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In 46 BC, at just two years old, a young North African prince named Juba was paraded through the streets of Rome as part of Julius Caesar’s victory parade. This traumatic beginning, however, did not define his future. As a young man, Juba fought alongside Emperor Augustus and was sent back to...

Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. For eleven years, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer. He gave such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of In Order to Live written by Yeonmi Park and read by Eji Kim. Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her...

Vor der Wende standen sie auf verschiedenen Seiten: Gregor Gysi, Sohn des DDR-Kulturministers Klaus Gysi und Anwalt, und Friedrich Schorlemmer, Pfarrerssohn und Oppositioneller. In diesem sehr persönlichen Gespräch mit dem Journalisten Hans-Dieter Schütt erinnern sich beide an ein verschwundenes Land und wie sie es erlebten. Sie sprechen über das, was Bestand haben wird, aber auch das, was auf den Müll der Geschichte gehört.

A quarter of a century in power has allowed Vladimir Putin to enrich himself. He has done this by plundering Russia's resources, confiscated private businesses and persecuted those who stood against him including Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Bill Browder. Putin...

A National Bestseller When Sanna Marin became Prime Minister of Finland at thirty-four years old, she captivated the world’s attention with her progressive ideas and “proved that good leadership does not depend on age” (Time100 Next). The first in her family to attend university, Sanna...

‘Full of gems … Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown’ Daily Telegraph ‘Entertaining and beautifully illustrated’ The Sunday Times ‘For real intel, [The Crown] can’t come close to The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly’ The New York Times ‘Fascinating book’ HELLO! ‘The...

The compelling autobiography of a remarkable Catholic woman, sainted by many, who championed the rights of the poor in America’s inner cities. When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality . . . founder of the Catholic...

Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian.

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY...

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) war der oberste Propagandist des NS-Regimes. Aber wie schaffte er es, Menschen von einer Ideologie zu überzeugen, die er selbst nie hundertprozentig lebte? Jörg von Bilavsky zeigt anschaulich, mit welch skrupellosen Methoden Goebbels seinen Machtapparat aufbaute und lenkte. Zugleich erlauben die inzwischen vollständig vorliegenden Tagebücher einen Einblick in das Innere eines zutiefst zerrissenen Menschen, der seine stärkste Orientierung in Hitler fand.

From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor during Trump’s administration, a bold assessment of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges of our age. There has been a shift in power since the end of the Cold War. In Battlegrounds, bestselling author...

'Erudite, clever, brilliant' KATE MOSSE 'A crowning achievement' LUCY WORSLEY 'Fascinating and excellent' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, yet their legacies have been almost entirely constructed by men. From the ancient...

Written between 1717 and 1790, and originally referred to by its author as simply Memoirs, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is considered the pioneering example of the genre. In this influential account of the American Dream in action, Franklin recounts his early life, his inventions, his quest for virtue and self-improvement, and his political achievements. The unfinished work is a vivid depiction of life in early America, as well as a relatable and inspiring portrait of one of its revolutionary thinkers.

Wolfgang Bosbach hat etwas zu sagen - notfalls auch gegen die Linie der eigenen Partei. Seine Geradlinigkeit kommt bei den Bürgern an, die im unübersichtlichen und manchmal auch als unehrlich wahrgenommenen Politikbetrieb nach Orientierung suchen. Ein Interview von Hugo Müller-Vogg mit Wolfgang Bosbach über die Herausforderungen in Zeiten der Anti-Terror-Politik und der großen Flüchtlingsströme, über Werte in der heutigen Gesellschaft und über Deutschlands Rolle in Europa und der Welt.

Geschichten von Leidenschaft, Seelenverwandtschaft, Hindernissen und Zweisamkeit - lange Lieben, die bewegen! Liebe, die ein Leben lang hält - alle träumen davon, nur wenigen ist sie vergönnt. Und doch hört man immer wieder von Paaren, denen dieses Glück gelungen ist. Ab der ersten Zigarette wie bei Helmut Schmidt und Loki, nach arrangierter Hochzeit im Falle von Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Preußen und Königin Luise, eins im Schreiben bei Christa und Gerhard Wolf, Seelenverwandte wie Yves Saint Laurent und Pierre Bergé.

Da giovane era stato il figlio ribelle e avventuroso di un padre violento e militarista; amava la musica, suonando e componendo con estro; leggeva instancabilmente, e la conversazione con i filosofi era nella sua giornata la cosa più importante; dichiarava il re «il primo servitore dello Stato» e la «corona un cappello che lascia passare la pioggia».

This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany - when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend - through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II, after he attempted a failed coup against Hitler. Rommel was a man of contradictions: a soldier who wrote a best-selling book about World War I, a commander who went from commanding Hitler's bodyguard to trying to kill him, and a serious military mind who was known for participating in practical jokes.