In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. This title is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent. He befriended Che Guevara i...
Miliardy dolarů z íránské ropy léta putovaly na bláznivé zbrojení a luxusní život šáha Rezáa Pahlavího. Někdy až dětsky naivní přístup panovníka této obrovské a mocné země k vládnutí by byl možná i úsměvný, kdyby ruku v ruce s jeho touhou po bohaté a silné zemi nekráčel krutý teror a vězení plná mučených odpůrců. Ryszard Kapuściński s chirurgickou přesností popisuje, jak samolibost „krále králů“ dovedla krok za krokem Írán až k revoluci. I proto kniha není jen „o Íránu“ a „o šáhovi“, ale především o mechanismu...
Miliardy dolarů z íránské ropy léta putovaly na bláznivé zbrojení a luxusní život šáha Rezáa Pahlavího. Někdy až dětsky naivní pří...
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the century-the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the entrance of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939, to just before the Berlin Wall came down, as the USSR convulsed and died, Kapuscinski travelled thousands of miles and talked to hundreds of ordinary Soviet people about their extraordinary lives and the terror from which they were...
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an...