Títulos en Histórico

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait...

The definitive biography of one of America’s greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf. Born in 1862, Edith Wharton escaped the suffocating fate of the well-born female, traveled adventurously in Europe and eventually settled in France. After tentative...

En El hombre que yo vi el autor recopila algunos recuerdos de su estancia en Roma (1958-1976), muy cerca de san Josemaría Escrivá. Son casi siempre detalles menudos, sencillos, sobre un trato asiduo y cordial. Un nuevo enfoque para conocer más de cerca de una de las figuras más relevantes del siglo XX.

¡La mujer más odiada en la historia de China! Viaje en el tiempo más de mil años y conozca al primer y único emperador femenino de China. Nacida Wǔ Zhào , recibió el título de su reinado como "Zétiān" pocas semanas antes de su muerte en el año 705 de nuestra era. Fue la hija no deseada del Canciller Wǔ Shì Huo: demasiado brillante, demasiado educada, y demasiado políticamente centrada para fungir como una buena esposa según las contemporáneas interpretaciones de las Analectas de Confucio.

In the aftermath of World War II, Germany lay in ruins—its cities bombed, its people starving, its identity fractured. In German Autumn, Swedish journalist Stig Dagerman delivers a raw and unfiltered account of life in occupied Germany during the fall of 1946.

John G. Sutton was the son of a Police Officer living in a rough Northern Industrial mining community. The sons of coal-mine workers and local mill hands hated what they called ‘Coppers Kids’. From age 8, thrown in at the deep end of a decrepit Victorian back street primary school, John had to fight to survive. If you ever wondered what it was like to battle for your life on the cobbled back streets, this is the book you need to listen. Violent and, at times disturbing, the development of this young man’s personality will shock you.

Near shipwrecks, exotic wild animals, nasty tropical diseases, and dedicated mission work. Follow Anna from her childhood in Illinois to India and China as she seeks to serve her Lord as a missionary and doctor for over 50 years.

Speaking Through Silence is a heartfelt memoir about a first-generation American coming-of-age in the shadow of her four Holocaust Survivor grandparents. In this riveting read, Judi Shink uncovers the hidden histories, inherited silences, and enduring love that shaped her identity. She unravels her family’s complicated and devastating past to forge a new path, while accepting the mantle of legacy that demands she speak out about a new 21st century kind of hate against her people.

Prabhudas Gandhi was born in 1901 in Porbandar to Chhaganlal Gandhi and Kashiben and like many members of his family, spent his childhood in South Africa at the Phoenix Ashram.The memoir, Jeevan nu Parodh in Gujarati was serialized in a hand-written journal called Madhpudo (The Beehive) that...

Babur, the visionary founder of Timurid Empire in Hindustan, had a fair share of early struggle following his father’s tragic demise in AD 1494. Then on, Babur embarked on an unyielding pursuit of power amid treacherous political landscapes, the narrative unveils his moniker, ‘the chessboard...

The remarkable story of George Downing—savvy soldier, politician, diplomat, spy, and one of the most scandalous figures of his era. Judged by contemporaries to be a "perfidious rogue," Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military...

Segundo Humberto de Campos, pelo médium Chico Xavier, a última reencarnação de Judas Iscariotes na Terra, foi da conhecida heroína francesa Joana D'Arc, queimada nas fogueiras inquisitoriais do século XV, conforme mensagem apresentada no livro: Crô...

This highly revelatory bookbased on original research and completely new analysispresents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper. Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack...

For a long time it seemed Antarctica would remain the sole holdout in a nearly fully explored world. The approaches were too difficult and dangerous, and the material benefits to the exploring nations were too few … Far from being a land of plenty, the Antarctic continent – if it was that...

In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was...

A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of...

America's most inspiring politician pays tribute to men and woman who have exhibited composure, wisdom and intellect in the face of tough decisions. John McCain draws from experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances, culling lessons about the process and...

Sir Ernest Shackleton was one of the greatest explorers and leaders of men in the 20th Century. From 1914 to 1916 following the wreck of his ship Endurance and despite finding himself stranded 1200 miles from any form of communication and with no hope of rescue, he led all 27 of his men to...

'Eddie looked evil in the eye and met it with joy and kindness . . . [his] philosophy is life-affirming' – Daily Express Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and now believes he is the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he pays tribute to those who...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena’s Children comes a “vivid, compelling, and unputdownable…biography” (Christopher Andersen, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton—trailblazing philanthropist, devoted wife of...