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Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a campos de concentración. En ese lugar y en las más precarias condiciones, Ana, a sus trece años, escribió su estremecedor Diario.

Medieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Ages dramatically broke away from the restrictions imposed on their sex, as Alison Weir shows in this gripping group biography of England's fourteenth-century consorts. Using personal...

'Masterly' Robert Harris, author of Imperium Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before dying peacefully in his bed. The system he created would endure for centuries. Yet, despite his exceptional success, he...

General Stonewall Jackson was like no one anyone had ever seen. In April of 1862 he was merely another Confederate general with only a single battle credential in an army fighting in what seemed to be a losing cause. By middle June he had engineered perhaps the greatest military campaign in American history and was one of the most famous men in the Western World. He had given the Confederate cause what it had recently lacked: hope.

Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction... This book tells the story of Lady Catherine, a beautiful American girl who became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes' award-winning drama Downton Abbey. Charming and charismatic, Catherine caught the eye of Lord Porchester (or 'Porchey', as he was known) when she was just 20 years old, and wearing a pale yellow dress at a ball. She had already turned down 14 proposals before she eventually married Porchey in 1922.

"Ich kann mit den Leuten nicht reden. Sie sind alle vernagelt in einem idiotischen und gar nicht echten Patriotismus." Bei Kriegsausbruch noch voller Tatendrang, vom Militär aber für untauglich befunden, berichtet Stefan Zweig in seinen Kriegstagebüchern mit zunehmendem Unverständnis von den aufgehetzten Massen und bleibt doch selbst nicht unberührt von der schwebenden Ungewissheit, dem steten Wechsel von Unruhe, Freudentaumel und grauenhafter Lähmung - bis auch ihm nur noch die Verzweiflung über das Gemetzel auf den Schlachtfeldern bleibt.

"This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity." -- AudioFile Magazine This program is read by...

Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by turns, they are the unfettered observations of a man who went everywhere and who knew everybody. 

Les Rothschild ? Plus qu’un nom, un mythe qui a traversé les trois derniers siècles de notre histoire. Leur dynastie a survécu à toutes les révolutions et à toutes les guerres. Leur patronyme est aussi admiré que décrié. Autopsier cette saga financière nourrie d’intrigues...

Violette Ailhaud serait née en 1835 et serait morte en 1925 au Saule Mort, un hameau du village du Poil, dans les Basses Alpes (les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Dans sa succession, il y aurait eu une enveloppe qui ne pouvait pas être ouverte par le notaire avant l’été de 1952. Après ouverture, la consigne indiquait que son contenu, un manuscrit, devait être confié à l’aîné des descendants de Violette, de sexe féminin exclusivement, ayant entre 15 et 30 ans.

A New York Times bestseller and a Washington Post "Best Book of the Year". The thrilling story of the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence...

The point of The Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the 20th century.

Bloomsbury presents… Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford, read by Mark Elstob Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan...

En s'emparant d'un pan méconnu de l'histoire de la révolution cubaine, David Grann raconte le destin tragique de W. A. Morgan, le comandante yankee. Mêlant récit de guerre et épopée politique, espionnage, trahison fratricide et histoire d'amour, il dresse le portrait du cow-boy espiègle, personnage complexe qu'on croirait échappé d'un roman d'Hemingway. Un ami témoigne : "Jack Kerouac était encore en train d'imaginer ce que serait une vie sur la route, quand Morgan était déjà en train de la vivre.'

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got on together for the next three weeks is the subject of Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny, by Papa, a...

In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s...

A sweeping and insightful grand strategic overview of the American Revolution, highlighting Washington's role in orchestrating victory and creating the US Army Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost the war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled...

Plutarch’s Lives remains one of the world’s most profoundly influential literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century, it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. His “parallel lives” were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two. Volume 1 compares Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, and Aristides and Marcus Cato, among others.

In Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas presents seven exquisitely crafted portraits of widely known--but not well understood--Christian men, each of whom uniquely showcases a commitment to live by certain virtues in the truth of the gospel. Each of the seven men...