In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, the narrator, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb...
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As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens...
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Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba430 KčVíce než 30 dní
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...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba335 KčVíce než 30 dní
Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. This book gives voice to the testimony of the victims thro
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Knihabrožovaná vazba337 KčSkladem 2 ks
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...
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In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba265 KčSkladem 1 ks
This gripping book is the story of Ukraine’s Nazi occupation, told by one ordinary, brave child...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba336 KčSkladem 1 ks
Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be discovered. On a grey afternoon in 1932, a Stuttgart classroom is stirred by the arrival of a newcomer...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba236 KčVíce než 30 dní
J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba489 KčVíce než 30 dní
During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba209 KčVíce než 30 dní
London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain’s government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking the helm, but in Six Minutes in May Nicholas Shakespeare ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba299 KčSkladem 1 ks
1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers...
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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, ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba366 KčSkladem 2 ks
June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan - a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees. This top secret unit becomes known as X Troop. Others simply call
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Knihabrožovaná vazba262 KčSkladem 1 ks
The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba370 KčSkladem 1 ks
The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history, resorting to genocidal methods well before building the first gas chambers...
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For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launched under its auspices with the invasion ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba318 KčVíce než 30 dní
The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. Some 750,000 civilians died of cold and hunger...
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He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazbaVyprodané
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