Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities... 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
Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic... Zobraziť viac
A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story... Zobraziť viac
Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals... Zobraziť viac
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia... Zobraziť viac
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind... Zobraziť viac
Lords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic - detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one. The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over six hundred years the... 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
The perception of the muse is that of a passive, powerless model, at the mercy of an influential and older artist... Zobraziť viac
In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across the Apennines, Italy's mountainous spine... Zobraziť viac
Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices — co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million... Zobraziť viac
Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities... Zobraziť viac
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind... Zobraziť viac
The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, ... Zobraziť viac
We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and... Zobraziť viac
'This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back...with a fervent, almost religious belief in its necessity... Zobraziť viac
A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century... Zobraziť viac
How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium... Zobraziť viac
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON 'Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece...The Gulag Archipelago helped create the world we live in today' Anne Applebaum... THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III A vast canva Zobraziť viac
