zobraziť viac
Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and desperate attempts to escape, but that's only part of the real story... Zobraziť viac
Berlin: The Downfall 19145 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich. The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945... Zobraziť viac
On 28 March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were roused from their sleep and taken to Auschwitz, to the infamous Kinder Block presided over by Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death... Zobraziť viac
1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns... Zobraziť viac
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years.. Zobraziť viac
'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse... Zobraziť viac
Orion Publishing Co: An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front... Zobraziť viac
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years... Zobraziť viac
On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Her passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone and its submarines were bringing terror to the Atlantic... Zobraziť viac
Vintage: Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between... Zobraziť viac
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to ... Zobraziť viac
The powerful, bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds, alongside moving extracts from the diary of the German officer who saved his life... Zobraziť viac
Orion Publishing Co - OSCARS - The Pianist has won three OSCARS (count 'em!) for BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST LE Zobraziť viac
Made into the award-winning film 'Schindler's List'. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into... Zobraziť viac
