The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Batalion Judy)(Pevná vazba)

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos (Batalion Judy)(Pevná vazba)

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings

Light of Days - Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller (Batalion Judy)(Pevná vazba)

The incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis - a tale virtually

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance (Dadzie Stella Abasa)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation. Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie

Hour of Separation - From the bestselling author of Richard & Judy book club pick, The Rose of Sebastopol (McMahon Katharine)(Pevná vazba)

An epic love story set in the Resistance from the Richard & Judy selected author of The Rose of

Hitler's First Hundred Days - When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (Fritzsche Peter (W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor The University of Illinois at))(Pevná vazba)

The chilling story of the hundred days in the spring of 1933 in which the Nazis laid the foundations for their Third

Gendered Resistance - Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner(Pevná vazba)

Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History (Holt Nathalia)(Pevná vazba)

'Richly detailed...Shines a welcome light on Disney's true heroines.'---Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden FiguresFrom the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (Lee Heath Hardage)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington--and Hanoi--to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried

Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey (Minnick Fred)(Pevná vazba)

Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth 'Bessie' Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphroaig Distillery on the Scottish island Islay. Williamson quickly found herself joining the boys in the tasting room, studying the distillation process,

Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Stratigakos Despina)(Pevná vazba)

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model 'Aryan' society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today,

League of Wives - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (Lee Heath Hardage)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of

Churchill Girls - The Story of Winston's Daughters (Trethewey Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

The fascinating untold stories of three women from England's most famous

Nine - How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story (Strauss Gwen)(Pevná vazba)

The nine were ordinary women, some still in their teens, who joined the French and Dutch Resistance in the face of Nazi horror and

New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story (Gallagher Winifred)(Pevná vazba)

A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the process Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women

An American Covenant: A Story of Women, Mysticism, and the Making of Modern America (Scott Lucile)(Pevná vazba)

A history of mystic resistance and liberation and of five women who transcended the expected to transform America.For centuries, women who emerge as mystic leaders have played vital roles in American culture. For just as long, they've been subjugated and ridiculed. Today, women and others across

The Last Days of Pompeii (Bulwer-Lytton Edward)(Pevná vazba)

Bulwer-Lytton's story of fictional events in Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the city. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days - The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Donner Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led one of the largest anti-Nazi resistance groups in Germany, now a New York Times

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space - Loren Grush

The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts - six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots - a

Lenin Plot - The Untold Story of America's Midnight War Against Russia (Carr Barnes)(Pevná vazba)

The surprising story of one of the darkest episodes in espionage history: the 'midnight war' devised by America and Allied powers to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and invade

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945 (Lee Eric)(Pevná vazba)

In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch coast rose up and slaughtered their German masters. Hitler ordered the island to be retaken and fighting continued for weeks, well after the war's end. The uprising had it origins in the

Women in Abstraction - Christine Macel, Karolina Lewandowska

An exploration of the fundamental role played by women in the development of abstract art With a few notable exceptions, the fundamental role that women played in the development of abstract art has long been underestimated, and their work has not received the same critical attention as that of

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler (Donner Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021

In Paris - 20 Women on Life in the City of Light (Bastide Lauren)(Pevná vazba)

Twelve Days That Made Modern Britain (Hindmoor Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describing what happened on those days and the subsequent consequences, Andrew Hindmoor paints a suggestive - and to some perhaps provocative - portrait of