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The complete story of the Imperial Japanese Army's stunning victory over the British forces during World War II For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the...

Bloomsbury presents The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. During the night of 12–13 August 1961, a...

Des premiers peuplements gaulois aux réalités contemporaines de son auteur, Théophile Lavallée offre, dans ce premier volume, une fresque accessible de la capitale. Entre formation de la cité, développement des institutions, mutations urbaines et vie des habitants, il suit, siècle après siècle, l’essor d’un lieu devenu cœur de la France. Portée par la curiosité et la rigueur d’un historien du XIXe siècle, cette Histoire de Paris guide l’auditeur à travers les grandes étapes qui ont façonné la ville et révèle, avec clarté, les lignes de force d’une métropole en perpétuelle transformation.

SS-Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik ist Manager: Manager des Todes. Seine Geschäfte sind der millionenfache Massenmord und der Raub jüdischen Eigentums. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler protegiert den ehrgeizigen Kärntner und bewundert seine Energie, Joseph Goebbels fasziniert seine barbarische Methode, Hitler lässt den fanatischen Antisemiten wohlwollend gewähren: Odilo Globocnik, ab November 1939 SS- und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Lublin, entwickelt fantastische Pläne zur Verdeutschung des eroberten Landes.

Based on never-before-examined Fascist and Vatican archives, a shocking, groundbreaking history of Italy's 1938 racial laws and the desperate measures thousands of Jewish families took to save themselves before and during World War II, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling...

Indispensable para conocer la historia de Europa desde finales de la segunda guerra mundial hasta la actualidad. Después de los horrores de la primera mitad del siglo XX, que Ian Kershaw describió en su libro anterior como un «descenso a los infiernos», los años de 1950 a 2017 trajeron paz...

In late July 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor and 258 Texas cavalrymen thundered into the small village of Mesilla, tucked along the Rio Grande River in the New Mexico Territory. They skirmished with U.S. Regulars seeking to retake the town and quickly forced them to retreat. It was a small victory that fueled visions of something much larger.

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"A war to end all wars"—but its echoes still shape the modern world. From the blood-soaked trenches of the Western Front to the political upheavals that redrew the globe, World War I – Causes and Consequences offers a powerful, cinematic journey through the war that shattered empires, transformed societies, and set the stage for the century to come. This 30-chapter storytelling narrative weaves together the grand strategy of world leaders and the intimate struggles of ordinary people caught in the storm.

Two Jewish girls born six months apart–Judit Grünfeld (Judy Abrams) in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg (Marx) in Czechoslovakia–are separated from their parents and forced to "pass" as Christian children. Theirs are the amazingly parallel but unique stories of two children who were able to survive when so many others perished.

A Holocaust survivor from Belgium recounts memories of her childhood and her escape from the Nazis in hiding and on the run, reflecting on the nature of memory and on the enduring effects of the Holocaust and trauma.

The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. Jan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three...

El infame campo de concentración de Auschwitz fue diseñado para borrar nombres, cuerpos y conciencias. Sin embargo, algunos prisioneros sobrevivieron porque el sistema los necesitaba. Este libro cuenta la historia de uno de ellos. El dentista de Auschwitz es el testimonio de Benjamin Jacobs, quien fue obligado a ejercer su profesión en el corazón mismo del exterminio nazi.

In the late 1930s, as the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany and Austria intensified, five distinguished gentlemen met half a world away for regular late-night poker games. What began as an excuse to drink whiskey, smoke cigars, and discuss the political events of the day resulted in an...

Der gegenwärtige Krieg in der Ukraine ist ohne diese historische Last nicht zu verstehen – der erzwungene Hungertod von mehr als drei Millionen Ukrainern 1932 und 1933, Holodomor genannt, war eine der größten Katastrophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Und sie hat Folgen bis heute – Stalins »Krieg gegen die Ukraine« hat sich tief im kollektiven Bewusstsein der osteuropäischen Völker verankert.

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From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them. 'Erudite, clever, brilliant' KATE MOSSE 'A royal smash. Kate Williams is at the top of her game' KATE LISTER 'A fascinating and excellent chronicle of female rulers' SIMON SEBAG...

Step into one of the most influential political analyses of the 20th century—now newly updated and brought to life in audio. In 1932, Professor Sigmund Neumann published Die Parteien der Weimarer Republik, a groundbreaking study of political parties during a time of global instability. After leaving Germany in 1933, Neumann continued his work in the United States, eventually publishing Permanent Revolution: The Total State of War in 1942—one of the first comprehensive explorations of authoritarianism, fascism, and totalitarianism.

The Invisible Industry is the history of how trade shows started in the USA. Beginning with World Fairs, the concept of trade shows evolved worldwide. Trade shows unfolded in the USA in 1900 and evolved to represent a $1.6 trillion industry. Since most trade show are private events, they do not...

Chuck Wardell was regularly counted out. Even when he was born, the doctor didn’t think he’d make it. But Chuck counted himself in and, despite his struggle with dyslexia, rose to the top: through Vietnam, Harvard, the White House, the State Department and as a corporate CEO. With raw...