Praca wybitnego historyka N.I. Kostomarowa o Bohdanie Chmielnickim i jego epoce opiera się na dokładnym przestudiowaniu dokumentów i świadectw współczesnych mu osób.
"Przez wiele stuleci Polska i Ruś prowadziły ze sobą nieustanną,...
Bomber Command’s air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF’s attempt to win the war by...
Miał ledwie dwadzieścia dwa lata, gdy w 1940 roku trafił do obozu. Przesiedział tam pięć lat. Był dzieckiem warszawskiej ulicy, cwaniakiem, od najmłodszych lat zahartowanym w bójkach, obdarzonym dużym sprytem i humorem. Był twardy,...
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form...
One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a...
The image remains pristine: a charismatic high-school dropout turned billionaire, whose stratospheric rise and daring exploits have won him millions of enduring admirers and made him a model for aspiring entrepreneurs throughout the world.
But is...
Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC’s original series Breaking Bad. The book’s first section...