Títulos en Era moderna

15 dicembre 1969, la giornata più lunga. I funerali di Stato delle vittime nel Duomo. L'arresto del "mostro" Pietro Valpreda, un ballerino anarchico milanese. A suo carico c'è una testimonianza che gli inquirenti ritengono inattaccabile: un tassista sostiene di averlo accompagnato alla Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (BNA) con una valigetta molto pesante, pochi minuti prima della strage. Dopo tre giorni, il ferroviere anarchico Giuseppe Pinelli è ancora trattenuto in questura: a mezzanotte, durante l'ennesimo interrogatorio, precipita dal quarto piano di Milano e muore.

L'incontro con un maestro di giornalismo, Corrado Stajano, fondamentale anche nella vicenda di Piazza Fontana, e quello con Mario Calabresi, per parlare della morte di suo padre, ucciso il 17 maggio 1972. La giustizia negata per la morte di Pinelli e per le vittime della strage. Il ruolo del giudice Guido Salvini e l'indagine che non può finire. Anzi, sta per entrare nel vivo.

12 dicembre 1969, Milano. Sono le 16:37 quando un giovane impiegato venuto dal Sud si avvicina alla grande vetrata che dà sul grande salone della banca dove lavora, la Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (BNA) di piazza Fontana. La sua vita e la storia di questo Paese stanno per cambiare per sempre. Lì sotto, nell'emiciclo, una bomba esplode uccidendo 17 persone e ferendone 88. È la più grande strage europea dal 1945.

When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Raymond Joseph, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States, found himself rushing back to his beloved country. The earthquake ignited a passion in Joseph, inspiring him to run for president against great competition, including two well-known Haitian pop stars, his nephew Wyclef Jean and Michel Martelly. But he couldn't compete in a democratic system corrupt to the core.

La prima pista è quella rossa. La sera del 12 dicembre 1969 la polizia inizia a rastrellare decine di militanti di sinistra, soprattutto anarchici. Sei di loro – per la verità – sono già in prigione da alcuni mesi: li si accusa di aver compiuto una serie di attentati tra la primavera e l'estate del 1969. Gli inquirenti li stanno torchiando duramente, mentre i giornali annunciano senza esitazioni: il mostro ha già un nome.

On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru's presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a group called Shining Path. Described by a US State Department cable as "cold-blooded and bestial", Shining Path orchestrated bombings, assassinations, and massacres across the cities, countryside, and jungles of Peru in a murderous campaign to seize power and impose a Communist government.

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to end all traffic between the city’s two halves: the democratic west and the communist east. The iconic symbol of a divided Europe, the Wall became a focus of western political pressure on East Germany; as Ronald Reagan’s famously said in a 1987 speech in Berlin, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

The lives of five generations, including yours, are indelibly marked by the deeds of those who fought in the Second World War. Join award-winning historian Michael Bess in exploring their stories. In 24 engaging lectures, WWII expert and Vanderbilt professor Michael Bess introduces you to the...

The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human destiny. 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to...

Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near starvation, he was liberated from camp Mauthausen and went to work for the US Army hunting Nazis.

Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen, un libro sin ficción. Una recopilación de relatos vividos por los españoles y españolas supervivientes de los campos de concentración nazis.

In The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following.

El siglo XX se erige como la edad de las ideas, un tiempo en el que, para bien o para mal, el pensamiento de unos pocos se impuso sobre las vidas de muchos. De una claridad y lucidez sin precedentes, el último libro de Tony Judt, uno de los más incisivos historiadores contemporáneos, está destinado a convertirse en un clásico del pensamiento moderno.

En el siglo XVIII, dos hombres de la misma edad (y caracteres opuestos) dedicaron sus vidas a la misma ardua tarea: identificar y describir toda la vida en la Tierra. Carl Linneo, un médico sueco muy devoto y con dotes de comerciante, consideró que la clasificación debía responder a categorías ordenadas y estáticas. Por el contrario, Georges-Louis de Buffon, aristócrata, polímata y director del Jardin du Roi de Francia, veía la vida como un remolino dinámico y complejo. Cada uno emprendió su trabajo consciente de las dificultades pero creyéndolo posible.

One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential concerns as climate change, economic globalization, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity, whatever country they may be in. Every issue is considered from an ethical perspective.

Raul Hilberg dedicó su vida al estudio de uno de los mayores horrores de la humanidad y escribió La destrucción de los judíos europeos, la obra más exhaustiva e influyente jamás escrita sobre el genocidio nazi. Sin embargo, el libro no fue bien recibido por sus contemporáneos: el manuscrito fue rechazado por numerosas editoriales de prestigio —Hilberg tardó catorce años en encontrar editor—; una vez publicado recibió duras críticas en el ámbito académico y mediático y por parte de la propia comunidad judía.

The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.