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 breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss, The City of Tears by Kate Mosse follows on from her Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers. May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty.
But now a precarious peace is in the balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris in August.
But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, her family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace . . . Sweeping from Paris and Chartres to the City of Tears itself - the great refugee city of Amsterdam - this is a story of one family's fight to stay together and survive against the devastating tides of history . .
The true story of the famous female warriors, long thought to be mythical
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality.
North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons' ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess - all possible sources for the ferocious women.
Combining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do.
Sisters under the Rising Sun, the captivating new novel by Heather Morris, is a story of women in war: a testament to resilience, bravery and friendship in the darkest of circumstances.
It is February 1942. Amid the turmoil of World War II, a group of Australian Army nurses, among them Nesta James and Vivian Bullwinkel, have just arrived in Singapore. The women have fled there from Malaya, where they had been stationed to care for Allied troops – and they are reluctant to move on again. Their hope is to remain in the beleaguered British colony to continue their mission of treating the sick and wounded.
Norah Chambers, an English musician, has also fled to Singapore from Malaya, where she had been living with her husband and her eight-year-old daughter, Sally. A few days earlier she had sent her child away on a ship bound for Australia, desperate to keep her safe from invading Japanese forces.
As the Japanese military overruns the city, Nesta and Vivian reluctantly join a terrified cargo of people – including the heartbroken Norah – crammed aboard the merchant ship Vyner Brooke. Only two days later, they are bombarded from the air off the coast of Indonesia, and in a matter of hours, the Vyner Brooke has sunk. After 24 hours in the sea, Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of a remote island, only to be captured and held in a succession of Japanese POW camps, places of starvation and brutality, where disease runs rampant. Alongside hundreds of other women prisoners, they begin a struggle for survival that will last almost four years.
But even here, joy can be found by those with the will to defy their desperate circumstances. When Norah forms a 'vocal orchestra', with the women's voices taking the place of instruments, their music has the power to bring hope into the midst of despair.
Sisters in arms, Norah and Nesta fight side by side, discovering in themselves extraordinary reserves of courage, resourcefulness, humour and hope in their determination to retain their humanity by caring for others.
In July 1944 the Allies were stunned by the appearance of the Messerschmitt Me-262, the world’s first operational jet warplane. This new German fighter was more than 100mph faster than any other aircraft in the skies. Although always greatly outnumbered, the Me-262 gained scores of victories over Allied fighters and bombers, and by the end of the war, many of the Luftwaffe’s greatest aces had clamored to be in their cockpits. No wonder military leaders believed that if it had been introduced earlier, this jet could have changed the outcome of the war. Sharks of the Air tells the story of Willy Messerschmitt’s life, and shows how this aeronautical genius built many revolutionary airplanes - not excluding the Luftwaffe’s mainstay, the Me-109 - and culminating in the Me-262. It describes how his various warplanes fought in Spain, Poland, France, Britain, the U.S.S.R., and over Germany, and it provides thrilling accounts of air battles drawn from combat reports and interviews with veterans. This book also shows how Messerschmitt - like other geniuses such as Porsche, vonBraun, and Speer - was affected by cutthroat Nazi politics, and describes his intense rivalries with other aircraft designers. It reveals aspects of his life never before made public, including his love affair with the beautiful Baroness Lilly Michel-Rolino, a rich aristocrat who left her husband to live with Willy. And finally it shows how in World War II Messerschmitt believed he was loyally supporting the Fatherland, until he realized too late that Hitler was a madman. Like many of the technical innovations of Nazi Germany in the war, production arrived too late in order to change the final outcome. If Messerschmitt had been given free rein from the start, however, Allied air superiority might never have occurred.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.
Książka składa się z trzech części:Pierwsza, oprócz wstępu opisującego znaczenie kolorów, jakie występują w twórczości artystów, malarzy, pisarzy, zawiera wiersze podkreślające, jak zmieniają się barwy w związku ze zmianą pory roku i jak wpływają na życie ludzi i zwierząt.Druga część mówi o PRZJAŹNI POLSKICH I UKRAIŃSKICH DZIECI i stanowi rodzaj teatrzyku. Opisuje reakcje małych Ukraińców na wieść o agresji Rosji na ich ojczyznę i pomoc Polaków. Początek agresji 24 luty 2022 roku.Jest opis głównych bohaterów pierwszo- i drugoplanowych. Przyjaźń ukraińskiego chłopca Nazara i polskiej dziewczyny Małgosi pozwala mu się oderwać od rzeczywistości. W dziecięcym świecie nie ma miejsca na wojnę. Jest tylko szczęście i miłość matczyna.Trzecia część dotyczy Egiptu, kolebki najstarszych cywilizacji i skierowana do przyszłych młodych naukowców. Zawiera bardzo ciekawe ilustracje w tym trzy wykonane w Muzeum Archeologicznym w Gdańsku. Są tu opisane fakty historyczne, w tym wierzenia w starożytnym Egipcie, ucieczka Żydów z Egiptu.
Zaskakująca kontynuacja jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich latRyfka ma jeden cel - przetrwać. W swojej kryjówce pielęgnuje na wpół przytomnego Jakuba Szapirę, który niczym nie przypomina niegdysiejszego postrachu stolicy. Kobieta nocami wychodzi na gruzowisko, którym po polskim powstaniu stała się Warszawa. Zdobywa pożywienie, obmyśla plan dalszej ucieczki, pieniądze wymienia na coś znacznie cenniejszego - na broń. Jej oczy widzą upadek dawnego "królestwa" Szapiry, jej nozdrza rozpoznają zapach porzuconych resztek jedzenia, jak i trupi odór, a do jej uszu dochodzą coraz to nowe pogłoski. Podobno pod ruinami byłego getta żyje nieomal mityczny Ares, krwią podpisujący swoje nazistowskie ofiaryDawid, syn Szapiry, przeżył wywózkę z Umschlagplatz. O losie ojca niewiele wie, bo też mało go on obchodzi. W ukryciu wspomina dawne czasy i przedwojenną potęgę Jakuba. Spotkał w życiu wielu złych ludzi, ale nikt nie jawi mu się gorszym niż Jakub SzapiroOpowieść Ryfki i historia Dawida układają się w zaskakującą kontynuację Króla, jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich lat. Chwytająca za gardło opowieść o wojnie oraz bezkompromisowe spojrzenie na oprawców i ofiary. Żydzi, Polacy i Niemcy. I to najtrudniejsze wyzwanie pozostać człowiekiem.
Bolesław III Krzywousty, jeden z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych władców piastowskich, objął samodzielne rządy nad Wisłą w 1102 roku. Rządził przez trzydzieści sześć lat, co plasuje go w czołówce najdłużej polskich panujących. Czego przez ten czas dokonał? Jak ocenić jego działania? W swojej najnowszej książce Mariusz Samp skupia się na przedstawieniu politycznych i militarnych aspektów panowania Bolesława Krzywoustego. Autor analizuje m.in.: zmagania Bolesława o jedynowładztwo ze starszym bratem Zbigniewem, przebieg wojny stoczonej w 1109 roku z królem Henrykiem V, podboje ziem pomorskich i ich skutki oraz zjazd Bolesława Krzywoustego z cesarzem Lotarem III w Merseburgu w 1135 roku, gdzie Piast złożył sąsiadowi hołd lenny z Pomorza i Rugii. To pozycja obowiązkowa dla wszystkich pasjonatów historii, którzy chcą lepiej poznać piastowskiego boga wojny i zgłębiać najstarsze dzieje Polski.
Featuring evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during 1943–44.
On November 20, 1943, amphibious vehicles carrying Marines of the 2d Marine Division reached the shores of Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, defended by a determined Japanese garrison that would fight to the last man. This began a test by combat of over two decades of US studies, analyses, and planning for capturing and defending naval bases in Micronesia. The Tarawa assault was followed in February 1944 by the rapid capture of the Kwajalein and Eniwetok atolls in the Marshall Islands.
In these battles US Marines fought a mix of Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army ground units. All but a handful of the defenders, whether they were organized ground combat troops or infantry improvised from aviators and service troops, were determined to die for the Emperor while killing as many of the enemy as possible. In this study, Gregg Adams shows how the US Marine Corps and US Navy drew upon these pivotal actions to improve their tactics, organization, and equipment for the next round of amphibious operations. He also explains how their Japanese opponents – realizing that isolated island garrisons were doomed to destruction or isolation if the Imperial Japanese Navy could not defeat the US Navy at sea – moved from seeking to repel an invasion to one inflicting maximum American casualties through prolonged defensive fighting.
Richly illustrated, this title describes Anglo-Saxon monarchs, warlords and their warriors and households in Anglo-Saxon Britain, from the first post-Roman mercenaries to the Norman Conquest.
In a country fragmented by Roman withdrawal during the 5th century AD, the employment of Germanic mercenaries by local rulers in Anglo-Saxon Britain was commonplace. These mercenaries became settlers, forcing Romano-British communities into Wales and the West Country. Against a background of spreading Christianity, the struggles of rival British and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were exploited by the Vikings, but eventually contained by the Anglo-Saxon king, Alfred of Wessex. His descendants unified the country during the 10th century, however, subsequent weak rule saw its 25-year incorporation into a Danish empire before it finally fell to the Norman invasion of 1066.
Scholars of the early Church have long known that the term 'Dark Ages' for the 5th to 11th centuries in Britain refers only to a lack of written sources, and gives a false impression of material culture. The Anglo-Saxon warrior elite were equipped with magnificent armour, influenced by the cultures of the late Romans, the Scandinavian Vendel people, the Frankish Merovingians, Carolingians and Ottonians, and also the Vikings.
In this volume, co-authors Raffaele D'Amato and Stephen Pollington access their extended knowledge to paint a vivid picture of the kings and warlords of the time with the aid of colour illustrations, rare photos and the latest archaeological research.
This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen.
The US Navy went to war in December 1941 with the tubby Wildcat, the first of Grumman's famed 'cats', as its principal carrier fighter. Ruggedly built and well armed, the F4F's performance was inferior to the Japanese Zero-sen, yet in the carrier battles of 1942 between the US Navy and the IJN the Wildcat pilots more than held their own against some of the finest naval aviators in the world. Many of the Wildcat pilots that saw action in the South Pacific comprised what respected naval historian John Lundstrom has called the 'First Team' – the small group of highly trained prewar pilots who manned the bulk of the US Navy's carrier fighter squadrons.
Illustrated with specially commissioned artwork, including armament views and ribbon diagrams, the book examines the carrier battles that took place in August and October in the South Pacific around the first American offensive of the war – the amphibious assault on the island of Guadalcanal, and the actions of the Wildcat in combat with IJN carrier aircraft. The key combat actions are described and accompanied with rare and original photographs and diagrams, as are the training and tactics that contributed to the Wildcat's success.
This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train Vietnamese pilots, and with conflict in Laos, and finally ended in 1972 with the B-52 bombing of Hanoi, though there were Air Force pilots unofficially flying combat in Laos up to the end in 1975. The missions flown by USAF aircrews during those years in Southeast Asia differed widely, from attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail at night with modified T-28 trainers, to missions “Downtown,” the name aircrew gave Hanoi, the central target of the war.
This aerial war was dominated by the major air operations against the north: Rolling Thunder from 1965 to 1968, and then Linebacker I and II in 1972, with the latter seeing the deployment of America's fearsome B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi. These operations were carried out in the face of a formidable Soviet-inspired air defence system bristling with anti-aircraft guns and SAM missile sites. Beyond this, the US Air Force was intimately involved in secret air wars against Laos and Cambodia – one cannot speak of a war only in Vietnam regarding US Air Force operations. The war the Air Force fought was a war in Southeast Asia.
Following on from the same author's The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club, which told the story of the US Navy's involvement in the Vietnam War, Downtown completes the picture. Featuring a wide range of personal accounts and previously untold stories, this fascinating history brings together the full story of the US Air Force's struggle in the skies over Southeast Asia.
Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943.
The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many respects the most technologically advanced theatre of World War II. It was also the only theatre where for three years British and Commonwealth, and later US, troops were in constant contact with Axis forces.
World War II best-selling author Robert Forczyk explores the second half of the history of the campaign, from the Gazala offensive in May 1942 that drove the British forces all the way back to the Egyptian frontier and led to the fall of Tobruk, through the pivotal battles of El Alamein, and the final Allied victory in Tunisia. He examines the armoured forces, equipment, doctrine, training, logistics and operations employed by both Allied and Axis forces throughout the period, focusing especially on the brigade and regimental level of operations.
Fully illustrated throughout with photographs, profile artwork and maps, and featuring tactical-level vignettes and appendices analysing tank data, tank deliveries in-theatre and orders of battle, this book goes back to the sources to provide a new study of armoured warfare in the desert.
Sententia Minuciorum, czyli Tabula Polcevera daje wgląd w postępowanie przed rzymskimi arbitrami. Nie jest ona tylko orzeczeniem dwóch urzędników, ale dokumentem zawierającym także opis czynności prawnych i rzeczywistych działań podjętych przez nich w Ligurii. Arbitrzy zajmowali się konfliktem między mieszkańcami Genui a castellum Witurejczyków Langensów/Langatów oraz szczepami zamieszkującymi sąsiadujące tereny o korzystanie z ager publicus. Inskrypcja pozwala również poznać kulisy rzymskiej polityki wobec podporządkowanych mieszkańców. Jest bowiem przykładem dokumentu ukazującego moment układania wewnętrznych stosunków na podbitych terytoriach, która to faza najczęściej umyka, w związku z ograniczonym materiałem źródłowym.
Obecność kultur skandynawskich w przestrzeni cywilizacyjnej Pomorza i Kaszub jest czymś oczywistym. Można ją rozpatrywać w porządku historycznym, literackim, językowym, religioznawczym czy socjologicznym, a w każdym z tych aspektów jest bardzo wiele do ustalenia i to z różnych perspektyw narodowych czy językowych. Oczywiście sporo kwestii kulturowych zostało już omówionych, na co autorzy poszczególnych artykułów zawartych w przedstawianym dzisiaj uwadze czytelników tomie ukazują liczne dowody. Jednakże wiele kwestii badawczych wciąż domaga się sprecyzowania, czeka na głębszą analizę i podjęcie prac, które wypełnią luki w świadomości dzisiejszego użytkownika kultury.
W prezentowanej tutaj wieloautorskiej monografii najbardziej interesowały nas kwestie kontaktów Pomorza z szeroko rozumianą Skandynawią, analizowanych na przykładach relacji międzykulturowych zapisanych w językach polskim, niemieckim, duńskim, szwedzkim, norweskim, rosyjskim i kaszubskim. Wszystkie z owych mediów komunikacyjnych były dla nas jednakowo ważne, gdyż przecież miały (i dalej mają) swoje doniosłe cywilizacyjne znaczenie. Ponieważ jednak inicjatywa poniższego opracowania pojawiła się w środowisku polskich akademików, w naturalny sposób to właśnie polskojęzyczne medium dominuje, co nie znaczy, że praca ma za zadanie prezentować wyłącznie polski punkt widzenia.
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The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century
'The Bomber Mafia is a case study in how dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea drops from the heavens, it does not land softly in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, and shatters.'
In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past?
This book tells the story of what happened when that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafia follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill's forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would order the bloodiest attack of the Second World War.
In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell asks: what happens when technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is the price of progress?
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss'
Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence, Hester Prynne's inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fiction.
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A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper's island. It holds a dead man - and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wife Izzy, are about to make a devastating decision.
They break the rules and follow their hearts. What happens next will break yours.
Rozpoczynając rozmaite kroki dyplomatyczne i militarne, które w ostatecznym wyniku doprowadziły do wybuchu wojny krymskiej, każde z zaangażowanych państw stawiało sobie inne cele. Perspektywicznym dążeniem Rosjan, co najmniej od czasów Katarzyny II, było zajęcie Konstantynopola (Stambułu), ustanowienie kontroli nad cieśninami tureckimi, przekształcenie Morza Czarnego w wewnętrzne morze rosyjskie i uzyskanie swobodnego wyjścia na wody śródziemnomorskie. Stale słabnąca od XVII wieku potęga imperium osmańskiego przez dziesięciolecia pozwalała carom zbliżać się do tego celu, w miarę ekspansji Rosji na południe. W 1853 r. Mikołaj I był przekonany, że nadeszła już ostateczna chwila, by podzielić "chore" państwo sułtana między wielkie mocarstwa i nie spodziewał się poważniejszych sprzeciwów w Europie. [...] W styczniu i lutym 1853 r., w dwóch rozmowach z ambasadorem brytyjskim w Sankt Petersburgu, lordem Seymourem, car wyłuszczył swoje zamiary.
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