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Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in 19th-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until now, little has been known about Caroline Hodgson, the woman behind the alter ego. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Hodgson arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Left alone when her police-officer husband was sent to work in remote Victoria, she turned her hand to running brothels.

Fourteen writers uncover the hidden lives behind old photographs: a son battling for a mother's love in a family of thirteen; teenagers forced to grow up too soon; a Chinese-American descendant chasing lost family histories.

Die Anonyma berichtet von massenhaften Vergewaltigungen von Frauen im besetzten Land durch Rotarmisten. Die Rache der Sieger in den Ruinen von Berlin berührt ein Tabuthema. Die Schreckenstage, festgehalten in Schulheften und auf Zetteln, hörten Zehntausende von Leserinnen und Lesern.

Dive into the extraordinary life of Britain's greatest naval hero in Robert Southey's definitive biography of Horatio Lord Nelson. With unparalleled insight, Southey captures Nelson's meteoric rise, fierce battles, and unyielding dedication to his country. From the fiery clash at the Nile to the triumph and tragedy of Trafalgar, this richly detailed account paints a vivid picture of the man who reshaped naval warfare and inspired a nation.

Esta es la historia de una mujer. Una mujer que quiso ser quien era. Que vivió Barcelona a través de sus calles... y de sus calabozos. Que fue franco en la pantalla y franca en sus palabras. La historia de una mujer que hizo historia en la televisión. Y en las urnas. La historia de los labios más famosos de España. Una vida trepidante... por detrás y por delante.

संघटनेमध्ये सामर्थ्य असते हे लक्षात घेऊन लोकांचे कल्याण करणारा संघ ज्यांनी स्थापन केला त्या डॉ. केशव बळीराम हेडगेवारांची विशेषता अशी की त्यांच्यापेक्षा वयाने, धनाने, सामाजिक प्रतिष्ठेने, पुस्तकी ज्ञानाने शक्तीने मोठे असणारी मंडळीही त्यांचे अनुनायीत्व स्विकारण्यात अक्षरशः धन्यता मानत आली होती. त्यांच्या सान्निध्यात येणा-या प्रत्येकाला वाटे की , डॉक्टरांचे सर्वांवर प्रेम आहे, त्यातल्या त्यात आपल्यावर अधिक आहे !

1893-ല്‍ ദക്ഷിണാഫ്രിക്കയിലേക്ക് കപ്പലേറുമ്പോള്‍ സ്വന്തം രാജ്യത്ത് പരാജിതനായ ഒരു വക്കീലായിരുന്നു മോഹന്‍ദാസ് കരംചന്ദ് ഗാന്ധി. തുടര്‍ന്നുള്ള രണ്ടു പതിറ്റാണ്ടുകള്‍ അദ്ദേഹത്തെ മഹാത്മാഗാന്ധിയാക്കി മാറ്റി. ബ്രിട്ടിഷ് സാമ്രാജ്യത്തെ മുട്ടുകുത്തിക്കാനുള്ള തന്റെ പ്രത്യയശാസ്ത്രത്തിനെയും അടവുകളെയും അദ്ദേഹം മൂശയില്‍ വാര്‍ത്തെടുത്തത് അവിടെവച്ചാണ്.

John Humphreys was just a boy soldier in the Royal Engineers when war was declared in 1939. By the war's end he had jumped into Arnhem with the Parachute Regiment to spearhead the attack on the bridge. For days Humphreys and the rest of his squad held on, outnumbered and outgunned by the German army fighting to the last bullet and refusing to surrender. But the Bridge Too Far is only the climax of Humphreys’ remarkable war. Twice captured as a prisoner of war, he twice escaped from the enemy to make his way back to Allied lines in order to rejoin the fight.

From the former Secretary General of NATO, a frank and riveting account of running the world’s most powerful military alliance, taking us inside the significant flashpoints of the last decade. With the reelection of Donald Trump, there is no reason to believe that the debate about the Americans’ relationship with NATO will subside. As Jens Stoltenberg demonstrates in On My Watch, his account of leading the military alliance across an explosive decade, NATO remains a powerful and essential agent of stability.

As much a sweeping story about lost worlds as it is a philosophical inquiry, Indignity shows what it is like to make choices against the tide of history. Through reports of communist spies, court depositions, anecdotes and characters that live on in Ypi’s memory, we move between “now” and ”then”, fact and fiction, what we learn from archives and what we can imagine, to reckon with the injustices of the past. By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity is a meditation on the fragility of truth, both personal and political.

Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.

"Mögen diese Blätter mithelfen, ein Stück Vergangenheit zu begreifen und dem Leben dienstbar zu machen, das täglich seine Forderungen an uns stellt." Hans Graf von Lehndorff. Die Aufzeichnungen Hans Graf von Lehndorffs aus den Jahren 1945 bis 1947 schildern die Schrecken der Flucht, die Belagerung der zur Festung erklärten Stadt Königsberg, den drückenden Dienst in Lazaretten und Lagern sowie die ersten Nachkriegsjahre unter Willkür und Wirren polnischer und russischer Herrschaft.

As the brigade he commanded attacked a Confederate battery on a hill outside Petersburg in July 1864, a bursting shell blew Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain from the saddle and wounded his horse. After the enemy battery skedaddled, the brigade took the hill and dug in, and up came supporting Union guns. Chamberlain figured the day’s fighting ended. Then an unidentified senior officer ordered his brigade to charge and capture the heavily defended main Confederate line.

ביצוע מיוחד ע"י נכדתו של מחבר הספר, הדס קלדרון. קיץ 1944: לאחר שהטיסו השלטונות הסובייטיים, במבצע יוצא דופן, את המשורר אברהם סוצקבר ואת אשתו מן השטחים שבשליטת הנאצים אל החופש התמסר המשורר מיד למשימה לכתוב חיבור על השואה בווילנה עירו. זה היה בחודשים האחרונים של מלחמת העולם השנייה, וככל שהיא התקרבה לסיומה, כן הלכו והתבררו הממדים הבלתי נתפסים של רצח היהודים. זהו אחד החיבורים הראשונים המתעדים את זוועות הנאצים וגם את התנגדות היהודים על פניה השונות – המאמצים להבטיח את הקיום הפיזי בתנאים הקשים מנשוא של הגטו, הפעילות החינוכית והתרבותית, הקמת המחתרת היהודית.

L'historienne médiéviste Claude Gauvard nous invite à découvrir Christine de Pizan, une figure méconnue mais essentielle de la France médiévale. Écrivaine novatrice des xive et xve siècles, elle s'impose comme l'une des premières femmes de lettres professionnelles, excellant dans l'écriture poétique, l'analyse politique et la polémique. À travers son oeuvre foisonnante, écrite en langue vernaculaire, Christine de Pizan défend avec force la place des femmes dans la société.

A true saga that tells of the flight of Paul, his wife Sophia and two young daughters, Tamara, and Isa from their beautiful Black Sea home in Odesa*. He is a wealthy farm-estate owner and holds the sole Mercedes agency for south Russia. The invasion of Russia by Germany in 1914, followed by the Russian revolution in 1919 means they lose everything. In Spring 1919 Lenin announces the Red Terror. This aims at the extermination of all bourgeoisie. Paul and family must flee for their lives.

One of Rome's most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot―thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero's most famous speeches in the Forum. But Cicero was lying, in defense of his own interests. Like so many women libeled or erased from history, Clodia had a life that was much more interesting, complex, and nuanced than the corrupted version passed down through generations.

In eighteenth-century Britain, Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause for twenty-five years. They supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade, defended religious liberty, and attempted to shield Britain's public credit from the crisis-prone East India Company. The two men did not share social position, a way of life, a political legacy, or even a generation—but improbably, they were friends.

Umes Arunagirinathan und Peggy Parnass trennten fünfzig Lebensjahre, die Hautfarbe, das Geschlecht und auch sonst eine ganze Menge. Doch entscheidend ist, was sie verband. Beide erlebten die tiefgreifende Erfahrung von Flucht und Vertreibung. Peggy wurde von ihrer Mutter 1939 auf einem Kindertransport nach Schweden geschickt, um sie vor der NS-Verfolgung zu retten. Umes kam als 13-jähriger unbegleiteter Flüchtling aus Sri Lanka nach Deutschland. Bei beiden verursacht dieses Schicksal viel Leid, aber löst auch den tiefen Wunsch aus, die Welt besser zu machen.

Im Spätherbst des Jahres 1941 ermorden die SS und ihre Helfer über 27.000 Juden im Wald von Rumbula. Die Gruben, in denen die Menschen erschossen werden, konstruiert der SS-Offizier Ernst Hemicker. Verurteilt wird er dafür nie. Lorenz Hemicker wächst Jahrzehnte später mit einer vagen Ahnung auf, welches Verbrechens sich sein Großvater schuldig gemacht hat. Er kennt nur ein paar Sätze, die sein Vater bei jeder sich bietenden Gelegenheit im Freundes- und Bekanntenkreis wiederholt.