Resultados para "Kim" en Histórico

Torn between his love of Iran - the land where his family’s roots have existed for over 2,500 years - and his desire for religious and political freedom, Isaac Yomtovian takes readers on a journey through his childhood in Tehran to his eventual immigration to America. Isaac weaves his recollections with deep insights into Iranian culture and history, the current Islamic regime, and United States-Iranian relations. My Iran intimately depicts a society that is both friendly and intolerant, modern and religious, and theocratic and rooted in democracy.

Accidental Tyrant serves as a stark cautionary tale, underscoring that the triumph of liberty is never guaranteed. Met with insufficient resistance, even the most unlikely leader can build a regime of repression and privation that long outlives its founder.

The Cold War’s greatest traitor wasn’t in Moscow—he was in MI6. Harold “Kim” Philby was the golden boy of British intelligence—handsome, brilliant, and deeply embedded in the highest levels of MI6. But behind the polished exterior was a double agent loyal to the Soviet Union. Over the course of two decades, Philby betrayed hundreds of operations, exposed agents, and fed a constant stream of secrets to Moscow. Kim Philby: The British Mole Who Betrayed the West is a gripping biography that explores how one man’s ideology, ambition, and duplicity changed the face of espionage forever.

Pionjärpiloten Amelia Earhart försvann över Stilla havet 1937. Så har mysteriet med försvinnandet äntligen blivit löst? Amelia Earhart skrev historia. Hon var den första kvinnan som flög ensam över Atlanten, satte flera andra flygrekord och blev berömd som författare. Hennes öde är ett av de största mysterierna under 1900-talet. Det var den 2 juli 1937, när hon korsade Stilla havet med navigatören Fred Noonan, som Amelia Earhart försvann.

I över två decennier har världen undrat över det olösta mordet på sexåriga JonBenét Ramsey. Det vackra barnet med stort blont hår, stora gröna ögon och ett varmt leende har blivit ihågkommen sedan hon tragiskt mördades i sitt hem i Boulder, Colorado den 26 december 1996. Ett kravbrev om lösensumma, kanske historiens märkligaste, ledde till många spekulationer om att offrets familj dolde en mörk och hemsk hemlighet om hennes död - anklagelser som de alltid har förnekat.

Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. What motivated this extraordinary person? Kim Bendheim has long been fascinated by Maud Gonne’s perplexing character, and here gives us an intensely personal assessment of her thrilling life. The product of much original research, including interviews with Gonne’s equally vivid, unconventional descendants, The Fascination of What’s Difficult is a portrait of a powerful woman who, despite her considerable flaws, continues to inspire.

In 1994, Amy was working as a genealogist, researching a family's history. While paging through volumes of Amish, Mennonite & Apostolic Christian relatives, she came to the story of a mother and her three young children who had all died on the same day, March 13, 1900. Was it an accident? An illness of some kind? Amy soon learned that the husband and father of this young family had murdered them after being excommunicated from the Amish church.