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Sara Daniel, a star European correspondent and one of the few women reporters covering Iraq, dares to venture where few have gone, in this gripping and fascinating memoir. In June of 2002, war looms and Saddam Hussein still has a brutal grip on a nation in disarray. Sara Daniel travels the length and breadth of Iraq, following the fast-evolving events and interviewing people from all walks of life and all religious and political affiliations: from the Kurds in the north to the rising new politicians in Baghdad and beyond....

On the evening of 21st November 1974, bombs planted by the IRA in two crowded Birmingham pubs exploded, killing 21 people and injuring at least 170. Within a day of the explosion, six men - Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power, Johnny Walker and Hughie Callaghan - were arrested and charged. All were found guilty. Methodically, with total clarity and a tone that is both gripping and impassioned, then investigative journalist Mullin unpicked every detail of the case.

Australia is a proud country full of proud people, but exactly what are we proud of? Comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie delves deep into Australia's past and has a good old rummage amongst the nation's personal effects. With wit, perspicacity and a healthily elastic attitude to historical accuracy, the great saga of Australia is unravelled like an old woolly jumper. For anyone who snoozed through history class at school, this is the book to get you all caught up.

El pronunciamiento de julio de 1936 y la guerra civil no fueron inevitables. La República pudo prevenir el golpe de estado y desarticular la conspiración que había ido tejiéndose durante años. Ángel Viñas desvela cómo los servicios de defensa interior y exterior detectaron los riesgos y amenazas de involución, pero también cómo los gobiernos de Azaña y Casares Quiroga desoyeron el ruido de sables contra la democracia.

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Look closely at almost anything and you’ll find data—lots of it. But when you push past the calculations, what are all those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? CNN’s Harry Enten is on a mission to find out. Harry teases out big ideas like what accents say about where we live, how much money it takes to be happy, and whether the U.S. should finally switch to the metric system.

Error Code 404 is a podcast created to open up the world to different perspectives.

Este libro recoge mi testimonio sobre esos hechos, en lo que respecta, principalmente, a la intervención del gobierno del cual yo hacía parte, como ministro de Justicia, en esos hechos y, en general, sobre lo ocurrido en la Casa de Nariño, durante las 28 horas que duró la Toma y en las horas...

On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in the initial air strike of the Persian Gulf War. Moments after an attack by an Iraqi MIG-25, Speicher's plane vanished over the Baghdad desert. The next day, Secretary of State Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell told the American public that Speicher was the first casualty of the Gulf War. He was listed as KIA/BNR.

Fueron muchas las razones por las que el Tercer Reich no produjo nunca una bomba atómica. Entre ellas, que no creyeron poder lograrlo antes de que acabara la guerra y se concentraron en otras cosas más perentorias. Pero esta creencia obedeció en parte a un error científico crucial, que les hizo pensar que la energía nuclear estaba mucho más lejos de lo que quizá podría haber estado. ¿Pudo ser diferente? ¿Existió alguna posibilidad de que la Alemania Nazi consiguiese la bomba atómica a tiempo y así cambiar el curso de la Historia para siempre? Pues... sí, pudo ser. Esta es la ...