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Slovenské a české dejiny 
Svetové dejiny, dejiny štátov 
Vojnová literatúra - ostané 
Druhá svetová vojna 
Armáda, zbrane a vojenská technika 
Moderné dejiny 
Archeológia, genealógia a heraldika 
Mytológia 
Stredovek 
Starovek 
Prvá svetová vojna 
Špionáž a spravodajské služy 
Novovek 
Pravek 
Templári 
História - ostatné
zobraziť:
Štúr. Zrod slovenského národa
Je Štúrov život viac mýtus, alebo vysnená predstava o zakladateľovi národa? Ako to
v skutočnosti bolo s jeho vzťahmi a láskou? Z čoho žil? Prečo sa rozhodol angažovať
v kodifikácii spisovného jazyka? A bola jeho smrť naozaj nehoda, alebo skôr
samovražda? Kniha maďarského historika Józsefa Demmela sníma národného
hrdinu z pomyselného piedestálu a stavia ho do celkom nového svetla. Nie je to už
exponát z múzea, ani muž z vyblednutej fotky v učebnici dejepisu. Je to skutočný
človek z mäsa a kostí.
V tejto knihe sa dozvieš:
– či máme Ľudovíta Štúra vnímať ako jednoznačného hrdinu, alebo ide o oveľa zložitejšiu
osobnosť
– do akej miery je náš obraz Štúra založený na historických faktoch a nakoľko ho formovali
neskoršie interpretácie
– ako vznikal obraz Štúra ako národnej ikony a kto všetko sa podieľal na jeho postupnom
idealizovaní
– aký bol Štúrov každodenný život, z čoho žil, aké mal možnosti a s akými obmedzeniami sa
stretával
– prečo mali slovenskí národovci v Uhorsku odlišné postavenie než maďarská elita a ako to
ovplyvnilo ich politické ambície
– čo sa mení na našom chápaní dejín, keď sa na osobnosť Štúra pozrieme kritickým
pohľadom historika spoza hraníc
Každý národ más svoje mýty i zidealizovaných hrdinov. Najväčšou ikonou slovenského
národného panteónu je nepochybne Ľudovít Štúr, človek, na ktorého odkaz sa odvolávajú
nielen nevyliečiteľní vlastenci, ale aj odporcovia ypsilonu. Ak sa vám pri zmienke o Štúrovi
v hlave vynorí bezpočet otázok a pochybností, táto kniha je určená práve vám.
Historik József Demmel v mimoriadne obľúbenej knihe Štúr prináša svieži a zároveň
kritický pohľad na život a pôsobenie Ľudovíta Štúra. Nesústreďuje sa pri tom len život
a dielo nášho najväčšieho národného hrdinu, ale snaží sa ho zasadiť do širšieho politického,
spoločenského aj intelektuálneho kontextu 19. storočia.
Demmel odkrýva menej známe stránky Štúrovho života, jeho vzťahy, názory i konflikty, a
ukazuje ho ako komplexnú osobnosť, ktorá bola formovaná turbulentnou dobou európskych
revolúcií a národných hnutí. Kniha zároveň skúma, ako sa Štúrov odkaz interpretoval v
rôznych historických obdobiach a tiež ako sa stal súčasťou národného mýtu.
Výsledkom je podnetné čítanie, ktoré rúca zaužívané predstavy a ponúka čitateľstvu hlbšie
pochopenie nielen samotného Štúra, ale aj procesu formovania moderného slovenského
národa.
Kniha Štúr Józsefa Demmela vychádza už v treťom vydaní, tentoraz v obľúbenej historickej
edícii vydavateľstva Absynt.
dostupné aj ako:
The Invention of Good and Evil
For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs.
Morality is a concept that can feel joyless and claustrophobic, associated with restraint and coercion, restriction and sacrifice, inquisition, confession and a guilty conscience. For many, it is a device used to shame us into compliance. This impression is not necessarily incorrect, but it is most certainly incomplete.
Hanno Sauer traces humanity's fundamental moral transformations from our earliest ancestors through to the present day, when it can often seem that we have never disagreed more over what it means to be good, and what it means to be right. But we can use our past as a basis for a new understanding of our future. Our current political disagreements may feel like the end of the world, but where will the evolution of morality take us next?
The Gods of New York
New York City entered 1986 as a city reborn, with record profits on Wall Street sending waves of money splashing across Manhattan and bringing a once-bankrupt and reeling city back to life. But it also entered 1986 as a city divided. Nearly one-third of the city's Black and Hispanic residents were living below the poverty line. Thousands of New Yorkers were sleeping in the streets - and in many cases addicted to drugs, dying of AIDS, or suffering from mental illness. The manufacturing jobs that had once sustained a thriving middle class had vanished. Long-simmering racial tensions were boiling over.
Over the next four years, a singular confluence of events - involving a cast of outsized, unforgettable characters - would widen those divisions into chasms. Ed Koch. Donald Trump. Al Sharpton. The Central Park Five. Larry Kramer. Spike Lee. Rudy Giuliani. Howard Beach. Tawana Brawley. The Preppy Murder. The Tompkins Square Riots. Jimmy Breslin. Ivan Boesky. Do the Right Thing, Wall Street, crack, the AIDS epidemic, Black Monday and, of course, ready to pour gasoline on every fire - the tabloids.
In The Gods of New York, bestselling author Jonathan Mahler tells the story of these outsized characters and of these convulsive, defining years. It's an exuberant, kaleidoscopic, and deeply immersive portrait of a city in transformation, one whose long-held identity was suddenly up for grabs: Could it be both the great working-class city, drawing in and lifting up immigrants from around the world and the money-soaked capital of global finance? Could it retain a civic culture - a common idea of what it meant to be a New Yorker - when the rich were building a city of their own and vast swaths of its citizens were losing faith in the systems that were intended to protect them? New York was one thing at the dawn of 1986; it would be something very different as 1989 came to a close. This book is the story of how that happened.
Strangers and Intimates
From ancient times to our digital present, Strangers and Intimates traces the dramatic emergence of private life, and argues that it is now in mortal danger.
In this sweeping history, acclaimed cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins takes readers on an epic journey, from the strict separations of public and private in ancient Athens to the moral rigidity of the Victorian home, and from the feminists of the 1970s - who declared that 'the personal is political' - to the boundary-blurring demands of our digital age.
Strangers and Intimates is both a celebration of the private realm and a warning: as social media, surveillance and the expectations of constant openness reshape our lives, Jenkins asks a timely question: can private life survive the demands of the twenty-first century?
Ztracená země. Příběh moderního Ruska
Proč se Rusko odpoutalo od západního světa?
Celý západní svět se opakovaně snaží pochopit moderní Rusko. Analytici, komentátoři i filozofové však jen stěží překonávají překážku, která vede k dosavadnímu zmatení z ruské politiky, společnosti i historie: vykládají je totiž prizmatem západních hodnot, idejí a zkušeností. Avšak ruské dějiny i současnost stojí na odlišných základech, nesou si jiná traumata, mají jiná očekávání a naděje. Řídí se tak pro západního pozorovatele často obtížně pochopitelnou dynamikou.
Kniha Ztracená země proto vypráví historii moderního Ruska po rozpadu Sovětského svazu z ruského pohledu. Líčí nepovedené pokusy o vybudování kapitalistické liberální demokracie, zklamání Rusů z nenaplněných očekávání výsledků postkomunistické transformace a postupné prohlubování zášti vůči Západu. Popisuje, jak bývalá velmoc padla téměř na dno, jak jí někdo slíbil obnovit velikost a sílu a své sliby nakonec dodržel — a to i za cenu odcizení od demokratického světa. Připomíná vývoj ruské civilizace a konsolidaci její novodobé moci ve všech spektrech společnosti, od armády přes média až po duchovní a morální život. Kniha tak přináší příběh postupného ztrácení země, která se podle západních představ měla včlenit do demokratického světa, kam však nikdy nepatřila a jemuž zůstává vzdálená.
Dobyvatel světa, 2. vydání
Osud Alexandra Velikého fascinuje již po celá staletí a stal se tématem bezpočtu divadelních her či literárních děl. Karel Richter se při jeho líčení nespokojuje pouze s odbornou dějepisnou výpovědí o velikých a někdy téměř nadlidských činech mladého makedonského krále, který porážel své řecké, perské i indické odpůrce v bitvách, jejichž vítězné zakončení se zdálo nemožné. S hlubokým prožitkem historických faktů barvitě vykresluje Alexandra jako člověka neobyčejně schopného, vynikajícího silou, moudrostí i velkorysostí svých plánů na dobytí světa. Stejně tak jej dokáže vylíčit ve slabých chvilkách lidské nedokonalosti, nemoudrých rozhodnutí, pochybností, přehmatů i zavrženíhodných skutků. Hrdinou je velký starověký vojevůdce a vladař, ale zůstává člověkem ve vší úplnosti lidské podstaty, i když sám začínal s rostoucími úspěchy podléhat samolibému přesvědčení, že je bohem. Z tohoto omylu jej vyvedl až předčasný skon. Jeho skutky a říše, kterou vytvořil, jej však učinily nesmrtelným…
Farrelly’s Field Guide to Irish Faerie Folk
Immerse yourself in the world of Ireland's ancient magic. Drawing on the faded pages of his great-granduncle Fantasius’s notebooks, John Farrelly reveals the secrets of the Irish Faerie folk. From legendary beings like banshees and shape-shifting pookas to the watchful skeagh shee and the ferocious dobhar-chú, this field guide tells you everything you need to know about the creatures of Irish folklore and where to find them. A compendium of Ireland’s most astonishing mythical beings.
The History of the USA Year by Year
This captivating and richly illustrated book takes you on a year-by-year journey through US history, starting with the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the hard-fought battles of the Revolutionary War.
Explore the crafting of the US Constitution, the triumphs and tragedies of the Civil War, and the transformative milestones that shaped the nation's identity - from the abolition of slavery to the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement, and beyond.
Each year is brought vividly to life with thoughtful analysis of pivotal events, insightful and intimate profiles of the major figures who shaped the country and changed the course of its future, and illuminating connections to broader historical themes.
In this fascinating book, you will find:
• Details of the key events of every year - from the founding of the nation in 1776 to the present day - with insightful overviews of periods of US history at the start of each chapter
• More than 300 images, from paintings and maps to photographs and posters
• Timelines and expanded captions that bring to life the most important events in the nation's story
• Coverage of major milestones in everything from politics, economics, and conflict to science and popular culture
The Visionaries
Although the Second World War was still a long way from being won, even by early 1941, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was already planning for peace. America's entry of the war may still have been almost a year away, but he could already see the new world order that needed to emerge from the smouldering ashes of Europe. The business of war was very quickly going to have to become the business of peace.
Three years later, under the guidance of his successor, President Harry S. Truman, the Marshall Plan would emerge, a forward-thinking combination of global philanthropy and canny self-interest, rooted in a profound sense of Christian and moral duty, and which kickstarted unprecedented European growth and a chance for the world as a whole to rebuild after the ruinous catastrophe of war.
From the world on the eve of war in 1914 through to the Versailles Treaty and the global financial catastrophe of the late 1920s and early thirties, and the political earthquakes that followed, The Visionaries takes a broad sweep of history with important lessons for today. It's a reminder that while history does not repeat itself, patterns of human behaviour certainly do.
James Holland's knowledge of the Second World War and its aftermath gives him unique insight into the far-reaching consequences of the financial policies of Roosevelt and Truman. The sustained period of economic stability they initiated delivered peace to the western democracies for over eighty years and stand in stark contrast to our transactional approach to the world today.
Úpadok a zánik ľudskej ríše
Nikdy v dejinách nebolo ľudstvo početnejšie - no čoskoro ho začne ubúdať.
Naša doba je jedinečná a zároveň zlomová: evolúcia sa môže vydať dvoma smermi. Skončí druh Homo sapiens ako dinosaury, alebo sa vzchopí a začne odznova?
Henry Gee, autor Stručnej histórie života na Zemi, prináša odvážne, znepokojivé, ale aj vtipné rozprávanie o osude rodu Homo. Sleduje jeho cestu, od počiatkov v Afrike, cez obdobie rozmachu a rozmanitosti, až po trimuf Homo sapiens. Kam však smerujeme teraz? Hoci človek dosiahol nevídané úspechy, jeho príbeh možno začína ísť z kopca. Názov knihy odkazuje na slávne dielo Úpadok a zánik Rímskej ríše Edwarda Gibbona, ktorý už v 18. storočí hľadal príčiny konca impéria na jeho vrchole. Platí to aj pre nás?
The American Revolution, 2nd edition
This revised and updated edition of The American Revolution offers an accessible and authoritative account of the war that forged a nation.
From the first sparks of rebellion to the final treaty, this comprehensive visual history charts the key battles, political tensions, and personal stories that shaped the United States. Discover how events like the Boston Massacre, the Declaration of Independence, and the surrender at Yorktown unfolded with vivid artworks, first-hand accounts, and timelines that bring clarity to every phase of the conflict.
Fully revised and updated, and produced in association with the Smithsonian Institute, The American Revolution is packed with information on the course of the battle and locations of particular importance, with detailed coverage of related topics such as the treatment of wounded soldiers and the experience of Native Americans, providing a rich and detailed account of one of the most controversial conflicts ever fought.
In this book, you will find:
More than 500 images, including dramatic paintings of battles and galleries of weapons, equipment, and other artefacts
First-hand accounts of the conflict from soldiers and civilians alike
Fascinating biographies of important figures - from George Washington to Alexander Hamilton
Detailed coverage of broader subjects, such as contemporary political ideas and the impact of the war on the home front
Publishing in 2026, ahead of America 250 - the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA -alongside DK's The American Civil War and The History of the USA Year by Year, this is the ultimate guide to a pivotal period in world history.
Carthage
The empire behind the legend
Carthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost. An ancient North African kingdom, Carthage was the home of Hannibal and of Dido, of war elephants and enormous power and wealth, of great beauty and total destruction.
In this landmark new history, Eve MacDonald tells the essential story of the lost culture of Carthage and of its forgotten people, using brand new archaeological analysis to uncover the history behind the legend. A journey that takes us the Phoenician Levant of the early Iron Age to the Atlantic and all along the coast of Africa, Carthage puts the city and the story of North Africa once again at the centre of Mediterranean history. Reclaimed from the Romans, this, for the very first time, is the Carthaginian version of the tale.
Great Kingdoms of Africa
An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.
From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas of medieval West Africa, the highlands of Ethiopia and on to the forests, lakes and grasslands to the south, African civilizations have given rise to some of the world's most impressive kingdoms. Yet Africa's history is often little known beyond the devastation wrought by the slave trade and European colonial rule. In this groundbreaking book, nine leading historians of Africa take a fresh look at these great kingdoms and empires over five thousand years of recorded history.
How was kingship forged in Africa and how did it operate? Was dynastic power maintained by consent or by coercion? Did kings - and queens - display and project that power for all to see, or did they hide it away, as beneath the fringed crowns that concealed the faces of sacred Yoruba rulers? In what ways have African peoples themselves recorded, celebrated and critiqued the deeds of their kings? Great Kingdoms of Africa explores some of the most important questions in the continent's deep past.
The Dogs Gaze
What do dogs do in art? A dazzlingly original cultural history from the Cundill Prize-winning historian
Long before the phrase 'man's best friend' became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In The Dog's Gaze, the historian Thomas W. Laqueur invites us to explore why they feature more than any other animal in the ways in which we picture ourselves and our stories.
Dogs have been ubiquitous in the worldmaking of visual artists as far back as the Palaeolithic age. Looking across the western tradition, from Giotto to Goya and Rubens to Rego, Laqueur shows what their presence - as hunting partners, beloved friends and even conduits to the afterlife - reveals about our own ways of seeing and how we want to be remembered. Far from being mere motifs, dogs are an integral and intentional element of the images in which they appear: they provide narrative coherence; they look out and bear witness, often on the artist's behalf; they illuminate our understanding of morality and melancholy and some, like us, become celebrities. Indeed, as the author shows, dogs in art are our social doppelgängers, our companions in looking and being.
Richly illustrated and lovingly written, The Dog's Gaze is a unique visual history that examines the shared social history of our two species and offers fresh insights into the human condition through the eyes of our canine companions.
From Life Itself
Pulitzer finalist Suzy Hansen chronicles the age of authoritarianism in Turkey - through an intimate portrait of its people
In the midst of a world in upheaval, Erdogan has remade Turkey in his own image. Once a shining portal that straddled East and West, Istanbul's streets now teem with nationalistic fervour, political repression and rampant corruption. And it's here, in the old Ottoman neighbourhood of Karagumruk, that Suzy Hansen goes looking for the truth about modern Turkey.
Through the lives of its inhabitants, Hansen shows how local conflicts are spiralling into regional crises, deepening the fault lines now fracturing Europe and the Middle East. A dazzling account of a nation on the frontlines of history, From Life Itself chronicles the rise of an autocrat, the resurrection of an empire - and the human stories unfolding in its shadow.
Victory 45
Bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War.
'A gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account' The Express
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From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory.
Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before. Each chapter will follow the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing events - from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders.
What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world.
Ungrounding
Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural. As director of the organisation Forensic Architecture, he and his team of interdisciplinary researchers document acts of state crimes and human rights violations around the world. Since 2023, the group has worked to produce evidence for the International Court of Justice’s genocide case against Israel.
In Ungrounding, Weizman draws on that research to bring us on an eye-opening journey across time and into the 'deep cartography' of the area extending from Gaza’s subterranean tunnels through to its militarised topography, its unique soil, settlements and barriers. He catalogues, in unflinching and forensic detail, the Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unliveable.
Taking us through the broader geographic and historical context, from the Nakba in 1948 to the present day, Ungrounding establishes that architectural and territorial analysis is key to understanding the relationship between coloniser and colonised – and how Israel’s actions after 7 October escalated into violence so extreme and so far-reaching as to, Weizman argues, meet the definition of genocide.
Deeply informative and profoundly affecting in its scope and precision, and illustrated with dozens of original images, maps and diagrams, Ungrounding is an essential document of atrocity in our time.
Sword
On 6 June 1944 when the Allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit England in summertime to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all of sudden death, such as no exercise had prepared them for.
In Sword, veteran chronicler of war Max Hastings explores with extraordinary vividness the actions of the Commando brigade and Montgomery’s 3rd Infantry and 6th Airborne divisions on and around a single beach. He describes their frustrations, hopes, loves and fears through the apparently interminable years training and preparing in England, then their triumphs and tragedies on the beach and beyond. Here are the airborne assaults on the Caen Canal bridge and Merville Battery, the battles on the shoreline and against the German strongpoints inland, narrated and explained with all the insights that Hastings’ decades of study, veterans’ interviews and new archive research enable him to deploy.
The book offers a searching analysis of why British troops did not reach Caen on 6 June, as Montgomery had promised Churchill that they would – and the story of the brigadier who was sacked for that failure. There is also a host of personal portraits of key figures from Commando leader Lord Lovat, famously brave but supremely arrogant, to Colonel Jim Eadie, whose tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry repulsed a panzer division in the last hours of 6 June, and some of the humbler participants to whom extraordinary things happened.
This is the story of D-Day as you have never read it before, with the blend of narrative, analysis and human insight that made Max Hastings’ last book Operation Biting, like many of his earlier works, a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller.
The American Civil War, 3rd edition
A fully revised and updated guide to America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict - 165 years on.
Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts, The American Civil War explores the history, causes, and consequences of the war - with eyewitness accounts from soldiers and civilians, profiles of military leaders and other key figures, and timelines that give an overview of the changing course of the fighting.
Fully revised and updated, The American Civil War is packed with information on the course of the battle and locations of particular importance, with detailed coverage of related topics such as slavery and the treatment of wounded soldiers, providing a rich and detailed account of one of the most controversial conflicts ever fought.
In this book you will find:
More than 500 images, including dramatic battlefield paintings and photographs, and galleries of weapons, equipment, and other artefacts
First-hand accounts of the conflict from soldiers and civilians alike
Fascinating biographies of important figures - from Abraham Lincoln to Jefferson Davis
Detailed coverage of broader subjects, such as the treatment of prisoners, and what the war meant for women, American Indians, and Black Americans
Publishing in 2026, ahead of America 250 - the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA -alongside DK's The American Revolution and The History of the USA Year by Year, this is the ultimate guide to the American civil war, which started 65 years later in 1861.
Kategória odbornej literatúry história a vojnová literatúra poskytuje informácie o historických udalostiach, kultúrach, politických konfliktoch a vplyve vojen na spoločnosť.
História je dôležitou súčasťou našej identity a chápania sveta. Tieto knihy poskytujú podrobné informácie o rôznych obdobiach, sociálnych, hospodárskych a politických dejinách. Vojnová literatúra sa zameriava na vojenské konflikty, vojenskú stratégiu, zbrane a ich vývoj, a osudy vojakov a civilistov.
K najznámejším autorom patria Stephen E. Ambrose, Antony Beevor, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Anne Applebaum či slovenskí autori ako Dušan Kováč alebo Vojtech Zamarovský.
