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«Вчерашний мир» — последняя книга знаменитого австрийского писателя Стефана Цвейга, созданная в изгнании, в самый разгар Второй мировой войны. Прежде всего, это книга-прощание. Последний раз Стефан Цвейг оглядывается на величественное здание европейской культуры, приговоренное к сносу немецкими войсками. Перечисляет названия книг, городов и улиц, счастливые и печальные события, из которых сложилась первая половина ХХ столетия, с любовью пишет о людях, знакомством с которыми гордится.

Bella Ciao: The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini is a scathing, cinematic takedown of Europe’s original fascist showman. From street-brawling socialist to self-anointed Caesar, Mussolini built a myth—then drowned in it.

Imagine a time when Europe lay shrouded in tyranny—cities crumbled, millions displaced, and freedom silenced under Nazi rule. Yet from 1944 to 1945, a decisive series of Allied campaigns shattered the iron grip of oppression. The Final Push: How Europe Was Liberated! tells the story of that transformative moment—when ordinary people and extraordinary leaders joined across continents to bring an end to Hitler’s tyranny and restore freedom to a broken world.

Forbidden Secrets & Hidden Files of the World takes you deep inside the declassified files, buried records, and long-suppressed truths from the United States of America, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, the Soviet Union, and beyond. Packed with real-world government cover-ups, military secrets, and firsthand accounts, this book exposes the stories too wild—and too real—to be fiction.

In the annals of military history, few events resonate with the same improbable intensity as the evacuation of Dunkirk. The Miracle of Dunkirk: 10 Facts About WWII’s Amazing Evacuation delivers a vivid, gripping, and expertly researched account of this defining moment during the Second World War—not just as a story of retreat, but of remarkable courage, unity, and resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.

Counting bodies in Vietnam. In this earthy war/peace novel, comedy frames grim pictures of war. Morris weaves combat, a love affair, and military satire—acted out by grunts, hookers, Vietcong soldiers, spies, heroes, and inane officers—into a story that is by turns terrifying, gruesome, and comic.

As a regional direct response Quick Reaction Force in the northern Sangin river valley of Helmand Province, the Marines are immediately put to the test, narrowly avoiding one calamity after the next. This untold story personalizes the broader themes of America's war in Afghanistan through the brutal experiences of a small Marine unit who volunteered to fight it.

In this authoritative revisionist history, Sarah M. S. Pearsall restores the shock and drama of that epoch-defining moment, revealing how the fires of change that sparked the American Revolution were igniting all around the world. From St. Kitts to Kolkata, Ghana to Guangzhou, all kinds of people, not just the men declaring independence in Philadelphia, asserted their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Pocos hechos históricos fueron reseñados con tanto rigor y detalle como el Holocausto, esa hoguera malvada en la que seis millones de judíos perdieron la vida. Hasta ahora, los protagonistas centrales de aquel relato habían sido los adultos, o su mirada, mientras que los niños quedaron...

He wasn’t born to rule—he decided to. Seize the Crown tells the story of how a boy from Corsica rose to dominate Europe—not just with armies, but with ideas, optics, and unstoppable momentum. This isn’t a dry military chronicle or another romantic portrait. It’s a forensic breakdown of how Napoleon hacked power, reshaped law, manipulated myth, and became the blueprint for modern authoritarianism.

Churchill’s Secret Warriors tells the electrifying story of the Special Operations Executive (SOE)—the shadowy organisation Britain created in World War II to fight the Nazis from behind enemy lines. This book pulls back the curtain on one of history’s most daring and unconventional wartime initiatives. Born in desperation after the fall of France and the near-collapse of Europe, the SOE was Churchill’s audacious answer to the Nazi stranglehold across the continent.

En 1943, los oficiales de la SS alemana a cargo del campo de concentración Auschwitz-Birkenau ordenaron la formación de una orquesta entre las prisioneras. Durante nueve meses cruciales, entre 1943 y 1944, Alma Rosé, virtuosa violinista y sobrina de Gustav Mahler, reclutó y dirigió a las mejores intérpretes entre la vasta población cautiva, sin importar la nacionalidad, etnia o lengua materna. Casi cincuenta mujeres y niñas de 11 países integraron esta banda que era obligada a tocar marchas en cualquier condición climática y a dar conciertos semanales para los oficiales nazis.

„Świetnie napisane. Dowiedziałem się więcej o człowieku, który uratował mojego Ojca" – Andrzej Szpilman.

This is the never-before-told story of Harold Derber, the debonair British Merchant Navy veteran who pioneered the modern drug trade with his groundbreaking invention: the drug mothership. Through his ghost fleet of drug ships, Derber eventually became the chief supplier of marijuana to post-war America. This gripping true tale follows Derber from humble beginnings in Manchester, England, to his assassination in the sun-kissed streets of Miami.

Jocko Willink et Leif Babin ont été déployés sur le champ de bataille le plus violent et le plus dangereux d'Irak. En tant que responsables de l'unité Cogneur de l'équipe SEAL Trois, leur mission était impossible : reprendre la ville de Ramadi, bastion d'Al-Qaïda réputé "perdu". Après avoir quitté les équipes SEALs, ils ont créé une société, Echelon Front, pour enseigner ces mêmes principes dans le monde civil.

History is not just a tale of treaties, timelines, and tyrants. It’s a story of people—conflicted, courageous, calculating, and sometimes catastrophically wrong. Strife! pulls listeners deep into Europe’s tumultuous march from the ashes of Napoleon to the thunderclap of September 1939, not through dry recitations of dates, but through the eyes of those who lived, ruled, broke, and burned. Following the companion volume on Asia’s path to war, this second book in the Strife! series dives headfirst into Europe’s long and winding road to World War II.

La guerra del 1914-1918 fu il primo conflitto che coinvolse tutti i paesi d'Europa. Due possenti coalizioni, l'Intesa (Gran Bretagna, Francia e Russia) e gli imperi centrali (Germania e Austria-Ungheria), si misurarono in uno scontro tanto violento quanto logorante. In termini di costi economici e umani - nove milioni di morti - i quattro anni di combattimenti ebbero sulle potenze belligeranti un effetto disastroso.

Le témoignage d'une femme médecin déportée à Auschwitz

Kaum ein Ereignis der deutschen Geschichte hat eine solch symbolische Kraft entwickelt wie der Anschlag auf Hitler vom 20. Juli. Tobias Kniebe hat die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf der dramatischen Vorgänge präzise rekonstruiert: Wie verliefen die Planungen? Woran genau scheiterte der Staatsstreich? Wie erlebte die Familie Stauffenberg die tragischen Ereignisse?

Holmes and Watson at the darkest place on earth in April 1945.