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The definitive biography of the father and son who reshaped the ancient world. “Brings to life the full drama of ancient history.” —Wall Street Journal Alexander the Great's conquests staggered the world. He led his army across thousands of miles, overthrowing the greatest empires of his...

The invention of the telephone changed the world. That’s no exaggeration. Phones are such ubiquitous features of our lives now that it can be difficult to imagine life without them, or to understand just how astonishing this invention truly was in the 19th century.

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. “[An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging...

Alexander Hamilton was an illegitimate self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who overcame all the odds to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Few figures in American history are more controversial than Alexander Hamilton. In this masterful work, Chernow shows how the political and economic power of America today is the result of Hamilton's willingness to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time.

A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient world. Yet Alexander represents only half of the story, for his success was not just the product of his own genius, restless energy and ambition, but was built on decades of effort by his father. 

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian...

Plutarch: Alexander is the essential companion to Plutarch's Caesar, the life paired with Alexander in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. This new English version of Alexander is followed by an Afterword about Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by the translator, Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.

An entertaining look at the life and wisdom of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, long before becoming the subject of the runaway Broadway hit Hamilton: An American Musical. Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more...

Sophie und Hans Scholl - Widerstand ist lebenswichtig. Flamme sein! Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche und erschütternde Zeitreise und erläutert verständlich und strukturiert Basiswissen zum Leben des mutigen Geschwisterpaares. Sophie Scholl (1921 - 1943) ist in Forchtenberg geboren. Ihr kurzes Leben wird vom Widerstand gegen die Nationalsozialisten geprägt.

Anne Frank - Ein Mädchen mahnt die Welt. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Zeitreise und erläutert verständlich und strukturiert Basiswissen zum Leben des tapferen Mädchens. Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (1929 - 1945) wird in Frankfurt am Main geboren. Ihr Vater Otto Heinrich Frank, der im I. Weltkrieg Offizier war, ist Unternehmer und ermöglicht seinen Töchtern breite bürgerliche Bildung. Bereits vor der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten 1933 kommt es zu antisemitischen Übergriffen.

Leo Trotzki - Revolutionär, Weltbürger und Stalingegner. Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold vermittelt strukturiert Basiswissen und erläutert kenntnisreich den Lebensweg Trotzkis und seine Rolle als Befehlshaber während der Oktoberrevolution 1917 in Russland. Leo Trotzki (1879-1940), dessen richtiger Name Lew Davidowitsch Bronstein ist, wird in Janowka, dem heutigen Bereslawka, in der Ukraine geboren. Der ausgezeichnete Schüler sympathisiert früh mit den Sozialdemokraten. 1899 wird er verhaftet und nach Sibirien verbannt.

Wladimir Iljitsch Uljanow (1870 - 1924) ist in Simbirsk, dem heutigen Uljanowsk geboren. Seine christliche Familie ist wohlhabend und niederen Adels. Seine Tätigkeit als Rechtsanwalt füllt ihn nicht aus. Ab 1900 gründet Lenin mit Revolutionären im Exil eine russischsprachige Zeitung "Iskra" (Funke), in der Uljanow fortan unter dem Decknamen "Lenin" seine Ideologie des späteren Leninismus verbreitet. 1902 publiziert er die Schrift "Was tun?".

A sweeping, riveting history of the Venetian Ghetto, the world’s first Jewish ghetto. 'Brilliantly researched and deeply moving' - Roger Crowley, author of City of Fortune 'Alexander Lee combines expertise in Venetian history, with sensibility to the Jewish past, and a gift for story-telling...

Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolo` Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? In Machiavelli: His Life and Times, Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father's penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher's hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile.

The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. "Grand-scale...

For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years—a period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.

"Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia, Central Asia, parts of South Asia, and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India12.

On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters. But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship...

Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ancient history because of his legendary conquests throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was born in 356 BC to the noble family of Macedon. As such, he was afforded with great luxuries growing up including having Aristotle as his private tutor. After his father was assassinated, he took over the throne and inherited a formidable army which he would put to tremendous use. Alexander was just in his early 20s when he embarked on an ambitious expansion of his territories.

“A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon Woo A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great...