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Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published.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.

Tropic of Cancer is regarded as a masterpiece, with Time magazine rating it as one of the 100 most important novels of the 20th century. It is an unforgettable, confessional, warts and all novel of the author and his friends riotous adventures in Paris during the Depression. It changed censorship laws in the US where it was published decades after it was written, and reading it today amplifies the debt that modern writers owe Miller.

Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century literature. Better known in Europe than in his native America for most of this career, he achieved international success and celebrity during the 1960s when his banned "Paris" books - beginning with Tropic of Cancer - were published here and judged by the Supreme Court not to be obscene. Until then he had toiled in relative obscurity and poverty.

Brought to you by Penguin. In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's...

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during WWII included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju? This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history.

Henry Miller's gifts of profundity, humor, and spiritual sensitivity are well displayed in this collection of insights into the human character. The pieces range from the delightfully raucous to the metaphysically illuminating. The pieces range from the delightfully raucous to the metaphysically illuminating. Included here are mini-portraits of the renowned—Swiss astrologer Conrad Moricand, collage artist Jean Varda, Swiss-French novelist Blaise Cendrars, and American painter Beauford Delaney—as well as the anonymous figures who crossed Miller's path, including his first high school romance…

In his great triptych The Millennium, Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for 15 years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place - one of the most colorful in the United States - and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there.

Lexie und River – die Geschichte der beiden beginnt irgendwo im Nirgendwo von Tennessee. In einem heißen Sommer geht Lexies Schulzeit allmählich zu Ende. Als wäre das nicht aufregend genug, tritt auch noch River in ihr Leben – und verändert damit alles. Von nun an ist er immer an ihrer Seite: bester Freund, Musiker und Retter in wirklich jeder Not. Nächster Halt ist ein Studium in Kalifornien: Aus Träumen werden Pläne und gemeinsam machen sich Lexie und River auf den Weg in die große, weite Welt. Doch wie sieht eine Zukunft aus, wenn man alles füreinander, aber nur als Freunde verbunden ist?

Autor de novelas polémicas pero monumentales como Primavera negra y Trópico de Capricornio, cuyo tono crudo y sensual escandalizaron a los Estados Unidos de mediados del siglo XX, Miller influyó notablemente en la llamada Generación Beat, denunciando la hipocresía moral de la sociedad norteamericana y los tabúes existentes en su seno.

Mentre la guerra si avvicina, Henry Miller si gode l'occasione di fare un viaggio in Grecia, la prima vera vacanza da vent'anni e forse l'ultima almeno per un lungo tempo. Si imbarca da Marsiglia alla volta del Pireo per raggiungere l'amico Lawrence Durrell che si trova a Corfù. Inizia così un'avventura alla scoperta di un mondo stupefacente, mitico, unico, dove gli si rivelano bellezza e miseria di un paese che è ancora un sacro recinto, con ritmi, tempi, riti tutti suoi.

This audiobook tells the story of Henry Ford, along with his invention, the popular Model T automobile.

The innocent and insolent Daisy confronts the traditions of old Europe and confounds all of the people (especially the men) who surround her. All throughout the story, there are classic Jamesian views on the differences between English and American societies.

Una morte sconvolgente, ossessivamente annunciata, preparata con implacabile meticolosità e infine celebrata dinanzi al mondo come un rituale spettacolare e tragico. L'uscita di scena di Mishima ha rappresentato al tempo stesso l'apoteosi del personaggio, condannato da un demone inquieto a una vita perennemente sopra le righe, e la parola conclusiva dello scrittore, la sigla di un'opera in cui gioventù, bellezza e morte appaiono intrecciate in un destino ineluttabile.

Brought to you by Penguin. Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen. But six years after her last match, she watches a young British tennis player steal her world record - and Carrie knows she has to go back and reclaim her rightful place at the top. Even if the world doesn't...

Lexie und River sind in Los Angeles heimisch geworden. In der Stadt der Engel arbeiten sie an ihrer beruflichen Zukunft und perfektionieren den California Way of Life. Neben Flip-Flops und Worten liebt Lexie nach wie vor River, der in ihrem Leben überall und doch nirgends ganz ist. Und dann taucht auch noch Kate auf, die anders als Rivers vorherige Beziehungen zu einer echten Konkurrenz wird. Lexie merkt, dass ihre Liebe vielleicht nicht genug ist und der Weg zu sich selbst manchmal lang und oft einsam sein kann.

Mitten in ihrer Studienzeit kommt für Lexie die große Chance: ein Praktikum im weit entfernten England. In London ist sie zum ersten Mal ganz auf sich allein gestellt. Zwischen Tower Bridge und Big Ben trifft sie ihre toughe Mentorin und ein neues Maybe: Rivers besten Freund Will. Doch River ist trotzdem nah und mit ihm die Erinnerung an geteilte Nächte und gehauchte Innigkeit … immer begleitet von der Angst, dass sie zwar für immer zusammen, aber vielleicht nie eins sein werden. Immer noch du erzählt von Freundschaft und großer Liebe, die sich oft verändert und doch immer beständig ist.

Henry plays 7 records from his collection and talks a bit in-between. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leona hat eigentlich alles: ein Leben inmitten von Luxus, Exklusivität und High Society, einen ungewöhnlichen Job und Tyler – charismatischer Verlobter und tougher Geschäftsmann. Doch der Countdown zu ihrer Hochzeit läuft – und dann tritt auch noch Lucas in ihr Leben. Was macht man, wenn der Boden unter den Füßen plötzlich weg ist? Man fällt. Oder man beginnt zu fliegen.

Brought to you by Penguin. The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England...

Hunter war einst alles, was Rose wollte. Doch hinter der perfekten Fassade ihrer Beziehung fühlt sie sich verloren. Rose beginnt an allem zu zweifeln – vor allem an sich selbst. In einer einsamen Nacht begegnet sie Nate, der sie daran erinnert, wer sie einmal war … und für einen Moment fühlt sie sich wieder lebendig. Aber wie weit darf man gehen, um sich selbst wiederzufinden? Eine Geschichte über verlorene Träume, die Macht der Worte und die Wahrheit, die heilt – oder zerstört.