Presidents & Heads of State

The arms race between the Soviet Union and the USA was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world....

In six weeks in 1940, France was overrun by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England....

Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations....

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has been one of the most iconic figures of Independent India....

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

The life story of India's 11th President, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, who started off as an insignificant little boy Rameswaram, but ended up becoming the president....

This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country....

P. V. Narasimha Rao (or PV, as he was popularly known) has been widely praised for enabling the economic reforms that transformed the country in 1991....

Household names nominate leaders from the past for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives....

A biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures, Victorious in Defeat provides a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world....

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation....

Spanning 1940 to 1965, this volume picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister - when Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany....

Plain Speaking is a book based on conversations between Merle Miller and the thirty-third President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. From these interviews, as well as others who knew him over the years, Miller transcribes Truman’s feisty takes....

The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant....

The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964....

Vladímir Ilich Lenin, su verdadero nombre, fue un famosísimo revolucionario ruso, líder bolchevique, político comunista, principal dirigente de la Revolución de octubre y primer dirigente....

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate....

Charnwood describes the frontier life and continual self-education that developed Lincoln’s rare character and helped him to adapt to great events and demands such as few other men have experienced....

From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington....

In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times....

Benjamin Netanyahu is embroiled in numerous scandals, all of his own making, and may soon be ousted from the office he has held longer than any prior Israeli prime minister outside of David Ben Gurion....

Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate....

How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.

A major new biography - an extraordinary, penetrating study of the man who has become the personification of evil....

De Vita Caesarum ("About the Life of the Caesars"), commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of 12 biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus....

Die ganze Dramatik des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts, in dem die französische Revolution dem Absolutismus der Bourbonen den Garaus macht, lässt sich am Schicksal der österreichischen Kaisertochter Marie Antoinette nachvollziehen. Dauphine mit 15 – Königin von Frankreich mit 19, unberührt vom Wandel der Welt um sie herum im Kokon von Versailles Königin des Rokoko. Mit vollen Händen wirft sie das Geld für jede Art von Luxus aus dem Fenster, während das französische Volk hungert.

Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of The Man I Knew, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls.

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: George Washington, Königin Elisabeth II, Winston Churchill, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Golda Meir.

But in darkness, leaders emerge to shine a light of hope to guide people. During the American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant emerged to guide the nation to victory, then to the beginnings of reconciliation.

L’interferenza nelle elezioni americane, il sostegno alle forze populiste in Italia e in tutta Europa, la guerra in Ucraina. Negli ultimi anni, la Russia di Vladimir Putin ha condotto una poderosa campagna per espandere la sua influenza e indebolire le istituzioni occidentali. Come è potuto accadere? E, soprattutto, chi si nasconde dietro questo piano ambizioso? Catherine Belton, giornalista investigativa già corrispondente da Mosca, racconta la storia segreta dell’ascesa al potere di Vladimir Putin e del ristretto gruppo di ex agenti del KGB che lo circonda.

Never before has anyone explored the mind, soul, and heart of Ronald Reagan. The Search for Reagan explores the challenges and controversies in Reagan's life and how he successfully dealt with each, depicting a man who was never as conservative as some conservatives wanted him to be, but rather as conservative as he was comfortable being—a man who wanted to win on his own terms and integrity.

Jimmy Carter, amerikanischer Präsident und Friedensnobelpreisträger: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Michail Gorbatschow, russischer Präsident und Friedensnobelpreisträger: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Der Held des 20. Jahrhunderts: Er hat Hitler aufgehalten. Unter den herausragenden Politikern des 20. Jahrhunderts ist Churchill der schillerndste. Hollywood hat den Adeligen mit der Zigarre längst zu einer Film- und Heldenfigur überhöht. Seine Sätze, dass er etwa »außer Blut, Schweiß und Tränen« nichts zu bieten habe, sind geflügelte Worte. Churchill gilt als einer der größten Redner der Geschichte, hat seinen aufwendigen Lebensunterhalt als Schriftsteller und Journalist bestritten und wurde mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet.

Thomas Jefferson, Gründervater der USA und dritter Präsident: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Konrad Adenauer, erster Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian president and Nobel Peace prize laureate: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.

¿Qué pasa si en un país inestable aparece un líder inestable? Este libro quería ser una radiografía de la nueva derecha que hoy tiene como líder a Javier Milei. Pero con el correr de los meses, de las entrevistas, de los encuentros off the record, de seguir facturas, sellos y papeleríos, el trabajo pasó de ser uno de campo con ribetes casi académicos a un thriller tragicómico, a medio camino entre los policiales negros de Raymond Chandler y La conjura de los necios de John Kennedy Toole. Los secretos místicos de Milei fueron la primera revelación que obligaron a cambiar los planes.

Lech Walesa, Gewerkschaftler und polnischer Staatspräsident: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!