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The Knifemaker asks searching questions about the morality of science via the biography of Werhner Von Braun, whose life embodies the contradiction at the heart of many landmark advancements of the twentieth century: between the romance of new scientific frontiers and the human cost of reaching...

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern...

This honest and riveting Revolutionary War memoir is now republished during the American semiquincentennial year with an introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas. This is the definitive edition of the very entertaining and truly extraordinary memoir by Revolutionary War soldier Joseph Plumb Martin.

We often imagine Shakespeare as a solitary genius. But the playwright’s dazzling imagination was enabled and inspired by the blazing charisma and unruly temper of his toweringly ambitious lead actor, Richard Burbage. Today, Burbage’s name is almost forgotten, but his presence haunts the...

A gripping portrait of courage, trauma, and the making of the most decorated American soldier of WWII, Audie Murphy, providing an intimate perspective on both his fights on the battlefield and the demons that followed him home. On the battlefields of Europe, Audie Murphy faced machine guns...

In a world obsessed with finding the perfect mentor, we often overlook the most enduring guides of all, the ones who can't meet us for coffee, but whose lessons echo across generations. New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews shows how the completed lives of those hold the keys to clarity...

Punk started much earlier than we think: enter the seductive subculture created by three rebellious boys navigating the sparkling world of the Elizabethan court Three young noblemen – heirs to some of the greatest titles in the land – come of age under the watchful eye of William Cecil, the...

April 1945. On a quiet stretch of lakeside road, exhausted, abandoned, fleeing into the Alps as the last remnant of his empire collapses behind him, the original fascist dictator is shot dead. A young woman falls beside him, though he pleaded with her to run. Not, as it happens, his wife, but...

From the award-winning biographer and pre-eminent scholar, a revelatory new portrait of Cecil Rhodes, the man who built South African apartheid and shaped 19th-century colonialism. Cecil Rhodes, the tycoon and imperialist who left a wake of tragedy and violence in South Africa that is felt to...

Brought to you by Penguin. The untold story of the SAS' forgotten founder, Jock...

The gripping story of the fall of Heinrich Himmler--the man who sought to perfect genocide—as he becomes the most hunted war criminal in history during the convulsive final days of the Third Reich Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo, and Waffen-SS, rose to all but supreme power as...

From the Washington Post’s first race and ethnicity reporter, a poignant investigation into the aftermath of the Great Migration, the promise of a Second Great Migration, and what future Black communities could look like across America in this eye-opening and thoughtful study, a mix of The...

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Envied by Lord Byron, admired by Jane Austen, read avidly by the British royalty: this is the story of ‘The Great Maria’. Maria Edgeworth, known to her contemporaries as 'the Great Maria', was one of the most important authors of the Regency era. Her work was the envy of Lord Byron, Humphry...

From an acclaimed New Yorker writer, The Comet is the thrilling true story of Dédée de Jongh, the young woman who led a crucial World War II escape network, risking her life to rescue hundreds of Allied airmen. During the Second World War, there was no more dangerous activity for a civilian in...

Die selbst verfasste Biografie des größten Frauenhelden und Herzensbrechers der alten Zeit erstaunt durch deren Natürlichkeit und Lebendigkeit im Schreibstil. Als Student der Rechte, Philosophie, Theologie, Medizin, Mathematik, Alchemie und Astrologie mit einem breiten Fundus an Wissen seiner Zeit ausgestattet, nimmt Casanova die unterschiedlichsten Arbeitnehmertätigkeiten wahr, u. a. als Offizier, Priester, Schauspieler, Altertumsforscher, Diplomat, Politiker und Wunderheiler.

Published in 2027 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Little Rock crisis. This powerful collaboration between Gloria Ray Karlmark and Elisabeth Åsbrink tells Gloria’s story as one of the Little Rock Nine for the first time. In 1957, armed white soldiers prevented fourteen-year-old Gloria...

Bettina Göring's name is her legacy. As the great-niece of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, she grew up in the shadow of his crimes. Early on, she rebelled against her own family's history and escaped the connection to her uncle and into the world of hippies and free spirits of America. Only through confronting her family's dark side could she set herself free.

Helen Castor brings us afresh a riveting life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman, a roaring girl fighting the English and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing apart fifteenth-century France. Here is a portrait of a nineteen-year-old...

The thrilling life of aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler, dubbed 'the most daring man in the world' Grantlee Kieza tells the thrilling story of Bert's life and with it the bigger story of how the world was changed forever by men like Hinkler. Fast paced and revealing, this is an overdue, full blooded...