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Het schokkende verhaal van de man die gedwongen werd de oorlogsmisdaden van de nazi's vast te leggen. Iedereen kent de foto's van de gevangenen in Auschwitz en die van de slachtoffers van ­Mengeles wetenschappelijke onderzoeken. Maar wíe nam die foto's? Een SS'er? Mengele zelf? Wilhelm Brasse, gevangene nummer 3444 in ­Auschwitz, werd van 1940 tot 1945 gedwongen om met 'Deutsche Gründlichkeit' elk gruwelijk detail van het kampleven op foto's vast te leggen.

Das Besondere an dieser Biografie Benjamin Franklins ist, dass er diese selber geschrieben hat. Dieser Umstand mag den einen oder anderen vorschnellen Kritiker dazu verleiten, den vorliegenden Text als geschönt oder nicht literarisch einzustufen, allerdings ist erstaunlicherweise genau das Gegenteil der Fall. Eine wunderbare Persönlichkeit und Sachlichkeit ist in Franklins Schreibstil gepaart mit einer weit überdurchschnittlichen Eleganz in Wortwahl und Ausdruck.

كتاب تجد فيه السيرة الكاملة لأسامة بن لادن كما رواها ابنه عمر وزوجته نجوى ودوَّنتها جين ساسون صديقتهما الموثوقة. يعرِّفنا بحياته الشخصية وأسراره الدفينة، من خلال أقرب الناس إليه. يدخل إلى عمق تفكير أسامة بن لادن ومخطّطاته، مانحاً القارئ قدرة استقراء وتوقّع تحرّكات بن لادن المستقبلية.يتابع نشاطاته السياسية والعسكرية وانطلاق حركته الجهادية. يتناول تمركزه في أفغانستان ومغادرتها وعودته إلى السعودية وارتباطه الملتبس بأحداث 11 أيلول/سبتمبر، كما يرصد تحركاته المعلنة والسرية وإقامته الاختيارية والقسرية في مختلف المدن والكهوف!

Ce livre raconte la vie de William Harben Carthew (1938-2023), alias Jean-Michel Beigbeder, l’homme qui choisissait les puissants en France, à la fin du XXe siècle. Comme il est dangereux d’écrire sur son père mort ! On risque de faire la connaissance posthume d’un espion franco-américain. De découvrir son enfance sinistre dans un pensionnat militaire catholique. D’en vouloir à sa famille qui a pourtant sauvé des juifs sous l’Occupation.

"A un tratto, la ruota del destino diede un giro. La vicenda di Craxi entrò nella fase finale, quella della vita e della morte. In poche settimane la situazione sarebbe precipitata, in modo insieme epico e grottesco. Iniziava una tragedia. Che tanti in principio considerarono una farsa. Perché l'Italia è convinta di essere un Paese comico, al più melodrammatico. Invece la storia unitaria del nostro Paese è una storia tragica." Aldo Cazzullo atterra a Tunisi a fine ottobre del 1999. In Italia è appena arrivata la notizia del ricovero di Bettino Craxi.

The Fencers is the third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical Cold War Escape stories. It is both an immigrant's narrative of seeking a better life and a brighter future and a sports memoir focusing on two Olympic fencers—one representing Canada, the other Romania.

In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with no formal education to speak of, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from the trustees of the British Museum. It was yet another stop along the unpredictable route that was Victoria Woodhull’s life. Born dirt-poor in an obscure Ohio settlement, Woodhull was the daughter of an illiterate mother entranced by the fad of Mesmerism—a therapeutic pseudoscience—and a swindler father whose cons exploited his two daughters.

Alexander the Great changed the world that he knew—but how he did it, and how much of his story is truth and how much is invented, is hard to tell. One of our most important sources for his achievements and personality is Plutarch's Life of Alexander, and this is the first detailed commentary on it for over fifty years, along with a thorough introduction and translation. It is a sister volume to the author's 2011 edition (also in the Clarendon Ancient History Series) of Plutarch's Caesar, the Life paired with Alexander in Plutarch's series of Parallel Lives.

We take you through the life of the master strategist Chanakya and his Arthashastra, the best treatise on statecraft, economic policy, and military strategy in the world.

كان بنيامين فرانكلين يعتبر من أبرز محبي الاستيقاظ المبكر، وكان مشهورًا بمقولته الشهيرة: "النوم المبكر والاستيقاظ المبكر يجعلان الإنسان يتمتع بالصحة والثراء والحكمة". وكان يبدأ كل صباح في الخامسة صباحًا ويسأل نفسه: "ما هو الاختيار الذي سأتخذه اليوم؟"

Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson's (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1937 and transported to Dachau, where he died shortly after. Colin, aged just seventeen, escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport. As soon as he was old enough, Colin volunteered in the Pioneer Corps. Then, in 1942, he was recruited for the elite commando unit X-Troop. Colin took part in the invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943, where he sustained a near-fatal injury. But just months later, he returned to duty.

‘”Did you know him?” a priest asked me when I first visited my father’s impressive marble tomb in Bosnia. I gave an honest answer – “No, I can’t say I really knew him at all”. It was a view shared by the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service’s anti-Soviet operations. “I don’t suppose we’ll ever really know the truth about J.B. Wood?” he told me. But he thought I had a better chance of finding out than most. After all, most of my family had at one time or another been with SIS, my mother one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind the lines in post-war Berlin.

Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being elected a United States senator, George Hearst (1820–91) spent decades veering between the heights of prosperity and the depths of financial ruin.

From invasion to liberation, September 1939 to April 1945, as Renee was marched from ghetto to camp, there was one constant. One hand that clutched hers—her mother's. Every day for nearly six years, mother and daughter were bound together in hell. From Auschwitz-Birkenau to Bergen-Belsen, they were a powerful source of solace and hope for one another. A Mother's Promise is a love letter to a mother eighty years in the making.

Als am 29. April 1945 die Amerikaner das Lager Dachau befreien, stoßen sie zu ihrer größten Überraschung auf sieben Frauen mit Babys. Ein Wunder wird bestaunt inmitten der Zerstörung. Das Buch von Eva Gruberová und Helmut Zeller erzählt die unglaubliche Geschichte von Eva und Miriam, zwei dieser sieben jüdischen Mütter, die verschiedene KZs durch viele glückliche Zufälle überstehen konnten und heute in Kanada und der Slowakei leben. Das Buch beginnt mit den frühen 40er Jahren, als die beiden jungen Frauen in Ungarn hoffnungsvoll ihr Leben planen und sich verlieben.

இந்நூல் காஞ்சி கைலாச நாதர் கோவில் மற்றும் மாமல்லபுரம் கடற்கரை அரங்கன் கோவில் கட்டப்பட்டது பற்றியது. அவற்றில் பொதிந்துள்ள சிற்பச் செல்வங்களையும், அவற்றைச் செதுக்கிய ராஜசிம்ம பல்லவன் என்ற அரச சிற்பியைப் பற்றியும், அவனது அரசிகளான ரங்கபாதகதேவி, மைவிழி செல்வி பற்றியும் இந்நூல் மேலும் விவரிக்கிறது.

When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told all records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan Ypi: glamorous newlyweds while World War II raged. What follows is a thrilling reimagining of the past, spanning the vanished world of Ottoman aristocracy, the making of modern Greece and Albania, a global financial crisis, and the horrors of war.

யாராவது இப்படி வாழ்ந்ததுண்டா?' அடால்ஃப் ஹிட்லர், எப்போதும் உணர்ச்சிகளைத் தூண்டும் ஆளுமை போதுமான அளவு பேச முடியாத ஒரு அசாதாரண வாழ்க்கை. நீங்கள் எந்த கோணத்தில் அணுகினாலும் பிரமிக்க வைக்கும் ஒரு கதாபாத்திரம். எதிர்கால சந்ததியினரை நடுங்க வைக்கும் ஒரு கொடூரம்.

يحكي الراحل عم فكري الخولي عن رحلته منذ طفولته في مصنع غزل المحلة,وعن الحالة السيئة للعمال في ذلك الوقت,وعن نضال الطبقة العاملة في مصنع غزل المحلة,كاشفا حقيقة الطبقة الرأسمالية في ذلك الوقت وتحالفاتها مع القصر لضرب الحركات العمالية(طلعت حرب وعبود باشا كمثال),موضحا حقيقة الصراع وابعاده الطبقية والاخطاء القاتلة ممن يعتبرون رموز للحركة الوطنية في تلك الفترة(سعد زغلول)وخيانتهم لتلك الطبقة بإصدار قانون قمعية وتعسفية ضد الطبقة العمالية من وجهة نظر المؤلف.

Heinäkuun 14. päivänä 1876 keisari Aleksanteri II lähti omassa junassaan Pietarista Helsinkiin tutustumaan suuriruhtinaskuntansa Suomen ensimmäiseen taideteollisuusnäyttelyyn. Mukaan matkalle tulivat hänen puolisonsa keisarinna Maria, tyttärensä Edinburghin herttuatar Maria, poikansa kruununperijä Aleksanteri ja hänen vaimonsa Maria Fjodorovna (Dagmar). Seurueeseen Pietarissa liittyvät Venäjän opetusministeri Dimitri Tolstoi ja kansanrunouden kerääjä Daniel Europaeus.

Tampa Vice takes listeners into the smoky backrooms, bustling streets, and clandestine gambling dens of early 20th-century Tampa, revealing a sprawling underworld that shaped the city’s destiny. Against the vibrant backdrop of Ybor City—home to Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants fueling a booming cigar industry—this deeply researched account explores the ambition, corruption, and cultural collisions that drove Tampa’s rise and descent into vice.

Tess Chakkalakal gives listeners the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to parents who were considered "mixed race." Though light-skinned, Chesnutt remained a member of the black community throughout his life. He studied among students at the State Colored Normal School who were formerly enslaved. He became a teacher in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction. His life in the South of those years, the issue of race, and how he himself identified as Black informed much of his later writing.

In this revelatory biography of one of Canada's most internationally celebrated writers, Mary Henley Rubio looks far beyond Montgomery's own published journals and draws on years of primary research and interviews, as well as a wealth of previously undiscovered material. The result is an account of a fascinating life that is certain to surprise. This comprehensive account of Montgomery's life, all set in rich social context, has taken its place as the definitive biography of this Canadian literary icon.

Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa's life and complex legacy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Bassett reveals her keen sense of moderation and tolerance, innovative ideas on free trade and finance, and studied reluctance to resort to policies of territorial expansion.

The newly-wed Anne Hastings faced her husband's wrath when her affair with William Compton was made public. Mary Tudor married to satisfy her brother's political need to ally with France, but when her decrepit royal husband died, she married the dashing Charles Brandon for love. William Parr, humiliated by his wife's extramarital affair, sought a divorce to marry the woman he loved.

Through his extensive research, insight, and instinctive love for Michaelhouse, the deep friendships and the unique contributions of many and the triumphs and difficulties of the past 125 years have been made accessible. The crafting of this book, the clarity of its structure and a story so beautifully told, has been an immense labour of love.

This book presents the remarkable personal journals of German soldier Hans Roth. Writing as events transpired, he recorded the mystery and tension as the Germans deployed on the Soviet frontier in June 1941. In these journals, battles are described in "you are there" detail, as Roth wrote privately, as if to keep himself sane, knowing that his honest accounts of the horrors in the East could never pass through Wehrmacht censors.

En 15 lecciones conocerás la vida de la monarca más longeva de los últimos tiempos. ISABEL II fue la monarca inglesa más longeva y ostenta también el récord del reinado más largo de la monarquía británica: 70 años y 127 días. Durante su regencia, en la que desfilaron 15 primeros ministros —desde el célebre Winston Chruchill hasta Liz Truss, el mandato más corto en la historia del Reino Unido—, fue testigo y protagonista de momentos cruciales, como la descolonización del Imperio británico o la modernización de la monarquía en la era digital.

En 15 lecciones conoce al autor del libro Meditaciones y estratega militar Marco Aurelio. MARCO AURELIO, décimo sexto emperador de Roma (161 a 180) y el. último de los llamados "cinco emperadores buenos", es el representante por antonomasia de la Edad de Oro del Imperio romano y autor de una de las mejores obras de todos los tiempos: Meditaciones, una colección de escritos acerca de sus reflexiones sobre la filosofía estoica y sus valores morales.

Claire McCardell shattered cultural norms around women’s clothes, and today much of what we wear traces back to her ingenious, rebellious mind. McCardell invented ballet flats and mix-and-match separates, and she introduced wrap dresses, hoodies, leggings, denim, and more into womenswear. She tossed out corsets in favor of a comfortably elegant look and insisted on pockets, even as male designers didn’t see a need for them. Filled with personal drama and industry secrets, this story reveals how Claire McCardell built an empire at a time when women rarely made the upper echelons of business.