In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave ... more »

Si l'on connaît la destinée exceptionnelle de Louis II de Bavière et celle de sa cousine Élisabeth, l'impératrice d'Autriche, on ignore souvent les liens qui unissaient ces souverains hors du commun. Visionnaires, idéalistes, géniaux, les deux cousins souffraient tous deux de leur lucidité, de leur avance ... more »

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing ... more »

An absolute must for your handheld device. Over 15,000 of the most famous quotes and sayings of all time. Thousands of Authors and Topics. Never before has such a library been available for your handheld. Does your mind ever go blank and you don't know what to say? Do you ever get discouraged thinking ... more »

En 1226 avant J.-C., à Pi-Ramsès, alors capitale de l'Égypte, naît un enfant nommé Masesaya, petit-fils du grand Ramsès II. Une prédiction faite à sa mère, la princesse Takhât, lui révèle que son nom perdurera par-delà les millénaires. Bernard Simonay nous propose, dans ce roman épique, une vision diff ... more »

Nir Rosen has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as the reporter who managed to get inside Fallujah at a time when it was a death trap for Western reporters, and as one of the few Western reporters able to report the truth from Iraq. Still in his twenties, a freelancer who has written for The ... more »

History has never been more fun than it is in this fact-filled compendium of historical fiascoes and embarrassingly bad ideas. Throughout history, the rich and powerful, and even just the dim-witted, have made horrifically bad decisions that have had resounding effects on our world. From kings to corporate ... more »

While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history. This is the riveting first-person account of the treacherous top-secret mission inside Afghanistan to set the stage for the defeat of the Taliban and launch ... more »

Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry--Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick--and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the ... more »

Twenty years ago Paul Johnson published Intellectuals , biographical essays forming what Kingsley Amis described as a valuable and entertaining Rogues’ Gallery of Adventures of the Mind . It was a bestseller in many of the score of languages into which it was translated, but also criticized for describing ... more »

The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson--the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness--told by the bestselling author of The First American . The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal ... more »

One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968 a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence, assembled here for the first time, strongly suggests ... more »