Títulos en Histórico

La «scalata» di Anna Bolena inizia con un periodo trascorso in Francia, come damigella della regina. Al suo rientro in Inghilterra Anna si era trasformata in una splendida dama di corte, prezioso oggetto di scambio per le ambizioni del padre. Ma neppure lui poteva immaginare quale sarebbe stato il futuro della ragazza che, dopo aver infiammato il cuore del re Enrico VIII, lo sposò nel 1533 e gli diede una figlia, Elisabetta, destinata a diventare la più grande regina della storia inglese.

Retrato de una treintena de españoles que han marcado la historia de su tiempo en distintos campos, de la literatura al pensamiento, pasando por la política, la economía o el deporte. De Augusto a Rafa Nadal.

«Aquel que franquea el portal donde se alza 'Arbeit macht frei' entra en un mundo radicalmente distinto, lejos de los dioses, lejos de los hombres... El pánico en estado puro, sin voz, sin palabras.» Todo se vino abajo en otoño de 1942 para Hélène Waysbord cuando, con apenas seis años de...

En estas obras fundamentales en la narrativa de la Revolución, escritas por una de las plumas más claras y elegantes de la literatura nacional, Martín Luis Guzmán combina rigor histórico con una prosa amena para retratar la complejidad de los personajes y los eventos que forjaron el México...

Ein deutsches Leben, gezeichnet von scheinbar unvereinbaren Widersprüchen, ein Wandern zwischen entgegengesetzten Welten, das schließlich in der Katastrophe endet. Magda Goebbels gilt als eine der schillerndsten und einflussreichsten Figuren des Dritten Reiches.

Als Intimus Hitlers, Propagandaminister und Bevollmächtigter für den totalen Kriegseinsatz war Joseph Goebbels eine der zentralen Gestalten des Dritten Reiches. Kindheit und Jugend sind für Ralf Georg Reuth der Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Mannes, der aufgrund eines körperlichen Makels schon früh zum Außenseiter gestempelt wurde und einen beinahe krankhaften Ehrgeiz entwickelte, um seinen Minderwertigkeitskomplex zu kompensieren.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Why is Henry Ford a giant? Because he put the world on wheels. Henry Ford did not invent the motor car, nor did he invent the assembly line or mass production. But more than anyone before or since he is remembered as the man who almost singlehandedly...

A gripping new biography of one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history: Cicero When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off and his tongue pierced with pins – a final, brutal act of revenge against a man whose words had shaped a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A concise biography of the father of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud forever changed how we view ourselves and understand human nature. This book explores his key concepts―unconscious thoughts, dream meanings, and childhood sensuality―and his daring...

Bloomsbury presents Peter The Great by Robert K. Massie, read by Jonathan Keeble. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned at the age of 10. A barbarous, volatile feudal tsar with a taste for...

¿Quiso Julio César, el gran conquistador de las Galias y de las mujeres de sus enemigos y aliados, coronarse rey de Roma? ¿Fue Augusto, enfermizo y acomplejado, un gobernante maquiavélico? ¿Cómo se convirtió Tiberio en un tirano estrafalario recluido en la isla de Capri? ¿Qué enfermedad mental aquejó a Calígula para que llegara a convertirse en un dios psicópata? ¿Era Claudio tan estúpido como le pintan sus contemporáneos?

Harriet Tubman is one of the most iconic figures in American history, yet much of her true story has long been fragmented, misunderstood, or incomplete. While countless books recount her courage on the Underground Railroad, few explore the full scope of her strategic brilliance, military service...

An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman emperor Septimius...

A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.

Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul. Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall...

"Recuerdo la mañana en que conocí a Octavio Paz. Fue el 11 de marzo de 1976, en el Panteón Jardín, cuando un grupo de amigos despedíamos al gran ensayista Daniel Cosío Villegas [...] Me acerqué a él para proponerle la publicación en su revista Plural de un ensayo mío sobre el ilustre liberal recién desaparecido. Días después, mi nombre apareció junto al suyo, pero nunca sospeché que ese vínculo sería permanente."

He had a physical condition he believed would disqualify him. He grew up amid what he calls “the family burning flames of alcohol.” And the airline cockpit he dreamed of seemed impossibly far away. None of it changed the one thing Russ Roberts knew from childhood: he would be a pilot. In this candid memoir, Roberts tells how a boy’s steadfast love of airplanes carried him through a turbulent childhood and eventually taught him to chart his own course.

With a heart of gold—and the suspense of a classic crime novel—this true story memorializes one man’s split-second decision to chart a new course for generations to come, proving that courage and honor do have the power to make a better life.

A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye. Allan Pinkerton, the world's most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascination since the nineteenth century. But the details of his impact, business empire, and private life have been incomplete. Drawing on overlooked primary sources, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones provides an authoritative account of the man and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA).