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"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street Journal The definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England Saladin, historic Muslim leader Genghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol empire Catherine the Great, the woman who turned Russia into an empire Abraham Lincoln who stopped...

Bloomsbury presents Mad Enchantment by Ross King, read by Mark Meadows Claude Monet’s water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The...

Robert Harris has brought Agrippa back to life in fiction. Now meet the real man. Marcus Agrippa was the man Augustus could not do without. General. Admiral. Statesman. Diplomat. Builder. Best friend, trusted lieutenant and son-in-law of Rome's first emperor. For more than three decades, Agrippa fought Rome's enemies, defeated rival fleets, negotiated with kings, pacified provinces, and transformed the city of Rome. His military victories helped make Augustus's empire possible.

One man's extraordinary journey from slavery to freedom—in his own words. First published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most powerful and influential autobiographical works in American history. Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass recounts the...

Una obra imprescindible para entender al personaje y todo un momento de la historia de América Latina. Ernesto Guevara es una figura clave de la cultura y la historia que va más allá del mito: heraldo de la Revolución latinoamericana, hombre que vivió al límite, hoy es un símbolo de la...

Radioland is a “novelized memoir” —a combo meal of fiction, history, and semi-autobiography —told in the composite repackaging of the voices of those who lived it. A twizzlered, embellished musing on how early Top 40 radio both confused and changed the path of one little boy. Often funny, frequently sad, but mostly a rewarding experience —sort of like life.

In the shadowed cells of Nuremberg Prison, twenty-two men awaited judgement for history's greatest crimes. Stripped of their uniforms, power, and myth, the architects of the Third Reich faced something more intimate than the tribunal: the searching gaze of American psychiatrist Douglas M. Kelley, M.D. What he discovered was not the comforting legend of pure madness or demonic uniqueness.

What the Iron Holds follows four generations of the Francom family across three continents and eight decades—from the red dust of Uitenhage in the Cape Colony to the Atlantic crossings, the thousand miles on foot across the American plains, the Black Hawk raids, the polygamy underground, the Colorado River in January, and the quiet Utah bench-land where a family finally stopped moving and started building something that would last.

In the Land of My Fathers is not simply a biography, nor is it a political manifesto. It is a testimony of survival, memory, faith, and return, the story of a family, a people, and an ancient homeland that empires renamed, armies conquered, and ideologies tried to erase, yet never succeeded in severing from Jewish history or from the covenant that bound our people to the land.

Ein deutsches Leben, gezeichnet von scheinbar unvereinbaren Widersprüchen, ein Wandern zwischen entgegengesetzten Welten, das schließlich in der Katastrophe endet. Magda Goebbels gilt als eine der schillerndsten und einflussreichsten Figuren des Dritten Reiches.

SCREAMS OF THE ROAD DOG is fast-moving assortment of true stories collected by Ray Hanna from the dark corners of show business. A multi-faceted performer, Ray came of age during a magic time of comedy in San Francisco, an iconic time that impacted show business for years to come. This is a roller coaster ride through an iconic era that will not be seen again, a manual for anyone with show business dreams who wants to know what it's like living by your wits. Within this book are lessons learned from mistakes made, hard-earned wisdom, and valuable, timeless advice

The Crusades were a pivotal period in world history, but while much has been said of the swashbuckling Crusaders who stormed into the Middle East, much less has been said about those who were on the other end of this conflict. Yet it was out of this historic drama that dynamic figures like the Sultan Saladin came to prominence. Saladin was, by most measures, an unlikely candidate for greatness. Born to a Kurdish mercenary family with no particular claim to fame, he came of age more drawn to religious study than to soldiering.

History remembers John Montagu of Beaulieu as a pioneer. A man of vision. A campaigner who helped give Britain the freedom of the road. It remembers his public victories: the fight for the motor car, the laws that reshaped transport, the belief that movement itself was the engine of progress. What history did not remember—what it could not see—was the life he was forced to hide. Behind the speeches and legislation lay a private world governed by silence.

An extensively researched book about a well-known Colorado madam, but most of what's known about her is wrong, including the spelling of her last name. Follow the antics of Laura as she works in parlors in Denver, Leadville, and Salida, until she opens her own house. Laura's house stayed open...

Im kalten Februar 1400 schreitet ein Junge hinter dem Sarg Richards II. und zweifelt bitterlich an einer Entscheidung seines Vaters. Warum musste Richard sterben? War Gnade denn keine Option? Dieser Dreizehnjährige wird eines Tages König von England sein, wird von den Zeitgenossen verehrt und später von Shakespeare literarisch unsterblich gemacht werden. Henry V. ist der Staatsmann, der besser als jeder andere seiner Zeit versteht, wie man sich auf internationalem Parkett behauptet.

Se fossem as histórias triviais, este audiolivro contaria mais um caso de sucesso empresarial. Mas aqui tudo é excepcional, desde o início. A empresa foi vislumbrada em 1924 por um engenheiro ferroviário – que convenceu um lorde escocês a reunir muito capital em Londres para executá-lo. O engenheiro tornou-se acionista minoritário de uma grande multinacional.

My Secret Life is an anonymously penned memoir written during a period from the 1840s to the 1880s by a wealthy and sex-obsessed English gentleman who refers to himself simply as 'Walter'. Part confessional, part investigative erotic journalism, it meticulously documents every detail of the author's prolific sexual encounters, offering us in the process an eye and thigh-opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian age.

On the centenary of her birth, Elizabeth II is a delightful, intimate new portrait of the late Queen from bestselling biographer and royal commentator Robert Hardman, which is full of fresh details about this extraordinary woman. As daughter, wife, mother and Sovereign, Elizabeth II lived...

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...