Dan Jones Knihy

Vzestup a pád řádu templářů Známý britský historik Dan Jones mapuje několik staletí dlouhou historii slavného mnišského řádu, který přesáhl hranice středověké Evropy, a zbavuje ho nálepky sekty zahalené rouškou tajemství, jež se pohybovala na okraji raně středověkého křesťanství a spojovala okultismus s nezměrnou touhou po moci a světském vlivu. Jeho vyprávění má rychlý spád, používá moderní a přístupný jazyk, v knize najdeme barvité líčení bitev i vtipné historky. Přes nesporně historický a středověký námět knihy se mu podařilo najít v osudech řádu a jeho hlavních představitelů i paralely k současnému kulturnímu a politickému dění. Například zánik řádu přičítá propracované anti-templářské propagandě, která používala i institut tzv. fake-news.

Výjimečná a v současné knižní produkci ojedinělá publikace Barvy času pokrývá více než 100 let světových dějin: od vlády královny Viktorie a americké občanské války až ke kubánské krizi a počátkům kosmického věku. Zaznamenává vzestup a pád impérií, vědecké objevy, průmyslový vývoj, umění, tragédie válek, politiku míru a životy mužů a žen, kteří tvořili dějiny. Bohatě ilustrovaná kniha je společným dílem renomovaného britského historika Dana Jonese, autora bestsellerů žebříčku The New York Times, a talentované brazilské umělkyně Mariny Amaralové. Ta na základě unikátních fotografií vytvořila 200 úchvatných obrazů, které přivedla k životu s pomocí digitálního kolorování. Dan Jones ke každému z nich napsal poutavý text, který jej zasazuje do historického kontextu. Vznikl tak živoucí celistvý obraz světa, v němž dnes žijeme.

For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting an avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era. With a richly dramatic narrative that gives voice to sources usually pushed to the margins, Jones has written an authoritative survey of the holy wars with global scope and human focus. -- Back cover

'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the dropping of the first atom bomb. The World Aflame embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914-18 and 1939-45 and the international tensions, conflicting ideologies and malign economic forces that set them in train, but also the civil wars of the interwar period in Ireland and Spain, wars in Latin America, Britain's imperial travails in such places as Ireland, Somalia and Palestine, and events on the domestic 'fronts' of the belligerent nations. Like The Colour of Time, this is a collaboration between the gifted Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, and the leading British historian Dan Jones. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen and informative words, The World Aflame offers a moving - and often terrifying - perspective on the bloodiest century in human history. 'A new perspective on the bloodiest half-century in history' Daily Mail 'Immensely vivid' Sunday Times 'Brings history to life in breaktaking technicolour' Financial Times 'Revelatory' Daily Express 'The past - even its grimmest, darkest hours - was not in black and white' Guardian

Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built.

A bestselling historian and a brilliant artist have combined their talents to create a stunning visual history of global war and revolution from 1914 to 1945. Dan Jones and Marina Amaral tell the epic, harrowing, and world-changing story—in narrative form with colorized images—of global conflict from the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the obliteration of Hiroshima by the first atom bomb. The World Aflame embraces not only the total conflagrations of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 and the tensions, ideologies and economic forces that set them in motion, but also the revolutions in Russia; civil wars in Ireland and Spain; American interventions in Latin America, colonial wars in Morocco, Ethiopia, and Palestine; and events on the domestic ‘fronts’ of the belligerent nations. A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen and informative words, The World Aflame offers a moving—and often terrifying—perspective on the bloodiest century in human history.

Shake, Muddle, Stir is a beginner’s guide to whisky and bourbon.Dan Jones teaches you how to stock your home bar, pick some of the world’s best whiskies and pull together your own infusions and syrups. Try your hand at classics like an Old Fashioned or The Sazerac, or modern hits like Bourbon Smash or The Rattlesnake.With over 40 whisky recipes, Shake, Muddle, Stir shows you just how versatile whisky is.

'A convincing picture of hard men in a hard time, Dan Jones' fiction rings with the authority of his scholarly history.' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'Absolutely fabulous. A raucous, swaggering charge through the medieval underworld. I had such a good time reading it that I never wanted it to stop.' ANTONIA FRASER 'Superb historical fiction as fresh, vivid and vital as this morning's h[Bokinfo].

If you're a fan of a rum cocktail, and want to take things to unchartered territories, look no further than Dan Jones's new cocktail manual, Rum, in which he introduces readers to the best rum makers on the planet, as well as some of the most exciting mixes that can be made from the spirit. Drinks featured include easy three-ingredient-recipes, punches, aperitifs, teas and more. With one bottle, you will soon be making over 60 drinks that will ensure you are the life and soul of any party!

The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors, from Dan Jones - the celebrated author of The Plantagenets - is an exciting, fast-paced history of the Wars of the Roses.