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The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman ..

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This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequen ..

The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great C ..

Kniha Goering`s Man in Paris – The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World autora Jonathan Petropoulos vydaná v nakladatelství Yale University Press v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 456, ISBN-13: 9780300274264, zařaz

Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas' „The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V“ is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in So ..

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how govern ..

A spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, stunningly illustrated throughout with some of the most beautiful maps ever created

A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of Colour.

In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism illuminating ..

Un portrait complet de Napoléon, empereur des Français, homme d’État illustre et fin stratège militaire.Le 18 mai 1804, le Sénat proclame Napoléon Bonaparte empereur des Français. Son ascension et son hégémonie sur l’Europe ne connaîtront pas de limi ..

In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest de ..