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Short History of the Twentieth Century - 2867773538

127,22 zł

Short History of the Twentieth Century Harvard University Press

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The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century--its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and dangers of technology, and the continuing democratization of the globe. The historical twentieth century began with the First World War in 1914 and ended seventy-five years later with the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1989. The short century saw the end of European dominance and the rise of American power and influence throughout the world. The twentieth century was an American century--perhaps "the" American century. Lukacs explores in detail the phenomenon of national socialism (national socialist parties, he reminds us, have outlived the century), Hitler's sole responsibility for the Second World War, and the crucial roles played by his determined opponents Churchill and Roosevelt. Between 1939 and 1942 Germany came closer to winning than many people suppose. Lukacs casts a hard eye at the consequences of the Second World War--the often misunderstood Soviet-American cold war--and at the shifting social and political developments in the Far and Middle East and elsewhere. In an eloquent closing meditation on the passing of the twentieth century, he reflects on the advance of democracy throughout the world and the limitations of human knowledge.

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41,70 zł

Podniebni szpiedzy Rebis

II Wojna ŚwiatowaHistoria Wielkiej Brytanii, IrlandiiWydawnictwa naukowe i popularno-naukowe

Podniebni szpiedzy to pasjonująca historia jednostki partnerującej słynnemu ośrodkowi kryptologicznemu w Bletchley Park. W jej skład wchodzili piloci RAF-u wykonujący zdjęcia lotnicze terenów okupowanej Europy i północnej Afryki oraz grupa interpretatorów fotografii. Umiejętności i odwaga tych pierwszych dorównywały osiągnięciom asów myśliwskich, a wiedza i wizjonerstwo tych drugich zapoczątkowały rozwój fotografii trójwymiarowej.Praca tej niezwykłej tajnej jednostki ? skupiającej najtęższe umysły, ekscentrycznych oryginałów (legendarny pilot Adrian ?Warby? Warburton) i znane osoby (Sarah Churchill, córka premiera) ? miała ogromne znaczenie w działaniach wojennych i niewątpliwie zaważyła na losach wojny. Dzięki zwiadowi lotniczemu oraz interpretatorom zdjęć wytropiono i zatopiono krążownik Bismarck, namierzono stanowiska rakiet typu V na terenie Polski, zaplanowano lądowanie w Normandii, a nawet ostrzegano przed Arnhem. Nic nie umknęło czujnemu oku podniebnych szpiegów.Książka ta w barwny, anegdotyczny, a zarazem bardzo rzeczowy sposób opisuje brawurowe wyczyny pilotów-zwiadowców oraz mrówczą, lecz także bardzo twórczą pracę analityków i interpretatorów zdjęć lotniczych. Pokazuje interesujące i słabo znane aspekty wysiłku wojennego aliantów, ludzi stojących za przygotowaniami do tak wielkich operacji jak ?Overlord?, jak również samą społeczność i obyczaje pracowników tajnego ośrodka.W 2012 roku książka Podniebni szpiedzy znalazła się w ścisłym finale prestiżowej nagrody dla książek militarnych przyznawanej przez Royal United Services Institute i księcia Westminsteru.?Książka wypełnia ogromną lukę w historiografii drugiej wojny światowej, i to w sposób zarówno porywający, jak i intelektualnie bez zarzutu. Od tej pory nikt nie będzie mógł rekonstruować tamtych wydarzeń bez oddania kluczowej roli ośrodka w Medmenham w pozyskiwaniu przez aliantów informacji wywiadowczych?.Andrew Roberts, autor książki Wicher wojny. Nowa historia drugiej wojny światowej?Fascynująca lektura i znaczący wkład w historię II wojny światowej? - prof. David Reynolds?Książka rzuca nowe światło na niektóre z najważniejszych wydarzeń II wojny światowej? - Robert McCrum, ?Observer?Taylor Downing to historyk i producent telewizyjny. Studiował w Latymer Upper School i Christ?s College w Cambridge. Pracował w Imperial War Museum, zrealizował ponad dwieście programów dokumentalnych oraz nagradzane filmy historyczne. Napisał także Cold War (z Jeremym Isaacsem) i Churchill?s War Lab.

Sklep: Booknet.net.pl

210,63 zł

Yalta 1945 Cambridge University Press

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This revisionist study of Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946 challenges Americocentric views of the period and highlights Europe's neglected role. Fraser J. Harbutt, drawing on international sources, shows that in planning for the future Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and others self-consciously operated into 1945, not on 'East/West' lines but within a 'Europe/America' political framework characterized by the plausible prospect of Anglo-Russian collaboration and persisting American detachment. Harbutt then explains the destabilizing transformation around the time of the pivotal Yalta conference of February 1945, when a sudden series of provocative initiatives, manipulations, and miscues interacted with events to produce the breakdown of European solidarity and the Anglo-Soviet nexus, an evolving Anglo-American alignment, and new tensions that led finally to the Cold War. This fresh perspective, stressing structural, geopolitical, and traditional impulses and constraints, raises important new questions about the enduringly controversial transition from World War II to a cold war that no statesman wanted.

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39,00 zł

Podniebni szpiedzy rebis

Historia. Archeologia>Historia poszczególnych krajów i krain>Historia Europy

Sklep: Bonusmedia

38,05 zł

Podniebni szpiedzy rebis

Książki naukowe>Historia>Wojskowość>Historia wojskowości>Wojny i bitwy>II Wojna Światowa

Sklep: Madbooks.pl

37,68 zł

Kill in the Morning Transworld Publ. Ltd UK

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'I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though - a garrotte around a target's neck or a knife in their heart - it's not for me. Too much empathy, that's my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different...' The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourteen years since Churchill died and the Second World War ended. In occupied Europe, Britain fights a cold war against a nuclear-armed Nazi Germany. In Berlin the Gestapo is on the trail of a beautiful young resistance fighter, and the head of the SS is plotting to dispose of an ailing Adolf Hitler and restart the war against Britain and her empire. Meanwhile, in a secret bunker hidden deep beneath the German countryside, scientists are experimenting with a force far beyond their understanding. Into this arena steps a nameless British assassin, on the run from a sinister cabal within his own government, and planning a private war against the Nazis. And now the fate of the world rests on a single kill in the morning...

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47,22 zł

Tightrope Abacus

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Marian Sutro has survived Ravensbruck and is back in dreary 1950s London trying to pick up the pieces of her pre-war life. Returned to an England she barely knows and a post-war world she doesn't understand Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her and a young RAF officer attempts to bring her the normalities of love and affection but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the development of the Atom Bomb. Where, in the complexities of peacetime, does her loyalty lie? When a mysterious Russian diplomat emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War she sees a way to make amends for the past and to renew the excitement of her double life. Simon Mawer's sense of time and place is perfect: Tightrope is a compelling novel about identity and deception which constantly surprises the reader.

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866,57 zł

Molotov: A Biography PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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Molotov was Stalin's first lieutenant from the mid-1920s and his head of government 1930-41. He was Soviet foreign minister 1939-1949 and negotiated with Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman. Apparently colourless, he was the only person who was prepared to disagree with Stalin, but he supported the Terror through conviction. Prior to his association with Stalin, Molotov was an active revolutionary in the period up to 1917, and one of Lenin's trusted aides in the new Soviet regime. Disgraced in Stalin's last years, after the dictator's death, Molotov was foreign minister again and a leading politician at home, until his quarrel with Khrushchev led to his downfall. This is the first comprehensive biography of Molotov and reflects the range of sources that have become available to historians since the fall of the USSR. It is a commentary on Soviet history. Molotov played his part in revolution, Civil War, Lenin's Russia, Stalin's struggle with the oppositions, collectivisation, industrialisation, the Terror, the Great Patriotic War, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the Khrushchev era.

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51,75 zł

Queen Elizabeth II Penguin Books

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From Sarah Bradford, the best-selling author of "George VI", "Elizabeth" and "Diana", the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II, to tie in with the Diamond Jubilee. Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK and Ronald Reagan, and other world leaders like President Mandela and Pope John XXII. Her Prime Ministers have ranged from Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron, the last only ten years older than her grandson. Her own family experiences, a mixture of happiness and crisis, weddings and divorces, and, in the case of Diana, violent death, have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine Middleton in 2010 shortly before she made the first State Visit to Ireland by a British monarch for 100 years.Our world has changed more in her lifetime than in any of her predecessors': the Queen has remained a calm presence at the centre, earning the respect of monarchists and republicans. How has she done it? "Bradford has a real grasp of history and the ability to make it spark into new life". ("Sunday Telegraph"). "Bradford's forte, ever since she was a history-mad girl, is thinking herself into other lives". ("Daily Telegraph"). Sarah Bradford is a historian and biographer. Her books include "Cesare Borgia" (1976), "Disraeli" (1982), winner of the "New York Times" Book of the Year, "Princess Grace" (1984), "Sacherevell Sitwell" (1993), "Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen" (1996), "America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" (2000), "Lucrezia Borgia" (2005) and "Diana" (2007). She frequently appears on television as an authority on her biographical subjects and as a commentator on notable royal events. She is currently working on a full scale biography of Queen Victoria. She lives in London.

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The New Makers of Modern Strategy - 2874068963

185,11 zł

The New Makers of Modern Strategy Princeton University Press

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The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who

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97,27 zł

Dark Sun Harper Collins Publishers

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The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb now tells the defintive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the H-Bomb and the birth of the Cold War, based on secret files found in the United States and the former Soviet Union. "A dark tale told with gripping intensity".--Washington Post Book World. of photos.

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197,80 zł

Life Atomic The University of Chicago Press

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fter World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government?s efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace?advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign relations.In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes, which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed biomedicine and ecology. Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, specifically cancer therapy, and enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government?s attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens recognized the hazards of low-level radiation. Creager reveals that growing consciousness of the danger of radioactivity did not reduce the demand for radioisotopes at hospitals and laboratories, but it did change their popular representation from a therapeutic agent to an environmental poison. She then demonstrates how, by the late twentieth century, public fear of radioactivity overshadowed any appreciation of the positive consequences of the AEC?s provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.

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The Space Alien: The Boy Detectives Club - 2861869981

47,73 zł

The Space Alien: The Boy Detectives Club Independently Published

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The year is 1953. The Korean War is winding down. The Cold War is heating up. The United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb the year before. Godzilla will make his debut a year later. UFOs are appearing all over the world. And in Ranpo Edogawa's late

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Hitler'S Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology - 2862174076

94,40 zł

Hitler'S Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology Adventures Unlimited Press

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What spooked the Allies in the closing months of the war? Why they were in such a panic to win quickly? Because they knew the Nazis were developing supermetals, electric guns, lasers, and ray weapons. Here are official, previously-suppressed reports of cold bombs, the red mercury bomb, oxygen bombs, fuel-air bombs, atomic bombs and rumors of the mysterious molecular bomb. The SS black alchemists delivered large mystery rockets with technology far beyond the V-2. They also invented the computer, magnetic tape and computer programs, refined crude oil using sound waves or produced gasoline for 11 cents per gallon as well as the synthetic penicillin substitute, 3065. Includes German experiments in time, sustained fusion reactions, zero point energy and travel in deep space.

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