Títulos en Histórico

Rome’s Greatest General Who Never Ruled tells the story of a man who exercised immense power without claiming sovereignty. Whose loyalty, restraint, and competence made the Augustan age possible. Drawing on ancient sources and modern scholarship, this biography reveals how Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa’s victories, engineering genius, and administrative skill shaped the Roman Empire far more deeply than many who wore the imperial title.

Are you searching for true heroes your children can look up to? Step into the turning point of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 2, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

Are you searching for true heroes your children can look up to—heroes who shaped a nation and modeled godly values? Step into the earliest days of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 1, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

Step into the final chapters of America’s fight for freedom and the birth of a nation with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 4, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence and the founding era. Learn American History While Building Godly Character From daring espionage to the halls of Congress, you’ll meet ten real heroes, each demonstrating a powerful character quality: Availability ~ Emily Geiger Cautiousness ~ James Armistead Courage ~ Jordan Freeman Decisiveness ~ Gen.

Step into the pivotal years of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 3, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

Experience the last great action of US Marine Tanks in a way you never imagined. This is 2005, Al Anbar Iraq; Welcome to the havoc of counter-insurgency operations. Feel the heat of firing tank main gun, sleep deprivation, and the blistering realities of continuous tank operations. In the darkness, your eyes burn, and you can taste the acrid smoke of main gun rounds. You scan the phosphorous green-glow for targets as AK-47 rounds impact the turret.

Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring and vivid biography of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a man with whom he felt he had much in common. Edited and prepared for publication by his widow, Fiona Capstick, Warrior is Capstick’s riveting farewell to his fans and the final addition to the bestselling Peter Capstick Library. Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen was one of those rare men whom fate always seems to cast in the dramas that shape history.

Der Roman begleitet Verdi auf seiner Reise nach Venedig im Jahr 1883. Dort begegnet er überall dem Schatten Richard Wagners, seines bedeutendsten künstlerischen Rivalen und Sinnbild einer neuen musikalischen Epoche. Wagners plötzlicher Tod erschüttert Verdi – und zwingt ihn, sich seiner eigenen künstlerischen Identität zu stellen. Werfel verbindet historische Realität, psychologische Tiefe und die emotionale Kraft der Oper zu einem faszinierenden literarischen Porträt.

Im August 2021 wird der junge Oberleutnant Marc Hinzmann kurzfristig mit einem zusammengewürfelten Team von Feldjägern nach Afghanistan befohlen. An den Flughafen, an dem zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits Chaos herrscht und der als letzter Zufluchtsort gilt. Während sich tausende Menschen vor den Toren drängen, liegt es plötzlich in seiner Verantwortung zu entscheiden, wer einen Platz im Evakuierungsflieger der Bundeswehr bekommen würde und wer nicht – ohne Dolmetscher, ohne klare Vorgaben und ohne rechtlichen Beistand.

Prior to the Holocaust, Moshe Gildenman lived a simple life as a cultural leader in his hometown of Korets, Ukraine. When the Nazis murdered 2,200 Jews in his peaceful community, including his wife and daughter, Moshe responded not with prayer and grieving but with a cry for revenge.

Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives...

Nell's dream of traveling on a transatlantic steamship is about to come true. Although not in the way she expected. Life is hard, and with only three women working amongst a crew of eighty, there are challenges Nell had not foreseen. While she struggles to cope with the constant attention of her colleagues, not to mention their criticisms, there are some who will do whatever they can to support her.

Brought to you by Penguin. The extraordinary story of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the father of fascism, and his ominous legacy In nineteenth-century France, the first fascist was born. Decades before Mussolini, the Marquis de Morès became the first...

'This is a unique juxtaposition of the shatteringly honest diaries of two Jewish girls fighting to survive — Grandma Rosi in the Holocaust and two generations later Jess in today's grubby showbiz world. It appalled, uplifted and delighted me. I wish I’d written it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Deeply...

Sex, Spies and Scandal is the story of John Vassall, a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962. Having been photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow in 1954, Vassall was blackmailed into handing over secrets from the British Admiralty to his Soviet handlers, both in Moscow and in London, for more than seven years.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t just lead America through its worst economic collapse and its biggest war, he reengineered what government even meant. From the chaos of the Great Depression to the firestorm of World War II, FDR expanded power, rewrote rules, and built systems that still shape American life today.

Kindheit am Nordufer eröffnet die NorduferTrilogie – ein kurzer, intensiver erster Teil, in dem jede Minute Bedeutung trägt. Dieses Hörbuch führt zurück in eine BerlinerWeddingKindheit der 70er und 80er Jahre: Kohlekeller, Hinterhöfe, Außentoilette im Treppenhaus, Streit, Trennungen – und dennoch immer wieder kleine Lichtblicke, Musik und stille Träume. Es ist der ehrliche Rückblick auf ein Mädchen, das früh Verantwortung übernehmen musste und trotzdem nie aufgehört hat zu hoffen.

Take a journey back to life in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s Great Depression, as seen through the vivid memories of a child. The little details can transform your perspective, helping you genuinely value the modern things you have in your life right now!

In meiner Kindheit konnte ich nur das Wesen zweier Generationen wahrnehmen: meiner Großeltern (mütterlicherseits) und meiner Eltern. Meine Großeltern lachten und scherzten mit ihren Enkeln, obwohl ihre Gesichter die fatalistische Last des Leidens trugen, das sie in den schweren Jahren der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Europa erfahren hatten. Sie waren da gewesen und kannten den Sinn des Lebens, der alles übersteigt, was wir uns vorstellen können. So einfach ist es, dass ihre Gesichter uns den Unterschied zwischen Existenz und bloßem Überleben zeigen.

Ten Years from Slavery: The Story of Bishop William Edward Fuller, Sr. is a powerful and inspiring historical audiobook that traces the extraordinary rise of a Black religious pioneer whose life helped shape American spiritual and social history. Written and narrated by his grandchildren, this intimate family memoir brings authenticity, warmth, and lived experience to a story that spans Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the early Civil Rights Movement.