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Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest, and finally embracing revolutionary idealism as his Messianic mission in life. Equal parts scholar and terrorist, a mastermind of bank robberies...

The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem, set during an epic cavalry ride across the hot grasslands outside Stalingrad during the darkest times of World War II “The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they...

Parecia bem típico: uma adolescente fugiu de casa para curtir uma festa, como fazia todos os fins de semana. O problema é que, dessa vez, ela não voltou.Enquanto isso, um serial killer apelidado de Estrangulador de Cinderelas, frequentador assíduo das festas mais undergrounds de Nova York...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families From the author of The Romanovs A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, Smithsonian “Succession meets Game of Thrones.”...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world...

If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia’s most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow. Is it murder? A suicide pact? Or a conspiracy against the state?

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and...

A celebration of the great speeches of world history and cultural life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—an outstanding selection of great letters from ancient times to the 21st century, touching on power, love, art, sex, faith, and war. Written in History: Letters that...

"Hvorfor er det hele så hemmeligt?" "Kan du ikke se det? Vi lever i sammensværgelsernes tidsalder. Alting er en sammensværgelse. Selv at tage på skovtur eller at læse digte." Hvis dine børn blev tvunget til at vidne imod dig, hvilke frygtelige hemmeligheder ville de så afsløre? Moskva 1945. Mens Stalin og hans stab fejrer sejren over Hitler, lyder der skud. På en bro i nærheden ligger en teenagedreng og -pige døde. De to er ikke hvem som helst, men børn af Ruslands magtelite, elever fra en af de mest eksklusive skoler i Moskva.

'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary...

A widely acclaimed biography from thebestselling author of The Romanovs: "One of the great love stories of history” (The Economist) between Catherine the Great and the wildly flamboyant and talented Prince Potemkin. "Captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightenment figures—and of...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...

Monstros é uma investigação a respeito da perversidade na História, uma crônica fascinante da depravação humana, uma lição que abrange três milênios sobre o bem e o mal, na qual o historiador best-seller Simon Sebag Montefiore apresenta sua seleção dos homens e mulheres mais perversos que já existiram: Tiranos e Imperatrizes, Conquistadores e Canibais, Prostitutas e Megalomaníacos, Torturadores e Assassinos em Série, Sedutoras e Traidores De Átila, o Huno, a Adolf Hitler; de Lucrécia Bórgia a Ivã, o Terrível; de Josef Stalin a Saddam Hussein...