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Dieses fesselnde historische Hörbuch zeigt im Zentrum blutiger Religionskriege den Überlebenskampf einer Königin. Perfekt für lange Pendelfahrten oder fokussierte Hörstunden, zieht dich die spannungsgeladene Erzählung direkt an den französischen Hof der Renaissance. Hier verwandelt sich...

The accession of Henry VII (reigned 1485-1509) to the throne of England, leading to the end of the Wars of the Roses, opened the door to Tudor rule, setting a different character to the monarchy. In Volume 3 of The History of England, Hume traces the story through turbulent and unpredictable...

The final installment of Adolfo Ovies’s groundbreaking The Boy Generals trilogy races from the Shenandoah Valley to Appomattox with the rapidity of a headlong cavalry charge. The turbulent events of the closing months of the Civil War serve as a backdrop for the increasingly dysfunctional—and bitter—relationship between George Armstrong Custer and Wesley Merritt.

Now more than ever, our children need to learn about the people who live all around the world. This engaging guide to other lands weaves world history into a storybook format. Designed as a project for parents and children to share (or for older listeners to enjoy alone), this book covers the major historical events in the years 1600-1850 on each continent, with tales from each culture.

Il est Napoléon le Grand : après Austerlitz, qui peut arrêter l'Empereur des Français ? Il bouscule les Rois, à Iéna, à Friedland, à Wagram. Il conquiert les femmes. Marie Walewska, la Polonaise, et Marie-Louise, l'Autrichienne, la petite-nièce de Marie-Antoinette ! Son fils, le Roi de Rome, descend donc de l'Empereur d'Autriche. Quel parcours ! Napoléon, que nous suivons pas à pas, s'humanise. Amant impérieux de Marie Walewska et mari attentionné de Marie-Louise, il voudrait retenir l'histoire, ne pas avoir à engager le fer contre le Tsar. Mais il est emporté : "Et ainsi la guerre aura lieu malgré moi, malgré lui", confie-t-il.

16世紀の引き裂かれたフランスを舞台に、血を洗う宗教対立と熾烈な権力闘争が渦巻く中、三人の息子を通して王冠を守り抜いた一人の女性の壮絶な統治史が幕を開けます。毎日の通勤時間や知的なインプットを求める静...

From Vietnam to the global battle against communism – spies, secrets and the story of the CIA under Lyndon B. Johnson The utterly gripping, award-winning drama Central Intelligence returns, revealing further inside stories of the CIA and featuring an all-star cast. Told from the perspective of...

Erlebe packende Weltgeschichte durch den epischen Aufstieg und dramatischen Fall eines Reiches auf drei Kontinenten. Perfekt für den täglichen Arbeitsweg oder entspannte Spaziergänge, tauchst du in diese fesselnde und dynamische Erzählung ein. Begleite mutige Grenzkrieger aus Anatolien auf...

In this third volume of Michael Logusz's epic study of the Wilderness War of 1777, a sizable British military force, augmented with German and loyalist soldiers, attacks the Northern Army's southern front in the fall of 1777 in hopes of assisting a much larger British Army that is threatened to the north of New York City in the wilderness region of Saratoga.

The second volume of David Hume’s classic survey of English history covers nearly 300 years (1200-1485) from the long reign of Henry III to the dramatic end of Richard III on Bosworth Field – he was the last Plantagenet, and the last king of England to die in battle. In these last centuries...

«Fue en una de aquellas jornadas, que en la memoria se te empastaba como un continuo sin descansos y donde las anécdotas se te apelmazaban en el recuerdo, todo perseguido por un sueño que nunca llegaba, que te descubriste, al pie de un cañón y animando a los artilleros a que corrigieran la...

Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war. Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006, the elite 3...

Más allá de vencedores y vencidos, con una mirada que permite al lector acercarse de una manera distinta al pasado reciente, Alejandro Rosas y Sandra Molina concluyen su apasionante y perturbadora revisión de la Historia de México. Su trabajo inicia con el recuento de una fallida democracia...

My name is Presto, and I am a still a ghost. I came to London as a penniless orphan from Athy, Ireland. Now I am in Queen Elizabeth's personal Secret Service. I am to accompany her Earl of Essex — the new Lord Deputy of Ireland, as he tries to put down a rebellion that has spread across the island in 1599. Through many treacherous perils, I will accompany the two Rebel Chieftains – Hugh Roe O’Donnell, and Hugh O’Neill – the Earl of Tyrone, as they prepare to do battle with my Earl’s English and Royal armies. My Fate, and that of Ireland’s, are tied to the battles that lay ahead.

Ce roman historique saura plaire aux milliers de lecteurs déjà séduits par les récits de Jean-Pierre Charland.

This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.

Avec "Le Duel", Frédéric Mitterrand nous fait vivre le terrible affrontement qui opposa deux géants de l'histoire : Napoléon III et Victor Hugo. Un récit écrit à hauteur d'homme, vivant, tendu, marqué par la passion et la violence, sur les convulsions de la haine en politique et le rapport de fascination entre hommes de pouvoir et écrivains. Le 2 décembre 1851, le président de la République Louis Napoléon Bonaparte viole la Constitution et s'empare de tous les pouvoirs avant de se faire proclamer empereur.

Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four year ordeal of the seven member Kroch family who endure unfathomable conditions in their fight for survival: imprisonment in French internment camps, hiding in a tiny tool shed, and adapting to the deplorable conditions of a Nazi prison.

Everybody imagines the world's most interesting man to be a fictional, gray-haired lothario who drinks Mexican beer and boasts of his legendary exploits. But what if a man like this really lived? It turns out he did, and there were two of them--both Victorian explorers.

Nel 1976 si è celebrato a Trieste un processo contro alcuni nazisti ritenuti responsabili dei crimini commessi nel lager della Risiera di San Sabba, un ex stabilimento per la pilatura del riso trasformato, durante l'occupazione tedesca della Venezia Giulia, in un campo di concentramento dotato di un forno crematorio. Non si conosce con precisione il numero delle persone che tra il 1944 e il 1945 vennero uccise e poi bruciate alla Risiera di San Sabba. Secondo la sentenza del processo furono oltre duemila.