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An immersive narrative investigation into the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981, and the international dispute over who was responsible for it. On May 13, 1981, a Turkish man named Mehmet Ali Agca shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in the heart of Vatican City. Agca...

A timely book for unstable times, Frenchman Flat recounts the science, politics, and human experience of those who developed nuclear weapons, suffered the consequences of their testing, and fought for and against arms control between the 1940s and 1990s. The throughline of this vast, complex...

In 1979, Galina Cherny and her husband Yan submitted a single form. That application was a declaration. There was no going back. One piece of luggage. Stripped of citizenship. Abused at the border by Soviet soldiers. Suspended between two worlds. Last Train to Freedom is the true story of a Jewish girl born into a patriotic military family in Soviet-era Ukraine, where being Jewish determined where you could study, where you could work, and what you dared to say aloud.

From award-winning journalist and New Yorker contributor Simon Parkin comes the untold true story of the courtroom battle to determine who really invented the video game—and who would profit most from its billion-dollar future. New York, 1988. A lawsuit between Nintendo and US television...

From Vietnam to the global battle against communism – spies, secrets and the story of the CIA under Lyndon B. Johnson The utterly gripping, award-winning drama Central Intelligence returns, revealing further inside stories of the CIA and featuring an all-star cast. Told from the perspective of...

Il 9 giugno 1956 i generali Tanco e Valle si ribellano alla giunta militare che aveva deposto il presidente Perón. La loro rivolta viene brutalmente e illegalmente repressa e, in una discarica alla periferia della capitale, un gruppo di civili viene fucilato ancor prima che venga dichiarata la legge marziale. Insieme alla collega Enriqueta Muñiz, Walsh comincia a seguire piste, scova i sopravvissuti, ma anche vedove, orfani, rifugiati politici, fuggitivi, presunti informatori ed eroi anonimi, per scoprire cosa è successo davvero quella notte.

Was können vergessene Grenzregionen und umstrittene Territorien über die Zukunft Europas verraten? Dieser Frage geht die Journalistin Hannah Lucinda Smith in ihrem Hörbuch nach. Es führt die Hörer*innen in teils vergessene Konfliktzonen wie Bosnien, Bergkarabach und Transnistrien, wo alte...

On a pitch-black night in September 1943, a daring Australian commando unit launches a covert raid on Singapore Harbour, sinking and damaging numerous Japanese ships. Operation Jaywick - an epic that passed into Australia's national legend - sets in motion a brutal crackdown by Japan's dreaded...

צחוק של עכברוש הוא רומן עמוק, זועם, מקורי להפליא. הוא כתוב בחמישה ז`אנרים שונים: סיפור, אגדה, שירת-אינטרנט, פנטזיה עתידנית ויומן, שמצטרפים ליצירה מרשימה אחת, קצבית...

Wer Albert Einstein nur als zerzausten Kopf auf einem Poster kennt, hat erst die Oberfläche gesehen. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt, warum Einstein als Begründer der Relativitätstheorie zum Inbegriff des Wissenschaftlers, des Genies und des Pazifisten wurde und weshalb seine Ideen bis heute nachwirken. Sie folgen einer faktenreichen Kulturreise durch Klassenzimmer, Patentamt, Hörsaal und Weltpolitik, verständlich und klar strukturiert.

אדם בן כלב נחשב לאחד הספרים המהפכניים בספרות הישראלית ולאחת מנקודות המפנה בייצוג ובתפיסת השואה בספרות. הספר שראה אור לראשונה בשנת 1968, הקדים את זמנו בשנים רבות...

Wer Franz Kafka liest, betritt eine Welt, in der Türen sich schließen, Regeln sich verschieben und ein einziger Satz das Gefühl auslöst, beobachtet und beurteilt zu werden. Dieses Hörbuch lädt Sie zu einer Kulturreise ein und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Basiswissen zu Leben und Werk Kafkas. Sie entdecken, wie aus Alltag, Bürokratie und innerer Unruhe eine Prosa entstand, die Angst, Komik und Erkenntnis zugleich erzeugt.

Wer die Mechanismen totaler Herrschaftssysteme verstehen will, kommt an Hannah Arendt nicht vorbei. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Bildungsreise und vermittelt klar strukturiert Basiswissen über eine Publizistin gegen den Antisemitismus, deren Analysen Orientierung geben. Sie lernen, wie Arendt politische Begriffe entwirrte, wie sie Herrschaft als Prozess beschrieb und warum ihre Texte nicht beruhigen wollen, sondern wach machen.

נעמי היא מעצבת וילונות נשואה לא באושר. את סודותיה המסוכנים היא מיטיבה להסתיר מן העולם, אך אמא שלה יודעת הכול. בין השתיים נכרתת ברית משונה: אני אהיה אשת הסוד שלך...

Este breve y olvidado ensayo de George Orwell, ofrecido aquí en la traducción y lectura de Valerio Di Stefano, fue publicado por primera vez en inglés en el New English Weekly, el 21 de marzo de 1940 y sigue teniendo, en nuestros días, toda su escalofriante actualidad de análisis crítica.

In Arguments with Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha uses the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi to present a moral and political history of the modern world. The Gandhi of this book is a compelling as well as controversial figure, whose ideas on non-violence, social justice, religious harmony and economic policy...

History often records the Holocaust in numbers. This audiobook tells that history through the experience of one Hungarian Jewish family. *Taken. Numbered. Survived. is not a typical Holocaust memoir. It is a documented historical narrative built from survivor testimony, archival records, and verified sources. Through the experience of Mary Katz Claman and her family, it shows how the Holocaust unfolded in human terms: through exclusion, ghettoization, deportation, selection, forced labor, mass murder, displacement, and survival.

'Hitler’s Furies will be experienced and remembered as a turning point in both women’s studies and Holocaust studies' Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau, produce the next Aryan generation and be a loyal...

Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick...

On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being...