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From the foremost biographer of Mahatma Gandhi comes a landmark work of moral and political history – a sweeping account of Gandhi's ideas, their contested legacy, and their urgent relevance to our fractured world. Ramachandra Guha has spent decades immersed in Gandhi's life and thought...

How one of the largest family fortunes in American history was built and thrived in the Gilded Age, moved through history bending laws and society to its own devices, and helped create the political extremism and billionaire class trying to rule the country today Shadow Dynasty begins in the...

The extraordinary activism of towering literary figure and great American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, after publishing the novel that changed American history. Alone among American novels, Uncle Tom’s Cabin forever changed the social fabric of the United States. It sold more than a million...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century’s first great arms race, from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie With the biographer’s rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery...

»Erinnerung bedeutet, dass etwas bleibt – auch wenn so vieles verschwunden ist« Konrad Bernheimer ist vier Jahre alt, als ihn sein Großvater 1954 aus Venezuela, wohin die jüdische Familie vor den Nazis geflohen ist, nach München zurückholt – dorthin, wo die Bernheimers als Kunst- und Antiquitätenhändler verwurzelt waren. Zusammen mit ihm auf die Reise machen sich seine venezolanische Mutter und seine Schwestern. Auch sein Vater Kurt sollte mit der Familie zurückkehren, doch dazu kam es nicht...

For the first time, historian Miranda Malins chronicles the story of one of the most influential families in British history—the Cromwells. Two powerful, controversial men who had an astonishing impact on British history—Thomas and Oliver Cromwell—were commoners who came from the same...

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone...

The incredible true account of a young Jewish student who, in a desperate gambit to escape the Nazis, went underground in his hometown of Berlin, posing as an Aryan with another young escapee—a harrowing ordeal that he would miraculously escape not only with his life, but also with a love that...

From the New York Times bestselling author, a fascinating exploration of one of the most famous marriages of the 20th century In Solo and Together, Hansen uncovers the intricate tapestries of two of the 20th century's most iconic personalities, revealing insights that change what we thought we...

The Pacific Theatre was the setting for some of World War II's bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in Europe was winding down, fierce Japanese resistance and mounting casualties slowed the US advance toward Japan. The terrible death toll of doctors, medics...

The largely untold saga of Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl is one of the most fascinating and unlikely stories that took place before and during World War II. How is it possible that a Harvard graduate, friend to both Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt, became one of Hitler's closest friends—only later to assist Franklin Roosevelt and the Allies as a secret adviser?

Untold true stories of fascinating lives throughout history to the modern day from the host of the popular?Half-Arsed History?podcast. The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of tells the tales of the overlooked names of history, the individuals who lived fascinating, absurd, or simply...

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

From the moment he ran away from school before his 13th birthday, Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and filmmaker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world. Hurley traversed every continent. He made five perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson and a tent with Ernest Shackleton.

The epic true story of George Mallory and Edmund Hillary and the quest to be the first to conquer Everest. A captivating story of adventure, daring, despair and triumph from Australia's favourite storyteller. Last century, two men, thirty years apart, set out to become the first to conquer the...

This is the gripping true story of one special forces patrol and how their heroic missions changes the course of WWII. The action is relentless, ranging from the sub-blasted wastes of the 1940s Sahara to the wild and rain-lashed killing fields of the then Yugoslavia in 1945. Serving with the...

A sweeping and cinematic narrative history that follows Renoir’s La Petite Irène, tracing its theft from one of Paris’s wealthiest Jewish families during WWII and the fate of the girl it immortalized. “A vivid and deeply reported portrait of looted art, memory, and one family’s struggle...

From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student squeezes into the Royal Infirmary’s packed operating...

Hören Sie diese romanhafte Biografie über einen deutschen Pionier im 2. Weltkrieg, die eine ergreifende Mahnung für den Frieden ist. Als sein Großvater Erwin eines Tages schwer zu sprechen beginnt und plötzlich von seinen Erlebnissen erzählt, ahnt der Enkel zunächst nicht, was sich...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Delve into the mind and heart of one of the most inspiring figures in Asian history. This intimate work invites you to explore the early years, academic challenges, and intellectual awakening of a man who sacrificed everything for his ideals. From...