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A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words. READ BY MARGARET THATCHER. Combining her memoirs ‘The Path to Power’ and ‘The Downing Street Years’, this definitive account of Margaret...

Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Most countries and companies are not prepared for the world Peter Zeihan...

From the earliest recorded history of the Russian state, its people have sought to define their place in the world. And while many of us look to make sense of Russia through its political history, in many ways a real grasp of this awe-inspiring country comes from looking closely at its cultural achievements. The 24 lectures of Understanding Russia: A Cultural History survey hundreds of years of Russian culture, from the world of Ivan the Terrible to the dawn of the Soviet Union to the post-war tensions of Putin’s Russia.

Ein emotionaler Einblick in das Schicksal der Zwangsarbeiter im Zweiten Weltkrieg – eine unmögliche Liebe zu einer deutschen Frau und die Ausdauer der menschlichen Willenskraft, einen Weg in die Freiheit zu finden. Bochum, April 1943: Die fünfundzwanzigjährige Marie Heinrich fristet auf sich allein gestellt – ihr Mann ist seit drei Jahren im Krieg – ihr Leben auf einem kleinen Hof. Marie, die in der Personalabteilung für die Einweisung der neuen Zwangsarbeiter zuständig ist, findet durch Adrien die Möglichkeit, mit den Fremden zu kommunizieren.

Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated.

Entdecken Sie die Welt der nordischen Götter: Eine umfassende Reise durch neun Welten, mächtige Götter und das Schicksal des Kosmos. Als kulturell interessierter Mensch sehnen Sie sich nach tiefgründigen Geschichten, möchten mythologische Zusammenhänge verstehen und in eine faszinierende Welt eintauchen, die von Yggdrasil bis Ragnarök reicht und auch heute noch unsere Kultur prägt.

Carsten Dams und Michael Stolle untersuchen in ihrem Buch Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der Gestapo. Dabei spannen sie den Bogen von der späten Weimarer Republik über die Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland und Europa bis zu den Prozessen gegen Gestapobeamte nach 1945. Entstanden ist eine souveräne Synthese auf dem Stand der neuesten Forschung.

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety.

Beginning with the Renaissance, the culture of the West exploded. Over the next 600 years, rapid innovations in philosophy, technology, economics, military affairs, and politics allowed what had once been a cultural backwater left by the collapse of the Roman Empire to dominate the world. This comprehensive series of 48 lectures by an award-winning teacher and captivating lecturer will show you how - and why - this extraordinary transformation took place.

Now updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The...

Die ultimative Geschichte der digitalen Revolution: Sind sie jetzt Nerds, Weltverbesserer oder Spieler - diejenigen, die alles für möglich halten und nur durch die Frontscheibe schauen? Der Steve-Jobs-Biograf Walter Isaacson gibt diesen Vordenkern des digitalen Zeitalters ein Gesicht. Er blickt auf Erfinder und abenteuerlustige Unternehmer, die keine Grenzen akzeptieren, die unerbittlich und lustvoll Zukunft machen wollen.

Wird über den dunkelsten Fleck in der deutschen Geschichte gesprochen, kommt immer wiederdie Frage auf, ob es der deutschen Bevölkerung nicht möglich gewesen wäre, Widerstand zu leisten. Doch wo beginnt Widerstand? Dieser Frage geht dieses Hörbuch nach, exemplarisch an den Lebensgeschichten von den Geschwistern Scholl, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg und Oskar Schindler.

An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought.

Although T. E. Lawrence, commonly known as "Lawrence of Arabia’, died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War. A reluctant leader, and wracked by guilt at the duplicity of the British, Lawrence nevertheless threw himself into his role, suffering the blistering desert conditions and masterminding military campaigns which culminated in the triumphant march of the Arabs into Damascus.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The world's foremost historian of Ukraine. . . the chronicler of a country on the front lines of a seismic European war' Financial Times On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and...

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Was bedeutet radikaler Humanismus? Gibt es Grenzen der Einfühlung in andere? Wozu verpflichtet uns die Erinnerung an die Geschichte? Gibt es Grenzen der Pflicht, im Namen der Menschenrechte zu sprechen?

This acclaimed best seller from popular historian Alison Weir is a fascinating look at the Tudor family dynasty and its most infamous ruler. The Six Wives of Henry VIII brings to life England’s oft-married monarch and the six wildly different but equally fascinating women who married him. Gripping from the first sentence to the last and loaded with fascinating details, Weir’s rich history is a perfect blend of scholarship and entertainment.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."

The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie was the embodiment of the American dream. In his rise from a job as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory to being the richest man in the world, he was single-minded, relentless and a major player in some of the most violent and notorious labor strikes of the time. The prototype of today's billionaire, he was a visionary in the way he earned his money and in the way he gave it away.