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Výběrová edice dokumentů mapující vzájemné vztahy mezi Československem a Svatým stolcem v prvním decenniu existence samostatného státu. Předkládaná edice přináší dokumenty jak z československé strany, tak ze zpřístupněných vatikánských archivů. Přibližuje navazování diplomatických vztahů po vzniku Československa ...
Late in the summer of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he’d single-handedly tracked down and killed enemies of the communist regime. His weapon, a unique, top-secret design, killed without leaving a trace. Just ...
From June 18 to July 3, 2016, 100 kilometers east of Milan and 200 kilometers west of Venice, thousands of people will walk on water. The Floating Piers byChris…
In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about ...
The testament to a tragedy. Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the \''Shoah\'' from Hitler\''s rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of \''The Final Solution\'' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK ON BBC RADIO 4PRIMETIME BBC2 DOCUMENTARY WITH JEREMY PAXMANOn a dark night in Provence in December 1888 Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is…
A riveting oral history of the Cold War, drawing on interviews with those who lived through its key events, based on the BBC Radio 4 series
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, ...
''This is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reason.Take it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens'' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years ...
Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother’s survival to the courage of brave people and good luck. As a young man growing ...
With a spectacular illustrated journey through 4,000 years of weaponry, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour is the most comprehensive visual reference charting the history of arms and armour worldwide. Follow the evolution of weaponry from stone maces to machine-guns, and discover the brutal ...
Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History Prize In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large ...
For two millennia the Bible has inspired the creation of art. Within this legacy of remarkable art and beauty, illuminated biblical manuscripts offer some of the best evidence for our understanding of early Christian painting and artistic interpretations of the Bible. This beautiful and important new ...
A hilarious and indispensable guide to the weirdness of the workplace from "Esquire" editor and "Entrepreneur" etiquette columnist Ross McCammon Ten years ago, Ross McCammon made an incredible and unexpected transition from working at an in-flight magazine in suburban Dallas to landing his dream job ...
England's Forgotten Past : The Unsung Heroes and Heroines, Valiant Kings, Great Battles and Other Generally Overlooked Episodes in Our Nation's Glorious History
''A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.'' Simon Sebag Montefiore (Author, The Romanovs)Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling ...
Monografie, na níž se podíleli historikové a literární vědci z Kuby, Francie, Španělska, České republiky a dalších států, pojednává o různých politických a kulturních projektech v karibské oblasti v průběhu devatenáctého a dvacátého století, přičemž je sledován proces jejich realizace, popřípadě důvody, ...
The apparent glamour of the Indian Raj continues to fascinate long after the British quit the subcontinent. But along with the beauty of the Indian landscape an…
