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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...

Gli eventi che portarono Napoleone al potere furono il frutto di un contesto sto-rico preciso in cui per la prima volta nella Storia si facevano vive le istanze di li-bertà da parte di tutte le classi sociali. I fatti e i protagonisti di un evento cruciale per la storia dell'Europa, come la Rivoluzione francese, sono il fulcro di questo primo volume della "Breve storia dell'epoca napoleonica". Scopriremo inoltre un giovane Napoleone, la formazione militare, i primi passi come soldato e gli iniziali audaci sogni di gloria.

In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny.

1871 wurde im Spiegelsaal von Versailles das Deutsche Kaiserreich gegründet. 1918 ging es mit der Niederlage im Ersten Weltkrieg unter. Prägnant und anschaulich führt Christoph Nonn in ein halbes Jahrhundert deutscher Geschichte ein und hinterfragt die gängigen Deutungen dieser umstrittenen Epoche.

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation...

Nel sesto volume della serie "Breve Storia di Napoleone Bonaparte" si ripercorrono gli avvenimenti essenziali della campagna che rappresenta il punto di svolta nella carriera militare di Napoleone Bonaparte e delle guerre napoleoniche: l'invasione francese della Russia nel 1812 termina con una disastrosa sconfitta e con la distruzione delle truppe francesi e dei contingenti stranieri. Il completo annientamento della Grande Armata cambierà la storia dell'Europa.

 Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the 19th century. Focusing on nearly 300 military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic.  

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman, read by Patience Tomlinson. How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth Goodman We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner...

Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow. 

Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave inspires his men to take action.

Commanded by Captain Howes Norris, the Sharon headed for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific. At Pohnpei Island, 12 men from the Sharon deserted the ship, leaving her critically shorthanded. After steering for New Zealand to recruit more crew, the men on lookout raised a school of sperm whales. Two boats gave chase, each with a crew of six. Five men were left on board the Sharon: Norris, three pacific Islanders, and a Portuguese boy named Manuel.

From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today. As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the...

 The Enlightenment That Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. 

In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides.

Este libro forma parte de un proyecto que inicié hace algunos años y se propone responder una pregunta: ¿cómo y cuándo se construyó la Argentina? Pero ¿de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Argentina? ¿De un Estado? ¿De un territorio determinado? ¿De una identidad cultural? ¿De un espacio económico y social? Hablamos de todo eso al mismo tiempo. Argentina es, a esta altura del siglo XXI, todas esas cosas, pero a principios del siglo XIX no era ninguna de esas cosas, sencillamente porque no existía.

Named Ilha Formosa - 'beautiful island' - by Portuguese sailors in the sixteenth century, Taiwan has been desired by the world's imperial powers ever since. Today, despite Taiwan's indigenous population claiming that their ancestry goes back millennia, the People's Republic of China claims the...

The Scuttlers, a new HarperNorth book, full description to follow when available...

Rhodes, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

Bloomsbury presents this Unabridged version of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale, read by Jessica Ball. FROM BRITAIN’S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND...

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.