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THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY 'Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carré' THE TIMES 'The page-turning pace of a thriller . . . A first-class historian' ANDREW ROBERTS 'Breathtaking . . . This is lucid...

Sur les trônes vacants, on pourrait en dire long. À travers l’histoire, de l’Antiquité aux temps plus récents, l’absence d’un héritier et la mort soudaine d’un monarque aimé ont toujours été synonymes de troubles. Quand la place d’un roi est à prendre, nombreux sont les ambitieux à se manifester.

This WWII espionage biography brings "one of America's greatest spies back to life" in a "story of derring-do and white knuckles suspense" (Patrick O'Donnell, author of Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs) Virginia Hall left her comfortable Baltimore roots in 1931 with dreams of becoming a Foreign...

A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War.

Break Loose and Fly is more than a memoir; it’s one of those self-help books for women that shows you how to create lasting change. Growing up behind the walls of East Germany under Russian oppression, Kerstin Decook learned early what it meant to live caged. Later, she faced what felt like insurmountable hurdles — social, emotional, personal, and economic. From painful divorces to starting over in a new country without knowing the language, she chose not to let setbacks define her.

Tenzin and his bodyguard Norbu walk the Southern Silk Trail down to Calcutta to assess the continuing viability of this trading route. Along the way he learns as much as he can about the Hindu and Muslim features of this ancient land and how the people are dealing with the British Raj, colonial rulers for a century already. Surprisingly, the two learn even more about their own culture along the way.

Did Pat Garrett kill the wrong man in 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, or did the outlaw known as Billy the Kid live on as William Henry Roberts until 1948? W. C. Jameson analyzes the evidence, including use of new technology to produce a compelling case for Billy's survival.

From the author of the “insightful and well-crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) Kennedy and King comes a heart-wrenching and sensitive examination of the tragic loss of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s premature son, Patrick, and how their shared grief brought...

Desde la esclavitud (Up from Slavery) Por Booker T. Washington · Traducción de Mateo Calderón. La inspiradora autobiografía de uno de los grandes educadores y líderes afroamericanos de la historia.

Winston Churchill, der Mann mit der ewigen Zigarre und dem Victory-V, ist der wohl bekannteste Unbekannte unserer Geschichte. Ohne ihn hätte Deutschland nicht vom Nationalsozialismus befreit werden können. Sein aufregendes Leben mit allen Licht- und Schattenseiten gilt es aber noch zu entdecken. Gestützt auf neue Archivfunde, erzählt Dietmar Pieper, wie stark Churchills Werdegang über Jahrzehnte von seinem Verhältnis zu Deutschland geprägt war – schon sein Aufstieg zum Marineminister vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg war eine Reaktion auf die Kanonenbootpolitik des Kaiserreichs unter Wilhelm II.

Brought to you by Penguin. My friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress... So take me for a man or a woman as you wish. By the age of thirty, the novelist who had been born Aurore Dupin in 1804 had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English...

How can a smile be so misunderstood? For Nell, it's a sign of friendship. To her male colleagues, it's so much more. With two men intent on securing her affections, and little chance of escape, life for Nell is challenging. Until she finds an unexpected guardian. Her savior is charming and chivalrous, but when he unwittingly causes more problems than he solves, she finally snaps.

Torn between his love of Iran - the land where his family’s roots have existed for over 2,500 years - and his desire for religious and political freedom, Isaac Yomtovian takes readers on a journey through his childhood in Tehran to his eventual immigration to America. Isaac weaves his recollections with deep insights into Iranian culture and history, the current Islamic regime, and United States-Iranian relations. My Iran intimately depicts a society that is both friendly and intolerant, modern and religious, and theocratic and rooted in democracy.

Nederland 1939. De oorlog staat op het punt van uitbreken. Sportvlieger Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten probeert haar droom te verwezenlijken en is begonnen als stewardess bij de KLM. Ida leeft voor de lucht, alleen boven de wolken voelt ze de vrijheid waar ze zo’n behoefte aan heeft. Maar als de Duitsers Nederland bezetten en Schiphol wordt gebombardeerd gaat haar droom letterlijk in rook op.

Kindheit am Nordufer Teil 1 der Nordufer-Trilogie. West Berlin, 1979. Sie war elf, als ihre Mutter nach der Schule nicht mehr nach Hause kam. Kein Abschied. Kein Grund. Ein Nachmittag, der still blieb. Ein Verschwinden, das niemand erklärte. In einer Stadt mit Mauern, zwischen Beton und Wasser, lernt ein Kind, mit dem zurückzubleiben, was man einem Kind nicht zumuten sollte: Stille. Verlust. Verantwortung.

Discover the remarkable life of George Armstrong Custer... George Armstrong Custer is remembered for his last stand—that fateful day at the Little Bighorn when he and his unit were caught in an ambush that would end their lives. But Custer's story was much more than that single moment of catastrophe. From a mischievous farm boy in Ohio to a struggling West Point cadet, Custer lived a life of constant drama. He became the Union's youngest general, a daring Civil War hero who rode fearlessly into battle with his signature golden locks flowing behind him.

Take a journey back to life in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s Great Depression, as seen through the vivid memories of a child. The little details can transform your perspective, helping you genuinely value the modern things you have in your life right now!

Bloomsbury presents Red Dawn Over China by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh. A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed From renowned, prize-winning historian...

In meiner Kindheit konnte ich nur das Wesen zweier Generationen wahrnehmen: meiner Großeltern (mütterlicherseits) und meiner Eltern. Meine Großeltern lachten und scherzten mit ihren Enkeln, obwohl ihre Gesichter die fatalistische Last des Leidens trugen, das sie in den schweren Jahren der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Europa erfahren hatten. Sie waren da gewesen und kannten den Sinn des Lebens, der alles übersteigt, was wir uns vorstellen können. So einfach ist es, dass ihre Gesichter uns den Unterschied zwischen Existenz und bloßem Überleben zeigen.

Ten Years from Slavery: The Story of Bishop William Edward Fuller, Sr. is a powerful and inspiring historical audiobook that traces the extraordinary rise of a Black religious pioneer whose life helped shape American spiritual and social history. Written and narrated by his grandchildren, this intimate family memoir brings authenticity, warmth, and lived experience to a story that spans Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the early Civil Rights Movement.