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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.

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...

Bloomsbury presents Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King, read by Mark Meadows. From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling...

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.

«Aquel que franquea el portal donde se alza 'Arbeit macht frei' entra en un mundo radicalmente distinto, lejos de los dioses, lejos de los hombres... El pánico en estado puro, sin voz, sin palabras.» Todo se vino abajo en otoño de 1942 para Hélène Waysbord cuando, con apenas seis años de...

1986 erzählt vom West-Berlin der 80er-Jahre – von Freiheit, Subkultur und einer Stadt, die es so nie wieder geben wird. Eine persönliche Zeitreise voller Erinnerungen, Begegnungen und Geschichten aus einer einzigartigen Epoche.

»Erinnerung bedeutet, dass etwas bleibt – auch wenn so vieles verschwunden ist« Konrad Bernheimer ist vier Jahre alt, als ihn sein Großvater 1954 aus Venezuela, wohin die jüdische Familie vor den Nazis geflohen ist, nach München zurückholt – dorthin, wo die Bernheimers als Kunst- und Antiquitätenhändler verwurzelt waren. Zusammen mit ihm auf die Reise machen sich seine venezolanische Mutter und seine Schwestern. Auch sein Vater Kurt sollte mit der Familie zurückkehren, doch dazu kam es nicht...

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.

'A book that's rich with meticulous scholarship, illuminated by sharp wit, and full of subtle judgment. Babylon is quite simply enthralling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ TELEGRAPH 'Intimate and immensely detailed. I've never encountered a work of ancient history so finely drawn' THE TIMES 'Rollicking story...

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...

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated personal journal in the English language. Pepys's candid revelations as he forged his career as a civilian naval official in Restoration London have fascinated readers ever since the first selection was published in 1825. This book focuses on...

'At last, a history of the Roman state as it has always been crying out to be told, and never has been!' RODERICK BEATON The greatest empire in Western history - told as never been told before. Rome is often remembered for its spectacular collapse. But for over two thousand years - through civil...

'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable' Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN 'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating' KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of Super-Infinite Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might...