How to destroy - with the help of secret services and allied journalists - a famous movie star? Who stopped the American Jewish mafia that was preparing the assassination of Adolf Hitler? Did Alexander Pushkin predict his own death? How did the war between the Czech mayor of Chicago Antonín Čermák and the king of the underworld Al Capone turn out? And what did Ruthenian sculptor Jelena Mandičová enchant T.G. Masaryk? These are some of the more than thirty stories that make up the content of this book. Extraordinary, often revealing, sometimes even shocking stories. Stories, many of which cannot be found on "Wikipedia", but (and this is the most valuable currency of this book) through long-term, patient research in archives, among witnesses and in the places where the given and fateful events took place.