Keď sa chceš dozvedieť o meste na vode, o ruských cároch, o blokáde vtedajšieho Leningradu počas 2. svetovej vojny, VOSR, ale aj o slávnom ruskom balete, toto je kniha pre Teba. Kniha je doplnená množstvom fotografií. Petrohrad je jedno z najkrajších miest Európy. Mesto sa chváli mnohými prirovnaniami, ako napríklad Benátky severu, okno do Európy, mesto bielych nocí, mesto hrdinov.... Petrohrad je

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When Henrietta Tate lost her first love, Rupert, she fell into the comforting arms of her boss, Marcus. Now married to him and with two children, Henny has always believed the family comes first and is delighted to stay home and prove it. But all too soon Lily and Angus are away at school and home life becomes a little less than stimulating. Popping to London to act as PA to a famous TV historian sounds

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Return to the world of the Liveships Traders and journey along the Rain Wild River in the third instalment of high adventure from the author of the internationally acclaimed Farseer trilogy. The dragon keepers and fledgling dragons have discovered a route to the lost city of Kelsingra but there is one problem: they need to be able to fly to cross the treacherous waters and enter the fabled city. At

This is a collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. It contains Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet as an omnibus edition, but also a story that has not been in print before. Bill Watterson won the 1986 Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.

Spartacus returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. But a new king has usurped the throne. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history.

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 yards, much of what he had to say remains relevant today. Michael Howard explains Clausewitz\'s ideas in terms both of his

In a flat near Reykjavik city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in: the only clues are a woman\'s purple shawl, found under the bed in the next room, and a vial of prescription drugs in the victim\'s pocket. With Detective Erlendur away in a remote part of Iceland, Detective Elinborg, who is already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands

13 HOURS is the true account of the events of 11 September 2012, when terrorists attacked a US State Compound and a nearby CIA station in Libya, one of the most dangerous corners of the globe. On that fateful day, a team of six American security operators stationed in Benghazi fought to repel mounting enemy forces and escalating firepower, to protect the Americans stationed there, including the US

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The Kingdom of Outremer was forged from the hot blood and cold steel of battle, but a fragile peace has come at last. Still, the threat of war stalks its borders and heresy lurks within, the poison seeping from its own renegade state of Surayon. Juli anne, already wife to a lord of Outremer, has married the kingdom\'s greatest enemy, Hasan -- war-leader of the mighty Sharai tribes. Kidnapped on her