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In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood - and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed an older political rift: the splitting of nationalists and Islamists during the rule of Egyptian president and Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel Nasser. Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region.

సీనియర్ జర్నలిస్ట్ ఎం వీ ఆర్ శాస్త్రి ఎన్నో గొప్ప రచనలు చేశారు. ఆయన చేసిన అనేక రచనలు ముఖ్యంగా చారిత్రిక రాజకీయ అంశాల పైనే ఉన్నాయి. భారత దేశ స్వతంత్ర సమరయోధుడు సుభాష్ చంద్ర బోస్ జీవితం పైన కూడా ఆయన ఒక అద్భుత పుస్తకాన్ని రాశారు. భారత స్వాతంత్ర్య పోరాట ప్రధాన ఘట్టాలు, వాటిలో బోస్ పాత్ర, ప్రభావాలపై విఖ్యాత రచయిత ఎం.వి.ఆర్.శాస్త్రి విలక్షణ విశ్లేషణ చేసారు. అందులో భాగంగా నేతాజీ దేశంనుంచి తప్పించుకు పోయిన ఎడ్వెంచర్ ను చిత్రించిన తొలి అధ్యాయం 'ది గ్రేట్ ఎస్కేప్'. ఆయన ఎలా దేశం నుంచి తప్పించుకుపోయారనే అంశాన్ని కళ్ళకి కట్టినట్టు ఇంటరెస్టింగ్ గా పాఠకుల ముందుకు తీసుకొచ్చారు.

આ 'પ્રતિનાયક' પુસ્તક માં ઇતિહાસની એક જબરદસ્ત કરુણાતિકા છે કે ચુસ્ત રાષ્ટ્રવાદી તરીકે રાજકીય કારકેદીનો આરંભ કરનાર ઝીણા કારકેડીના છેલ્લા દશકામાં સાવ સામા છેડે જઈને હિંદુ-મુસ્લિમ વચ્ચે દ્વેષ, ધિક્કાર અને વૈમનસ્યની લાગણી ખુબ ઊંડે સુધી ઉતારી શકવાનું નિમિત બન્યા હતા. આ પુસ્તક માં હિન્દુસ્તાનના અને પાકિસ્તાન વિષે એતિહાસિક વાતો લખવામાં આવી છે.

Alexander is arguably one of the most notable Greek figures, immortalized in stories and legends that are commonly used in mythology classes today. With the lingering feeling of discontent after the Persian invasion and the political unrest that surrounded him, his life made for an interesting topic in Plutarch’s works.

Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is...

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...

Mohandas Gandhi inspired the spiritual and political souls of millions of people. His concept of nonviolent resistance propelled numerous struggles in the world. His own personal and political struggles recorded in his autobiography, The Story of my Experiments with Truth, continues to this day to be a source of inspiration to thousands of people.

Abraham Lincoln by Pradeep Pandit is a biography that chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his role as a nation-changer and American president during a critical time in U.S. history.

The Osama bin Laden I Know is the definitive history of the world's most wanted man. Author Peter Bergen is CNN's terrorism analyst and an acclaimed journalist who actually spent time with bin Laden prior to the events of September 11, 2001. The book features interviews with people from each stage of bin Laden's life, from childhood to the present day, and reveals both formative moments and intimate details that reveal his character and personality.

Lenin's life was full of struggles. Though it began as a rebellion against monarchic rule, it continued even after the birth of Communism. He had to win many an ideological battle in an action-packed life. Listen to this audiobook to learn all about the exciting, inspiring life of one of the world's foremost leaders known for his courage and selflessness.

Winner of the Society of Presidential Descendants Book Award and the Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize One of the Wall Street Journal’s best political books of 2022 A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won...

Mera Aajeevan Karavas by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is a powerful autobiographical account of Savarkar’s life, focusing on his incarceration in the Andaman Cellular Jail. In this audiobook, he vividly describes the brutalities and hardships faced by him during his imprisonment, along with his reflections on the Indian War of Independence.

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.

Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kelly's pinup, and a grandmother who was not only a princess but could also argue the finer points of naval law. Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born at the very end of the Roaring Twenties.

Paul Johnson, the most celebrated popular historian of our time, takes a scalpel to Stalin, whom he considers "one of the outstanding monsters of history." Johnson sets forth the essence of Stalin’s life, character, and career. "It has been a hateful task, which has caused me much pain and disgust," he writes with characteristic candor. "But it has been a duty I have performed not without a certain grim satisfaction."

Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.

Were World Wars I and II–which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction–inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond man’s control? Or were they products of calamitous...

Turning Points takes up the incredible Kalam story from where Wings of Fire left off. It brings together details from his career and presidency that are not generally known as he speaks out for the first time on certain points of controversy. It offers not only insight into an extraordinary personality but also a vision of how a country with a great heritage can become great in accomplishment, skills and abilities through effort, perseverance and confidence.

The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.

In November 2014, 13 members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past 40 years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a much-needed respite, a time to connect, a time to reflect on what the year had brought, and what the future might hold. But this year felt different from all those that had come before.