Autorka ve sve knize popisuje osudy italskych zidu za druhe svetove valky. Pri vypraveni pribehu z detstvi konfron¬tuje tehdejsi videni udalosti se zpetnou reflexi v dospelosti. Opira se pri tom nejen o zivotni zkusenosti, ale tez o dobove dokumenty. Spojenim techto dvou rovin ziskavaji individualni ...
The West and Islam--the sword and the scimitar--have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Byzantine emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad''s order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom. Sword and Scimitar ...
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first s.
