This book explores the profound reorientation of the Czechoslovak military during a time of sweeping political change. Emerging from decades of totalitarian control and Soviet dominance, in the late 1980s and early 1990s Czechoslovakia turned instead toward the West – a shift that reshaped not only its foreign policy but also the internal structures and mindset of its armed forces. Combining analysis of institutional developments, operational deployments, and personal narratives, this mono...

"Recalling the diaries of . . . Anne Frank, Ginz's diaries reveal a budding Czech literary and artistic genius whose life was cut short by the Nazis." — International Herald TribuneNot since Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully kept a diary tha...

The death of detective Sherlock Holmes shakes the world. Even The Queen herself expresses resentment over the loss of the popular Victorian hero. Petr Kopl gives us a graphic kick and picks up his third World heroes of tomorrow through the eyes of genius writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He takes us to a place where evil has a true face, men are gentlemen and women are ladies. We visit his comic world of excitement and adventure. Come and bear witnessto the last heroic battle where Sherlock H...

Get ready for a journey to the Baskervilles - the hall shrouded in a fog of sinister mystery, and where the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson encounter the most terrifying and deceitful of their opponents. Get ready to look directly into the dark soul of crime and let the Gothic atmosphere of one of the best works of the Victorian era carry you away. Can you feel the night fall? Over the countryside? How slowly and quietly the freezing fog opens its cold a...

Europe 1911. The Great Powers vie for influence and are divided by political quarrels. War is in the air. For retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who has just suffered a coronary, these distant matters are of little concern. But politics are about to turn his quiet country life upside down. Mycroft, the detective’s politician brother, has asked Holmes to investigate the murder of a powerful industrialist and the mysterious kidnapping of the King’s nephew. Could these two cases be connected?...

The detective Sherlock Holmes investigates The Scandal in Bohemia. In this comic adaptation Sherlock Holmes solves a number of intertwined cases including The Speckled Band. This is the English translation of the original work in Czech, which was voted comic book of the year 2013. It's the first of four Sherlock Holmes graphic novels by Petr Kopl.

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Reichenbach was not his deepest fall.... Autumn 1903 has not been kind to Sherlock Holmes. Irene Adler, his platonic love, is dead, and the detective has again fallen into the clutches of cocaine. Dr Watson hopes that the distraction of a marriage fraud case can help pull his friend out of his depression. But it soon becomes clear that behind the apparently banal crime lurks something much more sinister, something that will take Holmes and Watson to faraway Bohemia, where they must face an...

The book is organized into chapters that systematically explore examples of mutual aid in both the animal kingdom and human societies. Kropotkin begins by examining animal behavior, highlighting how various species, from insects and birds to mammals, rely on cooperation and social structures to thrive in harsh environments. He argues that mutual aid, rather than the "survival of the fittest" through individual competition, is what enables species to endure difficult circumstances and ensur...

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Doctor Watson were an inseparable pair from the 1880s until the interwar era of the twentieth century. Now they are back with eight new adventures, in which the good Doctor recounts the most curious investigations he and his friend set out to unravel over the decades, be it the mystery surrounding the construction of the London Underground, the spontaneous combustion of a wealthy entrepreneur, the suicide at a prestigious boar...

Fields, Factories, and Workshops by Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin is a pioneering work that explores the relationship between industry, agriculture, and the organization of modern economies. Kropotkin, a Russian anarchist and social thinker, advocates for a system where industry and agriculture work in harmony to create a more equitable and sustainable society. He proposes that the balance between rural agricultural work and urban industry could eliminate inequality and promote shared resour...

When you start something with an alien girl, you soon understand that partner problems can take on completely unexpected forms. Especially when monsters you never knew existed in the universe start chasing you.The main heroine of Petr Mandik's new sci-fi is an alien girl you wouldn't believe wasn't born on Earth. Although, maybe you would believe it after all, at a moment when you can find no other explanation for the strange events happening around you. But what is the real reason...