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Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first ever trial of an...

What kind of man creates a boy who never grows up? More than 100 years after Peter Pan first appeared on the London stage, author J. M. Barrie remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in modern literature. A few facts, of course, are widely known: Peter Pan made Barrie the richest author of his time, and he bequeathed the royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. In this brilliant biography, Lisa Chaney goes beyond the myths to discover the fascinating, frequently misunderstood man behind the famous boy.

As the first Russian bombs drop on Oulu, Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War, Aarne Kovala is a young boy with a great love of the sea. While the war rages, Aarne takes fate into his own hands and joins the Finnish merchant marines. He spends his days delivering war materials between Finland, Poland, and Germany. But when Finland’s ties with Germany are severed after the signing of the Moscow Armistice in 1944, Aarne and his fellow sailors are arrested by the Nazis and sent by cattle car to the infamous Stutthof concentration camp deep in the Polish forest.

Die Anonyma berichtet von massenhaften Vergewaltigungen von Frauen im besetzten Land durch Rotarmisten. Die Rache der Sieger in den Ruinen von Berlin berührt ein Tabuthema. Die Schreckenstage, festgehalten in Schulheften und auf Zetteln, hörten Zehntausende von Leserinnen und Lesern.

The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine Black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard-opposition so intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division were called in to restore order.

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with...

Janina ist zehn Jahre alt und wächst wohl behütet in Polen auf. Als die Deutschen 1939 das Land überfallen, wird ihre Welt mit einem Schlag zerstört. Neben Bombardierung, Flucht und Hunger zeigen sich bald noch schlimmere Folgen der deutschen Invasion: Janinas Familie ist jüdisch und die Zwangsumsiedlung in das Warschauer Ghetto wird angeordnet. Unsentimental schildert Janina David das Leben im Ghetto. Sie beschreibt, ohne jemals das Auffassungsvermögen eines Kindes zu überschreiten, die Menschen so, dass sie uns unvergesslich vor Augen stehen und nicht vergessen werden können.

A LIFE LOST. A LOVE CUT SHORT. 'From the moment I set eyes on him I adored him. The connection between us was so strong it went beyond everything else. His job, my job, his lifestyle, my lifestyle. All that fell away...' Christina and Oz had their whole lives ahead of them. Oz was one of only a...

Traudl Junge war 22 und träumte von einer Karriere als Tänzerin als sie die "Chance ihres Lebens" bekam: Adolf Hitler bat die junge Sekretärin zum Diktat. Von 1942 bis zu Hitlers Tod war sie stets an seiner Seite, tippte seine Reden, seine Briefe und sogar sein so genanntes "privates" und "politisches" Testament. Unmittelbar nach dem Krieg zeichnete Traudl Junge ihre Erlebnisse zwischen Führerbunker und Berghof auf.

Was Andy Warhol a hoarder? Did Einstein have autism? Was Frank Lloyd Wright a narcissist? In this surprising, inventive, and meticulously researched look at the evolution of mental health, acclaimed health and science journalist Claudia Kalb gives listeners a glimpse into the lives of high-profile historic figures through the lens of modern psychology, weaving groundbreaking research into biographical narratives that are deeply embedded in our culture.