Titoli in Guerre e conflitti

In 1940, with the Nazis sweeping through France, Henri Matisse found himself at a personal and artistic crossroads. His marriage had ended, he was gravely ill, and after decades at the forefront of modern art, he was beset by doubt. As scores of famous figures escaped the country, Matisse took refuge in Nice, with his companion, Lydia. By defiantly remaining, Matisse was a source of inspiration for his nation.

Robert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. While he could be cold and arrogant, he was an invaluable friend to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as US secretary of defense and had a deeply moving relationship with Jackie Kennedy. McNamara was the leading advocate for American escalation in Vietnam during the summer of 1965, strongly urging Johnson to send hundreds of thousands of American ground troops just weeks before he concluded that the war was unwinnable. 

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history and it inflicted some of the worst civilian casualties of World War Two. When Hitler declared his intention to obliterate the key city of Leningrad on 22 September 1941, he...

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain.

'Beautiful. It looks and reads like a novel . . . all queuing up to lavish praise upon [this] book." James O'Brien 'An absolutely thrilling read based on deep research which brings this MI5 asset's importance to life.' Gordon Corera, co-host of The Rest is Classified 'Kerbaj is well-placed to...

Na een Oscar te hebben gewonnen, verdiept Willeke van Ammelrooy zich in de Japanse interneringskampen door een dagboek van Toos Blokland, met aangrijpende, poëtische verhalen van die tijd.

Hunderttausende Deutsche flohen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs vor der Roten Armee aus Ostpreußen und Königsberg. Immer wieder gingen Kinder auf der Flucht verloren oder erlebten die Ermordung der eigenen Familie. Andere mussten ohnmächtig mit ansehen, wie ihre Geschwister verhungerten, die Großeltern aus Schwäche starben oder die Mutter einer Epidemie erlag. Auf sich allein gestellt, überlebten diese Kinder in den Wäldern des Baltikums. Man nannte sie „Wolfskinder".

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.

Fritz Kleinmann fasst einen unglaublichen Beschluss. Da er seinen Vater nicht allein lassen will, folgt er ihm nach Auschwitz. Jeremy Dronfields Bestseller „Der Junge, der seinem Vater nach Auschwitz folgte" ist ein eindringliches Plädoyer gegen das Vergessen. Basierend auf den geheimen Tagebüchern des jüdischen KZ-Häftlings Gustav Kleinmann, erzählt der Autor in diesem historischen Sachbuch die Geschichte von Gustav und seinem Sohn Fritz, die den „Todesfabriken" der Nazis entkamen.

Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans—as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals—this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written "live" by "Shalash" during and after the Second Iraq War. Shalash the Iraqi is here presented in its first authorized translation, with the blessing and commentary of "Shalash" himself.

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought - and whose outcome was in greater doubt - than one might imagine. This is the war that Americans on the home front would have read about had they had access to previously censored testimony.

Raid a Bagdad, venti di guerra Usa-Iran: Perché Trump lo ha fatto, di Federico Rampini; Americani nel mirino e confini in allarme. La miccia è accesa, di Francesca Caferri; L'incubo di una nuova guerra, di Bernardo Valli; Tensioni Usa-Iran, l'irritazione del governo: "Siamo stati tenuti all'oscuro del raid", di Tommaso Ciriaco; Usa, l'ultima crisi è con l'Europa: "Che delusione", di Federico Rampini; Conte: "Sì a una missione dell'Europa per impedire la guerra", di Stefano Cappellini.

In Hitler's Army, Omer Bartov focuses on the titanic struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union—where the vast majority of German troops fought—to show how the savagery of war reshaped the army in Hitler's image. Both brutalized and brutalizing, these soldiers needed to see their bitter sacrifices as noble patriotism and to justify their own atrocities by seeing their victims as subhuman. 

Bloomsbury presents Speak, Silence by Carole Angier, read by Kristin Atherton. A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands ‘Spectacular’ Observer ‘A remarkable portrait’ Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most...

Brought to you by Penguin. Franci's War by Franci Epstein is read by Suzanne Toren, with an afterword, editorial notes and acknowledgements read by Helen Epstein. What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live? In the summer of 1942...

THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF READERS WORLDWIDE. NOW, THE COFFEE SHOP DOORS WELCOME YOU HOME ONE LAST TIME... Kabul, August 2021 Sunny Tedder is back in her beloved coffee shop. After eight years away, she's thrilled to reunite with her Kabul 'family': Yazmina now runs a...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed. It created long-lasting aftershocks which travelled far beyond its geographical borders. How did it happen? What were the sequence of events that led, following the shocking upheaval of the old Romanov order, to a fierce and violent rivalry between a variety of revolutionary factions and the ultimate victory of the Bolsheviks?

NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEK In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil “The book is a page turner...

When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down...

La extraordinaria historia de cómo un cónsul y sus aliados ayudaron a salvar a miles de judíos del Holocausto en una de las mayores operaciones de rescate del siglo XX.