W tym dziale znajdziecie fascynująca literaturę, która przekona was jak fascynująca i ciekawa jest historia i jak wiele możemy się nauczyć. Może zainteresujecie się wojną na Pacyfiku, o której ciekawie pisze Morison Samuel Eliot, albo może zaciekawią was powieści Adama Borowieckiego, które przedstawiają przygody w galaktykach kosmosu Junga i Ing. Zapraszamy równiez po powieści biograficzne, polityczne.
A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other European countries were being depopulated by slavers, who transported the men, women and children to Africa where they were sold to the highest bidder. This is the forgotten slave trade.
Starting with the practice of slavery in the ancient world, Simon Webb traces the history of slavery in Europe and examines the experiences of those who were forcibly taken from their homes. He describes how thousands of European boys were castrated and then sold in Africa and the Middle East, and also explains how the role of the newly-independent United States helped to put an end to the trade in European and American slaves. He also discuss the importance of towns such as Bristol, which was an important staging-post for the transfer of English slaves to Africa over 1,000 years before it became a major centre for the slave trade in the eighteenth century.
Reading this book will forever change how you view the slave trade and show that many commonly held beliefs about this controversial subject are almost wholly inaccurate and mistaken.
In the darkest days of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anna-Maria van der Vaart sheltered Allied pilots, gave refuge to persecuted Jews and participated in audacious acts of sabotage. She survived when others did not, a witness to their courage and to the terrible treachery that betrayed so many of them to the Nazis.
Tens of thousands of Dutchmen elected to fight with the Germans, while many civilians turned over their Jewish neighbours to an almost certain death. Holland’s Jewish leaders prevaricated, hoping to save their people and their own skins. But the exploits of the Dutch Resistance produced unimaginable heroism and unparalleled self-sacrifice.
A chance meeting with Martin Sixsmith in 2019 led to Anna-Maria telling him her story. In Dutch and German archives, interviews with survivors, personal diaries and contentious memoirs by those with things to hide, Sixsmith came across a drama on a scale he could never have imagined.
My Sins Go with Me is a story of remarkable bravery, and of cowardice and betrayal in the hardest of times.
Kolejna część bestsellerowego cyklu "Opowieści niepoprawne politycznie". Po Żydach, Sowietach i Niemcach przyszedł czas na Aliantów.II wojna światowa przedstawiana jest jak hollywoodzki western, starcie dobrych kowbojów ze złymi Indianami. Prawdziwa historia nie była jednak wcale czarno-biała. Zbrodnie wojenne popełniały nie tylko państwa Osi, ale również alianci zachodni.Straszliwe bombardowania dywanowe Hamburga, Drezna i innych niemieckich miast. Rozstrzeliwanie jeńców wojennych. Gwałty i grabieże. Rasistowskie mordy na ludności cywilnej Japonii, których zwieńczeniem była atomowa zagłada w Hiroszimie i Nagasaki.Piotr Zychowicz pisze o brytyjskich obozach koncentracyjnych dla Burów, ludobójstwie amerykańskich Indian i zachodnich intelektualistach, którzy tuszowali zbrodnie Stalina - Katyń, Gułag i Wielki Głód. A także o tym, jak Anglosasi po wojnie wydali NKWD dwa miliony uciekinierów ze Związku Sowieckiego. Polacy nie byli jedynym narodem zdradzonym przez Churchilla i Roosevelta w Jałcie.
Arcydzieło rosyjskiego mistrza Imponujące dzieło Tołstoja to książka, do której ciągle się wraca. Ta wielowątkowa rosyjska epopeja narodowa opowiada losy obywateli Cesarstwa Rosyjskiego w czasach wojen napoleońskich. Wierne tło historyczne oraz wciągająca fabuła obejmująca bohaterów z różnych klas społecznych sprawiają, że czytelnicy z zapartym tchem śledzą wojenne zawieruchy, wystawne przyjęcia i polityczne decyzje. Wojna i pokój to powieść, którą trzeba znać – jest nie tylko historycznym arcydziełem, ale też inspiracją dla wielu współczesnych pisarzy. Wychwalali ją Fiodor Dostojewski i Gustave Flaubert, a Ernest Hemingway od Tołstoja uczył się pisać o wojnie. Jako nieprzemijający klasyk doczekała się też wielu, również oscarowych, ekranizacji, a najnowszą jest widowiskowy miniserial BBC z 2016 roku.
Prawdziwa historia niemieckich misji specjalnych w sercu arktycznego piekła Peter Bausch, młody psycholog rozpoczynający karierę w nazistowskich Niemczech, po wielu nieoczekiwanych wydarzeniach trafia do tajnego arktycznego oddziału Kriegsmarine. Jego życie splata się z losami niemieckich żołnierzy operujących na lodowych pustkowiach północy. Wspierając szkolenia jednostek specjalnych, Peter sam staje się częścią elitarnego zespołu, który podejmuje ryzykowne misje na Spitsbergenie. Polarne wrony to nie tylko pasjonująca opowieść o wojennych operacjach na dalekiej północy, ale również poruszający obraz życia w III Rzeszy widziany oczami młodego intelektualisty. Polarna zima to siła, która wnika w psychikę człowieka, pozostawiając trwały ślad. Nie ma przed nią ucieczki.
Historia wojny podwodnej na Atlantyku w latach 1939-1945. Kampania ta zaangażowała, na wszystkich jej teatrach i milionach kilometrów kwadratowych oceanu, tysiące statków i okrętów w ponad stu bitwach konwojowych oraz około tysiącu starć pojedynczych okrętów. Szala zwycięstwa przechylała się raz na jedną, raz na drugą stronę, wraz z wprowadzaniem nowych broni, taktyk i sposobów przeciwdziałania przeciwnikowi.
Bliskowschodnie dylematy Chin. 1949–2023 to zarówno historia relacji
żydowsko-chińskich sprzed powstania Izraela i Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej, jak i opis relacji obu państw w rzeczywistości zimnowojennej i współcześnie. Autor pokazuje dynamikę wyzwań dla Chin na Bliskim Wschodzie związanych z rywalizacją ZSRR i USA, kwestią ruchu państw niezaangażowanych i eksportem maoizmu, reakcją Chin na arabską wiosnę, jak i obecną zmianą wskutek polityki przewodniczącego Xi Jinpinga oraz reakcji ChRL na konflikt izraelsko-palestyński. Książka ta, skupiająca się na kwestiach politycznych – także aktywności ChRL na Bliskim Wschodzie – stara się rzetelnie przedstawić wyzwania i dylematy wynikające z polityki Chin w relacjach z Izraelem, również w kontekście wątków irańskich czy stosunków z państwami arabskimi. To pierwsza tego typu pozycja w języku polskim, istotna dla czytelników zainteresowanych historią Bliskiego Wschodu, ale również rosnącym znaczeniem politycznym i gospodarczym ChRL na arenie międzynarodowej.
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War.
‘A gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account’ The Express
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From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory ’45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory.
Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before. Each chapter will follow the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing events – from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders.
What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world.
The fascinating story of Republican Rome's gruelling six-year campaign against the insurgent Numidian warlord, Jugurtha.
Jugurtha, the adoptive son of Micipsa, king of the Numidians, was initially a much-respected ally of Rome, fighting gallantly alongside the Romans during the Numantine War in Iberia. Over the course of the campaign, however, the ambitious and hot-headed Jugurtha fell in with more unsavoury company, who urged him to stage a coup d'etat and wrest control of Numidia from the legitimate heirs to the throne. Although he was warned not to consort with some of Rome's more crooked governing elites, this advice fell on deaf ears, beginning a civil war. Rome's response was to decide on war to punish Jugurtha for his acts of aggression. Among the commanders proving their worth against this formidable opponent would be Quintus Metellus and Caius Marius.
Here, classical historian Dr Nic Fields narrates the events of a bruising six-year campaign against the wily, elusive Jugurtha. He explores how Roman military performance was hampered by petty rivalries, knee-jerk partisanship, and grubby jostling between commanders. With photographs and artwork bringing the clashes in North Africa to life, the maps and diagrams provide context for this lengthy campaign. The war constituted an important stage in the Roman subjugation of North Africa, and the rise of the empire.
Germany's legendary Atlantic surface war was fought by Naval Group West. Superbly illustrated, this unpacks the details of how it operated and fought.
Having spent the 1930s on an ambitious but confused bid to build a new battle fleet, Germany began World War II woefully unprepared. Under Marinegruppenkommando West, its heavy ships and raiders were tasked with challenging Allied dominance of the Atlantic.
In this book, Kriegsmarine specialist Lawrence Paterson explores how Naval Group West took on the challenge. He reassesses the qualities of the fleet, and how the confusion over their original role meant that ships like the Bismarck were less than ideal for raiding. Operating as far afield as the Indian Ocean also relied on an elaborate tanker and supply network, as well as Germany's superb signals intelligence. He also explains the complex Kriegsmarine command structure during the 1930s and early war, how responsibility for the ships veered between Naval Group West, the Naval Staff, and type commanders, and how the conquest of France transformed the command. He also explains how the Luftwaffe failed the surface fleet, both in scouting at sea and defending them in port.
With superb artwork, 3D diagrams, maps and archive photos, this book explores and assesses Germany's commerce war, from the Graf Spee's cruise to the ill-fated exploits of Bismarck, and the final high-risk retreat from Brest, the Channel Dash.
The 2025 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.
For over 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and deployment of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, Warship combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery, and much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which the annual has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the hallmark of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and stunning photographs.
This year's Warship includes features on France's first destroyers, the turn-of-the-century 300-tonne type; Denmark's H-class submarines of World War II; Italy's proposed battlecruiser designs; the Imperial Japanese Navy's Chikuma-class protected cruisers; Soviet S-class submarines; and the first of a series on Imperial Germany's torpedo boats and destroyers.
An illustrated account of the development and action-packed service history of the Jaguar attack jet, featuring first-hand accounts from the pilots that flew it into combat.
Developed as a joint venture between Britain and France, the SEPECAT Jaguar was originally intended to be a jet trainer aircraft, but quickly evolved to fulfil a need for a supersonic attack jet with close air support, reconnaissance and tactical nuclear strike capabilities. After first entering service in the 1970s, it flew operational missions for the RAF almost continuously between 1990 and 2003, including numerous combat missions during the first Gulf War and Bosnian War, and reconnaissance missions over northern Iraq and the Balkans.
In this eventful volume, former RAF pilot Michael Napier expertly chronicles the storied career of the Jaguar, as well as the remarkable experiences of those that flew it into combat. Complemented by 24 aircraft profiles that demonstrate the variety of colours worn and ordnance employed by the Jaguar, a combination of detailed research, first-hand accounts and both official and personal photographs bring to life the actions of an aircraft that was a mainstay of the RAF's attack force for more than a decade.
This fully illustrated study examines the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation forces in Greece during 1941–44 as well as those of the two Greek Resistance organizations.
Italy's failed invasion of Greece in 1940–41 led to the German invasion of Yugoslavia in spring 1941 being extended into Greece, and, after the fall of Athens and Crete in April and May, the division of the country under German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation. The royal government and Army survivors withdrew to British-ruled Egypt, but at home resistance organizations of differing political character soon sprang up, forming guerrilla forces that exploited Greece's rugged terrain and limited communications.
The strongest resistance force was the Communist-dominated National Liberation Front (EAM) with its partisan Greek Popular Army (ELAS). Agents of the Western Allied powers had only brief success in mediating cooperation between the mutually hostile EAM/ELAS, and the National Republican Greek League (EDES) with its EOEA. Foreshadowing the Greek Civil War that would follow liberation, ELAS and EOEA clashed, in the background to their separate operations against the Axis occupiers.
Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Phoebus Athanassiou charts the development of the fighting in occupied Greece: a struggle as ferocious as that fought in neighbouring Yugoslavia, which cost both the resistance and the Axis forces some 15,000 men killed.
The ships that dominate so much of the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War are more often than not the carriers or battleships – Ark Royal, Warspite, Hood – and rarely do ships smaller than cruisers move centre stage. Apart that is from one class, the Tribal class destroyers, heroes of the Altmark incident, of the battle of Narvik, and countless actions across all theatres of operation. Yet there has been surprisingly little written about these critical ships, still less about their wartime successors, the Battle class, or their postwar incarnations, the Daring class.
This book seeks to rectify this by describing the three classes, each designed under different circumstances along destroyer lines but to general-purpose light cruiser form, from the interwar period through to the 1950s, and the author explains the procurement process for each class in the context of the needs and technology of the times. Taken together these classes represent the genesis of the modern general-purpose destroyer, breaking from the torpedo boat destroyer form into a self-reliant, multi-purpose combatant capable of stepping up to the cruiser’s traditional peacetime patrol missions whilst also fulfilling the picket and fighting duties of the wartime light cruiser or heavy destroyer.
This is the first work to analyse these three classes side by side, to examine their conception, their creation and their operational stories, many heroic, and provide an insight into ship design, operation and culture; and in doing so the book aims to contribute a better understanding of one of the most significant periods in the Royal Navy’s history. In its clear description of the genesis of the modern destroyer, this book will give the reader a clearer picture of its future as well. Historians, professionals and enthusiasts will all enjoy this wide-ranging and detailed study.
One corpse, three separate identities and a city full of murderers. As the ghetto’s streets run with blood, can Jan Kalisz find the truth?
January 1943. Warsaw is a city of the dead. In the ghetto, the last fifty thousand Jews await their fate but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, they are prepared to fight to the end. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and Resistance double-agent, has promised to supply them with weapons. But how will he fulfil his vow?
The murder of a German officer appears to provide an opportunity. For the victim is a man with multiple identities, one of which is a wealthy Jew… The hunt for the murderer draws Kalisz into the chaos of the ghetto, only to find a new, perilous mission awaiting him. SS death squads are not the only enemy the Jews fear. A mysterious figure – known only as the Golem – stalks the ruined streets, spiriting away orphaned children. Can Kalisz track him down before he strikes again?
The chilling second thriller in the Warsaw Quartet by Douglas Jackson, perfect for readers of Simon Scarrow and Robert Harris.
Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a constant from 1926 through the Third Reich. When The Gold Rush was released in the Weimar Republic in 1926, the Nazis began to fight Chaplin, whom they alleged to be Jewish, and attempted to expose him as an intellectual property thief whose fame had faded. In early 1935, the film The Gold Rush was explicitly banned from German theaters.
In 1936, the NSDAP Main Archives opened its own file on Chaplin, and the same year, he became entangled in the machinery of Nazi press control. German diplomats were active on a variety of international levels to create a mood against The Great Dictator. The Nazis’ dehumanizing attacks continued until 1944, when an opportunity to capitalize on the Joan Barry scandal arose. This book paints a complicated picture of how the Nazis battled Chaplin as one of their most reviled foreign artists.
World War II ended in 1945, but its effects were still being felt long after the surrender of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Shortages in food, energy, and industrial production continued to plague much of the world, especially Europe, where strained economies teetered on the verge of collapse. As millions of war-weary people across the globe struggled to build a better future, the decisions made in 1947 proved crucial in ending the wartime milieu and ushering in a new and more stable age.
This book explores a wide variety of topics ranging from U.S. politics and international relations to big band jazz music, race relations in sports, and television technology, to tell the story of a world in transition. While focusing on the experiences of less well-known individuals who are often excluded from histories of the period, the author combines information from interviews with archival and secondary sources to explain why 1947 was a pivotal year in the emergence of the contemporary world.
By the autumn of 1944, Hitler’s plans for the conquest of Europe were in disarray. The Führer’s much-vaunted Third Reich, facing an Allied onslaught from the east and west, was slowly collapsing.
Desperate to seize the initiative on the Western Front, Hitler, seeing himself as a beleaguered modern-day Frederick the Great, looked for some bold counterattack that could change his fortunes. Hitler’s wish had at least one clear result, for as even as early as 19 August 1944, he had instructed Alfred Jodl to consider a bold counter-stroke in the west in November. Hitler’s generals therefore set about drawing up plans for an offensive in the area of the Ardennes Forest. It was to be an attack that would enable German forces to cross the Meuse and, decisively breaking through the Allied front-line, advance on Antwerp.
Given the limitations he and his forces faced, Hitler knew he would need panzer leaders capable of a delivering a Blitzkrieg advance, perhaps one that took advantage of night-time hours. One of the German officers who was tasked with delivering this audacious victory was the battle-hardened veteran SS-Obersturmbannführer Jochen Peiper.
A Waffen SS officer and one of the most celebrated heroes of Hitler’s armies, Peiper, and the SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte as a whole, were already on his mind. A long-time adjutant of Heinrich Himmler, and completely dedicated to the Nazi cause, Peiper had fought in every major campaign of the Second World War. However, having been wounded in Normandy following the D-Day landings, Peiper, also ailing from a combination of battle fatigue and hepatitis, had been evacuated to a field hospital and then back Germany in August 1944.
It was while he was recuperating at the SS Reserve Hospital 501, overlooking Lake Tegernsee in Bavaria, that Peiper learnt of his part in the forthcoming offensive. Though his skin had a sickly ochre cast from jaundice and three years of front-line combat, too many days of coffee and cigarettes, followed by nights of fighting and frustration, and the fact that his nerves were shot, he had been selected as one of the men who would lead the Führer’s final great gamble.
Comprising some 4,800 men and 600 vehicles, including a number of the powerful Tiger II heavy tanks, Kampfgruppe Peiper played a central part in the Ardennes Offensive, or the Battle of the Bulge as it is commonly known, which was unleashed on 16 December 1944. It is a role that is explored here by Danny S. Parker, who reveals the successes, defeats and war crimes that Kampfgruppe Peiper was involved in before the Ardennes Offensive ended in failure in January 1945.
Adrian Carton de Wiart's autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs. He was the son of a Belgian barrister, Leon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart (1854-1915). He, himself, was intended for the law, but abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a trooper in the South African War.
He abandoned the law for all time on 14 September 1901 when he received a direct commission in the 4th Dragoon Guards. Carton de Wiart's extraordinary military career embraced service with the Somaliland Camel Corps (1914-15), liaison officer with Polish forces (1939), membership of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia (1941), a period as a prisoner of war (1941-43), and three years as Churchill's representative to Chiang Kai-shek (1943-46). (Churchill was a great admirer.)
During the Great War, besides commanding the 8th Glosters, Carton de Wiart was GOC 12 Brigade (1917) and GOC 105 Brigade (April 1918). Both these command were terminated by wounds. He was wounded eight times during the war (including the loss of an eye and a hand), won the VC during the Battle of the Somme, was mentioned in despatches six times, and was the model for Brigadier Ben Ritchie Hook in the Sword of Honour trilogy of Evelyn Waugh.
1000 lat temu, prawdopodobnie w Wielkanoc 18 kwietnia 1025 roku w Gnieźnie lub w Poznaniu, Bolesław Chrobry założył na skronie koronę królewską. Ten niezwykle energiczny, ambitny, srogi wobec wrogów zewnętrznych i wewnętrznych, a zarazem bardzo inteligentny władca wyniósł państwo piastowskie do rangi królestwa. Wprawdzie wkrótce zmarł, ale sięgniecie po koronę miało duże znaczenie prestiżowe dla dynastii Piastów i trwale zapisało się w polskiej tradycji narodowej. Robert F. Barkowski, pisarz tworzący powieści historyczne oraz popularyzator specjalizujący się w dziejach średniowiecza, stworzył popularną biografię pierwszego króla Polski. Dowiemy się z niej: - jak Bolesław sięgnął po władzę, pozbywając się konkurentów z drugiego małżeństwa ojca, Mieszka I; - jak sprzymierzył się z najpotężniejszym człowiekiem ówczesnej Europy, cesarzem Otonem III; - jak dzielnie i z powodzeniem walczył z jego następcą Henrykiem II oraz innymi sąsiadami, m.in. zdobywając w 1018 roku ruski Kijów ? według legendy to tam wyszczerbił swój miecz (nazwany potem Szczerbcem) o Złotą Bramę. Poznamy go też jako polityka rządzącego państwem twardą ręką, budującego grody i kościoły, bijącego monety oraz od strony prywatnej ? nie wszyscy wiedzą, że miał aż cztery żony i zapewne niejedną nałożnicę…
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