As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks ...

The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet, delivers the definitive biography—unique, multi-layered, and at times even shocking. The Dalai Lama illuminates an ...

Alexander the Great has fascinated people since his death more than 2,300 year ago. By the age of thirty he ruled the biggest Empire the world had ever known. This remarkable leader brought civilisation to millions and shaped our world.

Barbara Engelking writes about everyday experiences of Jews in hiding Marcin Zaremba explores the issue of "szaber" or smuggling in war-time Poland Jan Grabowski presents a case study of a murder perpetrated by the unit of Miechow AK on a group of Jews in hiding Dagmara Swałtek writes about crimes against the Jews in rural areas to Cracow

Poziom: 4 (średnio zaawansowany B1). Jest rok 1942. W okupowanej przez Niemców Holandii Żydzi znajdują się w niebezpieczeństwie. Rodzina Franków musi się ukrywać i mieć nadzieję na lepsze życie po wyjściu z kryjówki. Oto pamiętnik Anne Frank, bohaterki tamtych wydarzeń. Dostępna na siedmiu poziomach zaawansowania seria lektur w ...

The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to ...

This book comprises two works by Maria Czapska. 1. A Family of Central Europe, originally published in Polish in 1970 under the title: Europa w rodzinie, later translated into French as: Une famille d'Europe centrale 1772-1914. 2. Through the storm, originally published in Polish in 1978 under the title: Czas odmieniony, later translated into French as: À travers la ...

JAROSŁAW WENTA Narratives of Art / 7 IRMA TRATTNER Methods of Art Science: New Aspects and Perspectives of Art History / 17 ANNA BŁAŻEJEWSKA ‘Native’ Figural Art of the Southern Coast of the Baltic Sea at the Time of Christianization / 41 SIEGLINDE HARTMANN Beautiful Madonnas in the Works of Oswald von Wolkenstein: Ekphrasis in the Marin Song Fräu dich, ...

This History for the IB Diploma Paper 3 Italy (1815-1871) and Germany (1815-1890) (second edition) coursebook covers Paper 3, HL option 4: History of Europe, Topic 11: Italy (1815-1871) and Germany (1815-1890) of the History for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma syllabus for first assessment in 2017. Tailored to the requirements of the IB syllabus, and written by ...

James Crawford, Grzegorz Dziemidowicz, Rosalyn Higgins, Zdzisław Kędzia, Bartłomiej Krzan, Marek Prawda, Ryszard Stemplowski Professor, Minister, Judge – Krzysztof Skubiszewski 1926–2010 Preface by Witold Sobków Contains 28 photos courtesy of the Krzysztof Skubiszewski Foundationn and the Skubiszewski Family Photo Archives ISBN 978-83-7383-757-7 ...

Unabridged English value reproduction of Candide by Voltaire, is a book that belongs on the shelf of those desiring to contemplate life.  Voltaire subtly challenges the reader’s complacent view of the world through extreme, and often gruesome, exaggeration.

Part historical and part legendary, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their retainers, recounting their personal and military battles, intrigues and struggles to achieve dominance for almost a hundred years. It is one of the most beloved works of East Asian literature, and the most famous historical novel in China.

In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, "Pandora's Box" reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. 

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought ...

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the twentieth-century philosopher A.N. Whitehead described all subsequent developments within the subject as foot-notes to Plato's work. Beyond philosophy, he has exerted a major influence on the development of Western literature, politics and ...

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that possessed ...

The authors of the articles in the present volume were searching for answer to the following questions: how have the values of Polish society been affected by the transformation processes, and, to what degree are these values similar to the values and attitudes of the European Union citizens?...

Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and remains one of his most popular works. The inexperienced and impetuous young nobleman Pyotr Grinyev is sent on military service to a remote fortress, where he falls in love with Masha, Captain Mironov's daughter – but then the ruthless Cossack ...

The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols, today’s descendants of Genghis Khan, see them as ancestors. Their rise cemented Chinese unity and inspired the first Great Wall. Their heirs under Attila the Hun helped destroy the Roman Empire. We ...

A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard 'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Well before 1929, Stalin ...