"This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. He played the key role in founding an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 through his relentless worldwide travels d…
This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Stefnik (1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. Although he is relatively unknown internationally, his contemporaries compared him to Choderlos de Laclos for the use…
"This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. He played the key role in founding an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 through his relentless worldwide travels d…
"This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. He played the key role in founding an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 through his relentless worldwide travels d…
This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Stefnik (1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. Although he is relatively unknown internationally, his contemporaries compared him to Choderlos de Laclos for the use…
The author reconstructs the hilarious true tale of a group of Scottish immigrants who were tricked into believing in a Central American country ruled by a Scottish soldier and who set out in 1823 across the Atlantic to find it. On a cold January morning in 1823, a group of Scott…
The author reconstructs the hilarious true tale of a group of Scottish immigrants who were tricked into believing in a Central American country ruled by a Scottish soldier and who set out in 1823 across the Atlantic to find it. On a cold January morning in 1823, a group of Scott…
Few contemporaries boasted that they really knew Cromwell. Perhaps he did not know himself. He thought of himself as an ordinary Englishman, yet it is apparent that he was an extraordinary man. Cromwell rose to greatness suddenly, and in middle age; but unlike others whose rise …
"Almost from the moment of Cromwell's death in 1658, writers and biographers have dismissed suspicions of foul play as little more than the result of a powerful person's unexpected demise. They have assumed that at age fifty-nine Cromwell was in poor health and that his governme…
"Almost from the moment of Cromwell's death in 1658, writers and biographers have dismissed suspicions of foul play as little more than the result of a powerful person's unexpected demise. They have assumed that at age fifty-nine Cromwell was in poor health and that his governme…
