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Die spannendsten Rebellinnen der Weltgeschichte in einem Hörbuch: 49 Porträts außergewöhnlicher Frauen. Sie waren Künstlerinnen, Herrscherinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen – oder auch Piratinnen, Räuberinnen und Betrügerinnen. Diese 49 außergewöhnlichen Frauen aus aller Welt bewirkten Erstaunliches und brachen dabei die Regeln ihrer jeweiligen Zeit: Bà Triệu, die vietnamesische Widerstandskämpferin, die zur Verteidigung der Freiheit ein eigenes Heer anführte. Soraya Tarzi, die erste Königin Afghanistans, welche die Modernisierung des Landes maßgeblich mit vorantrieb.

Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family, especially his grandfather Berl, originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.'

In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples—including the Temple of Dendur, now at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—would currently be at the bottom of a vast reservoir.

Carve Her Name with Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband died at El Alamein. She became a FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) and was recruited into the SOE and underwent secret agent training. Her first trip to France was completed successfully even though she was arrested and then released by the French Police.

Between August and October 1720, two female pirates named Anne Bonny and Mary Read terrorized the Caribbean in and around Jamaica. Despite their short career, they became two of the most notorious pirates during the height of the eighteenth-century Golden Age of Piracy. In a world dominated by men, they became infamous for their bravery, cruelty and unwavering determination to escape the social constraints placed on women during that time.

Claude C. Hopkins fut l'un des pionniers de la publicité moderne et copywriter de génie. Il était persuadé que la publicité n'existait que pour vendre quelque chose et que ses effets devaient être mesurables. Ce modeste fils de marchand de chandelles a été imprimeur, journaliste, essayiste, éditeur de livres, de journaux populaires, homme de lettres et fondateur d'associations. Un vrai touche-à-tout ! Parti de rien, jusqu' à devenir le Père fondateur des États-Unis, cette biographie révèle les chemins qui l'ont mené au succès et à la gloire.

Wovoka (1867-1932), the Ghost Dance Prophet, was a member of the Walker River band of Paiutes in Western Nevada. The Walker River Reservation was established in 1859, and was Wokova’s home off and on for years. Wovoka was also known as Jack Wilson, a name he acquired while he was, for some years, employed on the David Wilson family ranch in the Mason Valley.

The subject of stage plays, books, movies and one of the most popular television series of all time (with a theme song that millions of Americans can instantly sing along with from the very first word), he really was the King of the Wild Frontier. And he was so much more.

Giulia Farnese, a woman who traverses time to find, in this novel, her redemption. Her real story is tachat of a woman who goes far beyond the figure of Sponsa Christi as she was known throughout the world.

This is a short biography of George Washington, powered by AI. The audiobook delves into the early life of George Washington, his military career, and how he contributed to the Revolutionary War and American independence.

Sous la forme d'une visite guidée, originale et fantasque, Tatiana de Rosnay invite les auditeurs à pénétrer les « territoires intimes » d'Émile Zola, l'un des écrivains qui a le plus compté pour elle. Au cours de ce voyage sensible, elle nous entraîne sur ses traces, dans les lieux où il a vécu, mais aussi à travers son processus d'écriture et son imaginaire, et nous révèle ainsi les sources de son inspiration.

Faire découvrir Louis XIV à un public qui pense déjà connaître le Roi Soleil des manuels scolaires, voilà tout l'enjeu et la richesse de cette biographie. Loin de l'image du monarque décidant de tout, tout seul, l'historien dépeint un homme entouré tout au long de sa vie par d'importants hommes d'État, à l'image de Mazarin éduquant l'enfant-roi, et rappelle que l'exercice du pouvoir, fut-il absolu, est aussi une œuvre collective. En dressant le portrait du monarque, c'est aussi celui de la société française du XVIIe siècle qu'esquisse Stéphane Guerre.

Carthage was one of the great ancient civilizations, and at its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome, with commercial enterprises and influence stretching from Spain to Turkey.

Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.

Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to survive World War II.

She was a wife, mother, teacher, and the first civilian to fly into space, but Christa’s dream tragically ended on a cold January day with the needless explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

A Legacy to Remember: Recollections of a Common Man is the story of a man who rose above all odds stacked against him. The Great Depression, divorced parents, living in poverty, World War II, the death of a child, divorce, etc.—commonly known occurrences many individuals in American history have faced. Many people would have been bitter having lived through such tragedies. But not Duard Vinson Gillum!

Médico, abogado, docente, reformador social, agrónomo y emprendedor: Juan Bialet Massé, catalán radicado en Argentina a fines del siglo XIX, fue un hombre que pareció vivir varias vidas en una. Graciela Bialet, su descendiente, reconstruye hechos de su vida a la par de brindarnos algunas pinceladas sobre las generaciones que le siguieron, en una obra que cautiva nuestra atención desde el principio.

Un profilo di un uomo straordinario. Una interpretazione originale di una delle figure più controverse della storia. Il libro è già stato tradotto e ha suscitato interesse di pubblico e di critica in Germania, Francia, Spagna, America, Brasile. Luciano Canfora insegna Filologia classica all'Università di Bari.

Martha Hughes Cannon (1857–1932) may best be known as the first female state senator in the United States, elected in Utah in 1896, nearly a quarter century before most women in the country could vote. She was also a suffragist, physician, gifted speaker, plural wife, faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and mother of three.