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『源氏物語』がなければ道長の栄華もなかった！　無官で貧しい学者の娘が、なぜ世界最高峰の文学作品を執筆できたのか？後宮で、道長が紫式部に期待したこととは？

なぜ日本兵１万人が消えたままなのか？滑走路下にいるのか、それとも……民間人の上陸が原則禁止された硫黄島に４度上陸し、日米の機密文書も徹底調査。

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教科書に載っているあの人たちには誰にも言えない過去があった

『忘れられた日本人』で知られる民俗学者・宮本常一とは何者だったのか。その民俗学の底流にある「思想」とは？

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

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ヒトラー、織田信長、ゾルゲ、マリー・アントワネット、ポル・ポト・・・ 多大な犠牲の上に彼らが残した〝黒い足跡〟とは？

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

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ナチスが実現させようとしていた世界とは？

By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued.

In the fall of 1941, as the situation for Jews worsens across Europe, Ibolya (Ibi) Grossman learns she is pregnant. She is scared and confused–a baby during wartime? But her husband, Zolti, assures her, “We need this baby, you will see.”

Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrived in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which took both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto was fresh in their minds, as were their fragile hopes to be adopted.

Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy.

König Ludwig II. von Bayern, sagenumwobener Schöngeist und tragische Figur: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Wladimir Lenin, Revolutionär und Gründer der Sowjetunion: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

From the court of Imperial Russia to Foxley Manor in Herefordshire, the story begins with the First World War. Part One takes the listener through the Russian Revolution to the formation of the Second Polish Republic and the Polish-Bolshevik war. Part Two begins at the outset to World War Two with the German invasion on September 1st, 1939, and the subsequent invasion by the Soviet Union on the 17th of the same month. The listener is taken through the early months of soviet occupation and then on to the first wave of Polish deportations to Siberia.

From the bustling city of Paris to the quaint, countryside village of Champlost, France, Where Courage Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer and her family as they sought refuge from the war.

When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.

Екатерина Великая!.. Действительно она была великая во всех своих замыслах, работах и творческом размахе на всём протяжении своей довольно долгой жизни, половину из которой - тридцать четыре года - она правила государством Российским. Пётр прорубил окно в Европу - Екатерина на месте окна устроила широко раскрытые двери, в которые входило в Россию всё передовое, разумное, мудрое, что было в Западной Европе.

La felicità si impara. E i libertini, nel Settecento, lo sapevano benissimo. Vite libertine è un racconto articolato in undici quadri in cui si incontrano personaggi famosi e meno famosi di un’epoca che ha insistentemente sognato il suo paradiso terrestre. Da Voltaire e Madame du Châtelet, da Casanova al conte di Chesterfield, fino al cardinale Bernis e a La Pérouse navigatore dei sette mari, ognuno di questi, e altri, personaggi è colto in un momento cruciale della sua vita, dove felicità e malinconia, ma anche domande capitali sulla giustizia e sull’uguaglianza, si incrociano.