Serhii Plokhy (9 kníh)
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Serhii Plokhy ČernobylTento hrubý nástin vystihuje, co se v dubnu 1986 odehrálo v Černobylské jaderné elektrárně. Autor vás seznámí s genezí sovětského jaderného výzkumu, konstrukcí dvou hlavních typů reaktorů užívaných v SSSR, s jejich přednostmi i chybami...
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Serhii Plokhy ChernobylThe 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 in history: the explosion of a reactor at the ...
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Serhii Plokhy ChernobylOn 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to ...
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Serhii Plokhy Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern FrontA riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan...
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Serhii Plokhy Lost KingdomAn astonishingly wide-ranging history of Russian nationalism chronicling Russia's yearning for Empire and how it has affected its politics for centuries...
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Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe ENFrom award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe is the definitive history of Ukraine that helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis. At the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, caught between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - that left their imprint on the landscape, the…
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Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe ENFrom award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe is the definitive history of Ukraine that helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis. At the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, caught between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - that left their imprint on the landscape, the…
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Serhii Plokhy The Man with the Poison Gun ENLate in the summer of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he’d single-handedly tracked down and killed enemies of the communist regime. His weapon, a unique, top-secret design, killed without leaving a trace. Just hours before the border closed and work began on the Berlin Wall, Stashinsky crossed into West and spilled his…
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Serhii Plokhy The Man with the Poison GunIn the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change its modus operandi abroad and helped end the career of Aleksandr Shelepin, one of the most ambitious and dangerous Soviet…
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