The Christmas Truce of World War I - Nel Yomtov
By the end of 1914, World War I raged along hundreds of miles of trenches in Europe. But on Christmas Eve, soldiers on both sides began laying down their arms. In the days that followed,…
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By the end of 1914, World War I raged along hundreds of miles of trenches in Europe. But on Christmas Eve, soldiers on both sides began laying down their arms. In the days that followed,…
Poems from the First World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts and family and friends who experienced WWI from different standpoints. It records the early excitement…
An original new study of the senior French commanders on the Western Front. Specially written by a group of distinguished First World War historians.
Cafe owner Maggie Miller's special Halloween promotional evening ends in disaster when she discovers the body of one of her regular customers, strangled to death with an expensive cashmere scarf. What secrets had the late…
The architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by an astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions nevertheless produced many a happy symbiosis, so the purist and the expressive, the monumental…
'A master class in motive and character' Alafair Burke A taut psychological novel about trial by public opinion and how we shape the truth -- now available in English for the first timeIs she a…
Problematika boje s nelegální migrací se v Evropské unii dostala v posledních letech mezi prioritní oblasti spolupráce. Autor se v této publikaci komplexně zabývá tím, jakým způsobem EU chrání svoje hranice, a především tím, jakou…
Překvapivě vyzrálá a nejednou i hravá lyrika, k níž klíčem je básníkovo rodné prostředí Petrkova, kde je zachováno mnoho z časů minulosti, milý kout zabydlený domácí zvířenou, krásně udržovaným stromovím, kterému vévodí nádherný starý javor…