Giles MacDonogh Poradie kníh

A rich and refreshing exploration of Germany, Germans and Germanness.

Vo vzdialenej i nedávnej minulosti sa na bojovom poli počas niekoľkých hodín alebo dní často rozhodlo o osudoch celých národov na mnoho roky, ba dokonca storočí. Táto kniha podrobne opisuje priebeh 50 významných bojových stretnutí, ktoré mali väčší či menší vplyv na ďalší vývoj sveta. Okrem pútavého textu publikácia obsahuje množstvo ilustrácií a mapiek znázorňujúcich priebeh každej bitky.

„Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel“, schrieb Carl von Clausewitz vor knapp 200 Jahren in „Vom Kriege“. Dieses Buch untersucht Hintergründe, Auswirkungen und Strategien der großen kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen der Weltgeschichte. Aufwendige Illustrationen stützen die Spurensuche und machen das Nachschlagewerk zum packenden geschichtlichen Dokument.

The history of the world is largely the history of warfare. The first recorded wars were fought in ancient Sumeria over 5,000 years ago and various conflicts continue to rage in the world we live in today. The Great Battles is a lavish and comprehensive introduction to those clashes that have altered the course of history. -- Front fly leaf.

Explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. This book offers a revealing account of Hitler's opening moves to war.

Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague—the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimized. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes—the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew—and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity. A year later, she, too—together with her husband and their six-year-old son—was deported to a concentration camp. But even in Theresienstadt, music was her salvation and in the course of more than 100 concerts she gave her fellow prisoners hope in a world of pain and death. This is her remarkable story, but it is also the story of a mother's struggle to create a happy childhood for her beloved only son in the midst of atrocity and barbarism. Of 15,000 children sent to the camp, Raphael was one of the 130 who survived. Today, Alice Herz-Sommer lives in London and she still plays the piano every day.

Približne šesťdesiat rokov po skončení vojny bol v ruských archívoch objavený dokument najvyššej historickej hodnoty: Kniha Hitler. Zostavená výlučne pre Jozefa V. Stalina obsahuje osobné spomienky Otta Günscheho a Heinza Lingeho, ktoré písali v sovietskom zajatí pod dozorom NKVD. Obaja sa pohybovali v tesnej blízkosti Adolfa Hitlera. Ich opisy neobsahujú len mnohé doteraz neznáme detaily z Hitlerovej politiky a z vedenia vojny, ale tiež sprostredkúvajú neprikrášlený obraz toho, k čomu v Hitlerovom okolí naozaj dochádzalo. Tým sa Kniha Hitler bezpochyby zaraďuje k najpôsobivejším zdrojom o tretej ríši, aké máme.

This guide to Spanish wines contains maps showing the location of vineyards and bodegas, wine zones and suggested wine routes. The text includes descriptions of the wines and profiles of producers, and for travellers there is advice on hotels, restaurants and other places of interest.

Traces the life of one of the leaders of the German Resistance, who was executed for his part in the bomb plot that failed to kill Hitler