Válka

Válka formuje jak bojiště, tak lidská srdce, zanechávajíc nesmazatelné stopy na vojácích i civilistech prostřednictvím boje, strategie a hlubokých morálních rozhodnutí. Tyto silné příběhy a analýzy zkoumají největší konflikty lidstva – od starověkých válek po moderní kybernetické hrozby, od bojů na frontě po zápasy na domácí půdě – a odhalují jejich trvalý dopad na jednotlivce, národy a běh dějin.

Válka Shrnutí knih

Hvězdná pěchota

od Robert A. Heinlein • 1959

For a vote and a future, Johnny Rico joins the power-suit infantry; then the bugs attack.

4.01

200 000+

Science fiction

Klasika

Military

Válka

Mimozemšťané

Hvězdná pěchota

For a vote and a future, Johnny Rico joins the power-suit infantry; then the bugs attack.

od Robert A. Heinlein 1959 264 stran

4.01

200 000+ hodnocení

Science fiction

Klasika

Military

Válka

Mimozemšťané

Glimpses of World History

od Jawaharlal Nehru • 1934

From a British prison cell, a jailed father teaches his daughter all of world history.

4.32

2 000+

Historie

Politika

Filozofie

Sociologie

Náboženství

Glimpses of World History

From a British prison cell, a jailed father teaches his daughter all of world history.

od Jawaharlal Nehru 1934 1193 stran

4.32

2 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Filozofie

Sociologie

Náboženství

Night Lords

od Aaron Dembski-Bowden • 2014

A doomed Night Lord seer fights to unite his traitor legion, hunted by aliens who foretold his rise.

4.67

2 000+

Science fiction

Fantasy

Horor

Válka

Space opera

Night Lords

A doomed Night Lord seer fights to unite his traitor legion, hunted by aliens who foretold his rise.

od Aaron Dembski-Bowden 2014 944 stran

4.67

2 000+ hodnocení

Science fiction

Fantasy

Horor

Válka

Space opera

Modern Times

od Paul Johnson • 1983

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

4.29

2 000+

Historie

Politika

Válka

20. století

Political

Modern Times

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

od Paul Johnson 1983 880 stran

4.29

2 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Válka

20. století

Political

The Shortest History of China

od Linda Jaivin • 2021

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

3.94

3 000+

Historie

Čína

Asie

Historické

Politika

The Shortest History of China

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

od Linda Jaivin 2021 263 stran

3.94

3 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Čína

Asie

Historické

Politika

An Autobiography

od Agatha Christie • 1977

She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.

4.13

12 000+

Biografie

Autobiografie

Memoáry

Psaní

Detektivky

An Autobiography

She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.

od Agatha Christie 1977 576 stran

4.13

12 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Autobiografie

Memoáry

Psaní

Detektivky

The Shia Revival

od Vali Nasr • 2006

America's Iraq invasion accidentally broke a 1,400-year Sunni order. Iran seized the opening.

3.88

2 000+

Islám

Blízký východ

Politika

Historie

Náboženství

The Shia Revival

America's Iraq invasion accidentally broke a 1,400-year Sunni order. Iran seized the opening.

od Vali Nasr 2006 314 stran

3.88

2 000+ hodnocení

Islám

Blízký východ

Politika

Historie

Náboženství

Metaphysics of War

od Julius Evola • 1996

The sacred dimension of war: what warriors from Rome to the Gita grasped, and modernity lost.

4.03

500+

Filozofie

Válka

Náboženství

Politika

Spiritualita

Metaphysics of War

The sacred dimension of war: what warriors from Rome to the Gita grasped, and modernity lost.

od Julius Evola 1996 154 stran

4.03

500+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Válka

Náboženství

Politika

Spiritualita

How Spies Think

od David Omand • 2020

From a former GCHQ chief: how spies structure their thinking to outsmart lies and cognitive traps.

3.62

500+

Psychologie

Politika

Válka

Historie

Technologie

How Spies Think

From a former GCHQ chief: how spies structure their thinking to outsmart lies and cognitive traps.

od David Omand 2020 344 stran

3.62

500+ hodnocení

Psychologie

Politika

Válka

Historie

Technologie

The World As It Is

od Ben Rhodes • 2018

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

4.30

12 000+

Politika

Memoáry

Historie

Biografie

Americké

The World As It Is

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

od Ben Rhodes 2018 433 stran

4.30

12 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Memoáry

Historie

Biografie

Americké

Capture or Kill

od Don Bentley • 2024

An Iranian commander's warning pitches Mitch Rapp into a race to stop a catastrophic attack.

4.33

16 000+

Thriller

Spy

Akční

Napětí

Válka

Capture or Kill

An Iranian commander's warning pitches Mitch Rapp into a race to stop a catastrophic attack.

od Don Bentley 2024 459 stran

4.33

16 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Spy

Akční

Napětí

Válka

Král jizev

od Leigh Bardugo • 2019

Ravka's king turns into a monster at nightfall. Three ancient saints claim to have the cure.

4.15

200 000+

Fantasy

Pro mladé dospělé

High fantasy

Magie

Romantika

Král jizev

Ravka's king turns into a monster at nightfall. Three ancient saints claim to have the cure.

od Leigh Bardugo 2019 527 stran

4.15

200 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Pro mladé dospělé

High fantasy

Magie

Romantika

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

od Marvin Harris • 1974

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

3.92

5 000+

Sociologie

Historie

Věda

Náboženství

Ekonomie

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

od Marvin Harris 1974 288 stran

3.92

5 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Historie

Věda

Náboženství

Ekonomie

The Persian Expedition

od Xenophon

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

4.11

10 000+

Klasika

Historie

Řecko

Válka

Military

The Persian Expedition

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

od Xenophon 375 stran

4.11

10 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Historie

Řecko

Válka

Military

A History of Bangladesh

od Willem van Schendel • 2009

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

4.20

250

Historie

Indie

Asie

Politika

Ekonomie

A History of Bangladesh

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

od Willem van Schendel 2009 374 stran

4.20

250 hodnocení

Historie

Indie

Asie

Politika

Ekonomie

The Kindly Ones

od Jonathan Littell • 2009

An intellectual SS officer recounts his role in the Holocaust, insisting it was just a job.

4.03

15 000+

Historická fikce

Válka

Literatura

Literární fikce

Romány

The Kindly Ones

An intellectual SS officer recounts his role in the Holocaust, insisting it was just a job.

od Jonathan Littell 2009 984 stran

4.03

15 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Válka

Literatura

Literární fikce

Romány

Nekonečné moře

od Rick Yancey • 2014

Survivors must trust a child who carries a bomb inside her, knowing compassion could kill them.

3.83

100 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Science fiction

Dystopie

Mimozemšťané

Postapokalyptické

Nekonečné moře

Survivors must trust a child who carries a bomb inside her, knowing compassion could kill them.

od Rick Yancey 2014 320 stran

3.83

100 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Science fiction

Dystopie

Mimozemšťané

Postapokalyptické

Nineteen Steps

od Millie Bobby Brown • 2023

She loves two men. Then a London shelter crush kills 173, including her father and sister.

3.76

20 000+

Historická fikce

Romantika

Historické

Wwii

Historická romance

Nineteen Steps

She loves two men. Then a London shelter crush kills 173, including her father and sister.

od Millie Bobby Brown 2023 320 stran

3.76

20 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Romantika

Historické

Wwii

Historická romance

Story of Civilization

od Will Durant • 1975

Civilization rests on four fragile foundations; remove one, and the whole structure collapses.

4.43

1 000+

Historie

Filozofie

Klasika

Politika

Ekonomie

Story of Civilization

Civilization rests on four fragile foundations; remove one, and the whole structure collapses.

od Will Durant 1975 14777 stran

4.43

1 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Filozofie

Klasika

Politika

Ekonomie

R. N. Kao

od Mr Nitin A Gokhale • 2019

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

3.92

456

Biografie

Historie

Indie

Asie

Válka

R. N. Kao

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

od Mr Nitin A Gokhale 2019 240 stran

3.92

456 hodnocení

Biografie

Historie

Indie

Asie

Válka

Learning from the Germans

od Susan Neiman • 2019

Germany spent decades facing Nazi crimes. Could that model work for American racism?

4.20

1 000+

Historie

Politika

Filozofie

Rasa

Sociální spravedlnost

Learning from the Germans

Germany spent decades facing Nazi crimes. Could that model work for American racism?

od Susan Neiman 2019 434 stran

4.20

1 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Filozofie

Rasa

Sociální spravedlnost

To Green Angel Tower

od Tad Williams • 1993

A scullion, a princess, and three swords stand between the Storm King and the world's destruction.

4.22

57 000+

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Dobrodružství

Magie

To Green Angel Tower

A scullion, a princess, and three swords stand between the Storm King and the world's destruction.

od Tad Williams 1993 1083 stran

4.22

57 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Dobrodružství

Magie

One Rough Man

od Brad Taylor • 2011

A broken ex-operative saves a student and uncovers a plan to weaponize a Mayan relic.

4.10

18 000+

Thriller

Akční

Napětí

Detektivky

Spy

One Rough Man

A broken ex-operative saves a student and uncovers a plan to weaponize a Mayan relic.

od Brad Taylor 2011 417 stran

4.10

18 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Akční

Napětí

Detektivky

Spy

Dawood's Mentor

od S. Hussain Zaidi • 2019

The wrestler who built the Dawood empire, then pulled off the Mumbai mafia's only clean break.

4.00

275

Skutečné zločiny

Krimi

Biografie

Historie

Indie

Dawood's Mentor

The wrestler who built the Dawood empire, then pulled off the Mumbai mafia's only clean break.

od S. Hussain Zaidi 2019 300 stran

4.00

275 hodnocení

Skutečné zločiny

Krimi

Biografie

Historie

Indie

American Sniper

od Chris Kyle • 2012

160 kills, four tours, and a personal cost he didn't count until he came home.

4.03

100 000+

Biografie

Autobiografie

Memoáry

Válka

Military

American Sniper

160 kills, four tours, and a personal cost he didn't count until he came home.

od Chris Kyle 2012 502 stran

4.03

100 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Autobiografie

Memoáry

Válka

Military

The Visionaries

od Wolfram Eilenberger • 2020

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

3.91

1 000+

Filozofie

Historie

Biografie

Feminismus

Women

The Visionaries

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

od Wolfram Eilenberger 2020 400 stran

3.91

1 000+ hodnocení

Filozofie

Historie

Biografie

Feminismus

Women

1776

od David McCullough • 2005

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

4.10

200 000+

Historie

Válka

Military

Americké

Spojené státy

1776

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

od David McCullough 2005 386 stran

4.10

200 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Válka

Military

Americké

Spojené státy

On Democracies and Death Cults

od Douglas Murray • 2025

Hamas filmed their massacre. The West protested Israel. The ideology that fuels both.

4.41

5 000+

Politika

Historie

Izrael

Blízký východ

Válka

On Democracies and Death Cults

Hamas filmed their massacre. The West protested Israel. The ideology that fuels both.

od Douglas Murray 2025 240 stran

4.41

5 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

Izrael

Blízký východ

Válka

Boyd

od Robert Coram • 2002

The F-16 and the Gulf War were born from a fighter pilot's study of thermodynamics.

4.19

8 000+

Biografie

Historie

Military

Válka

Politika

Boyd

The F-16 and the Gulf War were born from a fighter pilot's study of thermodynamics.

od Robert Coram 2002 504 stran

4.19

8 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Historie

Military

Válka

Politika

Moonraker

od Ian Fleming • 1955

A national hero's card cheating pulls Bond into a missile project hiding a deadlier deception.

3.81

31 000+

Thriller

Spy

Detektivky

Napětí

Dobrodružství

Moonraker

A national hero's card cheating pulls Bond into a missile project hiding a deadlier deception.

od Ian Fleming 1955 247 stran

3.81

31 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Spy

Detektivky

Napětí

Dobrodružství

Reef

od Romesh Gunesekera • 1994

A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.

3.76

2 000+

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Dospívání

Asie

Jídlo

Reef

A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.

od Romesh Gunesekera 1994 190 stran

3.76

2 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Dospívání

Asie

Jídlo

The Oil Kings

od Andrew Scott Cooper • 2011

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

4.10

500+

Historie

Politika

Ekonomie

Válka

Political

The Oil Kings

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

od Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 stran

4.10

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Ekonomie

Válka

Political

The Situation Room

od George Stephanopoulos • 2024

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

4.33

11 000+

Historie

Politika

Spojené státy

Leadership

Válka

The Situation Room

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

od George Stephanopoulos 2024 466 stran

4.33

11 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Spojené státy

Leadership

Válka

Extreme Measures

od Vince Flynn • 2008

A CIA interrogator is arrested just as a terror cell begins its attack on Washington.

4.34

56 000+

Thriller

Akční

Napětí

Politika

Military

Extreme Measures

A CIA interrogator is arrested just as a terror cell begins its attack on Washington.

od Vince Flynn 2008 448 stran

4.34

56 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Akční

Napětí

Politika

Military

Empire of the Summer Moon

od S.C. Gwynne • 2010

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

4.25

70 000+

Historie

Americké

Indiánské

Biografie

Western

Empire of the Summer Moon

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

od S.C. Gwynne 2010 371 stran

4.25

70 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Americké

Indiánské

Biografie

Western

The Refugees

od Viet Thanh Nguyen • 2017

Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.

3.86

22 000+

Povídky

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Současná literatura

Asie

The Refugees

Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.

od Viet Thanh Nguyen 2017 209 stran

3.86

22 000+ hodnocení

Povídky

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Současná literatura

Asie

Birdsong

od Sebastian Faulks • 1993

A young Englishman's forbidden affair haunts his command in the tunnels of the Somme.

4.11

84 000+

Historická fikce

Válka

Klasika

Literární fikce

Historické

Birdsong

A young Englishman's forbidden affair haunts his command in the tunnels of the Somme.

od Sebastian Faulks 1993 483 stran

4.11

84 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Válka

Klasika

Literární fikce

Historické

A Peace to End All Peace

od David Fromkin • 1989

The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

4.22

9 000+

Historie

Blízký východ

Politika

20. století

Colonialism

A Peace to End All Peace

The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

od David Fromkin 1989 635 stran

4.22

9 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Blízký východ

Politika

20. století

Colonialism

Sbohem, armádo!

od Ernest Hemingway • 1929

An American driver and a British nurse fall in love and desert the Italian front together.

3.82

300 000+

Klasika

Literární fikce

Válka

Historická fikce

Romantika

Sbohem, armádo!

An American driver and a British nurse fall in love and desert the Italian front together.

od Ernest Hemingway 1929 304 stran

3.82

300 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literární fikce

Válka

Historická fikce

Romantika

Hry patriotů

od Tom Clancy • 1987

A professor saves the royal family. The surviving terrorist vows to take everything he loves.

4.17

200 000+

Thriller

Spy

Akční

Napětí

Detektivky

Hry patriotů

A professor saves the royal family. The surviving terrorist vows to take everything he loves.

od Tom Clancy 1987 794 stran

4.17

200 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Spy

Akční

Napětí

Detektivky

Gaza in Crisis

od Ilan Pappé • 2010

Five hundred villages erased, seventy years before October 7: the history the peace process buries.

4.15

2 000+

Politika

Historie

Blízký východ

Válka

Izrael

Gaza in Crisis

Five hundred villages erased, seventy years before October 7: the history the peace process buries.

od Ilan Pappé 2010 240 stran

4.15

2 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

Blízký východ

Válka

Izrael

The Quiet Librarian

od Allen Eskens • 2025

A librarian who survived a Bosnian massacre learns her friend's killer murdered her family too.

4.13

35 000+

Historická fikce

Detektivky

Thriller

Krimi

Historické

The Quiet Librarian

A librarian who survived a Bosnian massacre learns her friend's killer murdered her family too.

od Allen Eskens 2025 320 stran

4.13

35 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Detektivky

Thriller

Krimi

Historické

Champion

od Marie Lu • 2013

Plague and war force a dying Day to choose between saving his brother or his country.

4.31

200 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Dystopie

Romantika

Science fiction

Dystopian Romance

Champion

Plague and war force a dying Day to choose between saving his brother or his country.

od Marie Lu 2013 483 stran

4.31

200 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Dystopie

Romantika

Science fiction

Dystopian Romance

Three Sisters

od Heather Morris • 2021

Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.

4.37

95 000+

Historická fikce

Holokaust

Wwii

Válka

Historické

Three Sisters

Three sisters walk into Auschwitz with only a childhood promise and each other.

od Heather Morris 2021 416 stran

4.37

95 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Holokaust

Wwii

Válka

Historické

Vlak sirotků

od Christina Baker Kline • 2013

An elderly woman shares her orphan-train past with the foster teen assigned to clean her attic.

4.20

400 000+

Historická fikce

Historické

Pro dospělé

Knižní klub

Literární fikce

Vlak sirotků

An elderly woman shares her orphan-train past with the foster teen assigned to clean her attic.

od Christina Baker Kline 2013 278 stran

4.20

400 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Historické

Pro dospělé

Knižní klub

Literární fikce

Woodsong

od Gary Paulsen • 1990

A secret room tracked the U-boat; the Lusitania never received a warning.

3.93

4 000+

Historie

Válka

Military

20. století

Disaster

Woodsong

A secret room tracked the U-boat; the Lusitania never received a warning.

od Gary Paulsen 1990 144 stran

3.93

4 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Válka

Military

20. století

Disaster

War on Peace

od Ronan Farrow • 2018

Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.

4.14

8 000+

Politika

Historie

International

Válka

Žurnalistika

War on Peace

Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.

od Ronan Farrow 2018 392 stran

4.14

8 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

International

Válka

Žurnalistika

The Room Where It Happened

od John Bolton • 2020

Loyalty got you the job, but bureaucratic warfare kept the White House from doing its job.

3.17

14 000+

Politika

Historie

Memoáry

Biografie

Autobiografie

The Room Where It Happened

Loyalty got you the job, but bureaucratic warfare kept the White House from doing its job.

od John Bolton 2020 588 stran

3.17

14 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

Memoáry

Biografie

Autobiografie

Call Sign Chaos

od Jim Mattis • 2019

Lead from the squad to the strategy table: a doctrine forged in combat and wide reading.

4.29

13 000+

Leadership

Memoáry

Biografie

Historie

Válka

Call Sign Chaos

Lead from the squad to the strategy table: a doctrine forged in combat and wide reading.

od Jim Mattis 2019 320 stran

4.29

13 000+ hodnocení

Leadership

Memoáry

Biografie

Historie

Válka

Visitation

od Jenny Erpenbeck • 2008

A single house on a German lake bears witness to a century of war, exile, and hope.

3.43

8 000+

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

German

Německo

Historické

Visitation

A single house on a German lake bears witness to a century of war, exile, and hope.

od Jenny Erpenbeck 2008 160 stran

3.43

8 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

German

Německo

Historické

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