Titles in Modern

The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“brilliant” (Guardian) In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic...

LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026 The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and...

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...

La Guerra Fría forjó una batalla tecnológica: descubre por qué la URSS perdió la carrera lunar. Ideal para escuchar durante tu trayecto diario, este riguroso relato histórico te sumerge en las altas esferas políticas de Moscú y Washington. Transforma tu tiempo de viaje en una...

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, separate laws into a constitution, or single events into a story.

24 June 1995. Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The Springboks versus The All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup final. Nelson Mandela steps onto the pitch wearing a Springboks shirt and, before a global audience of millions, a new country is born. This book tells the incredible story of Mandela's journey...

Explorez l'histoire européenne d'une nation carrefour, où la vérité historique dépasse de loin le mythe vampirique. Parfait pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif vous guide des ruines de la Dacie romaine jusqu'à l'Europe moderne. Laissez-vous transporter par une...

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the US Navy won the largest naval battle in history; MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized. Toll's narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are gripping, but he also takes the listener into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo.

When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.

SS-Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik ist Manager: Manager des Todes. Seine Geschäfte sind der millionenfache Massenmord und der Raub jüdischen Eigentums. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler protegiert den ehrgeizigen Kärntner und bewundert seine Energie, Joseph Goebbels fasziniert seine barbarische Methode, Hitler lässt den fanatischen Antisemiten wohlwollend gewähren: Odilo Globocnik, ab November 1939 SS- und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Lublin, entwickelt fantastische Pläne zur Verdeutschung des eroberten Landes.

Esta es la historia de un grupo de hombres que comenzó en las cavernas y luego de miles de años, encontraron una señal: un águila posada en un nopal devorando una serpiente. Es también el recuento del nacimiento y caída de la gran Tenochtitlán, símbolo hegemónico de uno de los imperios...

Conoce las batallas clave, las tácticas, los avances tecnológicos y los puntos de inflexión de la Primera Guerra Mundial Los acontecimientos esenciales durante y alrededor del conflicto: desde las crecientes tensiones entre las principales potencias de Europa hasta el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando, la invasión alemana de Bélgica, las matanzas interminables en las trincheras, la entrada estadounidense en la guerra, la Revolución Rusa, el Armisticio y la creación de la Sociedad de las Naciones. El conflicto épico que se suponía sería «la guerra que acabaría con todas las guerras».

In the early morning of 9 April 1940, a fleet of German battleships entered the Oslofjord. Norwegian artillery delayed them long enough for King Haakon VII and his cabinet to escape to England, but there was no stopping the Nazi Blitzkrieg. Norway stood on the cusp of a traumatic five-year...

The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. “Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times "Niall Ferguson has again...

In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction, changed his strategy once he encountered Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland’s canny director general.

The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark audiobook, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

A story ultimately without a time and ultimately without a place. It's a memoir of families across generations of peace and of war, of homes that become lost and hopes that are kept, and a belief in a future that's better than the present. In each family, a fundamental life event spawns ripples that sweep across time and generations that would fade forever without exploration and would otherwise shed all meaning. The key event in many lives is making the decision to leave home forever and to strike out, not knowing if it leads to disaster or to a future and a better place.

A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future—and the world's The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on...

A partir de estudios, memorias editadas tras la caída de la URSS y algunos archivos que se mantuvieron ocultos durante décadas, Anne Applebaum realiza en este libro una reconstrucción histórica del origen y la evolución de los campos de concentración soviéticos que devuelve este infausto e inolvidable episodio al centro de la tormentosa historia del siglo XX.

Peaks and Lamas is one of the classic early 20th-century accounts of travelling in the Himalayas on the borders of Tibet. It is, in its way, on a par with the more famous Mystery and Imagination in Tibet by Alexandra David-Néel (also available on Dharma Audiobooks). It describes two journeys in...