Knihy o historii

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict.Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation....

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  282 Kč

  Skladem

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...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  260 Kč

  Skladem

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...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  239 Kč

  Skladem

On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  394 Kč

  Skladem

A work of great beauty and tragedy from a gifted storyteller and reporter. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, it places the experience of ordinary civilians at its heart...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  665 Kč

  Skladem

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

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  320 Kč

  Skladem

Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine....

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  236 Kč

  Skladem

It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse...

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  198 Kč

  Skladem

Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is increasing ...

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  287 Kč

  Skladem

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...

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  259 Kč

  Skladem

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...

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  263 Kč

  Skladem

Hillbilly Elegy’ is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisisthat of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, ...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  430 Kč

  Skladem

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  780 Kč

  Skladem

In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and Habsburg-ruled Austria-Hungary began to succumb, ...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  695 Kč

  Skladem

Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room...

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  168 Kč

  Skladem

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space...

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  263 Kč

  Skladem

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason.America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free...

• Přečtenámírně opotřebovaná
  211 Kč

  Skladem

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasises the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance...

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  426 Kč

  Skladem

Budete zavedeni do válkou zmítaného města Aleppo, ve kterém před rokem zavládlo Arabské jaro. Olof Jarlboro se dostal do Sýrie ilegálně. Ve své práci se rozhodl zaměřit na povstalce FSA (Free Syrian Army - Svobodná syrská armáda) bojující proti režimu..

• Přečtenávýborný stav
  476 Kč

  Skladem