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A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Economist LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026 'This book reads like a spy novel' FINANICAL TIMES 'Entertaining and vivid' OBSERVER...

During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.

"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: ...

9 maggio 1936: alle 22:30 il duce annuncia dal balcone di Palazzo Venezia "la riappropriazione dell'impero sui colli fatali di Roma". È l'apice del successo di Mussolini: finalmente può vantare il suo Impero, che "porta i segni indistruttibili della volontà e della potenza del Littorio romano". Sono passati pochi mesi dall'inizio della campagna d'Etiopia, quando il duce ha fatto il suo ingresso nelle competizioni coloniali, dettato da motivi di prestigio "nazionale" e di consenso interno.

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more, as well as looking at the legacy of the Cold War and its impact on international relations today.

The definitive history of Hitler and Stalin's politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century, from the author of the international bestseller, On Tyranny. Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began...

From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life—he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him.

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.

絶対的な権力を誇った超大国の終焉は避けられない運命だったのか。ソ連崩壊という20世紀最大の歴史的事件の裏側で交錯した権力闘争と人々の選択を、わずか2時間の濃密な物語として鮮やかに描き出します。通勤中や日...

東西冷戦によって引き裂かれた市民の日常と、歴史を根底から覆した分断と統合の軌跡を没入感とともに味わえる、圧倒的な現代史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜の学習のひとときに耳を傾けるだけで、大...

国家崩壊の危機と新たなイデオロギーが激突するアジア近代史の巨大な転換点を、重厚かつドラマチックに描き出す歴史ノンフィクションの傑作です。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや、毎日の単調な通勤時間を、激動の二...

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...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the multi-million copy bestselling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets are planning to overthrow the...

深い思索に耽る夜や日々の通勤時間の中で歴史の暗部に向き合うとき、個人の野望ではなく社会全体の選択がいかに合法的に独裁を生み、民主主義を崩壊させたかという事実が、重厚な警告として耳に響くはずです。敗戦...

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the 20h century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazi's, and for their work they were tested in the infamous Nazi death camps. Only Corrie among her whole family survived to tell the story of how faith ultimately triumphs over evil.

This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of...

魔の三角海域が呑み込んだのは船や飛行機だけではなく、真実を見極める人間の理性だったのかもしれない——歴史ミステリーと科学的検証が交差するスリリングな知的探求の旅へようこそ。毎日の通勤電車の中や一日の...

陸路を絶たれ孤立した200万人の都市を、空からの補給だけで救うことはできるのか。冷戦の幕開けを告げた前代未聞の巨大ロジスティクス作戦と市民の日常を克明に描き出す、緊張感あふれる歴史ノンフィクション。毎日...

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...

A fascinating look at the real Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the designer who forever revolutionized the way women look. She was a free spirit, brilliant business woman, and beauty who never found reciprocated love. Madsen, with authority, delves into this fashion doyenne's business and private lives to reveal one woman's extraordinary progress: from orphan to millinery shopkeeper, from lodestar of feminine style to a very rich woman with a closet full of dark secrets.