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The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since. It was a huge undertaking by Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), formerly an unpublished historian and philosopher who set out to radically reconsider history - the rise and fall of world civilisations and their cultures. His primary view was to reject the established Eurocentric paradigm (ancient/classical, Medieval - and, following the Renaissance - modern) and to take a totally new perspective.

Churchill's epic series begins in 1911, when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, and opens with a chilling description of the Agadir Crisis and an in-depth account of naval clashes in the Dardanelles - one of Churchill's major military failures. It takes listeners from the fierce bloodshed of the Gallipoli campaign to the tragic sinking of the Lusitania and the tide-turning battles of Jutland and Verdun - as well as the USA's entry into the combat theater. The World Crisis provides a perspective you won't find anywhere else.

Discover what life was like for the first-ever Europeans during the Stone Age. Then, fast forward to the Bronze and Iron Ages when the first advanced civilizations emerged in Europe. You’ll discover more about the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Northern European barbarians.

Nominado al "Premio Nacional Kyorlenko Heorhij Stepanovych 2019" y ganador del "Mejor informe periodístico sobre el desastre de Chernobyl" nombrado por Kyiv Today, esta serie de libros revela los eventos del peor accidente nuclear, también representado en la mundialmente famosa serie de TV de drama Chernobyl 2019, con detalles más profundos.

A famous work of the great Russian historian Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov (1820-1879), who was a major achiever in Russian historical science in the 19th century. Solovyov is the "first among equals" in the galaxy of brilliant Russian historians, which includes Karamzin, Klyuchevsky, Kostomarov, Presnyakov, Granovsky, Platonov, and many others. The first volume of the work covers the period from the history of the Slavic tribes in ancient Russian territories through the end of the reign of Prince Yaroslav I (1054).

Karamzin Nikolaj Mihajlovich (1766-1826), rossijskij istorik, pisatel', pochetnyj chlen Peterburgskoj Akademii (1818). Sozdatel' "Istorii gosudarstva Rossijskogo" (t. 1-12, 1816-29), odnogo iz znachitel'nejshih trudov v Rossijskoj istoriografii. S 1803 do samoj smerti Karamzin zanimalsja «po vysochajshemu poveleniju» "Istoriej gosudarstva Rossijskogo". Glavnaja ideja «Istorii» Karamzina - sud'ba Rossii i ee velichie zakljucheny v razvitii samoderzhavija.

This volume relates the stories of the Borgias and the Cenci. The former, a family of Spanish adventurers, came to dominate the Italian peninsula, and, when Rodergio Borgia became Pope Alexander VI, the world of Christendom, in the late 15th century. The Cenci was an aristocratic family, in which rampant sexual and domestic abuse led to murder and very public execution.

Il più sanguinoso dei conflitti, la prima delle guerre globali fu anticipata da eventi nodali per la storia dell'Europa e del resto del mondo. Nel primo volume della "storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale" ripercorreremo il sistema di alleanze che si era instaurato nella comunità europea, le vicende e i fattori scatenanti come le guerre balcaniche e la crisi in Marocco che portarono al fatidico attentato di Sarajevo.

La autora ganadora del premio "Valerij Zayets" y nominada para el premio Pulitzer, Svetlana Kostenko dibuja una vívida imagen de las secuelas del accidente nuclear más famoso del mundo.