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On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death to Judas!" In this book, Maurice Samuels gives listeners new insight into Dreyfus himself—the man at the center of the affair. He tells the story of Dreyfus's early life in Paris, his promising career as a French officer, the false accusation leading to his imprisonment on Devil's Island, the fight to prove his innocence that divided the French nation, and his life of quiet obscurity after World War I.

From Colonial America's founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complex legacy of American WASPs through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the clans progress, prosper, and periodically stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of American history emerge.

Sailing Upwind is more than just another memoir of a distinguished former naval officer's highly diverse career. This book by Admiral James "Sandy" Winnefeld is also intended to offer useful reflections regarding how he accepted and managed risk along the way, as well as a concise description of the qualities one must develop to become a successful leader. Winnefeld began his career as an F-14 fighter pilot and TOPGUN instructor, commanded an aircraft carrier, and then served in a variety of flag officer billets on the way to becoming the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Orchard is a poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Discovered by the author's daughter after the author's death, it tells the story of Adele "Kitty" Robertson, young and energetic, but unprepared by her Radcliffe education for the rigors of apple farming in those bitter years of the early 1930s. Alone at the end of a country road, with only a Great Dane for company, plagued by debts, broken machinery, and killing frosts, Kitty revives the old orchard after years of neglect.

At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and fraud, the magus ushered in modern physics and chemistry while also working on everything from secret codes to siege engines to magic tricks. Anthony Grafton's wonderfully original book discusses the careers of men who somehow managed to be both figures of startling genius and - by some measures - credulous or worse.

Heinrich Schliemann, Entdecker des antiken Trojas: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten.

La biografía comienza en medio de la batalla, allí donde el santo siempre estuvo, sobre todo en su vida espiritual, como soldado de Jesús. No es fácil encerrar en unas cuantas páginas la vida de San Ignacio de Loyola, pero eso se ha pretendido, hacer un resumen novelado de los acontecimientos que forjaron a uno de los grandes santos de la iglesia, cuya repercusión aún alcanza en nuestros tiempos, no solamente con su gran fundación, la Compañía de Jesús, sino con sus ejercicios ignacianos.

Отто фон Бисмарк (1815-1898) - первый канцлер Германской империи, повлиявший не только на формирование единого германского государства. Следствием его стратегических замыслов и поступков во многом стала перекройка карты Европы в целом.

Knud Rasmussen (1878-1933) blev født i Grønland, men måtte som 12-årig forlade den elskede ø for at tage på kostskole i Danmark. Som voksen vendte han tilbage til Grønland, men denne gang i en ny rolle som polarforsker. Via sine mange bøger og foredrag om oplevelserne i Grønland og andre polaregne vandt Knud Rasmussen en helt særlig plads i kulturhistorien og har i dag status som en legendarisk opdagelsesrejsende. Forfatter Niels Fenger, der selv havde en stærk tilknytning til Grønland, fortæller her om Knud Rasmussens spændende liv og hans usædvanlige personlighed.

Quando fu deportata Ines Figini aveva meno di 22 anni. Non era ebrea, partigiana o antifascista, ma si era schierata a favore di alcuni compagni di lavoro durante uno sciopero. Così finì nei lager di Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau e Ravensbrück e infine in un ospedale militare, dove trascorse un anno e mezzo. Ha atteso più di cinquant'anni prima di parlare in pubblico della sua vicenda: ora la racconta in questo libro. È la storia di una famiglia ma è anche una storia di fabbriche; e di una città - Como - punto strategico per le forze nazifasciste. 

Author William G. Hyland Jr. pierces Jefferson's private family veil and reveals poignant little-known scenes of the relatives closest to Jefferson in his last years. Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets is the first biography to uncover the dynamic relationship Jefferson had with his adult grandchildren. With a novelist’s skill and a scholar’s meticulous detail, Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets explores new ground in Jefferson’s autumn years as a waning patriarch, enduring physical illness and family strife. 

"Wir schweigen nicht, wir sind Euer böses Gewissen, die Weiße Rose lässt Euch keine Ruhe!", hieß es auf einem Flugblatt der kleinen studentischen Widerstandsgruppe in München, zu dessen innerem Kreis neben Alexander Schmorell und Hans Scholl dessen jüngere Schwester Sophie, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf sowie der Universitätsprofessor Kurt Huber gehörten. Selbst vor Roland Freisler sprach die 21-Jährige im Gerichtssaal unbeirrt aus, was sie dachte: "Was wir schrieben und sagten, das denken Sie alle ja auch, nur haben Sie nicht den Mut, es auszusprechen."

From pop culture and politics to tourism and heritage, and from the Jazz Age to the climate crisis, it's impossible to imagine the 20th century without the discovery of Tutankhamun - yet so much of the story remains untold. Here, for the first time, Christina Riggs weaves compelling historical analysis with tales of lives touched by an encounter with Tutankhamun, including her own. Treasured offers a bold new history of the young pharaoh who has as much to tell us about our world as his own.

Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family; they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From their father - ‘the greatest Englishman’ - to their brother, golden boy Randolph, to their eccentric and exciting cousins, the Mitford Girls, they were surrounded by a clan of larger-than-life characters which often saw them overlooked. 

Самые актуальные и яркие произведения Иосифа Сталина. В настоящем сборнике вниманию слушателя предлагается несколько произведений Иосифа Виссарионовича Сталина. Одни из них широко известны - это программные работы, определявшие политику СССР. Другие - известны менее, однако они содержат мысли актуальные и в наши дни.

Strappato alla sua infanzia serena nel villaggio di Skarzysko-Kamienna, in Polonia, dopo aver vissuto l’opprimente miseria del ghetto ed essere stato costretto a lavorare in una fabbrica di munizioni, l’11 aprile 1945 Romek Wajsman viene liberato dalle truppe statunitensi. Romek ha solo quattordici anni, e insieme a lui e al futuro premio Nobel Elie Wiesel, quel giorno, nel campo di Buchenwald vengono trovati più di quattrocento giovani ebrei. Sono bambini e poco più: ragazzi denutriti, spaventati, già segnati dal senso di colpa, senza nessuno da cui tornare.

She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world where white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America — the right to cast a ballot — in a state in which Blacks constituted nearly half the population.

In 1986, when her mother died at the age of 64, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting. 

Anatol Gotfryds mitreißende Erzählung und Harald Schröpfers angenehme Stimme fesseln den Hörer von Anfang bis zum Ende. Gotfryds idyllische Heimat Galizien ist nicht plötzlich nicht mehr, wie sie einst war, als sie 1939 von der Roten Armee und zwei Jahre später von den Deutschen besetzt wird. Er beschreibt, wie er dem Tod nur knapp entkommen konnte sowie seine Zeit auf der Flucht. Die Geschichte eines Lebens, das voller Rückschläge und Gefahren und schließlich doch von großem Erfolg geprägt war.

4 giugno 1944, gli americani entrano a Roma. Elsa de' Giorgi, grande attrice del cinema italiano di quegli anni, di famiglia antifascista e lei stessa antifascista, scende in via Quattro Fontane per porgere a un soldato una bandiera tricolore. La de' Giorgi è di una bellezza sfolgorante, ha appena sposato il nobile Sandrino Contini Bonaccossi ed è corteggiata da tanti. In casa sua passano Carlo Levi e Alberto Moravia, Renato Guttuso e Pietro Nenni. E nei suoi quaderni raccoglie i ritratti di quegli e degli altri uomini dell'antifascismo e della Resistenza romana.