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The young Roberts gives himself over to the world of hangars, cockpits, and the men who fly. He gathers what wisdom his father and other pilots offer. He earns his pilot's license before he is old enough to drive a car. At seventeen, he becomes the youngest licensed flight instructor in the United States. His story carries the listener from the skies of Alaska to the East Coast, then on to Greenland, Iceland, and Europe. Yet the great ambition, the airline cockpit, remains out of reach. This is more than a flying story.

Few women in history have inspired such contradictory reactions as Catherine de Medici. To her admirers, she was a brilliant stateswoman and a steadying force in an era of great religious conflict. To her enemies, she was something far darker: a scheming foreigner, an Italian serpent coiled at the heart of the French court. What almost everyone agreed on was that she was extraordinary.

A first person memoir of Alice, an indomitable courageous spirit, told by her as she views things in the voice of her age at the time of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia. Alice will move you, make you want to finish the book in one listening. You will learn about places and times no longer here, about heroism, about acts of kindness remembered for three quarters of a century and now passed on to you, with her diagrams of places and streets, and also a lesson plan for tolerance.

Have you ever wondered how the human spirit can rise above the most crushing circumstances to achieve greatness? In Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington delivers a powerful and intimate account of his ascent from a child born into slavery to becoming one of the most significant educators in American history. This is not merely a historical record; it is a profound manual on succeeding against all odds.

Often misunderstood or even unrecognized, Canada's governors general are not merely heads of state; they are amongst the great constitutional curiosities of our age. In this delightful and often whimsical account of the Canadians who have held this post since 1952, journalist and author John Fraser explains the successful, if illogical, evolution of the institution and engages listeners with the hilarious foibles, moving triumphs, and sombre tragedies of the men and women who have been chosen to represent the Sovereign in Canada.

The Real Promise Keepers is a compelling collection of true stories that celebrate the unsung heroes of history—ordinary individuals who performed extraordinary acts of courage, integrity, and compassion. From war-torn orchards in California to hijacked airplanes, coal-mining towns, and secret resistance networks, this book brings to life individuals who kept their promises and changed the world, often without recognition or reward.

Two Jewish girls born six months apart–Judit Grünfeld (Judy Abrams) in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg (Marx) in Czechoslovakia–are separated from their parents and forced to "pass" as Christian children. Theirs are the amazingly parallel but unique stories of two children who were able to survive when so many others perished.

A Holocaust survivor from Belgium recounts memories of her childhood and her escape from the Nazis in hiding and on the run, reflecting on the nature of memory and on the enduring effects of the Holocaust and trauma.

Una historia de liderazgo, carisma, intrigas y poder, contada desde la sala de máquinas del PSOE Este no es un libro de historia de España, aunque parte de los hechos históricos. No es un libro de memorias, aunque está inevitablemente teñido por la experiencia y el recuerdo personal de...

La biografía más completa y documentada de una de las figuras más importantes de la Historia. «21 de enero de 1924. Lenin ha muerto. Un inmenso país, la Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, queda sumido en la consternación y el espanto. ¿Cómo vivir sin Lenin? Un siglo más...

The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid the North to waste. Ghosting along...

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 first prospector to discover ore in the remote area of what is now Cooke City, MT Adam “Horn” Miller was a champion with his fists and a crack shot with the gun he constructed. He was much like the other 300,000 or so pioneers who searched the west for silver and gold and yet his story is as unique as the land he explored for over fifty years–in and around Yellowstone National Park. Two creeks, a road, and a mountain all now bear his name.

Herman Webster Mudgett was born in 1861 in a small New Hampshire hill town, and he was dead before he turned 35. In the years between, operating under a name he had constructed to replace his own, he built a hotel in Chicago designed to kill its guests, committed a number of murders whose exact count remains in dispute, and earned the distinction of being among the first Americans to whom the word “serial killer”—a term that did not yet exist in his lifetime—could reasonably be applied.

Archie Gibson's initiation into desert warfare almost proved to be his last. Barrelling through the sand dunes at the wheel of his truck, Gibson spied a searing flash of light up ahead, the signature of a feared German 88mm gun firing ... right at him. He leapt from his speeding vehicle just...

As the daughter of a decorated general in the Imperial Russian army, Alexandra Kollontai was a member of the elite from birth. From that comfortable perch, she might easily have lived out her days in the drawing rooms and social circles of St. Petersburg's upper classes. Instead, she devoted her life to tearing that world apart.

Working her way up from gruelling bootcamp training to leading a drug interdiction operation seizing €700 million of cocaine from a yacht off the Kerry coast, she was a leader among men and rose to every challenge. Developing a love of the sea, Gleeson learned that to be at one with it required agility, and a willingness to change, to go with the wind – not against it. These lessons prepared her for operating without a life raft when her personal life threw her the greatest challenge of all.

“A fascinating, provocative, and highly eccentric volume” (The New York Times) exploring the true story of Elisabeth Nietzsche’s maniacal attempt to found a utopian colony in the jungles of Paraguay in the late nineteenth century—from the bestselling author of Prisoners of the Castle. In...

Questa è la storia di un uomo che aveva nel sangue quella sfumatura calda dell'ambizione chiamata desiderio. Quando si nasce con un simile slancio, galleggiare nello stagno della quotidianità è impossibile a priori: e nell'esistenza di Raul Gardini non c'è stato nulla di ordinario. Spregiudicato, visionario, è partito dalle aziende soprattutto agroalimentari di Ravenna di proprietà del suocero per creare in dieci anni un impero industriale e finanziario di dimensioni mondiali, il gruppo Ferruzzi-Montedison.

Thinkers and Dreamers invites listeners to relive the lives of remarkable individuals, tracing their journeys from childhood and everyday experiences to the heights of genius. At the heart of the book lies a fundamental question: How does an individual become a catalyst for social progress? The answer unfolds through the stories of these thinkers and dreamers. It is found not only in their discoveries, but in their sacrifices: the courage to devote one’s life to an ideal. Beyond compelling narratives, the book reveals the pivotal decisions that reshaped history.