Pegasus

By:   Ivo Vichev
Imprint:   Ivo Vichev
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   345g
ISBN:   9798233075117
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   25 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

I was born in Varna, Bulgaria, on the edge of the Black Sea - a place where history is never really ""past"". Growing up between old empires and new borders, I was surrounded by stories of wars, occupations, disappearances and sudden changes of flag. Later I moved to Warsaw, Poland, where I studied history and public relations at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). Warsaw is a city built on ruins and memories, and it forced me to ask one question over and over again: Why is so much of our most important history told in the most boring way possible? From dry facts to living storiesLike every history student, I spent endless hours buried in heavy academic books - dates, treaties, footnotes stacked on footnotes. I respected the work, but I often felt like the life had been drained out of the events themselves. That changed when I discovered Ryszard Kapuściński. His books had that rare tone I'd been searching for: history and politics told through people, scenes and atmosphere. It was factual, but it breathed. From that moment I knew what I wanted to do: take serious history and tell it with the clarity and tension of a documentary - so future generations don't have to suffer through dead, lifeless books to understand the past. What I write aboutMy books focus on the places where power is most visible - and most hidden: Wars and battles Espionage and cyber conflict Country histories Some books are big, sweeping national histories. Others zoom in on a single battle, uprising or covert operation. All of them try to answer the same question: What really happened here, and what does it mean for the people who had to live through it? How I tell historyIf you read my books, you can expect narrative, scene-by-scene storytelling - not just lists of dates. Serious research from archives, memoirs, official reports and investigative journalism. Clear explanations of complex events like cyberattacks and proxy wars. And a refusal to simplify messy, uncomfortable truths. I don't write official history. I don't write propaganda. I write stories that are honest, human and readable - the kind of books I was always looking for as a student and rarely found. If you care about how we got from trenches and partitions to cyberwar and drone strikes - and you don't want to fall asleep over another textbook - I wrote these books for you.