The Lafayette Escadrille was an all-volunteer squadron of Americans who flew for France during World War I. One hundred years later, it is still arguably the best-known fighter squadron ever to tak...więcej »
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury.It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict...więcej »
An Auschwitz prisoner's remarkable account of suffering and survival, an international bestseller and the only complete book written inside the camp.Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psy...więcej »
One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.Characters s...więcej »
Vibrant vegetarian home-cooking recipes, capturing the essence of the Middle East, from the award-winning author of the best-selling The Lebanese Kitchen This glorious celebration of a ...więcej »
An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin Mo...więcej »
‘That nickname . . .’‘”Little bird.” It wasn’t mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected.“Little Bird...więcej »
Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685).It is also a moving l...więcej »
An essential short introduction to the Middle Ages - and the companion volume to Ian Mortimer's bestselling The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.We tend to think about the Mid...więcej »
The example of the memory of Andrey Sheptytsky shows very clearly how Polish and Ukrainian historical cultures are interconnected. After the fall of communism, actors in both Poland and Ukraine fac...więcej »
Monospaced fonts originate from the typewriter and are characterized by the peculiarity that all letters, digits, and characters have the same width. Mono is the new Black discusses the function an...więcej »
Monte Cassino: Con Amore is an exploration by Steven Nestor of the destruction of a small Italian town Monte Cassino and its monastery in the Second World War. Surviving copies of The Illustrated L...więcej »
Translated by Alison L. StrayerA searing portrait of the last days of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and its young leader Mordechai Anielewicz.Set before and during the days of the Warsaw G...więcej »
When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them.September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror.<...więcej »
The inspiring and heartbreaking true story of two best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds.When Hannah Pick-Goslar's family fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, she struck up a...więcej »
Lady Cassandra przed kilkoma laty uległa dziewczęcemu zauroczeniu, wzięła potajemnie ślub i wyjechała do Francji. Małżeństwo zakończyła jednak śmierć jej męża. Wkrótce później wybuchł...więcej »
A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic - a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottom...więcej »
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England...więcej »
Nuclear power plant disasters threaten the entire planet. From so-called `developed´ Russia to Japan, USA to France; in the aftermath of an accident, thousands of people are deprived of their...więcej »
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Penno...więcej »