50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Europa

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August   *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal   The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. ...

Releasedatum: 1979-11-12 79,00 kr

In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty. He leads us through the history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth century to the rise of a great mercantile state and a trading empire, the wars against Napoleon and the tourist invasions of today. There are wars and sieges, scandals and seductions, fountains play...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-02 105,00 kr

'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished … Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be … The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' Sunday Telegraph

Releasedatum: 2007-09-06 149,00 kr

Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the history of the peninsula and of its political groupings was far from inevitable. Its tone is accessible, supported by boxes providing supplemental information, and is perfect for travellers to Spain.

Releasedatum: 2019-03-14 Genre:Historia 35,00 kr

From 1942 Speer was the second most powerful man in the Reich and Hitler’s right-hand man. Gitta Sereny, through twelve years of research and through many conversations with Speer, his friends and colleagues, reveals how Speer came to terms with his own acts and failures to act, his progress from moral extinction to moral self-education and the question of his real culpability in the Nazi crimes.

Releasedatum: 2017-01-26 Genre:Historia 99,00 kr

A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, demonstrating just how central anti-semitism was to Nazi ideology and what a driving force it was in the development of Nazi decision-making, from their earliest days in power through to the invasion of the Soviet Union and the implementation of the Final Solution.

Releasedatum: 2010-04-14 Genre:Historia 249,00 kr

This picture book is divided into 3 books (because of the size), and includes 2000 photos of Hitler and his Nazis. About 90% of the photos feature Hitler and include over a thousand very rare pictures. The pictures are sorted into various categories, such as Hitler with women, Hitler with children, Hitler with his Brownshirts, Hitler with his SS, Hitler with his dogs, etc., and each category includes from 6 to 20 pictures. The book is also organized in a sequence which, through historical photos...

Releasedatum: 2012-01-22 5,00 kr

Belönad med Augustpriset 2012 ”Om vägen till Auschwitz är ett helvete lika för alla är varje väg från Auschwitz ett mirakel för sig. Vägen från Auschwitz tar sig de mest skiftande banor och bryter av mot de mest oförutsägbara mål och genomkorsar de mest oväntade platser. De som befinner sig på vägen från Auschwitz är alla undantag, på samma sätt som varje väg från Auschwitz är ett undantag." Om sin fars väg från Auschwitz till den lilla staden med den stora lastbilsfab...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-23 79,00 kr

När Gustav Eriksson valdes till riksföreståndare 1521 var han ensam och utblottad – hans släktingar hade avrättats i Stockholms blodbad och deras tillgångar hade tagits i beslag. Men han kom från en släkt som var van att ha inflytande och han tog sig till tronen med hjälp av lögn och bedrägeri, girighet och stor brutalitet. Han lyckades skapa ett kungarike som blev grunden till det moderna Sverige. Kärven på hans vapensköld gav honom tillnamnet Vasa. Efter honom har nio regenter ...

Releasedatum: 2016-08-19 89,00 kr

Vinnare av det Facklitterära Augustpriset 2018 Först kom kylan. Sedan värmen och torkan. Två år i rad slog skörden fel. Folk dog. Till en början barn och åldringar. Därefter även de starka. Det tredje året var alla visthusbodar tömda. I Stockholm anklagade man de svältande för att själva ha orsakat sin nöd. Missväxten under åren 1867–69 är en av de värsta naturkatastroferna i Sveriges historia, och dess effekter förstärktes av politiska felbeslut och misstag. Hungersnöde...

Releasedatum: 2018-07-31 79,00 kr

*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize* *Bill Gates' Top 5 Books for 2020* 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARR É A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet ...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-20 Genre:Historia 115,00 kr

Svensk Historia är en historisk läsebok för hela svenska folket. Med imponerande lärdom och suveränt levande berättarkonst skildrar den landets och folkets historia från urminnes år till modern tid. Alf Henrikson öppnar överraskande perspektiv på vår historia och på vår historieskrivning genom tiderna, och han står på fast vetenskaplig grund när han avlivar åtskilliga myter. Men mängden av fakta tynger aldrig ner framställningen – under författarens säkra hand ordnar myll...

Releasedatum: 2013-07-18 79,00 kr

With the exception of Napoleon Bonaparte, no man was more influential on the military tactics and strategy of 19th century warfare than Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz ( June 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831). Clausewitz was a Prussian soldier and German military theorist who stressed the moral and political aspects of war, but he is remembered today for his military treatise On War , which remains one of the most important military treatises ever written. It was mandatory for all military st...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-13 5,00 kr

This picture book is divided into 3 books (because of the size), and includes 2000 photos of Hitler and his Nazis. About 90% of the photos feature Hitler and include over a thousand very rare pictures. The pictures are sorted into various categories, such as Hitler with women, Hitler with children, Hitler with his Brownshirts, Hitler with his SS, Hitler with his dogs, etc., and each category includes from 6 to 20 pictures. The book is also organized in a sequence which, through historical photos...

Releasedatum: 2012-01-22 5,00 kr

From the bestselling author of Stalingrad , Berlin and D-Day comes the story of the German's ill-fated final stand. 'Rich in detail and drama. Enthralling' Mail on Sunday ______________ On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCO...

Releasedatum: 2015-05-21 Genre:Historia 99,00 kr

This picture book is divided into 3 books (because of the size), and includes 2000 photos of Hitler and his Nazis. About 90% of the photos feature Hitler and include over a thousand very rare pictures. The pictures are sorted into various categories, such as Hitler with women, Hitler with children, Hitler with his Brownshirts, Hitler with his SS, Hitler with his dogs, etc., and each category includes from 6 to 20 pictures. The book is also organized in a sequence which, through historical photos...

Releasedatum: 2012-01-22 5,00 kr

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest.' A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Jünger's experience of combat on the front l...

Releasedatum: 2016-01-26 Genre:Historia 115,00 kr

The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a po...

Releasedatum: 2012-09-27 115,00 kr

One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. Watching, listening to, attending: Live Aid. One Decade: Britain in the Eighties was different. The culture was different, the politics were different, and our engagement with the world was different. And it was just one day in 1985 that showed how different it was. In One Day, One Decade Dylan Jones tells the story of the Eighties through that...

Releasedatum: 2013-06-06 115,00 kr

”I vår tid har svensk strävan krönts med resultat, som skulle synas våra fäder som de sju underverken i världen, om de trädde upp ur sina gravar. Sverige var från begynnelsen intet löftets lockande Kanaan, men svenskarna gjorde det omsider till sitt förlovade land, betraktat av de utländske med avundsjuk förundran.” Vilhelm Moberg, 1898-1973, är en av Sveriges mest folkkära författare, känd för sin Utvandrarsvit. Svensk strävan utgavs 1941 av Försvarsstabens bildningsdetal...

Releasedatum: 2015-04-01 19,00 kr

Det var året då allt hade kunnat gå galet. Ute i Europa rasade första världskriget, det neutrala Sverige var avspärrat och livsmedelsbristen skriande. Ransoneringarna hårdnade. I Ryssland hade Lenins bolsjeviker gripit makten, i Finland utkämpades ett grymt inbördeskrig och i Tyskland reste sig en krigstrött befolkning medan amerikanska soldater vällde in över västfronten. En ny tid randades. Samtidigt närmade sig striden för allmän och lika rösträtt ett slutligt avgörande. V...

Releasedatum: 2017-08-24 79,00 kr

Named Book of the Year by the Sunday Times , TLS , Spectator , Sunday Telegraph , Daily Mail and Scotland on Sunday , Ian Kershaw's The End is a searing account of the final months of Nazi Germany, laying bare the fear and fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitler's Germany, nothing of this kind happened: in the en...

Releasedatum: 2011-08-25 115,00 kr

“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — Boston Globe One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war i...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-19 129,00 kr

'A superb work of scholarship, full of riveting detail' Sunday Times A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944. In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields - today's Ukraine...

Releasedatum: 2011-08-31 115,00 kr

'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an in...

Releasedatum: 2006-12-07 Genre:Historia 115,00 kr

Året var 793. Plötsligt dök plundrande nordbor upp vid det engelska klostret Lindisfarne, och därmed inleddes vikingatiden. Förvåningen och fasan var stor eftersom angriparna var så bekanta. Germanfolken kring Nordsjön och Östersjön hade nämligen delat samma kultur i århundraden men så förvandlades köpmännen från norr till rasande kämpar. Hur kunde det gå till? Redan före vikingatiden hade nordborna byggt upp en framgångsrik handelsorganisation. Eliten levde ett liv i lyx. M...

Releasedatum: 2021-09-23 129,00 kr

The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today. SPQR is a new look at Roman histor...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-20 Genre:Historia 55,00 kr

"Att följa Mannerheim är att jaga en skugga eller ett fotografi som långsamt förlorar sina färger", inleder Jörn Donner sin bok om en av Finlands mesta "kändisar", den gåtfulle fältmarskalken som ledde landet under tre krig. Mannerheims gloria bleknar inte, även om han strängt taget förlorade två av sina tre krig som fältherre och även om rätt få bland de yngre generationerna idag vet så mycket mer än att Mannerheim rider på en häst vid ingången till Kiasma, museet för nut...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-26 179,00 kr

Vikingatiden är den nordiska historiens kanske mest mytomspunna tidsepoker. Den ligger på gränsen mellan förhistorisk och historisk tid och är därför samtidigt både svårfångad och fantasieggande. Men vilka var människorna som levde då, och hur såg deras värld egentligen ut? I sin nya bok Vikingarnas historia skildrar Dick Harrison både vikingarna själva och den värld de levde i. Boken är en del av serien Världens dramatiska historia.

Releasedatum: 2019-05-21 129,00 kr

Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust, by historian David Cesarani. Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries and letters from within the ghettos and camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish and therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrativ...

Releasedatum: 2016-01-28 Genre:Historia 99,00 kr

I den här e-boken får du läsa om flera av de allra blodtörstigaste vikingarna: Ragnar Lodbrok och hans söner. Det är en berättelse fylld med hjältar som slåss med monster, blodiga slag, mäktiga svärd och vikingar som härjar i både Medelhavet, England och i Mälardalen.  Du får också läsa om mord, slavar och den märkliga kossan som besegrade hela arméer.  Forskarna är i dag oeniga om Ragnar Lodbrok är en historisk person eller om han är uppdiktad.  Mycket tyder...

Releasedatum: 2015-05-22 9,00 kr

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH 'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'An irresistibly compelling narrative, of events so terrible that they still have the power to provoke wonder and awe' Adam Sisman, Observer __________________ The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political ins...

Releasedatum: 2007-10-04 Genre:Historia 115,00 kr

Antikens historier är myterna och äventyren, alla anekdoterna om filosofer och fältherrar och kejsare, diktarnas och vetenskapsmännens liv och verk, politiken och vardagslivet, de religiösa ceremonierna, den grekiskromerska mytologins gudar och hjältar - hela det klassiska kulturarvet. Med en enastående förening av lärdom och fabuleringsglädje återberättar Alf Henrikson detta väldiga stoff - från de österländska sagornas skattkammare genom Hellas och rom fram till medeltidens bö...

Releasedatum: 2013-08-22 79,00 kr

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012 Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history. He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas – that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religio...

Releasedatum: 2011-09-01 129,00 kr

Få saker är så mörka som en skärgårdsö på hösten. Så ruggiga som när vinden slår i träden och tränger igenom kläderna. Så läskiga som ett gammalt hus som låter när man vet att man är ensam. Vad var det egentligen som hände den där höstkvällen på Lillgården?  En skrämmande händelse väcker ett intresse att ta reda på mer om Vässarös historia. Av alla historier som berättas, vad är egentligen sant? Vilka har bott på Vässarö och hur såg deras liv ut? Vem va...

Releasedatum: 2020-12-01 149,00 kr

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar. Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with ...

Releasedatum: 2010-06-03 Genre:Historia 95,00 kr

'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, Guardian 'Marvellously readable' Niall Ferguson The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid port...

Releasedatum: 2011-04-21 Genre:Historia 89,00 kr

I denna storslagna berättelse ger Timothy Snyder en ny bild av Förintelsen. Den svarta jorden knyter 1900-talets stora tragedi till samtiden och ser massmordet på judarna som något som fortfarande ligger mycket nära. Hitlers idé var att utrotningen av judarna skulle återställa balansen i Tyskland och inbringa de resurser som landet så desperat behövde. Hans mål var ett kolonialkrig i Europa: genom att ockupera andra stater kunde en alltmer antisemitisk politik genomdrivas. I detta nya...

Releasedatum: 2016-10-21 79,00 kr

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD 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 falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union ...

Releasedatum: 2011-01-11 149,00 kr

'The book is a masterpiece' The Spectator 'A gripping narrative history of one of the most complex episodes in modern Russian history' Sunday Times 'Antony Beevor's Russia is a masterpiece of history' Daily Telegraph Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood ...

Releasedatum: 2022-05-26 Genre:Historia 179,00 kr

The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. “There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred review A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, ‘is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence...

Releasedatum: 2018-04-10 69,00 kr

A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The Fall of the Roman Empire has been a best-selling subject since the 18th century. Since then, over 200 very diverse reasons have been advocated for the collapse of the western half of the Roman Empire. Until very recently, the academic view embarrassedly downplayed the violence and destruction, in an attempt to provide a more urbane account of late antiquity: barbarian invasions were mistakenly described as the movement of peop...

Releasedatum: 2009-04-02 Genre:Historia 49,00 kr

”Min fars föräldrar hade varken tillhört offren eller bödlarna. De hade inte utmärkt sig med modiga handlingar men hade heller inte syndat i överdrivet nit. De var helt enkelt 'Mitläufer': medlöpare, människor ’som följer med strömmen’. Deras inställning hade varit densamma som hos majoriteten av det tyska folket: små blundanden och mindre fegheter som sammantagna hade skapat de nödvändiga förutsättningarna för en av de grövsta organiserade statsförbrytelserna som mäns...

Releasedatum: 2020-01-21 79,00 kr

#1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • The author of  The Devil in the White City  and  Dead Wake  delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis   “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”— Time  •  “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR   ...

Releasedatum: 2020-02-25 Genre:Historia 119,00 kr

The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evil Only four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of the. Gitta Sereny's investigation of this man's mind, and of the influences which shaped him, has become a classic. Stangl commanded Treblinka and was found guilty of co-responsibility for the slaughter there of at least 900, 000 people. Sereny, after weeks of talk wit...

Releasedatum: 2013-02-28 159,00 kr

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In Stasiland , winner of the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize, Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany, a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in fifty East Germans were informing on their countrymen and women. She meets Miriam, who as a sixteen-year-old might have started the Third Wo...

Releasedatum: 2011-04-07 75,00 kr

Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller. The Masters of the Air miniseries will be the companion to Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bo...

Releasedatum: 2006-10-10 Genre:Historia 179,00 kr

År 1929 lanserade Stalin kollektivi­seringen av lantbruket, något som kan beskrivas som den andra ryska revolutionen. Den tvingade miljoner bönder att lämna sina gårdar och inordna sig i kollektiv. Resultatet blev en katastrofal hungersnöd, den dödligaste i europeisk historia. Svälten slog till ögonblickligen och människor började äta allt de kom över: gräs, bark, hundar eller lik. "Röd hungersnöd" är ett skakande och vederhäftigt vittnesbörd om de människor som dukade under...

Releasedatum: 2019-11-22 79,00 kr

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, Observer The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-15 Genre:Historia 115,00 kr

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad ' Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War ' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard ______________ On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-17 Genre:Historia 115,00 kr