This is a moving true account of European society on the brink of war. A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever... Zobraziť viac
The outbreak of the First World War was ‘a drama never surpassed’. One hundred years later, the characters still seem larger than life: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, brooding heir to the Habsburg throne; the fanatical Bosnian Serb assassins ... Zobraziť viac
Třetí svazek řady se věnuje v historické literatuře zcela opomíjenému fenoménu, kterým je vládní vojsko. To působilo nejen v... Zobraziť viac
As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an “age of forgetting.” Today’s world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it... Zobraziť viac
At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when ... Zobraziť viac
Ačkoli celý svět sleduje, jak letadla Severoatlantické aliance bombardují Libyi, český čtenář nemá k dispozici žádnou... Zobraziť viac
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions—a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s distinctive documentary style, ... Zobraziť viac
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, ... Zobraziť viac
The sacrifices that enabled the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45 are sacrosanct... Zobraziť viac
Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of the Second World War. On June 22nd, 1941 the largest military invasion in human history was launched... Zobraziť viac
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the Zobraziť viac
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality... Zobraziť viac
World War II, fought from 1939 to 1945, engulfed the globe in a shattering struggle over national sovereignty and individual rights. It was also the costliest battle in history in terms of human life, with millions perishing in combat, ... Zobraziť viac
Autorka, jež se narodila roku 1944 poblíž Pirmasens, napsala tento dokumentární román o tom, jak byla svedena, do "vysoké politiky" zapletena a vyhnána celá vesnice na základě intenzivního studia pramenů: 15. března 1939 vpochodovala... Zobraziť viac
Who were these men, arguably two of the most discreet heroes of the twentieth century? In Laurent Binet?s captivating debut novel, we follow Jozef Gab?ik and Jan Kubi? from their dramatic escape of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England... Zobraziť viac
"Gardening by Moonlight": 205 Group RAF mining operations over River Danube in 1944 je kniha v anglickom jazyku, zaoberajúca sa popisom akcií 205 skupiny RAF, počas ktorých jej posádky mínovali rieku Dunaj za mesačných... Zobraziť viac
Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that ... Zobraziť viac
Drawing for the first time on Polish, German and Soviet sources, First to Fight is the definitive history of the German invasion of Poland, which opened the war in September 1939. Roger Moorhouse provides a dramatic narrative of military events... Zobraziť viac
Charting the BEA's entry into warfare in 1914, he tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army's life through the five years of slaughter and suffering... Zobraziť viac
