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¿CUÁNTAS DE LAS GRANDES HISTORIAS, PERSONAJES Y SÍMBOLOS QUE CREEMOS UNIVERSALES TIENEN, EN REALIDAD, UN INESPERADO VÍNCULO CON ESPAÑA? ¿Y SI ESPAÑA HUBIERA INSPIRADO AL MUNDO MUCHO MÁS DE LO QUE CREEMOS? Javier Rubio Donzé, uno de los divulgadores históricos más reconocidos de...

How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost. The Normans made their influence felt across all of western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the British Isles to North Africa, and Lisbon to the Holy Land. In Empires of the Normans we discover how they combined military might and political savvy with deeply held religious beliefs and a profound sense of their own destiny. 

An audiobook to help make books part of your life. For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life. The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI’s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven...

As long as there has been fascism, there has been anti-fascism - also known as "antifa." Born out of resistance to Mussolini and Hitler in Europe during the 1920s and '30s, the antifa movement has suddenly burst into the headlines amid opposition to the Trump administration and the alt-right. In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and former Occupy Wall Street organizer Mark Bray provides a detailed survey of the full history of anti-fascism from its origins to the present day - the first transnational history of postwar anti-fascism in English.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2 by James Holland, read by Leighton Pugh. In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941–1943: Hitler’s invasion...

The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the...

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe.

London in April, 1940, was a place of great fear and conflict. Everyone was on edge; civilization itself seemed imperiled. The Germans are marching. They have taken Poland, France, Holland, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia. They now menace Britain. Should Britain negotiate with Germany? The members of the War Cabinet bicker, yell, lose their control, and are divided. Churchill, leading the faction to fight, and Lord Halifax, cautioning that prudence is the way to survive, attempt to usurp one another by any means possible.

King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world’s press revealed the king was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson. A life spent in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire. Drawing on personal accounts from the royal archives, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict.

The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Život Julia Agricoly (De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae). S pojednáním o poloze, podnebí a obyvatelích Británie. Tacitovo dílo věnovaného životu Gnaea Julia Agricoly, římského vojevůdce a místodržitele...

The Dutch East India Company, officially the United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie; VOC), was a megacorporation created in the early 17th century by a government-directed merger of many competing Dutch trade services. You might think that Amazon or Google is big, but the VOC is still thought to be the world's biggest corporation in documented history.

In a tale replete with scandal and opulence, Luke Barr, author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970, transports readers to turn-of-the-century London and Paris to discover how celebrated hotelier César Ritz and famed chef Auguste Escoffier joined forces at the Savoy Hotel to spawn...

Ontdek hoe kwetsbare boerendorpen in de ruige Alpen uitgroeiden tot de meest stabiele, neutrale natiestaat van Europa. Deze meeslepende historische vertelling neemt je mee langs eeuwen van interne strijd, sluwe allianties en constante dreiging van machtige buren. Het is het ultieme verhaal over...

在列强环伺的欧洲地缘政治绞肉机中，一个松散的贫穷山地联盟竟凭着残酷的雇佣兵传统与极致的政治妥协，硬生生杀出了一条绝地求生的建国之路。如果你正处在人生的迷茫期，或是渴望在每日通勤的喧嚣中获取冷峻理性的...

Sfata il mito della nazione alpina ed esplora i crudi conflitti geopolitici che hanno forgiato la sua neutralità. Perfetto per chi desidera trasformare il pendolarismo quotidiano in una sessione di apprendimento attivo, questo saggio storico offre uno sguardo rivelatorio sulle reali dinamiche...

تتبع كيف تحولت قرى جبال الألب المعزولة إلى قوة سياسية محايدة في تاريخ أوروبي مليء بالصراعات الدامية والتحالفات المعقدة. عبر تجربة استماع تأملية ترافقك في...

Descubra como vilarejos isolados nos Alpes forjaram a história de uma nação neutra em meio ao caos político europeu. Esta narrativa histórica envolvente transforma o seu trajeto diário em uma viagem imersiva pela formação de um dos territórios mais intrigantes do mundo. Longe das...

巨大な帝国がひしめくヨーロッパの歴史の中で、険しいアルプスの小さな村落共同体はいかにして「永世中立」という高度な生存戦略を獲得したのか。知的な探求心を満たしたい通勤や散歩のひとときに、知恵と妥協が織...