"After decades of writing about European history, Norman Davies embarked upon an extended journey that took him round the world. He aimed to test his powers of observation, but equally to enco...
"After decades of writing about European history, Norman Davies embarked upon an extended journey that took him round the world. He aimed to test his powers of observation, but equally to enco...
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries?These are just some of the questions considered in the internationally accla...
Readers worldwide know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time.In this collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from ...
Native Lands is Norman Davies's account of a global circumnavigation, of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-l...
This title is a narrative account of the Polish uprising against the Germans which broke out on August 1, 1944. When Warsaw fell on October 2, marking the end of the uprising, Polish losses came to...
Selected as a Book of the Year by many of the British broadsheets, Vanished Kingdoms is a dazzling account of Europe's lost realms, which peers through the cracks of history to discover the kingdom...
"God's Playground" was first conceived in the early 1970s as a collection of essays on Polish History. I had just started my first academic post at the School of Slavonic and East Europea...
"God's Playground" was first conceived in the early 1970s as a collection of essays on Polish History. I had just started my first academic post at the School of Slavonic and East Europea...
Monumentalny album o Jasnej Górze, miejscu, gdzie – jak to pięknie wyraził Henryk Sienkiewicz – bije nieśmiertelne serce polskiego ludu. Duchowa Stolica Polski. Klasztor, sanktua...
Monumentalny album o Jasnej Górze, miejscu, gdzie – jak to pięknie wyraził Henryk Sienkiewicz – bije nieśmiertelne serce polskiego ludu. Duchowa Stolica Polski. Klasztor, sanktua...
"God's Playground" was first conceived in the early 1970s as a collection of essays on Polish History. I had just started my first academic post at the School of Slavonic and East Europea...
"God's Playground" was first conceived in the early 1970s as a collection of essays on Polish History. I had just started my first academic post at the School of Slavonic and East Europea...
The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of th...
Jasna Góra: the place in Częstochowa, the place in Poland, where – to quote the most insightful remark of Henryk Sienkiewicz – “the undying heart of the Polish people...
Jasna Góra: the place in Częstochowa, the place in Poland, where – to quote the most insightful remark of Henryk Sienkiewicz – “the undying heart of the Polish people...