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A gripping and revealing audiobook that brings to life the rise, power and true character of Henry VIII's most influential servant Known widely as Henry VIII's 'right-hand man', Cromwell has captured imaginations throughout the centuries: but who was he really? In this major new biography...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of...

More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost in its entirety. After the Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War, most of the victors in World War II lost interest in prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Many of the lower-ranking perpetrators quickly blended in with the millions who were seeking to rebuild their lives in a new Europe, while those who felt most at risk fled the continent.

Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies. One of the world's leading Tesla experts, Marc J. Seifer, offers new insight into the brilliant scientist's particle beam weapon (aka the "Death Ray") and explores his military negotiations with pivotal historical figures - including his links to Joseph Stalin, Vannevar Bush, General Andrew McNaughton, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

More than three decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this original collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply...

For all the literature about Adolf Hitler, there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood, to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, to his rise as a far-right party leader.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest. 

When a DNA test blows apart her father’s hidden identity many years after his death, Deb finds she has a sister, Barbara, and an entirely new family she never knew. As the sisters work to unravel more of their father’s secrets, they find his connection to a dark chapter of British-Canadian history. Will the sisters finally get to the bottom of their father’s past? Or are some secrets meant to stay buried forever?

She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories. But there was another side of Dorothy Parker: a private life set on a course of destruction through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol...

The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking audiobook includes 300 obits of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but...

The Book of Margery Kempe is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic from Norfolk. Having married in c. 1393, given birth to 14 children, and pursued unsuccessful ventures in brewing and milling, Kempe made a vow of chastity and embarked on a life of prayer, penance, and pilgrimage.

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears. History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating...

LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026 The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and...

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) s'attache dans son quarante-quatrième livre de L'Histoire des Girondins à nous rendre Charlotte Corday d'Armont, née en 1768, descendante du grand Pierre Corneille, fille d'une exquise beauté et d'une grande élévation d'âme, très présente. On vit toute l'évolution qui l'amena à poser ce geste pour une cause juste, selon sa conscience.

“I often wondered how Kandaya felt as we closed in on him. We had the helicopters, the radios, the firepower. But he had stealth on his side.” Angus Shaw was there when Rhodesia slid into war. Born in the country he would later fight for, Shaw records, first as a civilian newspaper...

在家庭压力与经济困境的夹击下，一个出身低微的印刷学徒凭借极致的自律与自我教育，完成了从帝国忠臣到开国政治家的惊天蜕变。抛开高高在上的伟人神话，这段以第一人称娓娓道来的历史传记，带你沉浸式体验十八世纪...

在极端的权力洗牌中，一个不到三十岁的年轻君主如何通过一连串高风险决策，彻底重塑古代世界格局？这不仅是一场血脉贲张的军事征服史，更是一次对高压下人性与战略边界的冷酷解剖。每一次兵行险招的背后，都是对生...

这部跨越欧亚非大陆的古代军事史诗，将带你摒弃神话滤镜，硬核还原史上最伟大征服者在血腥沙场与王座危机中的真实崛起与帝国裂变。在短短两小时的通勤或沉浸式聆听中，你将见证马其顿方阵如何席卷波斯腹地，并深刻...

Descubra como a curiosidade científica e a ambição transformaram um aprendiz humilde no arquiteto de uma nação livre. Se você busca motivação para o seu crescimento profissional e pessoal, esta biografia histórica envolvente demonstra o poder prático do autodesenvolvimento. Acompanhe...

تتبع رحلة صعود عصامية ملهمة لرجل واجه إخفاقاته بفضول علمي، ليصنع من مطبعة متواضعة تاريخاً حافلاً بالاستقلال والتجريب. رافق شخصية تاريخية في سعيها الدؤوب للترقي...