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What happens when two mortal enemies decide to collaborate? In August 1939, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin shocked the world by signing a pact that defied ideology, morality, and reason. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, sworn adversaries, agreed to divide Eastern Europe, silence their armies...

As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair. “This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN...

苦境を超えて、部下を守り抜く――指揮官の資質と能力とは？ 太平洋戦争末期、ラバウルで10万人もの軍人の命を守り、終戦後も、部下たちの心に寄り添い続ける――不滅の仁将の智勇を、現代の視点で捉え直した力作評伝。

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction audiobook provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War - from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers.

聖地をめぐるキリスト教とイスラム教の壮絶な宗教戦争は、単なる文明の衝突ではなく、現代にまで至る世界の秩序と信仰のあり方を決定づけた壮大な歴史の転換点でした。知的好奇心が満たされる毎日の通勤時間や、歴...

冷戦時代の分断された世界を舞台に、国家の威信をかけた月面着陸競争の影で繰り広げられたソ連の巨大宇宙計画の軌跡を丹念にたどる歴史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や一人静かに思索に耽りたい夜に、技術と政...

大国による絶え間ない支配と侵略の連続に対し、2000年にわたり独自のアイデンティティを守り抜いた抵抗と生存の壮大な歴史ドラマがここにあります。日々の通勤や知的な集中を求める静かな時間に、激動の東南アジア...

第一次世界大戦後の社会不安から独裁体制の台頭まで、一見無関係な歴史的要因が第二次世界大戦という巨大な悲劇へとつながる「選択の連鎖」を解き明かす歴史ノンフィクション。通勤の移動中や静かに思考を深めたい...

強大なロシア帝国の崩壊から共産主義の誕生まで、理想と欲望が交錯する激動の世界史を追体験し、現代社会のルーツを深く理解する圧倒的な歴史ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤時間や知的好奇心を満たしたい夜のひとと...

This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.

Threatened with extermination, many Jewish people refused to go passively to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during World War II and instead put up heroic resistance. Prisoners at Sobibór and Treblinka organized successful revolts, while at Auschwitz they sacrificed their lives to dynamite the crematorium. Beyond the barbed wire of the camps, hundreds of Jewish people were active in the French resistance and thousands fought with partisans in other occupied countries. One and a half million more served in the Allied armed forces.

Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and...

地図から国境が消滅する絶望的な悲劇と、幾度もの戦争を乗り越えて蘇る国家の軌跡を描き出す、心揺さぶる壮大なヨーロッパ歴史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や知的好奇心を満たしたい夜のひとときに、大国に翻...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Seabiscuit comes the incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic...

王朝の興亡と巨大な城壁の建設、そして社会を根底から覆す革命という3つの軸から四千年の中国史を解き明かす、知識ゼロからでも没入できる壮大な歴史ドキュメンタリー。複雑な年号の暗記から解放され、悠久の時を...

圧倒的な物量差という冷酷な現実の前で、歴史の転換点となった太平洋戦争終盤の軍事的敗北と人命の犠牲を体系的に紐解く重厚なノンフィクション。静かな夜のひとときや通勤の移動時間に深く没入できる、厳粛かつ省...

スペイン帝国の周縁に過ぎなかった地がいかにして南米独立運動の中心へと変貌したのか、植民地統治の軋轢と激動を描く歴史ノンフィクションが幕を開けます。毎日の通勤時間を利用して、知的好奇心を深く満たすドラ...

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.

Discover the gripping, untold story of one of World War II’s most elite fighting forces—the Fallschirmjäger. In The Fallschirmjäger: Germany’s Elite Airborne Soldiers, Mick Trenlow Symes meticulously examines the rise, legacy, and ultimate fall of these extraordinary German paratroopers, providing a comprehensive account of their military prowess and significance during the Second World War. This audiobook offers a deep dive into the world of the Fallschirmjäger, exploring their origins, training, pivotal battles, and the profound influence they had on modern airborne warfare.

The man known to most of the world as Emperor Hirohito ruled during some of the most tumultuous years in Japanese history. When he came to the throne in 1926, he inherited control of a country which had only recently emerged as a major industrial and world power. Through the aggressive expansion and wars of the 1930s, Hirohito was at the head of one of the world’s foremost powers. Throughout the maelstrom of World War II, he remained in power, a distant and, to most outsiders, inscrutable factor in the rise of the Japanese Empire.