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The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II a saga of love, adventure, and danger. On New Year s Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were...

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle...

The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers, needed it most. An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more...

Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck lag mit schwersten Verletzungen und erblindet vor Stalingrad und hatte keine Hoffnung. Doch er wurde gerettet. Als einer der letzten wurde er aus der Hölle geflogen. Fast 80 Jahre später, mit knapp 100 Jahren Lebensweisheit, blickt Schönbeck nun gemeinsam mit Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Tim Pröse zurück: Auf seinen inneren Widerstand gegen Hitler. Auf die verpasste Gelegenheit, ihn zu töten, als Schönbeck nach der Schlacht in Hitlers Nähe kommandiert wird. Ein paar Nächte schläft er auch neben Graf Stauffenbergs Bombe.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Hurricane Girls by Jo Wheeler, read by Claire Rushbrook. While their husbands, brothers and sweethearts fought in Europe and their mothers, sisters and friends kept the home fires burning, for the first time, a group of remarkable women took to the...

Napoléon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), usually referred to as simply Napoleon in English, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.