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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
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Allies at War
After the fall of France in June 1940, only Britain stood between Hitler and total victory. Desperate for allies, Winston Churchill did everything he could to bring the United States into the conflict, drive the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany apart and persuade neutral countries to resist German domination.
By 1942, after the German invasion of Russia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the British-Soviet-American alliance was in place. Yet it was an improbable and incongruous coalition, divided by ideology and politics and riven with mistrust and deceit. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were partners in the fight to defeat Hitler, yet they were also rivals who disagreed on strategy, imperialism and the future of liberated Europe.
Allies at War is a fast-paced, narrative history, based on material drawn from over a hundred archives. Using vivid, first-hand accounts and unpublished diaries, we enter the rooms where the critical decisions were made, revealing the political drama behind the military events. Ambitious and compelling, Allies at War offers a fresh perspective on the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War.
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Bombing Hitler's Hometown
A visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission carried out on Hitler's hometown.
In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets: a crucial transportation hub and communications centre, its railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home. Inevitably, it was one of the most heavily defended targets remaining in Europe.
In their unheated, unpressurized B?24 Liberator and B?17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, the young men of the US Fifteenth Air Force battled elements as dangerous as anything the Germans could throw at them. When batteries of German anti?aircraft guns did open fire, the men flew into a man?made hell of exploding shrapnel.
Drawing on interviews with dozens of surviving World War II veterans and residents of Linz, as well as previously unpublished sources, Mike Croissant compellingly relates one of the war's last truly untold stories - a gripping chronicle of warfare and a timeless tale of courage and terror, loss and redemption.
With a foreword by Richard Overy, author of The Bombers and the Bombed
AERO 120 První, stíhací, Zvolenský 1993-1994, 6.díl
V pátém a šestém dílu se uzavírá bohatá historie 1. stíhacího pluku, která skončila zrušením 1. stíhacího pluku k 31. 12. 1994. Poslední dva roky existence byly poznamenány častými přesuny leteckého personálu a techniky mezi jednotlivými pluky letectva. S rozdělením našeho státu a tím i našeho letectva ukončily u tohoto pluku službu i zbývající letouny Mig-29. Publikace obsahuje výčet typů letadel a jejich počtu u pluku v posledních dvou letech. Dále je zde popsáno pozemní zabezpečení pluku po celou dobu jeho existence a používaná technika. Nechybí letecké nehody od roku 1944.
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The CIA Book Club
The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
For almost five decades after the Second World War, Europe was divided by the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. The Iron Curtain, a near-impenetrable barrier of wire and wall, tank traps, minefields, watchtowers and men with dogs, stretched for 4,300 miles from the Arctic to the Black Sea. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the conflict would be fought in the psychological sphere. It was a battle for hearts, minds and intellects.
No one understood this more clearly than George Minden, the head of a covert intelligence operation known as the 'CIA books programme', which aimed to win the Cold War with literature.
From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden's global CIA 'book club' would infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc, written by a vast and eclectic list of authors, including Hannah Arendt and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Orwell and Agatha Christie. Volumes were smuggled on trucks and aboard yachts, dropped from balloons, and hidden in the luggage of hundreds of thousands of individual travellers. Once inside Soviet bloc, each book would circulate secretly among dozens of like-minded readers, quietly turning them into dissidents. Latterly, underground print shops began to reproduce the books, too. By the late 1980s, illicit literature in Poland was so pervasive that the system of communist censorship broke down, and the Iron Curtain soon followed.
Charlie English tells this true story of spycraft, smuggling and secret printing operations for the first time, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who risked their lives to stand up to the intellectual strait-jacket Stalin created. People like Miroslaw Chojecki, an underground Polish publisher who endured beatings, force-feeding and exile in service of this mission. And Minden, the CIA's mastermind, who didn't waver in his belief that truth, culture, and diversity of thought could help free the 'captive nations' of Eastern Europe. This is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free.
The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales: Volume II
''For fans of folklore this is a must read.'' - Scottish Field magazineThis spellbinding collection of stories once again gathers together legends and lore from across Scotland in one special volume.Drawn from The History Press’ popular Folk Tales series, this second selection features further tales from authentic Scottish storytellers, honouring the unmistakable character of Scotland’s customs, beliefs and dialects.From the fearsome elfin warrior haunting Carterhaugh Woods to the beautiful mermaid enchanting young men off the coast of Orkney, this collection of tales belongs on the bookshelves of all who enjoy both the magic of Scotland and a well-told story.
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Broken Republik
The compelling story of Germany's decline - where it all went wrong and how it could bounce back.
For many years, the post-war recovery of Germany was an inspirational story. All of Europe looked on with admiration and envy as the nation rebuilt and set standards for the rest to follow. Companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Siemens and Bayer rose to become global titans, while the country's political leaders earned respect around the world - even their football teams were the best. Such was its success that when the Berlin Wall fell, it appeared to reunify almost seamlessly. Where Germany led, the rest followed.
But, even at its zenith, there were signs of trouble, with a worrying lack of national identity at its heart. So, when events started to turn against Germany, the whole edifice began to crumble. As political and business leaders benefited from the status quo, they couldn't see the problems heading their way. Volkswagen's emissions fraud tainted its industrial reputation; abandoning nuclear power left the country at the mercy of Russia for its energy needs; and a growing divide between rich and poor stoked international tensions that opened the door to the rise of the far-right AfD party.
Journalists Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes have been reporting for years on the problems the country faces. Germany is not alone in this, but it is singularly ill-equipped to deal with them. Broken Republik is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand Germany's slide towards the brink.
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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda.
Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII.
Members of the Office of Strategic Services, their task was to create a secret brand of propaganda produced with the sole aim to break the morale of Axis soldiers. Working in Europe, across enemy lines in occupied China and in Washington D.C., Betty, Zuzka, Jane and Marlene forged letters and 'official' military orders, wrote and produced entire newspapers, scripted radio broadcasts and songs and even developed rumours for undercover spies and double agents to spread to the enemy. And outside of a small group of spies, no one knew they existed. Until now.
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21,95 €
Dark Laboratory
From award-winning writer and theorist Tao Leigh Goffe, an urgent investigation into the intertwined history of colonialism and the climate crisis – and the lessons we can learn to fight for a better world.
Our planet is on the precipice of dramatic ecological breakdown and climate despair is at an all-time high. But there are many communities who have survived beyond the environmental destruction wrought on them by colonialism – and they hold the solutions for climate repair.
Using the Caribbean as a case study, Tao Leigh Goffe traces the vibrant and complex history of the islands back to 1492 and the arrival of Christopher Columbus when the Caribbean became the subject of Western exploitation. Charting the human and ecological forces that have shaped the islands, Goffe examines the legacy of fierce warrior Queen Nanny of the Maroons, engages in pressing cultural debate about stolen artefacts and human remains which are kept hidden in museum archives, and visits Indigenous farming cooperatives who are using ancestral knowledge to rebuild their communities.
Using the Caribbean as a both a warning and a guide, Dark Laboratory takes hopeful and galvanizing teachings from the islands communities to offer illuminating solutions to the ecological crisis. From guano to sugarcane, coral bleaching to invasive mongoose populations, Dark Laboratory is a lyrical, vibrant and urgent investigation into the greatest threat facing humanity.
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27,95 €
The Golden Throne
Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinnacle of world power, while his family and future are at the mercy of their own dynastic law: whichever of his five sons succeeds him must eventually kill all the others. So why not get a head start?
For the next fifteen years, as Suleyman the Magnificent and his terrifying pirate captain Barbarossa face down imperial enemies across two hemispheres, the self-fulfilling curse of the Ottomans gathers its own unstoppable momentum.
From the burning pyres of Paris to the rain-lashed mountains of Transylvania, from Buda to Basra, from Crimea to the coast of India, The Golden Throne is an intensely gripping yet entirely historical reconstruction of the life and world of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, revealing the price of succession and the terrible cost of success.
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23,95 €
Rain of Ruin
A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
In the closing months of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Japanese, mostly civilians, died in a final outburst of violence from the air. American planes were beginning to run low on plausible targets when it was decided to use two atomic weapons in a final, terrible flourish to try to end the war.
Richard Overy’s remarkable new book rethinks how we should regard this last stage of the war and the role of the bombing. This book explores the way in which the willingness to kill civilians and destroy cities became normalized in the course of a horrific war as moral concerns were blunted and scientists, airmen, and politicians followed a strategy of mass destruction they would never have endorsed before the war began. But it also engages with the new scholarship that shows how complex the effort to end the war was in Japan, where ‘surrender’ was entirely foreign to Japanese culture.
Rough Music
Rough Music explores transgression and shame in British folklore and customs from ancient Britain to the present day. From Bonfire Night to Wassail, Morris dancing, Mari Lwyd and Twelfth Night, along with events like street football and the Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake, Liz Williams reveals the roots and roles of violence, mockery, protest and public shaming. She also looks at alternative culture and modern protests, such as the Battle of the Beanfield and the Stonehenge Free Festival, as well as interaction between racism and traditions involving blackface, alongside the emergence of all-female Morris sides.This engaging book offers an entertaining and revealing look at British folklore and culture.
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Česká knižní kultura na cestě od rukopisu ke knihtisku
Monografie na podkladě kratších studií nastiňuje obraz knižní kultury, knižní tvorby a čtenářské obce v českých zemích na přelomu 15. a 16. století. Zabývá se předpoklady vzniku a přijetí knihtisku v českých zemích a zkoumá některé jevy a vlivy, které působily v době přechodu od rukopisné k tištěné knize. Zároveň srovnáním se zahraničním vývojem zasazuje období raného českého knihtisku do mezinárodního kontextu. Vzhledem k probíhající diskusi o povaze českého humanismu a o tzv. národním humanismu se vyslovuje také k ideovým, kulturním i společenským konotacím tehdejší knižní kultury.
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20,57 €
A Training School for Elephants
In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa's resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants - if only he could train them.
And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asian elephants from India to the East African coast, where they were marched inland towards Congo. The ultimate aim was to establish a training school for African elephants.
Following in the footsteps of the four elephants, Roberts pieces together the story of this long-forgotten expedition, in travels that take her to Belgium, Iraq, India, Tanzania and Congo. The storytelling brings to life a compelling cast of historic characters and modern voices, from ivory dealers to Catholic nuns, set against rich descriptions of the landscapes travelled.
Roberts digs deep into historic records to reckon with our broken relationship with animals, revealing an extraordinary - and enduring - story of colonial greed, ineptitude, hypocrisy and folly.
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21,95 €
Threads of Empire
A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets
Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans and samurai crave them as symbols of earthly domination. Shamans and priests desire them to evoke the spiritual realm.
The world's 1% hunger after them as displays of extreme status. And yet these seductive objects are made by poor and illiterate weavers, using the most basic materials and crafts; hedgerow plants for dyes, fibres from domestic animals, and the millennia-old skills of interweaving warps, wefts and knots.
In Threads of Empire, Dorothy Armstrong tells the histories of some of the world's most fascinating carpets, exploring how these textiles came into being then were transformed as they moved across geography and time in the slipstream of the great. She shows why the world's powerful were drawn to them, but also asks what was happening in the weavers' lives, and how they were affected by events in the world outside their tent, village or workshop.
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21,95 €
The Far Edges of the Known World
What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world?
When Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his new bleak and barbarous surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was where civilisation ceased to exist. Our fascination with the Greek and Roman world, and the abundance of writing that we have from it, means that we usually explore the ancient world from this perspective too. Was Ovid's exile really as bad as he claimed? What was it truly like to live on the edges of these empires, on the boundaries of the known world?
Thanks to archaeological excavations, we now know that the borders of the empires we consider the 'heart' of civilisation were in fact thriving, vibrant cultures - just not ones we might expect. This is where the boundaries of 'civilised' and 'barbarians' began to dissipate; where the rules didn't always apply; where normally juxtaposed cultures intermarried; and where nomadic tribes built their own cities.
Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts south of Hadrian's Wall, Owen Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome. In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.
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23,95 €
Dějiny Sýrie
Sy?rie má společně s Egyptem a Mezopotámií jednu z nejdelších souvisly?ch historií a její dějiny sahají až k samému prahu lidské civilizace. Obsáhlá kniha Eduarda Gombára, Petra Charváta a Lukáše Pechy pokrývá nejstarší období, vpád muslimsky?ch Arabů i etapu, kdy byl Damašek hlavním městem rozsáhlé říše dynastie Umajjovců, sahající od Španělska po Střední Asii. Kniha přibližuje první světovou válku, po níž se historické území Bilád aš-Šám rozdělilo do několika samostatných států, a rovněž turbulentní období po skončení francouzského mandátu a získání nezávislosti, kdy se v zemi střídaly parlamentní demokracie a vojenské diktatury. Závěrečné kapitoly jsou věnovány arabskému jaru, které zemi uvrhlo do zničující občanské války, a přiblíženo je i revoluční dění na konci roku 2024
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Čingischán a Mongolská říše
Připravte se vstoupit do říše Čingischána – rozlehlé oblasti dobytých zemí, vypálených měst a nemilosrdných vojevůdců – do světa, v němž přežijí jen ti nejodvážnější. Otočte stránku a vydejte se na výpravu, která vás zavede na stezky mířící od větrných stepí Dálného východu
až k nám do srdce Evropy. Na této pouti potkáte kočovné válečníky, kteří srazili mocné říše na kolena, budete kráčet po boku cestovatelů, kteří překonali rozlehlé světadíly, a budete žasnout nad vynalézavostí Mongolů. Pospěšte si. Chán na nikoho nečeká.
Hlavní témata:
Taktika & válečné stroje, vynálezy & obchod, expanze & plenění
Fascinující vzestup otroka Temüdžina, který si podmanil velkou část Asie
Vydejte se s Mongoly na vítězná tažení Čínou, Evropou i Blízkým východem
Staňte se svědky krvavých bitev, jež smetly celé národy a vyhladily dynastie
Podvrh, nebo fakta? Marco Polo na dvoře Kublaj-Chána
Navštivte říši Tamerlána, jenž ovládal dobytá území neúprosným terorem
Mongolové na Moravě, kultura, všední život, ženy v říši, příprava jídla
Autori:
Edoardo Albert, Alice Barnes-Brown, Hareth Al Bustani, Charles Ginger, Michael E. Haskew, James Hoare, James Horton, John Man, Scott Reeves, David Smith, Frances White, Derek Wilson, Steve Wright
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15,05 €
Česká žena
V novém svazku edice Stručná historie Milena Lenderová živě a se smyslem pro detail i pro širší souvislosti líčí dějiny žen v českých zemích od středověku po práh 21. století. Shrnuje a vysvětluje, jak se v průběhu dějin proměňovala dívčí puberta, s jakými ambicemi vstupovaly v různých dobách ženy do manželství či jak vnímaly své mateřství. Přichází s novou historickou perspektivou v pohledu na násilí vůči ženám ve veřejném i soukromém prostoru a zamýšlí se nad tím, jak se v průběhu staletí měnila ženská sexualita. Sleduje, kdy a jak ženy pronikly na trh práce a na univerzity, a nezapomíná ani na ty, jež se dostaly na opačnou stranu sociálního spektra – na ženy zločinné.
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18,28 €
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Wages for Housework
What would women do with their lives if they had more time? The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary campaign to change the way work is valued' The women of the world are serving notice. We want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault, every painful childbirth, every cup of coffee and every smile. And if we don’t get what we want, we will simply refuse to work any longer!' Across the globe in the 1970s, a network of feminists distilled their struggles into a single demand: Wages for Housework! Today, it remains a provocative idea, and an unfulfilled promise.
Here historian Emily Callaci tells the story of this campaign by exploring the lives and ideas of its key creators, tracing their wildly creative political vision over the past five decades: from the early 1970s, when Selma James, a working-class political organizer, and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, a scholar-activist, started laying the foundations of Wages for Housework in London and Italy; through philosopher Silvia Federici reframing the campaign in the context of New York City’s fiscal crisis; to Wilmette Brown, lesbian poet and anti-war activist, and Margaret Prescod, community organizer, who brought the insights of Black feminism to the movement. Drawing on new archival research and extensive interviews, Callaci takes us deep inside the heart of the movement as it reached across Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean. For these women, the wage was more than a demand for money: it was a starting point for remaking the world as we know it, imagining potential futures under capitalism – and beyond.
Then as now, Wages for Housework poses profound questions. What would it be like to live in a society that prioritizes care rather than production? How would this change our relationship with the natural world? And what would women do with their lives if they had more time?
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31,95 €
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.
