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冷戦のうねりが引き起こしたベトナム戦争の痛切な傷跡と、国家の分断によって名もなき人々が背負った重い代償を浮き彫りにする歴史ノンフィクションです。夜の静寂の中で一人思索にふける時や、日々の通勤時間に歴...

偶然放たれた一発の銃弾がいかにして世界を未曾有の戦火へと引きずり込んだのか、第一次世界大戦の複雑な因果関係を毎日の通勤時間で立体的に理解できる歴史入門です。ヨーロッパという巨大な火薬庫に火がついた瞬...

Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and singular culture. In this fascinating account of the island from the earliest times to the present day, author and journalist Jamie Mackay leads us through this most elusive of places.

This book explores why there is a major war again in Europe. Putin's actions need to be understood if not forgiven. With the Ukraine conflict seen as a proxy war of NATO versus Russia, how likely is the fighting to spread?

We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the "supertall": megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. In Supertall, TED Resident Stefan Al—himself an experienced architect who has worked on some of the largest buildings in the world—reveals the advancements in engineering, design, and data science that have led to this worldwide boom.

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist...

Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science". Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man" inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes.

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to previously censored testimony.

The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change to that point...

人類史上最大の犠牲を出した第二次世界大戦の全体像を、複雑に絡み合う国際秩序の崩壊と総力戦の構造から鮮やかに解き明かします。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜のひとときに、歴史のうねりと人間社会が辿った破滅への...

世界が核戦争による破滅の瀬戸際まで追い詰められながらも、いかにして最悪の結末を回避したのか、現代の国際政治を決定づけた冷戦の歴史を鮮やかに解き明かします。単なる過去の記録ではなく、今日の私たちが生き...

血塗られた権力闘争の舞台であった中世の要塞都市は、いかにして世界を導く知と啓蒙のヨーロッパ史の中心地へと変貌を遂げたのか。火山性の岩山に築かれた城塞から見下ろす石畳の風景には、血湧き肉躍る壮大なドラ...

古代アンコール王朝の壮麗な栄枯盛衰からクメール・ルージュによる破壊と再生の軌跡まで、複雑なカンボジア史における持続と断絶のコントラストを、日々の通勤や隙間時間で深く学び直せる没入型の歴史ドキュメンタ...

第一次世界大戦の西部戦線を舞台に、泥と砲声に包まれた塹壕戦の過酷なサバイバルと前線の兵士たちの生への執念を、圧倒的な没入感とともに追体験する重厚な歴史ドキュメンタリー。深い内省を求める静かな夜のひと...

ヨーロッパ辺境の脆弱な小国がいかにして強大なドイツ帝国を主導する覇権国家へと変貌を遂げたのか、生存を賭けた国家建設と緻密な外交戦略の軌跡を紐解く本格的な歴史ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜...

The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.

Brought to you by Penguin. Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow...

*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* 'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling 'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA 'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala' SUNDAY TIMES 'A tale of immense courage and conviction' INDEPENDENT 'She has the heart and courage of a...

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium...

Written by a leading historian of Latin America, Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries.