The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions (Paquette Gabriel)(Pevná vazba)

The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions (Paquette Gabriel)(Pevná vazba)

An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and

Třebel 1647 - Václav Matoušek

The book “Třebel 1647. A Battlefield of the Thirty Years’ War from the Perspective of History, Archeology, Art-history, Geoinformatics, and Ethnology” deals with a military clash between the Swedish and Habsburg Armies that took place under Třebel Castle in Western Bohemia from August

Roy of the Rovers: The Best of the 1970s - The Tiger Years (Tully Tom)(Pevná vazba)

The best comic strips from the golden age of Roy of the Rovers, starting with European Cup final win in 1973 in the year that the club celebrated its 50th anniversary. It was the decade in which footballers became real superstars - when Roy Race truly cemented himself as the heart, soul and brain

European Stamp Issues and the First World War - Fall of Empires, Rise of Nations (Parker David)(Pevná vazba)

Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945 (Traverso Enzo)(Paperback)

Europe's second Thirty Years' War--an epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined

Africa: A Modern History (Arnold Guy)(Pevná vazba)

The end of World War II signaled the end of the European African empires. In 1945, four African countries were independent; by 1963, 30 African states created the Organization of African Unity. The 1960s were a time of optimism as Africans enjoyed their new independence, witnessed increases in

The National Gallery: Masterpieces of Painting (Finaldi Gabriele)(Pevná vazba)

An exceptional introduction to European paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century through one of the greatest collections in the world. This richly illustrated and beautifully designed book offers an ideal introduction to European painting from the 13th to the early 20th century. The

Europe in Flames: The Crisis of the Thirty Years War (Matusiak John)(Pevná vazba)

'War, ' wrote Cardinal Richelieu, 'is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely begins to encapsulate the full complexity and unspeakable horror of the greatest man-made calamity to befall Europe before the twentieth century

Europe's Tragedy - A New History of the Thirty Years War (Wilson Peter H.)(Paperback / softback)

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. This title explains a compelling series of

Europe in Flames: The Crisis of the Thirty Years War (Matusiak John)(Paperback)

Early seventeenth-century Europe was a dangerous place. The resulting Thirty Years War was to claim more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars - not only from battle and the endemic violence of marauding armies, but also from famine and plague. In the wake of events in

The Isle of Dogs: Before the Big Money (Seaborne Mike)(Pevná vazba)

Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age (Braumoeller Bear F.)(Pevná vazba)

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows

The Best of Ogden Nash (Nash Ogden)(Pevná vazba)

It's been more than thirty years since the appearance of a collection from America's laureate of light verse. Ogden Nash first gathered together an anthology of thirty years of his published works in 1959. In 1973 his daughters gathered more than four hundred of his poems and called it I Wouldn't

Age of War: Book Three of the Legends of the First Empire (Sullivan Michael J.)(Pevná vazba)

The epic battle between humankind and their godlike rulers finally ignites in the masterful follow-up to Age of Myth and Age of Swords. The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile--and about to be tested as never before. Persephone keeps the human clans from turning on one another through

Indian Empire At War - From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War (Morton-Jack George)(Pevná vazba)

A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian

Nearly the New World: The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933-1945 (Newman Joanna)(Pevná vazba)

In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame

Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire (Peirce Leslie)(Pevná vazba)

The 'fascinating...lively' story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times). In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave

The Architectural Association in the Postwar Years (Zamarian Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

This book traces the history of the Architectural Association from the end of the second world war until the mid-1960s, when it surrendered its position as the pacemaker in British architectural education in order to safeguard its institutional

Timelines of World History (Chisholm Jane)(Pevná vazba)

A gorgeously illustrated guide to the history of the world, from wars and revolutions to ground-breaking inventions, discoveries and artistic movements. With over 3,500 key dates from the Stone Age to the year 2000, organised geographically so readers can compare what was happening in different

The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (Citino Robert M.)(Paperback)

For Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ('short and lively')-wars that relied upon swift, powerful, and decisive military operations. Robert Citino takes us on a dramatic march through Prussian and German military history to show how that primal theme played

Armies of Ancient Italy 753-218 BC: From the Foundation of Rome to the Start of the Second Punic War (Esposito Gabriele)(Pevná vazba)

Before becoming the masters of the Mediterranean world, the Romans had first to conquer the Italian peninsula in a series of harsh conflicts against its other varied and warlike residents. The outcome was no foregone conclusion and it took the Romans half a millennium to secure the whole of

The Industrial Revolutions, Volume 1: Pre-Industrial Britain (Chartres J.)(Pevná vazba)

Britain in the sixteenth century appeared little different from its European neighbours, and shared their renewed 'Malthusian' pressures, as population growth threatened the resource base of the economy. Yet, by the later seventeenth century, Britain had broken the limits imposed by food

Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich (Clark Christopher)(Paperback)

From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy (Wilson Peter H.)(Paperback)

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the