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

Vzestup stínu

od Robert Jordan • 1992

To claim his army, he must unearth a secret his desert warriors have buried for millennia.

4.29

200 000+

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Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Dobrodružství

Magie

Vzestup stínu

To claim his army, he must unearth a secret his desert warriors have buried for millennia.

od Robert Jordan 1992 1007 stran

4.29

200 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Dobrodružství

Magie

Gravity’s Rainbow

od Thomas Pynchon • 1973

In wartime London, a lieutenant's affairs map onto missile strikes. Rival spy agencies want him.

4.02

48 000+

Klasika

Literatura

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Americké

Gravity’s Rainbow

In wartime London, a lieutenant's affairs map onto missile strikes. Rival spy agencies want him.

od Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 stran

4.02

48 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literatura

Literární fikce

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Americké

Asia's Cauldron

od Robert D. Kaplan • 2014

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

3.95

2 000+

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Historie

Čína

Asie

International

Asia's Cauldron

One sea, half the world's trade, six rival claims: the old Pacific order is over.

od Robert D. Kaplan 2014 256 stran

3.95

2 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

Čína

Asie

International

The House of Medici

od Christopher Hibbert • 1975

Why Florence's uncrowned kings were bankers who built the Renaissance and survived assassination.

3.87

8 000+

Historie

Biografie

Itálie

Historické

Umění

The House of Medici

Why Florence's uncrowned kings were bankers who built the Renaissance and survived assassination.

od Christopher Hibbert 1975 364 stran

3.87

8 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Biografie

Itálie

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Umění

A Reaper at the Gates

od Sabaa Tahir • 2018

A jinn army rises to burn the Empire. Three defenders give everything to hold the line.

4.13

100 000+

Fantasy

Pro mladé dospělé

High fantasy

Epická fantasy

Temná fantasy

A Reaper at the Gates

A jinn army rises to burn the Empire. Three defenders give everything to hold the line.

od Sabaa Tahir 2018 480 stran

4.13

100 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Pro mladé dospělé

High fantasy

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Temná fantasy

Life and Fate

od Vasily Grossman • 1960

At Stalingrad, a Soviet family discovers their own state mirrors the Nazi regime it fights.

4.46

15 000+

Klasika

Historická fikce

Válka

Rusko

Literatura

Life and Fate

At Stalingrad, a Soviet family discovers their own state mirrors the Nazi regime it fights.

od Vasily Grossman 1960 864 stran

4.46

15 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Historická fikce

Válka

Rusko

Literatura

Understanding Iran

od William R. Polk • 2009

Start with Cyrus, not Khomeini. Iran's long civilizational memory drives everything the news misses.

3.84

391

Historie

Politika

Islám

Náboženství

Válka

Understanding Iran

Start with Cyrus, not Khomeini. Iran's long civilizational memory drives everything the news misses.

od William R. Polk 2009 272 stran

3.84

391 hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Islám

Náboženství

Válka

Forsaken

od Oliver Bowden • 2012

His family massacred, a boy is raised by the secret order that ordered the killings.

3.99

6 000+

Fantasy

Historická fikce

Dobrodružství

Historické

Hry

Forsaken

His family massacred, a boy is raised by the secret order that ordered the killings.

od Oliver Bowden 2012 464 stran

3.99

6 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Historická fikce

Dobrodružství

Historické

Hry

A Language of Dragons

od S.F. Williamson • 2025

In 1920s London, a linguist frees a dragon to save her family, igniting a civil war.

3.83

23 000+

Fantasy

Draci

Pro mladé dospělé

Historická fikce

Romantika

A Language of Dragons

In 1920s London, a linguist frees a dragon to save her family, igniting a civil war.

od S.F. Williamson 2025 432 stran

3.83

23 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Draci

Pro mladé dospělé

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Romantika

Palm Sunday

od Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1981

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

3.78

6 000+

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Eseje

Psaní

Humor

Palm Sunday

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

od Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 stran

3.78

6 000+ hodnocení

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Eseje

Psaní

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Kings Rising

od C.S. Pacat • 2016

A former slave turned king needs the prince who deceived him to save both their kingdoms.

4.43

83 000+

Fantasy

Romantika

Gay Romance

Queer

Lgbt

Kings Rising

A former slave turned king needs the prince who deceived him to save both their kingdoms.

od C.S. Pacat 2016 385 stran

4.43

83 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Romantika

Gay Romance

Queer

Lgbt

Furies of Calderon

od Jim Butcher • 2004

Without the elemental powers everyone commands, a frontier boy must outthink a barbarian horde.

4.13

100 000+

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Magie

Pro dospělé

Furies of Calderon

Without the elemental powers everyone commands, a frontier boy must outthink a barbarian horde.

od Jim Butcher 2004 688 stran

4.13

100 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Magie

Pro dospělé

The Endless War

od Danielle L. Jensen • 2023

A warrior princess exiled for loving the enemy king must survive an inescapable prison island.

4.19

38 000+

Fantasy

Romantika

Fantasy romance

Pro dospělé

Válka

The Endless War

A warrior princess exiled for loving the enemy king must survive an inescapable prison island.

od Danielle L. Jensen 2023 576 stran

4.19

38 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Romantika

Fantasy romance

Pro dospělé

Válka

Quicksilver Bonus Scenes

od Callie Hart • 2025

A Fae warrior seals his city with iron that burns him alive while a dragon descends.

3.90

29 000+

Fantasy

Fae

Draci

Fantasy romance

Magie

Quicksilver Bonus Scenes

A Fae warrior seals his city with iron that burns him alive while a dragon descends.

od Callie Hart 2025 3 stran

3.90

29 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Fae

Draci

Fantasy romance

Magie

Life, God, and Other Small Topics

od Eric Metaxas • 2011

A pacifist pastor joined the plot to kill Hitler. His theology explains why.

4.03

500+

Biografie

Historie

Filozofie

Náboženství

Křesťanské

Life, God, and Other Small Topics

A pacifist pastor joined the plot to kill Hitler. His theology explains why.

od Eric Metaxas 2011 394 stran

4.03

500+ hodnocení

Biografie

Historie

Filozofie

Náboženství

Křesťanské

New Cold Wars

od David E. Sanger • 2024

The post-Cold War peace was a mirage. The new rivalry is hybrid, global, and nuclear.

4.30

2 000+

Politika

Historie

Čína

Rusko

Válka

New Cold Wars

The post-Cold War peace was a mirage. The new rivalry is hybrid, global, and nuclear.

od David E. Sanger 2024 528 stran

4.30

2 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Historie

Čína

Rusko

Válka

Hornet Flight

od Ken Follett • 2002

Decimated by Nazi radar, a boy flies a dying biplane to England with the proof.

4.01

29 000+

Thriller

Historická fikce

Wwii

Válka

Napětí

Hornet Flight

Decimated by Nazi radar, a boy flies a dying biplane to England with the proof.

od Ken Follett 2002 518 stran

4.01

29 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Historická fikce

Wwii

Válka

Napětí

Convergence

od TurtleMe • 2017

Jailed by the council he saved, a mage is taken to train as the gods' weapon.

4.36

7 000+

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

Dobrodružství

Magie

Akční

Convergence

Jailed by the council he saved, a mage is taken to train as the gods' weapon.

od TurtleMe 2017 446 stran

4.36

7 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

Dobrodružství

Magie

Akční

Psáno krví mého srdce

od Diana Gabaldon • 2014

A surgeon and her Highlander husband reunite as the Revolutionary War descends on Philadelphia.

4.55

100 000+

Historická fikce

Romantika

Cestování časem

Historická romance

Fantasy

Psáno krví mého srdce

A surgeon and her Highlander husband reunite as the Revolutionary War descends on Philadelphia.

od Diana Gabaldon 2014 825 stran

4.55

100 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Romantika

Cestování časem

Historická romance

Fantasy

Dangerous Games

od Margaret MacMillan • 2008

History is never neutral. Nations and leaders weaponize it daily, and the patterns are predictable.

3.64

2 000+

Historie

Politika

Filozofie

Eseje

Sociologie

Dangerous Games

History is never neutral. Nations and leaders weaponize it daily, and the patterns are predictable.

od Margaret MacMillan 2008 208 stran

3.64

2 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Filozofie

Eseje

Sociologie

The Blood Telegram

od Gary J. Bass • 2013

Nixon needed Pakistan for a secret China opening. When genocide began, he looked away.

4.35

2 000+

Historie

Politika

Válka

Asie

Indie

The Blood Telegram

Nixon needed Pakistan for a secret China opening. When genocide began, he looked away.

od Gary J. Bass 2013 528 stran

4.35

2 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Válka

Asie

Indie

There Was a Country

od Chinua Achebe • 2012

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

4.04

2 000+

Historie

Afrika

Memoáry

Válka

Politika

There Was a Country

A literary witness to Biafra: starvation, secession, and the three-year war that consumed millions.

od Chinua Achebe 2012 352 stran

4.04

2 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Afrika

Memoáry

Válka

Politika

Sasanian Persia

od Touraj Daryaee • 2007

Rome's greatest rival invented an Iranian identity that outlived the empire itself.

3.84

180

Historie

Írán

Blízký východ

Politika

Náboženství

Sasanian Persia

Rome's greatest rival invented an Iranian identity that outlived the empire itself.

od Touraj Daryaee 2007 256 stran

3.84

180 hodnocení

Historie

Írán

Blízký východ

Politika

Náboženství

Ozvěna v kostech

od Diana Gabaldon • 2009

Jamie and Claire bet a Scottish printing press can tip the scales of the American Revolution.

4.44

100 000+

Historická fikce

Romantika

Fantasy

Historická romance

Pro dospělé

Ozvěna v kostech

Jamie and Claire bet a Scottish printing press can tip the scales of the American Revolution.

od Diana Gabaldon 2009 820 stran

4.44

100 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Romantika

Fantasy

Historická romance

Pro dospělé

The Blinding Knife

od Brent Weeks • 2012

An illegitimate son trains for war while his father, the Prism, hides a world-breaking secret.

4.41

94 000+

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Magie

Pro dospělé

The Blinding Knife

An illegitimate son trains for war while his father, the Prism, hides a world-breaking secret.

od Brent Weeks 2012 671 stran

4.41

94 000+ hodnocení

Fantasy

Epická fantasy

High fantasy

Magie

Pro dospělé

First Principles

od Thomas E. Ricks • 2020

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

4.06

3 000+

Historie

Politika

Americké

Filozofie

Biografie

First Principles

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

od Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 stran

4.06

3 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Americké

Filozofie

Biografie

The Man from St. Petersburg

od Ken Follett • 1982

To prevent a war, an anarchist must kill the prince hidden by his former lover's husband.

3.95

37 000+

Historická fikce

Thriller

Historické

Napětí

Spy

The Man from St. Petersburg

To prevent a war, an anarchist must kill the prince hidden by his former lover's husband.

od Ken Follett 1982 320 stran

3.95

37 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Thriller

Historické

Napětí

Spy

Aeneis

od Vergilius

Destined to found Rome, a Trojan exile braves divine wrath, tragic love, and war.

3.88

100 000+

Klasika

Poezie

Mytologie

Literatura

Fantasy

Aeneis

Destined to found Rome, a Trojan exile braves divine wrath, tragic love, and war.

od Vergilius 505 stran

3.88

100 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Poezie

Mytologie

Literatura

Fantasy

The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future

od Henry Kissinger • 2021

Old rules of knowledge, power, and war were built for humans. AI is rewriting them.

3.43

5 000+

Informatika

Technologie

Filozofie

Politika

Věda

The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future

Old rules of knowledge, power, and war were built for humans. AI is rewriting them.

od Henry Kissinger 2021 205 stran

3.43

5 000+ hodnocení

Informatika

Technologie

Filozofie

Politika

Věda

Ice Station

od Matthew Reilly • 1998

Marines find a buried spaceship in Antarctica, then their allies attack and a killer hides within.

4.12

35 000+

Thriller

Akční

Dobrodružství

Detektivky

Napětí

Ice Station

Marines find a buried spaceship in Antarctica, then their allies attack and a killer hides within.

od Matthew Reilly 1998 513 stran

4.12

35 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Akční

Dobrodružství

Detektivky

Napětí

The Plot to Kill Hitler

od Patricia McCormick • 2016

He was a pacifist pastor. Then he joined a plot to assassinate Hitler.

4.04

2 000+

Biografie

Historie

Pro starší děti

Válka

Křesťanské

The Plot to Kill Hitler

He was a pacifist pastor. Then he joined a plot to assassinate Hitler.

od Patricia McCormick 2016 184 stran

4.04

2 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Historie

Pro starší děti

Válka

Křesťanské

Země v oblacích

od Anthony Doerr • 2021

A fable about a fool chasing utopia outlasts war, fire, and centuries to connect five dreamers.

4.25

200 000+

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

Science fiction

Fantasy

Knižní klub

Země v oblacích

A fable about a fool chasing utopia outlasts war, fire, and centuries to connect five dreamers.

od Anthony Doerr 2021 626 stran

4.25

200 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

Science fiction

Fantasy

Knižní klub

The Nazis

od Laurence Rees • 1997

The Third Reich was chaos masquerading as order, and its rise was never inevitable.

4.30

1 000+

Historie

Válka

Wwii

Německo

Politika

The Nazis

The Third Reich was chaos masquerading as order, and its rise was never inevitable.

od Laurence Rees 1997 256 stran

4.30

1 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Válka

Wwii

Německo

Politika

The Gulag Archipelago

od Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1973

A hidden continent of prison camps spanned the Soviet Union, reconstructed here by a survivor.

4.35

14 000+

Historie

Politika

Memoáry

Russian

Communism

The Gulag Archipelago

A hidden continent of prison camps spanned the Soviet Union, reconstructed here by a survivor.

od Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 stran

4.35

14 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Memoáry

Russian

Communism

Of Man

od Thomas Hobbes • 1658

Fear builds states. Without absolute rule, the war that made them necessary returns.

3.50

239

Filozofie

Politika

Klasika

Ethics

Společnost

Of Man

Fear builds states. Without absolute rule, the war that made them necessary returns.

od Thomas Hobbes 1658 124 stran

3.50

239 hodnocení

Filozofie

Politika

Klasika

Ethics

Společnost

Elephant Run

od Roland Smith • 2007

Occupied Burma: a boy escapes through hidden corridors and braves the jungle to rescue his father.

4.09

7 000+

Historická fikce

Pro starší děti

Dobrodružství

Válka

Historické

Elephant Run

Occupied Burma: a boy escapes through hidden corridors and braves the jungle to rescue his father.

od Roland Smith 2007 318 stran

4.09

7 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Pro starší děti

Dobrodružství

Válka

Historické

The Berlin Wall

od Frederick Taylor • 2006

A midnight operation sealed a nation inside. The Wall bought the GDR time, not survival.

4.08

2 000+

Historie

Německo

Politika

European

20. století

The Berlin Wall

A midnight operation sealed a nation inside. The Wall bought the GDR time, not survival.

od Frederick Taylor 2006 514 stran

4.08

2 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Německo

Politika

European

20. století

The Painted Bird

od Jerzy Kosiński • 1965

Sent to the countryside to escape the Nazis, a dark-haired boy finds the peasants are deadlier.

3.90

28 000+

Historická fikce

Klasika

Válka

Holokaust

Literární fikce

The Painted Bird

Sent to the countryside to escape the Nazis, a dark-haired boy finds the peasants are deadlier.

od Jerzy Kosiński 1965 234 stran

3.90

28 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Klasika

Válka

Holokaust

Literární fikce

Iran

od Abbas Amanat • 2017

Shi'ism became Iran's state religion in 1501, creating a unique nation and centuries of conflict.

4.23

500+

Historie

Írán

Blízký východ

Politika

Náboženství

Iran

Shi'ism became Iran's state religion in 1501, creating a unique nation and centuries of conflict.

od Abbas Amanat 2017 1085 stran

4.23

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Írán

Blízký východ

Politika

Náboženství

Conquests and Cultures

od Thomas Sowell • 1998

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

4.44

500+

Historie

Ekonomie

Politika

Sociologie

Culture

Conquests and Cultures

Geography blocked Africa, conquests lifted Britain, and human capital explains the gap.

od Thomas Sowell 1998 512 stran

4.44

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Ekonomie

Politika

Sociologie

Culture

Central America's Forgotten History

od Aviva Chomsky • 2021

Central American migration isn't about poverty. It's the legacy of a century of US intervention.

4.06

500+

Historie

Politika

Válka

Latin America

Americké

Central America's Forgotten History

Central American migration isn't about poverty. It's the legacy of a century of US intervention.

od Aviva Chomsky 2021 304 stran

4.06

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Válka

Latin America

Americké

Bonhoeffer

od Eric Metaxas • 2010

When the German church bowed to Hitler, one theologian chose the gallows over complicity.

4.21

83 000+

Biografie

Historie

Křesťanské

Náboženství

Křesťanství

Bonhoeffer

When the German church bowed to Hitler, one theologian chose the gallows over complicity.

od Eric Metaxas 2010 608 stran

4.21

83 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Historie

Křesťanské

Náboženství

Křesťanství

The Wind in My Hair

od Masih Alinejad • 2018

How a remote mountain town became the sacred prize for which three faiths still fight.

4.25

1 000+

Historie

Náboženství

Politika

Blízký východ

Judaismus

The Wind in My Hair

How a remote mountain town became the sacred prize for which three faiths still fight.

od Masih Alinejad 2018 400 stran

4.25

1 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Náboženství

Politika

Blízký východ

Judaismus

Chokepoints

od Edward Fishman • 2025

America now wages economic war through dollar clearing and chip supply, not troops.

4.35

2 000+

Ekonomie

Politika

Globalization

Válka

Finance

Chokepoints

America now wages economic war through dollar clearing and chip supply, not troops.

od Edward Fishman 2025 560 stran

4.35

2 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Politika

Globalization

Válka

Finance

After the First Death

od Robert Cormier • 1979

When a school bus is hijacked, a teenage driver faces the young terrorist assigned to guard her.

3.66

4 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Thriller

Napětí

Krimi

Škola

After the First Death

When a school bus is hijacked, a teenage driver faces the young terrorist assigned to guard her.

od Robert Cormier 1979 240 stran

3.66

4 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Thriller

Napětí

Krimi

Škola

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

od Jonathan Blitzer • 2024

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

4.48

10 000+

Historie

Politika

Imigrace

Latin America

Sociální spravedlnost

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

od Jonathan Blitzer 2024 544 stran

4.48

10 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Imigrace

Latin America

Sociální spravedlnost

From Here to Eternity

od James Jones • 1951

At Schofield Barracks, a bugler quits boxing, and the peacetime Army sets out to crush him.

4.08

18 000+

Klasika

Historická fikce

Válka

Literatura

Literární fikce

From Here to Eternity

At Schofield Barracks, a bugler quits boxing, and the peacetime Army sets out to crush him.

od James Jones 1951 816 stran

4.08

18 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Historická fikce

Válka

Literatura

Literární fikce

Fake Heroes

od Otto English • 2023

Society manufactures heroes like studios build movie stars. Ten case studies expose the machinery.

3.92

500+

Historie

Biografie

Politika

Sociologie

Culture

Fake Heroes

Society manufactures heroes like studios build movie stars. Ten case studies expose the machinery.

od Otto English 2023 495 stran

3.92

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Biografie

Politika

Sociologie

Culture

Halo

od Eric S. Nylund • 2003

Master Chief leads a suicide mission inside a Covenant station to stop an armada bound for Earth.

4.17

18 000+

Science fiction

Military

Válka

Vesmír

Akční

Halo

Master Chief leads a suicide mission inside a Covenant station to stop an armada bound for Earth.

od Eric S. Nylund 2003 352 stran

4.17

18 000+ hodnocení

Science fiction

Military

Válka

Vesmír

Akční

The Ministry of Fear

od Graham Greene • 1943

Winning a cake at a Blitz fête plunges a guilt-ridden man into a deadly spy conspiracy.

3.78

7 000+

Thriller

Detektivky

Krimi

Napětí

Klasika

The Ministry of Fear

Winning a cake at a Blitz fête plunges a guilt-ridden man into a deadly spy conspiracy.

od Graham Greene 1943 224 stran

3.78

7 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Detektivky

Krimi

Napětí

Klasika

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