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‘[A] rich, stylish and immersive epic’ Irish Independent ‘Deeply researched and fascinating’ The Guardian ‘[Rory Carroll is] an exceptionally gifted storyteller’ Max Hastings ‘A gripping read’ The i Paper ‘A thrilling account of one of the most unpredictable, memorable and...

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The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921...

The book outlines his many achievements apart from his steadfastness in the face of adversity, his strength of character and qualities of leadership that distinguished him from the others and set him apart in a class of his own. He was in the Army at a time when turbulent and tumultuous changes...

Many rescuers often say they only did what any decent person would have done in their position, and yet we know that is not true. They did what so many others did not do.

Una historia real de supervivencia en Alaska, resiliencia y superación del trauma. En este sendero, la probabilidad es un rumor –susurrado a través de la determinación, el dolor y el traqueteo de lo que queda en pie. Desde muy joven, David se vio empujado a la implacable naturaleza de...

An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman emperor Septimius...

Read by the author, Robert Hardman. An intimate, authoritative, richly entertaining new portrait of Elizabeth II in her centenary year from the Sunday Times number 1 bestselling author of Charles III. Biographer and royal commentator Robert Hardman has had unique access to the world of the late...

"Remarkably shrewd and surprisingly amusing" WILLIAM BOYD, Guardian "This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer" FRANCESCA WADE, author of Square Haunting "Utterly charming. A book as elegant, sharp-witted and mischievous as its subject" CLARE POLLARD...

An “eminently readable and beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) chronicle of Colombia’s descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal. When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, champion of...

"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy.”—Dan Jones, The Sunday Times From one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the...

By the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior—“El Norte Misterioso” —where he was turned back by fierce indigenous resistance that...

‘Remarkable and haunting . . . a revelation’ Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes ‘A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity ‘Truly beautiful and...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...

Before his fiftieth birthday, Teddy Roosevelt had served as a state legislator in New York, undersecretary of the navy, police commissioner of New York City, governor of New York, and two terms as Vice President and then president of the United States. He also had run a cattle ranch in the Dakota Territories, had worked as a journalist and editor, conducted scientific expeditions on four continents, raised five children, and enjoyed a fulfilling marriage with his wife. No wonder he continues to capture our imaginations as he did the loyalty and respect of his own time.

In seinen Memoiren beschreibt Willy Beckel viele Aspekte des Alltags, die das Leben von Kindern und Jugendlichen während des Deutschen Kaiserreichs in den Jahren um 1912 prägten. Sie bleiben spannend zu lesen, da sie eine längst vergangene Welt beschreiben, die heute noch Relevanz hat. Das Leben einer städtischen Großfamilie, die meist im Mittelpunkt steht, fehlt nicht in dieser Hommage an seine Eltern, die viele bedeutende Ereignisse in Leipzig während der Kaiserzeit erzählt. Seine Memoiren sind gute intellektuelle und zeitlose Gedankenkost.

Step into one of the earliest and most powerful works of American literature with A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson. First published in 1682, this gripping firsthand account chronicles Rowlandson’s eleven-week captivity during King Philip’s War and her struggle for survival in the harsh New England wilderness. Blending spiritual reflection, colonial history, and personal endurance, Rowlandson’s narrative offers an unfiltered glimpse into early American frontier life.

The story of a fervent atheistic communist woman in Moscow who was denied entrance to medical school because she was Jewish. She applied to leave Russia and was denied, thus becoming a Refusenik. It describes her two-year tortuous struggle to leave, her humorous adjustment to American society, and her challenging journey to become a physician and learn what it meant to be Jewish. Her historian husband interweaves her life with the history of Soviet Russia and the Cold War period, including the fail of the Soviet Union.

Jana Hensel war dreizehn, als die Mauer fiel. Von einem Tag auf den anderen war ihre Kindheit zu Ende. Die vertrauten Dinge des DDR-Alltags verschwanden gleichsam über Nacht – plötzlich war überall Westen, die Grenze offen, die Geschichte auch. Eine ganze Generation machte sich daran, das veränderte Land neu zu erkunden. Jana Hensel erzählt von ihrem Leben in der Schwebe zwischen Ost und West.

A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.