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The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history. From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history. French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or running messages for the French resistance, their stories of courage, creativity and genius have long defined French history.

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: "If we lose the war, we'll be tried as war criminals."

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol...

This critically acclaimed account of the Battle for Okinawa is told through the eyes of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, the senior staff officer of the 32nd Japanese Army. It features segments on the Japanese preparation for battle, the American assault, and a summary of how the battle ended. Following the events that occurred in the life of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, journalist Frank Gibney is able to lay out the importance of the battle and the ways in which both parties fought hard and strategically. 

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know® offers an even-handed and judicious guide to the world's most intractable dispute. Writing in an engaging, jargon-free Q&A format, Dov Waxman provides clear and concise answers to common questions, from the most basic to the most contentious. Covering the conflict from its nineteenth-century origins to the latest developments of the twenty-first century, this book explains the key events, examines the core issues, and presents the competing claims and narratives of both sides.

The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.

One of the last cavalry units to ride horses into battle, the Sherwood Rangers were transformed into a “mechanized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. After winning acclaim in the North African campaign, they spearheaded one of the D-Day landings in Normandy and became the first British troops to cross into Germany. Their courage, skill, and tenacity contributed mightily to the surrender of Germany in 1945.

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)...

Master two millennia of epic European history in this fast-paced narrative of royal conquests and bloody revolutions. Perfect for your daily commute or travel preparation, this immersive audio journey transforms a complex past into an engaging saga. Watch as a patchwork of Celtic tribes and...

For almost four desperate years between 1939 and 1943, British and American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolf packs. The Allies might never have turned the tide of that historic battle without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the last great untold stories of World War II.

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's best-selling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.

絶対的な権力を誇った超大国の終焉は避けられない運命だったのか。ソ連崩壊という20世紀最大の歴史的事件の裏側で交錯した権力闘争と人々の選択を、わずか2時間の濃密な物語として鮮やかに描き出します。通勤中や日...

This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who—in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old—joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps—a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships. Their call sign was "ten dead, zero alive." This book offers a new perspective on these infamous suicide pilots. It is not a chronicle of war, nor is it a collection of research papers compiled by scholars. It is a transcript of Odachi's words.

東西冷戦によって引き裂かれた市民の日常と、歴史を根底から覆した分断と統合の軌跡を没入感とともに味わえる、圧倒的な現代史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜の学習のひとときに耳を傾けるだけで、大...

国家崩壊の危機と新たなイデオロギーが激突するアジア近代史の巨大な転換点を、重厚かつドラマチックに描き出す歴史ノンフィクションの傑作です。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや、毎日の単調な通勤時間を、激動の二...

人類史上最大の犠牲を出した第二次世界大戦の全体像を、複雑に絡み合う国際秩序の崩壊と総力戦の構造から鮮やかに解き明かします。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜のひとときに、歴史のうねりと人間社会が辿った破滅への...

第二次世界大戦末期の混乱に消えた莫大な財宝の伝説と、ナチスによる略奪の残酷な現実が交錯する歴史ミステリーがここにあります。毎日の通勤時間や夜の深い静寂の中で、重厚な過去の闇へと没入し、事実と噂の境界...

深い思索に耽る夜や日々の通勤時間の中で歴史の暗部に向き合うとき、個人の野望ではなく社会全体の選択がいかに合法的に独裁を生み、民主主義を崩壊させたかという事実が、重厚な警告として耳に響くはずです。敗戦...

"We had to take that island to speed the end of the war against Japan." But the capture of Iwo Jima had come at great cost. Sixty-thousand marines had landed on the barren, volcanic island. For five weeks these men would become involved in some of the bloodiest and fiercest fighting of the Second World War. One third of them would end the battle either dead or wounded. The U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima, written by five official marine combat writers who personally saw action on the island, provides vivid insight into the battle that was described as "a nightmare in hell."

信仰の熱狂と冷酷な権力闘争が渦巻く中世の十字軍遠征という壮大な歴史ドラマが、あなたの日々の通勤時間や静かな夜のひとときを、深く没入できる知的な探求の旅へと変貌させます。西欧キリスト教世界、イスラム世...