Norman Davies Livres

Challenging the traditional picture of 1000 years of eternal England, and referring at every stage to events on the Continent, a picture emerges of a history of four nations - England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales

The story of the Warsaw Rising from the the leading British authority on the history of Poland.

The revised edition of this classic study offers a comprehensive survey of Polish history, now updated with two new chapters that extend the narrative to the end of the twentieth century. The author challenges existing interpretations, providing a critical perspective that emphasizes common sense. This work aims to clarify the complexities of Poland's past, addressing misconceptions and shedding light on a nation often overlooked in historical discourse.

Following the conquest of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish families were torn from their homes and sent eastwards to the arctic wastes of Siberia. This book is all about the World War II.

"From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this is the story of Europe in a single volume." - - Back Cover.

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 between 16,000 and 20,000 fighters killed and missing, 7000 wounded, and 150,000 civilians killed.

The conventional narrative of the Second World War is well known. Bringing a fresh eye to bear on a story we think we know, this title reminds us that the war in Europe was dominated by two evil monsters - Hitler and Stalin - whose fight for supremacy consumed the best people in Germany and in the USSR.

Surprisingly little known, the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. schovat popis

In 2012, Norman Davies set off on a global circumnavigation. Native Lands is his account of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas. As in Vanished Kingdoms, Davies's historical gaze penetrates behind the present to see how things became as they are, and how peoples came to tell themselves the stories which make up their identities. Everywhere, it seems, human beings have been travelling - pushing out others or arriving in terra nullius - since the beginning of recorded time. To whom is a land truly native? As always, Norman Davies has his eye on the historical horizon as well as on what is close at hand, and brilliantly complicates our view of the past.

A controversial history of the 'British Isles', including Ireland. This book emphasizes the long-standing European connections, and posts a possible break-up of the United Kingdom. It is a agenda-setting work that aims to become a classic.