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Reis door de meeslepende Europese geschiedenis en ontdek hoe eeuwen van machtsstrijd een verdeelde natie vormgaven. Van woeste Germaanse stammen die de Romeinen trotseerden tot de verwoesting van de wereldoorlogen; deze epische tijdlijn brengt een complex en woelig verleden ongekend dichtbij...

عش تفاصيل أول مواجهة مسلحة في الحرب الباردة، حيث رسمت المدافع والدماء حدود خط العرض 38 للأبد. ينقلك هذا السرد التاريخي المشوق إلى قلب شبه الجزيرة الكورية لتعيش...

当冷战格局的宏大博弈演变为失控的血腥泥潭，无数普通平民的命运在现代战争史的炮火中被无情撕碎。沉浸在充满悲悯与残酷真实的历史纪实中，你将跨越宏观政治的冰冷数据，直击战火中挣扎求生的真实个体。无论你是想...

Verken de schaduwwereld van politieke spionage en dodelijke geheime operaties die de Amerikaanse macht dicteren. Deze meeslepende politieke geschiedenis biedt de perfecte, bloedstollende verdieping voor tijdens je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer. Luister hoe een bescheiden inlichtingendienst...

Bloomsbury presents Case Green: The Birth of the Wehrmacht by Robert Forczyk, read by Martin Handley. This fascinating new study from renowned historian Robert Forczyk tells the story of the Wehrmacht from its birth in 1935 through to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Adolf Hitler...

Soldier, spy, scout, saboteur, and French Resistance leader in the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe--the untold story of Marine legend Pete Ortiz. Major Pierre “Pete” Ortiz was a Manhattan-born and Paris-educated polymath fluent in five languages. An adventuresome French Foreign Legion veteran...

A fresh, unforgettable, and deeply personal true story of World War II, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich that brings to light the vile Nazi policy under which Germans with Jewish ancestry were persecuted and condemned to death—including two young children from an ordinary working-class...

Efter seks års rædsler er krigen endelig slut. Men byer over hele Europa er forvandlet til murbrokker, fabrikker og veje er ødelagt, og alt er til salg for et par kartofler eller en smøg. Millioner af flygtninge strejfer rundt, mens nye regeringer med hjælp fra USA prøver at få styr på...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War’s most intrepid spies. “[An] immensely exciting, fast-moving account.”—The Washington Post...

After decades of concealing the full account of her experiences, Holocaust survivor Beatrice Sonders (Basia Gadzuik) writes her story of survival and courage in the face of ultimate horrors.

Brought to you by Penguin. With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely...

The summer of 1940 found 60-year-old firebrand Leon Trotsky living in exile in Coyoacan, Mexico, still agitating with his pen and raging against the death he felt certain Stalin was bound to deliver - any day now. In The Death of Trotsky, Cecelia Holland brings this fated and fatal day to life, from its quotidian beginnings to its dramatic close. Between Trotsky's waking and his final rest, she probes the outer-workings and inner thoughts of those who were with him till the end, illuminating a man who exited life as he lived it: defiantly.

The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the 20th century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.

In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a chaotic savagery beyond any comparison.

The story of the Internet begins in the early 1960s, when Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial earth satellite. Afraid of the technological potential of the Russians, the United States Department of Defense formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), in order to develop US science and technology, and in particular its application in the military.

He's been called "America's greatest living tailor" and "the most interesting man in the world." Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his whole, incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age 15 and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Greenfield came face-to-face with "Angel of Death" Dr. Joseph Mengele and was divided forever from his parents, sisters, and baby brother. In haunting, powerful prose, Greenfield remembers his desperation and fear as a teenager alone in the death camp.

当物理天才掌握足以毁灭世界的极致武力，他不仅终结了二战，也把自己推向了冷战政治绞肉机的深渊。这是一段交织着科学狂热与权力倾轧的沉重历史，将带你重返曼哈顿计划的惊涛骇浪。在巨变时代中，一位纯粹的学者被...

当一位天才物理学家将终极毁灭武器交入人类手中，他在改写二战战局的同时，也永远跌入了无法挣脱的伦理困境与历史深渊。站在洛斯阿拉莫斯荒原的狂风中，这位深陷内心冲突的科学家既要对抗法西斯的致命威胁，又要承...

当人类命运在核战争边缘摇摇欲坠，短短十三天的大国极限博弈与情报暗战，写就了冷战历史上最惊心动魄的生存危机。在缺乏全貌的迷雾中，华盛顿与莫斯科的每一次决策都可能触发末日按钮。无论你是利用通勤的碎片时间...

当高层权力斗争的狂热席卷全国，时代洪流中的普通人如何在长达十年的社会重组与群众运动中艰难求生？这段跨越一九六六至一九七六的历史绝非偶然，而是多重政治矛盾叠加后爆发的系统性震荡。对于渴望在通勤或碎片时...