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Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass escaped bondage to become an abolitionist leader, orator and politician, and one of the most famous African-Americans of the 19th century. His autobiographical Narrative, an immediate bestseller in 1845, was soon acknowledged as a pivotal text in the struggle against slavery. In this moving and beautifully written account, he lays bare a system that brutalised everyone it touched.

يعد هذا الكتاب من أعظم الكتب التي تناولت السيرة النبيلة لواحدة من أهم نساء التاريخ العربي القديم؛ إنها أُم الشهداء (فاطمة الزهراء) ابنة النبي "محمد" من السيدة...

تعتبر حادثة استشهاد )الحسين بن علي( في كربلاء إحدى أهم المآسي الإنسانية على مر التاريخ؛ حيث يتجلى الصراع الأبدي بين الخير والحق من جانب وبين الشر والنفعية من جانب...

هذه قصة مذهلة، سيرة ذاتية لحياة ملك عظيم ومحارب غاية في الشجاعة والإقدام، وهي نفسها القصة التي ألهمت الكثير من الشعراء والمؤلفين للكتابة عنها وذكر تفاصيلها في...

هذه سيرة ذاتية من أكثر السير الذاتية إثارة على مر التاريخ، فهي قصة حياة شهيرة جداً لامرأة لم ينساها التاريخ ولن ينساها وقد أصبحت من أكثر الشخصيات إلهاماً للشعر...

خلال عدّة اعوام احتل القائد المغولي جنكيز خان 12 مليون ميلًا مربعًا من الأراضي...أي أكثر من أيّ شخصٍ في التاريخ!! شقَّ طريقه عبر آسيا وأوروبا دون رحمة تاركًا ملايين...

ليست تِلْكمُ الصفحات مجرد سيرة لـ«معاوية بن أبي سفيان» ولا سردًا لتاريخه، ولا سجلًّا لأعماله، ولكنها — كما يقول «العقاد» — تقدير له وإنصاف للحقيقة التاريخية...

After growing up in Zanzibar as part of the ruling Omani Sultanate, Sayyida Salme, the daughter of the Sultan and his surie concubine Djilfidan, took a fateful step that shaped the rest of her life. She could not have imagined what challenges lay ahead. When she chose to follow her love and became Emily Ruete, she found herself on a path to self-exile, as she moved from East to West, South to North. Taking on a new culture, language, faith, even identity, she crossed borders only to find new barriers.

هل سمعت بأسطورة الساموراي من قبل؟ المقاتل الياباني العظيم الذي خلّد التاريخ اسمه..إنه ميتموتو موساشي أعظم الساموراي في التاريخ ! عاش موساشي واحدٌ وستون عاماً خاض...

गुरुवर्य कृष्णराव अर्जुन केळूसकर गेल्या शतकातील एक महान चरित्रकार आहेत. छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराजांचे मराठीतील पहिले विस्तृत चरित्र त्यांनी लिहिले. विख्यात चरित्रकार डॉ. धनंजय कीर लिहितात, 'केळूसकरकृत शिवचरित्राएवढे समग्र व सविस्तर चरित्र आजपर्यंत कोणीही लिहिले नाही. तसेच गौतमबुद्ध आणि संत तुकाराम यांचे पहिले चरित्रकारही केळूसकरच आहेत.' राजकीय ऋषी मामा परमानंद, न्यायमूर्ती माधवराव रानडे, महाराजा सयाजीराव गायकवाड यांनी गुरुवर्य केळूसकरांच्या लेखणी व विचारांची प्रशंसा केली.

"عندما التفتَ نحو المدينة الأندلسية التي كانت تتسلق مرتفعات القصبة، شعر بشيء نادر لا يحدث إلا في أيام الصيف، حيث تخبو العواصف وتفتح المدينة صدرها لشمسٍ دافئة ثم...

يقدم واسيني الأعرج لروايته "سيرة المنته" بثلاث عتبات، أولها هو "حديث الإسراء" وثانيها لابن عربي من كتابه "الإسراء إلى المقام الأسرى أو كتاب المعراج" وثالثها من...

History has not forgotten their names but you probably have little idea of the friendship that penned a brilliant collection of America's finest legends & delivered them to the public as succinct true stories as relevant today as then. Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) & Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) met when the two young men first arrived in Washington D.C. at the advent of their public service careers.

Un viaggio appassionato e travolgente nella vita di ventuno personaggi straordinari, uomini e donne fuori dal comune per talento, fragilità, spregiudicatezza. Storie intense e incandescenti, raccontate con la maestria di chi sa andare oltre la superficie: storie che, se non facessero capo a eventi storici ben delineati, farebbero pensare al dominio del romanzo e della finzione, più che alla realtà. La tragica poesia di Marina Cvetaeva, la vita tormentata di Edgar Allan Poe, l'arte dirompente e oscura di Picasso, vampiro di anime.

Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall.

Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels, and scandals will play out on the battlefields of Mexico, in shady dealings in California city halls, inside eccentric saloon courtrooms of Texas, and along the blood-soaked Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico. They will kill men, and murder will likewise stalk them.

Royal intrigue takes center stage in The Abyssinians, a gripping new audio drama starring Danielle Deadwyler (Till, The Piano Lesson) delivering a masterful performance as a cunning queen navigating treacherous political waters and scheming sons. In the wake of King Ezana’s death, his brash widow Queen Yodit (Deadwyler) must decide which of her twin sons will ascend to the throne. Clashing beliefs about religion, duty, and the rights of a ruler collide in this unforgettable story about a royal house at a crossroads in history.

Janka was a Polish Jewish girl, and Alberto, a Spanish Greek Jewish man. This tale reveals how love and hearts of kindness came out of the horrors of the concentration camps. In 1949, they came to Australia, bringing two cultures, 13 languages and their toddler Nina, to forge a new beginning. These two people would never have met and fallen in love, if they hadn’t survived the attempted extermination of a race in the death chambers of Europe. They knew and taught their children, that we cannot move on without forgiveness.

فصول هذا الكتاب كانت -في الأصل- أحاديث دأب علي الطنطاوي على إذاعتها حيناً من إذاعة دمشق منذ نحو نصف قرن، كما قال في مقدمته للطبعة الجديدة من الكتاب: "كل ما في هذا...

Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, once famously said: 'For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room.' With her impressive intellect and acerbic wit, she was a highly influential muse to many leading figures over several decades.