A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presid
Pierwsza tak obszerna i szczegółowa biografia najbarwniejszego, a jednocześnie najbardziej lubianego przywódcy Polski Ludowej. Wciągająca, niczym thriller polityczny, historia życia Edwarda Gierka –
Inheritance. Fraud. Deceit. Lucky Loser is an explosive investigation into the truth behind Trump’s wealth, drawing on decades’ worth of confidential tax information, business records and insider int
Bestseller „New York Timesa”, „USA Today”, „The Sunday Times” i „The Globe and Mail” oraz „pamiętnik roku” według „The Times” Anne Glenconner, dama dworu księżniczki Małgorzaty, odsłania tajemnice i
Meet the Queen
The public and private life
of the world’s most famous monarch
Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has carried out her duty for m
Maria Józefa Habsburg – ostatnia koronowana polska królowa nie ma wśród historyków dobrej opinii. Uważana jest za sterniczkę okrętu pod tytułem „wolna Rzeczypospolita”, tak nieudolnie, nierozsądnie i
Szczegóły prywatnego życia Hitlera we wspomnieniach jednego z jego najbliższych przyjaciół oraz zdjęcia, które pomogły stworzyć legendę Führera.
Wpływy Hoffmanna sięgały jednak daleko poza sferę p
Charyzmatyczna monarchini, która z opanowaniem i klasą przeprowadziła Wielką Brytanię oraz Wspólnotę Narodów przez zawirowania ostatnich kilkudziesięciu lat, doczekała się niezwykle wnikliwej biograf
ENGLISH VERSION - WERSJA ANGIELSKA
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorro
Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread priv
'Magisterial' - Guardian
'Outstanding' - Ian Kershaw
Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.
Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a
'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC's legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining st
Clintonowie od początku związani byli z amerykańską mafią Dixie, przy je pomocy dokonując transferu miliardów dolarów w postaci kokainy, gotówki i broni, których handel i przemyt nadzorowali. Ich rod
A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard
'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical ach
The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback
The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into ri
Queen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female monarch in history, in a time of intense industrial, cultural, political, scientific and military change wi
Franklin D. Roosevelt is a towering figure in twentieth-century history. A masterful politician who would win an unprecedented four presidential terms, initiate landmark reforms that changed the Amer
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in A
Edward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his contemporaries, the perfect king in those of later generations. Venerated as the victor of Sluys and Crécy an
The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country
It is May 1940. Western countries are falling into Nazi hands. Britain must prepare to be invaded any day. The future of the world lies on the shoulders of one man. This is the story of how British P
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biogr
The last king of Poland owed his throne largely to his youthful romance with the future Catherine the Great of Russia. But Stanislaw Augustus was nobody's pawn. He was an ambitious, highly intelligen
Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career an