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Eine der zentralen Figuren des NS-Regimes im Spiegel seiner Zeit. Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942) war einer der mächtigsten Männer des »Dritten Reichs«: Als Leiter des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes und engster Mitarbeiter Heinrich Himmlers lenkte er den Terrorapparat der Nationalsozialisten. Robert Gerwarth folgt in seiner Biographie dem steilen Aufstieg Heydrichs und beleuchtet dessen Rolle im NS-Regime sowie die Stilisierung zum Märtyrer nach seinem Tod durch ein Attentat in Prag.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This is the official OpenStax U.S. History audiobook, produced by Audileo, an authorized OpenStax Technology Partner. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Middle East conflict is one of the most covered and least understood stories in modern history. The headlines never stop. The context almost never arrives. The Middle East Conflict: A Plain-English Guide to What's Actually Happening is the...

Born in 1968 during the chaos of the Tet Offensive, he entered the world fighting for his life. Fragile and uncertain, his earliest days were shaped by war, separation, and the quiet strength of a grandmother who became his refuge. As Saigon fell in 1975, his family escaped on one of the last helicopters out of Vietnam leaving behind not only their homeland, but a younger brother and a piece of their hearts that could never be reclaimed. In America, survival took on a new meaning. No longer threatened by bombs, he faced poverty, isolation, and the struggle of growing up between two worlds.

Roy Raisor signed up to go to Vietnam before he was even eighteen years old, proudly intending to serve his country and do his patriotic duty. Like many of the young men that served in the Vietnam War, he came face-to-face with a situation entirely different than what he expected. Inside, you will find the story of Roy's time in Vietnam through a first-hand account of his experiences. Written even for those that don't have a military background or much knowledge of the War itself, Roy tells of battles and what really happened on the front lines.

Ce second volume nous entraîne au cœur des choix politiques qui maintiennent Goebbels enchaîné à Hitler. L'homme, qui a rassemblé les masses en une communauté nationale derrière le Führer à partir de 1933, cumule les fonctions et ne cesse de renforcer ses pouvoirs durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale où il parvient à imposer le concept de « guerre totale ». Fidèle parmi les fidèles, sa soumission absolue l'entraîne jusqu'à la mort : la sienne et celle de sa famille au complet.

The son of the FBI's most wanted woman tells the electrifying story of a childhood on the run – and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America We all grapple with a past that defines us: culture, religion, a family story. But what happens when you inherit a revolution? Zayd Ayers...

From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world's most precious relics In 1942, as head of the newly formed OSS, Wild Bill Donovan...

The Sceptic Isle provides a bold reassessment of how the British government sold the Second World War to the British public. It powerfully showcases the major credibility gap that cast a long shadow over the British government's efforts to sell the different dimensions of the Second World War to the home front.

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France...

One of the most powerful defenses of conscience, courage, and moral conviction ever written. In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Henry David Thoreau delivers a passionate and uncompromising response to one of the most controversial events in American history. Written after John Brown's raid on...

Two and a half centuries. Thirteen colonies to fifty states. From Lexington to the smartphone, from the Declaration to the Dust Bowl, from Appomattox to 9/11—the full story, told in one audiobook. In July 2026, the United States marks two hundred and fifty years since the Declaration of Independence. A quarter of a millennium of revolution, war, expansion, struggle, invention, immigration, and reinvention. A story that began with thirteen colonies on the edge of an empire—and produced the most powerful country in human history.

O rei Xerxes comanda dois milhões de homens do Império Persa para invadir e submeter a Grécia. Em uma ação suicida, uma pequena tropa de 300 temerários espartanos segue para o desfiladeiro das Termópilas para impedir o avanço inimigo. Eles conseguem conter, durante sete dias sangrentos, as tropas invasoras. No fim, com suas armas estraçalhadas, arruinadas na matança, lutam “com mãos vazias e dentes”. Relatados diretamente ao rei pelo único sobrevivente grego, os fatos são apresentados ao ouvinte de maneira vívida e envolvente.

Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put to his head in April 1945. Although eagerly anticipated around the world, there were no available witnesses to his suicide—and his corpse was not put on display. This created the perfect vacuum for myth and survival legends, while rival intelligence agencies and propaganda further confounded the investigations of successive historians.

After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just eleven when the Nazis invaded and he and his family were forced to move into the Kovno Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto was one of the only ghettos to later become a concentration camp, and Sol was among just a few Jewish survivors from Kovno...

America’s founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today’s standards. It influenced their politics, built and sustained their relationships, and drove the economy. Booze was not a small part of colonial society, nor covertly consumed in private spaces—it was integral to...

The Holocaust: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of this seismic event in mid twentieth-century human history. The book takes an original approach as both a narrative and thematic introduction to the topic, and provides a core foundation for readers embarking upon their own study...

An acclaimed historian presents a sweeping new look at the Declaration of Independence, focusing not on the lofty principles of the preamble but on the list of grievances leveled against King George III. For the 250 years since it was written and proclaimed to the world, the Declaration of...

How did a remote desert people change the course of world history? In the seventh century AD, the Eastern Roman Empire collapsed—defeated by the rising power of Arabia. How did this happen? And why then? In this gripping new history, Nick Holmes offers a fresh view of the end of the Ancient...

The spectacular story of America’s hundredth birthday bash—the country's first world's fair and a moment of reckoning for a nation barrelling toward the Gilded Age “Those who were there felt that the wheel of history itself had turned before their eyes.” Held at Fairmount Park, in...