Knihy od: Howard, M.

Vincent Van Gogh produced over 2000 works of art during his short career, but did not achieve fame as an artist until after his death. He led a troubled life, dealing with commercal failure, difficult personal relationships and eventually with mental illness, culminating in his suicide in 1890. He made...

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the ´Great War´, focusing on why it happened, how it was...

Karl von Clausewitz´s study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as ´not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war´. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range of firearms was fifty...