The Nurse Who Became a Spy: Madge Addy's War Against Fascism (Hall Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The Nurse Who Became a Spy: Madge Addy's War Against Fascism (Hall Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The life story of Madge Addy, a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, is a truly remarkable one. Madge left her job and her husband to serve in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse with the Republican medical services. In Spain she was wounded in

Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (Glajar Valentina)(Pevná vazba)

During the Cold War, stories of espionage became popular on both sides of the Iron Curtain, capturing the imagination of readers and filmgoers alike as secret police quietly engaged in surveillance under the shroud of impenetrable secrecy. And curiously, in the post-Cold War period there are no

Islamic Fascism (Abdel-Samad Hamed)(Pevná vazba)

This polemic against Islamic extremism highlights the striking parallels between contemporary Islamism and the 20th-century fascism embodied by Hitler and Mussolini. Like those infamous ideologies, Islamism today touts imperialist dreams of world domination, belief in its inherent superiority,

On the Game - How Football Became What it is Today (England Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Snow Birds (Hall Kirsten)(Pevná vazba)

Discover birds who survive winter against all odds in this poetic, gorgeously illustrated picture book Snowflakes whirling, snow-flocks swirling, streaks of white twirl through the night . . . You've heard of birds who migrate to warmer climates in the wintertime--but what about those who

Airpower in the War Against Isis (Lambeth Benjamin S.)(Pevná vazba)

Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT). Benjamin S. Lambeth contends that the war's

Chris Orr: The Miserable Lives of Fabulous Artists (Orr Chris)(Pevná vazba)

A celebration of the lives of the fabulously artistic, as they come up against Chris Orr's irreverent wit, and published to coincide with a show of the works at the Royal

A Question of Time: A Cold War Spy Thriller (Stejskal James)(Pevná vazba)

'Stejskal, who served 35 years with the U.S. Army Special Forces and the CIA, convincingly describes the mission's progress, and does a good job building suspense even if the outcome is never in doubt. Fans of realistic espionage fiction will look forward to the sequel.' -- Publishers

Hitler's Atrocities Against Allied POWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich (Chinnery Philip)(Pevná vazba)

Documents the atrocities carried out against Allied prisoners of war during

Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Carre John Le)(Pevná vazba)

Faces of Civil War Nurses (Coddington Ronald S.)(Pevná vazba)

During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the war effort in countless ways: forming charitable societies, becoming nurses, or even marching off to war as vivandi res, unofficial attach s to the

The First Vietnam War (McHale Shawn F.)(Pevná vazba)

Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945-54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim

The Forgotten War Against Napoleon: Conflict in the Mediterranean (Glover Gareth)(Pevná vazba)

The campaigns fought against Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula, in France, Germany, Italy and Russia and across the rest of Europe have been described and analyzed in exhaustive detail, yet the history of the fighting in the Mediterranean has rarely been studied as a separate theater of the

Jack Hinson's One-Man War (McKenney Tom)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of one man's reluctant but relentless war against the invaders of his country.A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed to secession and a friend to Union and Confederate commanders alike, he did not want a war. After

Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen (Fauvel Claire)(Pevná vazba)

She rebelled against the ancient tribal rules of India and became a Robin Hood-type bandit. Essentially sold at the age of 11 to become a wife to a much older man, she ran away when he raped her. From that point on, there were few choices for her but to join a roaming gang of bandits, her ambition

Poems (Yeats W B)(Pevná vazba)

A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet

The World War I Aviator's Pocket Manual (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Aviation was still in its infancy when World War I broke out. The first men to take to the skies above the battlefield undertook reconnaissance. Pilots and observers soon branched out into primitive bombing attempts, and attacking enemy aircraft when they came into contact. Nascent air forces

Kyiv (Hurley Graham)(Pevná vazba)

A blockbuster thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War. A searing portrait of the Nazi elite as the war turns against them. Raw, shocking and meticulously researched. TIM SEBASTIAN On Sunday 22nd June, 1941, at 03.05, three and a half million Axis troops burst

Strategic Nuclear Weapons (Baker David)(Pevná vazba)

Much misinformation has been published by those who support, as well as those who are against, the continued deployment of nuclear weapons as instruments of deterrence. This book provides an apolitical description of strategic nuclear weapons, how they are designed, how they work, and how they are

Hitler's Tanks: German Panzers of World War II (McNab Chris)(Pevná vazba)

A fully illustrated and expertly researched guide to the tanks of Hitler's formidable war machine. The Panzers that rolled over Europe were Germany's most famous fighting force, and are some of the most enduring symbols of World War II. However, at the start of the war, Germany's armor was nothing

Zero 22: Danny Black Thriller 8 (Ryan Chris)(Pevná vazba)

When the President of the US wages war on the SAS, all hell breaks

The Walking Dead Book 14 (Kirkman Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The time has come. The forces are aligning. Alexandria's war against the Whisperers has begun! Has Rick brought about the demise of everything he's built? Or will he triumph once again? Know this... there will be a cost. Collects THE WALKING DEAD #157-168

Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs (Osterholm Michael T.)(Pevná vazba)

A leading epidemiologist shares his 'powerful and necessary' stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone). Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over

Friends of Harry Perkins (Mullin Chris)(Pevná vazba)

'Harry Perkins was buried on the day that America declared war on China.' The definitive post-Brexit thriller and long-awaited sequel to the bestselling A Very British