'The Buddha was the source. Venerable Svasti and the young buffalo boys were rivers that flowed from the source. Wherever the rivers flowed, the Buddha would be there. He draws upon Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese sources to trace the Buddha's life slowly and gently through the course of eighty years. Seen partly through the eyes of the Buddha himself and partly through those of Svasti, the...

As World War I ended, the victors were developing a powerful new generation of 'hyper-dreadnoughts' and battlecruisers. Fully illustrated, this studies the big-gun warships that never were. 1918 was a moment of great naval change. Britain still had the largest fleet in the world, but its ships were ageing, and many of them were markedly inferior to the latest American and...

During the First World War, rumours of heavily-armed German raiders led to the building of the first modern heavy cruisers by the Royal Navy. Named for famous Elizabethan seamen, they were very different from the lumbering armoured cruisers of the previous generation, and were enlarged developments of the highly successful light cruisers that had been built since the mid-1910s. As such, they...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY TIMOTHY GARTON-ASH A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were...

Historia Żydów w Warszawie i nie tylko. Żydzi przybywali do Polski już w X wieku n.e. jako handlarze przeworzący, z państw arabskich m.in.: niewolników, tkaniny i przyprawy korzenne. Zwano ich Radanitami, od miejsca, z jakiego pochodzili, doliny Rodanu. Jednym z nich był Ibrahim ibn Jakub, autor relacji z podróży, którą w 966 roku odbył do Polski Mieszka I. Istnieje legenda,...

Album dedykowany jest pamięci niestrudzonych obrońców wartości chrześcijańskich i patriotycznych, tragicznie zmarłych w pobliżu Lasu Katyńskiego Lecha Kaczyńskiego i Ryszarda Kaczorowskiego. Monumentalny album (296 stron, ponad 300 fotografii) wydany w roku 600-lecia bitwy pod Grunwaldem. Zwycięstwo grunwaldzkie zajmuje niezwykłe miejsce w tradycji historycznej i świadomości...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed the perilous journey to paradise, a utopian Egypt that could only be entered following the final judgment. When acclaimed photographer Sandro...

A richly illustrated publication about one of the best operational associations of the Polish Armed Forces in the West. At the turn of July and August, the division landed in Normandy as part of the 2nd Corps of the 1st Canadian Army. It fought at Falaise (August 8-21), liberated Axel and other Belgian and then Dutch towns: Baarle-Nassau, Alphen, Gilze. It fought to cross the Mark and...

Between 1911 and 1914, the conflicts between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, together with the Balkan wars that followed, transformed European politics. With contributions from leading, international historians, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the wars before the Great War and surveys the impact of these conflicts on European diplomacy, military planning, popular opinion and...

Warsaw, the Unvanquished - a historic, patriotic and modern capital. Conceptand design Leszek Sosnowski Text Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Photo Adam Bujak First edition

Ein Foto sagt oft mehr aus über einen historischen Moment als eine ganze Bibliothek. Es sind oft Bilder, die uns heute noch bewegen, ja erschüttern. Bilder, die Geschichte machten. Aber meist wissen wir nichts vom Schicksal der Menschen, die auf diesen Bildern aufgenommen sind. Das ändern wir in diesem Buch. Wir erzählen die Geschichte hinter der Geschichte. Dabei gibt es immer wieder auch...

On 17 December 2012 at the former Stasi prison, now the Political Museum in Rostock, the grand opening of the exhibition "Cold War. A brief history of the divided world " took place. The exhibition has been prepared by the Warsaw Branch of the Institute of National Remembrance. The ceremony was attended by Roland Jahn (Headof the BstU), Dr. Volker Höffer (Head of the BstU Branch in Rostock),...

What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, who built a monument and why mattered as much as its physical structure. Over centuries and under many different emperors, a small village in Italy was transformed into the crowning glory of an...

Embark upon a lavish visual journey through ancient Greece―its origins, its rise and fall, and its legacy that still permeates the Western world today. Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail―from its Minoan and Mycenaean origins to the apogee of the warring city-states of Athens and Sparta, and...

The Richard Perkins warship identification albums form one of the most detailed studies ever undertaken of the changes to the appearance of Royal Navy ships. However, it is a unique hand-drawn manuscript artefact in the care of the National Maritime Museum, so despite its value it is rarely seen by anyone besides the museum’s curators, for whom it is a precious resource, used on an almost daily...

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an imaginative stake in wars being waged in their name. As she traces the evolution of images of war...