• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 913
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2024

*WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022*'No one interested in…

Offers an account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. This book reveals the…

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions;…

Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is…

Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 400
• Rok vydání 2021

Kniha "The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present" spadá do žánru Cizojazyčná literatura. Kniha je…

Traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles, through its…

A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in the world, with a personal fortune of some $6…

Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind. This book tackles uncomfortable questions about…

• Počet stran 736
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2013

Penguin: The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian…

• Brožovaná
• Počet stran 653
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2023

The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek…

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in…

• Rok vydání 1081

Chronicles events up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081.…

Attempts to reframe our understanding of Napoleon. This book creates a different context for Napoleon's career. It sees the…

Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Ia hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a…

Presents the major figures the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The Great Llewellyn II, Prince of Wales.…

Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize, this book attempt to get to grips with the reality of that…

Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of…

Tells the story of the changing fortunes of the Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai, after the tragic…

Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend - and…

No period in British history retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. Here, the author sees the key to…

A novel of manners in Chinese literature.…

The reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and…

Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it…

Looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'. This book supersedes all other…

• Počet stran 416
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 1996

The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia,…

• Čeština

Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released…

• Rok vydání 1857

Presents the history of the Indian uprising of 1857.…

In an epic series of battles, the mighty empires of Carthage and Rome vied for supremacy of Mediterranean - before the…

The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Charting topics as diverse as…

A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary SpringNow part of the Russian Baltic…

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon…

• Čeština

Meticulously researched and wonderfully vivid, this is the first biography of the infamous murderess for over sixty years.…

• Počet stran 688
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2017

'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the…

When the prophetic writings of sixteenth-century visionary Nostradamus begin to ring alarmingly true, Jonathon Payne and…

The path of human progress is one of enlightenment and cruelty, achievement and bloodshed, creation and destruction. This…

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The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia's…

The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and…

The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' "The Third Reich in Power:…

Tells the story of the world's elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. In this title, the…

• Rok vydání 2019

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the…

Presents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a…

The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has…

The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory.…

Richard J. Evans' "The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany" explores…

This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about…

The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a million men and completely redrawing the…

Produkt Penguin History of Modern Russia zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…