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Penguin Classics presents Henry James' Washington Square, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by William Hope. "Why, you must take me or leave me ... You can't please your father and me both; you must choose between us" When...

The Future of War - which covers civil wars to as yet unknown nuclear conflicts, proxy wars (real) to the Cold War (not), fashionably small wars to the War to End All Wars (it didn't) - is filled with insight and fascinating nuggets of military history and culture from one of the most brilliant military and strategic historians of his generation.

The classic first-hand WWII narrative that chronicles the Marines’ savage five-day struggle to wrest Mount Suribachi from its tenacious Japanese defenders during their 35-day battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. Revised with a new introduction by the author and recently discovered photos, this book served as invaluable source material both for James Bradley’s best-seller Flags of Our Fathers as well as Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed film of the same name.

Vol de nuit est un roman d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, paru en décembre 1931 aux éditions Gallimard, avec une préface d'André Gide. - Le roman obtient la même année le Prix Femina (1931). - L'action de ce roman se situe en Amérique du Sud, à l'époque des débuts de l'aviation commerciale. Saint-Exupéry, qui fut en 1929 directeur de l'Aéropostale d'Argentine, raconte la vie menée par le chef d'une compagnie aéropostale, Rivière, et par son équipe de pilotes.

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule, and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?

On a cold February day in 1944, a British intelligence officer knelt in a Northamptonshire field, staring into a crate of onions. Hidden inside: Nazi explosives, bound for British ships, planes and factories. He began to dismantle the bomb, dictating every move into a field telephone. One slip...

華やかな表通りの裏側に潜む、権力への熱き反骨と市民革命の記憶を辿り、ヨーロッパ随一の抵抗の都市史を鮮やかに描き出します。古代の小さな集落は、いかにして王権や格差に抗う熱狂的な民衆の舞台へと変貌を遂げ...

現代の中東情勢とエネルギー危機という複雑な地政学のパズルを解き明かす鍵は、一人の独裁者によるクウェート侵攻という激動の歴史に隠されています。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスタイムを利用して、局地的な紛争が...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around...

El nuevo thriller histórico de uno de los autores de Carmen Mola Almería, 1952. Un hombre huye despavorido de unos jóvenes que lo acosan con perros adiestrados para matar. Su cadáver es abandonado, brutalmente mutilado, en una playa de la idílica Mojácar. Para resolver el crimen, la...

Escrito no século IV a.C., A Arte da Guerra é um tratado militar composto por 13 capítulos que descrevem estratégias de guerra, que foi utilizado como inspiração por personalidade como Napoleão Bonaparti. O que faz a obra ser tão consagrada e permancer popular até os dias atuais é seu caráter humano que transcende o propósito original da obra e dialoga com os desafios do dia-a-dia, em ambientes competitivos como o mundo corporativo, ou no cotidiano, com os pequenos enfrentamentos.

Touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and spreading all too quickly beyond the expectations of those who were involved, World War I was an unprecedented catastrophe with a ghastly cost. After this first "total war"-the first conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory at any price - the world itself would never be the same.

“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — The Boston Globe One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Historian...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Real men fought for our freedoms. It’s time we fought for theirs. Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was...

La Segunda Guerra Mundial fue y sigue siendo la guerra más grande de todos los tiempos. Más de cincuenta y cinco millones de personas fallecieron durante los seis años de actividad bélica. La cruenta guerra terminó cuando EUA utilizó un arma colosal jamás vista antes y considerada la más peligrosa hasta hoy en día: la bomba atómica. Setenta países participaron en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. De un lado estuvo Alemania junto a muchas otras naciones, por ejemplo, Japón e Italia. El otro bando estuvo conformado por potencias como Inglaterra, Francia, Estados Unidos, Rusia y China.

He Leadeth Me is a deeply personal story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father...

Brought to you by Penguin. Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts...

Le 9 novembre 1942 dans la prison militaire de Berlin, après 18 mois de détention commune et quelques heures avant son exécution, Fernand Rahier faisait parvenir à André Thielemans ses mémoires destinées à sa femme. Le 10, André quitte Fernand et profite d'un transfert pour dissimuler dans ses propres affaires ces pages. Les divers magasins d'habillement des prisons furent donc pendant plus de deux ans et demi les fidèles gardiens des mémoires de Rahier.

George Armstrong Custer attended West Point, graduating in the Class of 1861. He served as an officer in the United States Army during the Civil War. He was present at the Civil War's first major engagement, the First Battle of Bull Run, and was the officer who received General Robert E. Lee's Flag of Truce, marking Lee's surrender, at the end of the war. 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and on Today! “A nonfiction thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal From New York Times and international bestselling author of the “gripping” (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author)...