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How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB – The Untold History of a Daring Cold War Spy Mission In 1985, while the United States engaged in a battle of nuclear brinkmanship, four Americans landed in Moscow on a mission to smuggle secret information in and out using music as their...

Die deutsche Geschichte hat nicht das eine Zentrum, sondern die Schauplätze wechseln. Die Germanen siegen im Teutoburger Wald. Kaiser Friedrich II. weilt meist in Sizilien, am Rhein blüht jüdisches Leben, das erste »Grundgesetz« des Reichs entsteht in Prag, die Reformation beginnt im kleinen Wittenberg, der Dreißigjährige Krieg endet in Westfalen. Gunilla Budde erzählt die deutsche Geschichte von den vielen großen und kleinen Orten aus, an denen Bewegendes begann.

Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an...

The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's exposé of the CIA's brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published in the 1970s. However, virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, having been purchased en masse by shady "private buyers."

A definitive history of one of the United States Army's most elite and enduring formations, this book traces the full evolution of the 82nd Airborne Division from its World War I origins to its current role as a rapid-response force. Drawing on rare archival sources and previously unpublished...

März 1933: Die freie Welt steht am Abgrund. Während die Nazis ihre Gegner brutal verfolgen, steckt Amerika tief in der Krise. Und doch sind die USA Zufluchtsort – für Albert Einstein, den die Nazis mit einem Kopfgeld jagen; für George Grosz, der von Amerika aus um seine Söhne in Berlin bangt. Marlene Dietrich wird in Hollywood von Goebbels umworben. Die First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt liebt derweil eine Frau und versucht verzweifelt, mehr jüdische Flüchtlinge ins Land zu holen.

'This is not normal. It can be resisted. Find out how’ ANTHONY LOEWENSTEIN 'Brilliantly thought-provoking' MARK GALEOTTI ________________________________ What would you give up to feel safe? The security industry has captured our politics and our private lives. From rogue states to smart...

France, 1940. A hotel on the border. One woman will risk everything in the name of freedom. 'The characters were compelling, the romantic aspect wonderful, and the tension never let up as I raced through the pages' Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author 'A thrilling page-turner charting...

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...

As part of the major heritage interview program conducted in 2006 by the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) in collaboration with the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Roman Polanski recorded his account of his childhood in Poland during the war. It was while writing that he remembered asking his father, in 1973, to write his memoirs. He recently rediscovered this account, which he had never read before. It now forms the second part of this unique book, Letters to My Son by Ryszard Polanski.

Bloomsbury presents Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna read by Philip Franks Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the...

What role did German big business play in the persecution of European Jews during the Holocaust? What were its motivations? And how did it respond to changing social and economic circumstances after the war? Profits and Persecution examines how the leaders of Germany's largest industrial and...

The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets to protest the planned union with England, fearing the end of Scottish sovereignty. But unbeknownst...

The global history of high speed rail, from the railways' "wisest, most detailed historian" (The Observer) Sleek, comfortable, accessible, and sustainable, high-speed rail is the future. Since Japan’s Bullet Train first sped down the track in the sixties, it has become a global icon, as famous...

This complete, full access, no-holds-barred story of the revolutionary espionage investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of spy Chi Mak, his extended family, and associate “Greg” Dongfan Chung, is told by retired FBI Special Agent James E. Gaylord, who managed them all as Case Agent from start to finish.

Bloomsbury presents Generalship on the Eastern Front, 1941–45: A Study in Command by Robert Forczyk, read by Elliot Chapman A comprehensive evaluation of generalship on the most important front in World War II. The war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 was the largest sustained air-ground...

Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jewish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in...

Der Ausbruch des Vulkans Vesuv hat das Leben in Pompeji für immer angehalten. Doch die Ausgrabungen, die bis heute zu neuen Entdeckungen führen, fördern nur scheinbar eine ruhige Stadt am Golf von Neapel zutage. In Wirklichkeit brodelt es im Jahr 79 unter der Oberfläche gewaltig. Sklaven und...

Follow Lincoln's day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of the most significant periods in American history. Antagonism between the North and South, which...

The Third Reich cast a long shadow, not least over those born in Germany at that time. Whether the children of Nazi perpetrators or Holocaust survivors, they all had to come to terms with their dark past, based on an inhuman racial ideology. Renate was born in 1941, the daughter of an unknown SS...