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In the summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mission was to report on Nazi crimes and raise a secret army to stage an uprising. The name of the detention centre - Auschwitz. It was only after arriving at the camp that he started to discover the Nazis' terrifying designs.

The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the 20th century - a revisionist account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his presidency, and his battle against the Great Depression. A poor orphan who built a fortune, a great humanitarian, a president elected in a landslide and then routed in the next election, arguably the father of both New Deal liberalism and modern conservatism - Herbert Hoover is also one of our least understood presidents.

Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his 20s, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain.

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents.

This isn't a book about finding Amelia Earhart. it's about her finding me, and guiding, directing, nudging, cajoling me along the way. It's a mind bending adventure told in third person, then in first person, then with eyewitnesses, then with a variety of mediums who I've known for decades, answering my incessant questions.

In September 2022, twenty-two-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini is killed by Iran’s morality police in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely. Outrage triggers nationwide protests. Women rip off their headscarves, setting them afire. Others cut their hair in open defiance. Key industries are brought to a standstill, and once-revered banners of the country’s Supreme Leader are incinerated. It’s the greatest challenge to the Islamic Republic of Iran in its forty-six-year history—not coming from a foreign adversary but from their own freedom-seeking women.

He wasn’t born to rule—he decided to. Seize the Crown tells the story of how a boy from Corsica rose to dominate Europe—not just with armies, but with ideas, optics, and unstoppable momentum. This isn’t a dry military chronicle or another romantic portrait. It’s a forensic breakdown of how Napoleon hacked power, reshaped law, manipulated myth, and became the blueprint for modern authoritarianism.

Our modern image of the Middle Ages—filled with vivid scenes of chivalric tournaments, epic battles, devastating plagues, revered saints, powerful kings, noble knights, and courtly ladies—was not simply uncovered through objective historical research. Rather, it was largely shaped and even invented in the 20th century. The medieval world did not emerge fully formed from the archives; it had to be imagined, interpreted, and constructed. This is the story of how that vision came to life.

Lerone A. Martin, Centennial Professor at Stanford University and the Faculty Director of the Martin Luther King Institute, traces the youthful roots of this legendary American to reveal the makings of a mighty force. Filled with revelations and written with compassion, Young King offers a new understanding of the influential preacher and activist’s emotional life, his youthful confusion about his future and career direction, his inspiration to fight for justice, his teenage missteps, and his first revelations of courage.

Step into the whirlwind life of Gaius Julius Caesar—military genius, political disruptor, eloquent writer, and enduring legend. In this compelling and accessible biography for younger listeners, Jasmine Dyggan brings to life the dramatic highs and perilous lows that defined one of history’s most enigmatic figures. From daring acts of youthful defiance to game-changing military campaigns and radical reforms that reshaped the Roman Republic, Caesar's story is a lesson in leadership, ambition, and the price of power.

Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster mastermind and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917 revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore's bestselling biography radically alters our understanding of the gifted politician and fanatical Marxist who shaped the Soviet empire in his own brutal image.

Servus takes us into the invisible spaces of the Roman world, where millions of enslaved lives were unwillingly dedicated to the perpetuation of the empire that owned them. Through the fragments they left behind, historian Emma Southon traces the pain and tragedy of their lives alongside the love stories, lifelong friendships, small victories and hard-won freedoms.

La Ciudad de México fue sacudida por un sismo de gran magnitud. Cientos de edificios se vinieron abajo, decenas de miles de vidas fueron truncadas, familias rotas, destinos destrozados. Cristina Pacheco, periodista ejemplar y dueña de una enorme sensibilidad ante el sufrimiento y la piedad, entendió que había que salir a la calle a conversar con la gente, a escuchar sus historias y compartir su dolor.

This is the never-before-told story of Harold Derber, the debonair British Merchant Navy veteran who pioneered the modern drug trade with his groundbreaking invention: the drug mothership. Through his ghost fleet of drug ships, Derber eventually became the chief supplier of marijuana to post-war America. This gripping true tale follows Derber from humble beginnings in Manchester, England, to his assassination in the sun-kissed streets of Miami.

Thomas Cromwell started as a scrappy blacksmith’s son from Putney. Before he became the King’s right-hand man, Cromwell was a soldier, a merchant, and (allegedly) a bit of a dodgy dealer. By the time Henry VIII noticed him, he’d already survived Italy, bankruptcy, and at least one attempt on his life. Somehow, he ended up masterminding the greatest religious upheaval England had ever seen.

He died in 1976. His system never stopped running. Mao Zedong didn’t just lead a revolution — he encoded one. From famine to fandom, from mass mobilization to mass surveillance, mao.exe traces how one man didn’t just seize power — he became a self-replicating myth still embedded in the world’s most populous nation. This isn’t a biography. It’s a reverse-engineered autopsy of a belief system that never rebooted — it simply updated. From red books to black mirrors, mao.exe pulls back the screen on the world’s most advanced form of control: One that doesn’t need to be believed to work.

You know the name. You’ve heard the legends. But who was Nikola Tesla, really? This book cuts through the noise to reveal the human mind behind the myth. From wireless energy to earthquake machines, from communing with pigeons to decoding the structure of reality itself—Tesla wasn’t a man of his time. He was tuned to something else. Inside, you’ll find: The true story of Tesla’s war with Edison, the dreams behind Wardenclyffe and the death ray, lost inventions, buried patents, and classified seizures. A deep look into the myth-making, conspiracies, and rediscovery of Tesla in the 21st century.

Vanzetti nacque a Villafalletto, in provincia di Cuneo, l'11 giugno del 1888, primogenito dei quattro figli di Giovanna Nivello (1862-1907) e Giovanni Battista Vanzetti (1849-1931), modesto proprietario terriero e gestore di una piccola caffetteria. Pur non vivendo in ristrettezze economiche, a spingerlo a emigrare negli Stati Uniti d'America furono soprattutto l'improvvisa e tragica morte dell'amata madre, che lo portò quasi alla follia, e probabilmente una consuetudine familiare (anche il padre era stato emigrante per un breve periodo, dal 1881 al 1883 in California).

Снайперское движение в Красной армии началось в самые отчаянные дни войны, осенью 1941-го, на Ленинградском фронте. В 1943 году в составе действующей армии появились первые женские снайперские взводы. На счету у многих «ангелов мщения» были десятки убитых врагов. Не всем этим девушкам довелось дожить до конца войны. Те, кому повезло, вернулись, совсем еще молодыми, к жизни обычных советских женщин. И все же главным событием их жизни стала Великая Отечественная.

La vie de Charles de Gaulle est comme un fil tendu qui nous relie au XIXe siècle finissant, nous fait comprendre les tragédies du XXe siècle et ouvre sur celles que demain nous réserve. Dans une brève allusion à son enfance, l'auteur des Mémoires de guerre évoque « une certaine fierté anxieuse » qu'il éprouvait à l'égard de la France.