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The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishing first-person account.

Qui fut Saint Louis ? Peut-on le connaître et, Joinville aidant, entrer dans son intimité ? Peut-on le saisir à travers toutes les couches et les formations de mémoires attachées à construire sa statue et son modèle ? Problème d'autant plus difficile ..

Based on twenty-seven years of original archival research, including the discovery of previously unknown documents, this day-by-day narrative of the hysteria that swept through Salem Village in 1692 and 1693 reveals new connections behind the events, ..

This new and original translation of Sallust's „Conspiracy of Catiline“ and „War of Jugurtha“ uses a fresh, modern English idiom that preserves the flavor of the historian's famous epigrammatic style. Fully outfitted for comprehension and efficient refe

For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment–covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous snakes–would evolve into a headlong plunge into a bizarre, myste ..

Rome engulfed first her near neighbours, then Italy and finally much of the known world. Her expansion was so successful that the history and culture of her main rivals, the Samnites, is too often overlooked. The author describes Samnium and the lang ..

This new volume in the prestigious, beautifully presented Book of Samurai series offers an unparalleled understanding of a historical samurai's armour, weaponry and military tactics.

Kniha Samurai Bondage autora Eric Shahan vydaná v nakladatelství LIGHTNING SOURCE INC v roce 2020, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 292, ISBN-13: 9781950959112, zařazení do kategorie: Dějiny Asie.

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation an ..

New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution–a #1 international bestseller–that explores ..

Kniha Sapiens autora Yuval Noah Harari vydaná v nakladatelství Random House v roce 2024, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781529913934, zařazení do kategorie: Sociální a kulturní historie.

Kniha SAPIENS – Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit autora Jürgen Neubauer vydaná v nakladatelství Penguin TB Verlag v roce 2024, jazyk: Němčina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 544, ISBN-13: 9783328111245, zařazení do kategorie: Všeobecné a světové

In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality

Kniha SAS in Occupied France vydaná v nakladatelství Pen & Sword Books Ltd v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781526769589, zařazení do kategorie: Druhá světová válka.

Keith Lowe's „Savage Continent“ is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on ..

Duke Henry the Lion, King Waldemar, and Bishop Absalon answer the Pope's call for the Northern Crusade to Christianize Baltic Slavs. Being successful in achieving their goal, and having subdued the Slavs, they witness the strange and unusual temples, statu

Using a wide array of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources, this book examines the ancient understanding of smell through religious rituals, liturgical practices, mystagogical commentaries, literary imagery, theological discourse, and eschatological expectations.

Kniha Scents of China autora Xuelei Huang vydaná v nakladatelství Cambridge University Press v roce 0000, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781009207041, zařazení do kategorie: Dějiny Asie.

Das Schicksal der Vertriebenen und Flüchtlinge kann nicht als die deutsche Version von „Vom Winde verweht“ dargestellt werden. Gemessen an seiner Bedeutung steht dahinter die größte Völkervertreibung der Menschheitsgeschichte. Dem Autor dieses Standa ..

Si è scritto molto sulle grandi scoperte geografiche dell'età di Colombo, assai meno sull'esperienza che quei primi viaggiatori europei fecero incontrando le popolazioni native. Questi incontri cominciarono in realtà un secolo prima, quando i primi s ..

An ambitious and fascinating account of a nation's history

The original ‚self-instructor‘ of the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting for Boys (1908) is probably the most influential manual for youth ever published. Yet it is an extraordinary hodge-podge of jingoist lore, tracker legend, extracts from adventure fict ..

Kniha Scythian Empire autora Christopher I. Beckwith vydaná v nakladatelství Princeton University Press v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 416, ISBN-13: 9780691240534, zařazení do kategorie: Všeobecné a světové dějiny.

The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials and texts written, mainly, by Greeks, this book reconstructs the lives of the Scythians, exploring their bel ..