2. doplněné vydání fotografické publikace Duchové historie. Západní Čechy 1939–1945 s předmluvou George Pattona Waterse a s několika novými fotografiemi. Kniha je věnována veteránům, hrdinům americké armády a dalších jednotek... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: A superb re-telling. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative... Zobraziť viac
On the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains... Zobraziť viac
From the bestselling author of Brothers in Arms comes the story of the most pivotal Allies campaign of World War II... Zobraziť viac
Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed... Zobraziť viac
An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) ... Zobraziť viac
The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece. Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963... Zobraziť viac
An astonishing expose of the aftermath of Chernobyl - and the plot to cover up the truth. The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today... Zobraziť viac
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas—- 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
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their... Zobraziť viac
In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners... Zobraziť viac
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'... 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
From the demonstrations for democracy, through the beginnings of the Free Syrian Army, to the arrival of ISIS, the author offers remarkable snapshots of soldiers, of children, of old men and women simply trying to stay alive... Zobraziť viac
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan... Zobraziť viac
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever... Zobraziť viac
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front during World War I 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 ... Zobraziť viac
From Dita Kraus, the subject of the Sunday Times bestseller THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ comes a powerful, heart-breaking memoir of her remarkable life... Zobraziť viac
The 'Devil Dogs' of K Company, 3/5 Marines, were part of the legendary first Marine Division. They landed on the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1942 - the first US ground offensive of the war... Zobraziť viac
