Kniha prináša čitateľovi vzrušujúce príbehy, informácie a obrázky Bratislavy z 18. storočia. Toto storočie sa začína morovou epidémiou, počas ktorej zahynulo v Bratislave 2 000 ľudí. Celkovo ich v Bratislave žilo 6 000. Na konci storočia však mesto malo už 30 000 obyvateľov. Bratislava bola korunovačným ...
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world\''s number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world\''s ...
Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin''''s Russia. It is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of ...
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...
An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg''s heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and ultimately cost him his own. A series of unlikely coincidences led to the appointment of Wallenberg, ...
