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Donald J. Robertson construye en esta biografía un retrato renovado del emperador romano Marco Aurelio, entretejiendo con destreza su fascinante viaje psicológico con los principales acontecimientos de su vida.

Der junge Leutnant Blankenhorn kommt 1944 mit 22 Jahren an die Ostfront. Er nimmt teil an den sinnlosen Rückzugsgefechten der deutschen Wehrmacht in Ostpreußen und gelangt schließlich ins eingeschlossene Königsberg, wo er in Gefangenschaft gerät. Es folgen vier unerbittliche Jahre in Lagern diesseits und jenseits des Urals, bevor er endlich nach Deutschland zurückkehren kann. Fritz Blankenhorn hat seine Erlebnisse ohne Pathos und doch ergreifend beschrieben.

The late, legendary performer and activist’s candid reflections on American race relations and social movements, based on previously unpublished conversations with the award-winning historian Harry Belafonte was more than a bestselling folk singer and Hollywood’s first Black matinée idol...

The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments. This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something...

“Brian Kilmeade provides us with a variation of Profiles in Courage focused on our Founders. It ranges from John Adams, who made the controversial decision to legally represent British soldiers who were part of the Boston Massacre, to his son John Quincy Adams, who defends the enslaved...

He helped shape OPEC. He helped guide a young Qatar into the modern age. He built a fortune across continents. Then he watched much of it disappear. The Economist is a novel inspired by the extraordinary, never before told true story of Dr. Mostafa Hassan, a young Fulbright scholar who came to...

Judea is one of the most important regions in the modern world. As the center of two of the world’s great religions and extremely important to a third, its history has been littered with wars, insurrections, and religious revolutions. To say that it has had a turbulent past is to understate...

Han var Danmarks statsminister i otte år, men hvem er personen bag politikeren? Det svarer journalisterne Niels Lunde og Henrik Qvortrup på i deres bog om Poul Nyrup Rasmussen fra 1997. ”Nyrup” er historien om Poul Nyrup Rasmussen og Svend Aukens nære venskab og politiske parløb i...

Hans Engell havde kurs direkte mod Statsministeriet, da hans politiske karriere stoppede brat ved mødet med en betonklods. En bøde for spirituskørsel knuste hans drøm om at blive Danmarks statsminister. Han ødelagde det for sig selv, siger mange konservative i dag. De var parat til at tage...

Mogens Glistrup har gennem mere end tredive år spillet rollen som dansk politiks ’enfant terrible’. Han besidder en evne til at udfordre det danske velfærdssamfunds hellige køer, men også en trang til at provokere, som ofte vækker vrede og forargelse. Og prisen har været høj...

From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon the Great, the dramatic story of the team of rivals who propelled the rise and fall of history's greatest warrior. In 1804, immediately after he appointed himself Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the...

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) s'attache dans son quarante-quatrième livre de L'Histoire des Girondins à nous rendre Charlotte Corday d'Armont, née en 1768, descendante du grand Pierre Corneille, fille d'une exquise beauté et d'une grande élévation d'âme, très présente. On vit toute l'évolution qui l'amena à poser ce geste pour une cause juste, selon sa conscience.

The Adventures of Betsey Buck, An American Life, 1783-1819 presents a narrative richly detailing the life of Betsey Buck and her family during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The narrative encompasses aspects of women’s daily life, social customs, economic activities, and significant...

“I often wondered how Kandaya felt as we closed in on him. We had the helicopters, the radios, the firepower. But he had stealth on his side.” Angus Shaw was there when Rhodesia slid into war. Born in the country he would later fight for, Shaw records, first as a civilian newspaper...

So many of our country’s heroes from the past remain unsung. Murarirao Ghorpade is one such. He was a valiant warrior, an articulate statesman and a descendant of the Maratha clan, committed to Hindavi Swaraj.Murarirao independently built a strong and highly efficient military force. He...

The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar. The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in...

For fans of Vanderbilt and The Last Castle, a riveting biography of the reclusive heiress who became a fairy godmother to twentieth-century artists while intently guarding her own secrets. "A journey through the bedrooms and drawing rooms of the twentieth-century art world where luminaries...

More than 2,000 years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of history's most iconic figures. Why does his story fascinate us? Is the version we know and are taught entirely truthful? Was he simply a ruthless general who became a hated tyrant? Or an unlikely savior of a decaying Rome? Would Western Civilization be the same without him? Is his greatness an exaggeration? This book explores all those questions through the telling of his life and accomplishments, along with discussions of the views of historians and others through the centuries following his life.

这部跨越欧亚非大陆的古代军事史诗，将带你摒弃神话滤镜，硬核还原史上最伟大征服者在血腥沙场与王座危机中的真实崛起与帝国裂变。在短短两小时的通勤或沉浸式聆听中，你将见证马其顿方阵如何席卷波斯腹地，并深刻...

在极端的权力洗牌中，一个不到三十岁的年轻君主如何通过一连串高风险决策，彻底重塑古代世界格局？这不仅是一场血脉贲张的军事征服史，更是一次对高压下人性与战略边界的冷酷解剖。每一次兵行险招的背后，都是对生...