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Unterschiedlicher können zwei Brüder nicht sein: Während Hermann Göring sich Hitler anschließt und in dem mörderischen Regime Karriere macht, verachtet sein Bruder, der Feingeist Albert Göring die Unmenschlichkeit der Nazis. Er hilft Juden bei der Flucht aus Deutschland und unterstützt die tschechische Widerstandsbewegung. Nicht selten unter hohem Risiko und mit waghalsigen Aktionen. 34 Menschen stehen auf der Liste der Geretteten, die Albert bei seiner Verhaftung – immerhin trug er den Namen Göring – seinen amerikanischen Verhöroffizieren vorlegt.

One American seldom receives the attention he rightly deserves. Noah Webster, Jr., does not often come immediately to mind when one considers those who helped the United States during its infancy. He should. His services were many and unique in the earliest stages of America. Even as a boy, Noah was fascinated with language and education. He was troubled by the lack of interest shown by others in formal schooling, and the lack of books and proper facilities bothered him even more. When the fires of the Revolution broke out in the early 1770s, Noah was a student at Yale.

Two stories about a United States Founding Father; two stories about courageous missionaries (to South America and Southeast Asia); a story about the Black doctor who performed the first successful heart surgery; and a story about two abolitionist and feminist sisters in the 1800s.

Voyagez plus de mille ans en arrière dans le temps et rencontrez la première et unique femme empereur de la Chine. Née Wu Zhao et attribuée le titre de règne « Zetian » quelques semaines seulement avant sa mort en 705 CE, elle était la fille indésirable du chancelier Wu Shihuo. Explorez la vie de l'impératrice Wu et découvrez pourquoi le monde est un endroit bien plus différent parce qu'elle a osé faire ce qu'aucune femme en Chine, avant et depuis, n'a jamais rêvé de faire.

Age 12, in 1984, I was sent to Morley Hall Boarding School in Norfolk. Morley Hall was not a private school. It was a special school owned and run by the Norfolk County Council Education Department—an institution like no other. As a last resort, when nothing else worked, and the system had no idea what was wrong, they packed you up and sent you off to Morley Hall. Today, the school is closed, and all its records have been destroyed. For the first time, I am going to write down the unwritten rules that controlled my life during my five-year stay at Morley Hall.

Dr. Isidor Geller hat es geschafft: Er ist Kommerzialrat, Berater des österreichischen Staates, Multimillionär, Opernfreund und Kunstsammler und nach zwei gescheiterten Ehen Liebhaber einer wunderschönen Sängerin. Weit ist der Weg, den er aus dem hintersten, ärmlichsten Winkel Galiziens zurückgelegt hat, vom Schtetl in die obersten Kreise Wiens. Ihm kann keiner etwas anhaben, davon ist Isidor überzeugt. Und schon gar nicht diese vulgären Nationalsozialisten.

Nat Turner, enslaved preacher and prophet, marshaled dozens of his followers for a violent revolt that left fifty-five white people dead in Southampton County, Virginia. As the myth of the contented slave dissolved, the South panicked. Captured, tried, and convicted, Turner dictated his confessions to a local lawyer. Though some questions endure around the reliability of the narrative, as well as the place that such a complex figure should occupy in our historical consciousness, what is inarguable is that this 1831 rebellion marked an inflection point in America’s racial conflict.

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,' Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, shortly before defying her family by running away to Italy with Robert Browning. But behind the romance of her extraordinary life stands a thoroughly modern figure, who remains an electrifying study in self-invention. This vividly written biography, the first full study for over thirty years, incorporates recent archival discoveries to reveal the woman herself.

Toby Gutteridge was only 24 when he was shot through the neck while operating behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. He survived despite not breathing for at least 20 minutes. Back in the UK, doctors recommended that his life support machine be switched off, but with the defiant spirit that would define his recovery, Toby pulled through. Now quadriplegic, capable of movement only with his head, Toby has rebuilt his life.

In 1994, twenty-year-old Gunjan Saxena boards a train to Mysore to appear for the selection process of the fourth Short Service Commission (for women) pilot course. Seventy-four weeks of back-breaking training later, she passes out of the Air Force Academy in Dundigal as Pilot Officer Gunjan Saxena. On 3 May 1999, local shepherds report a Pakistani intrusion in Kargil. By mid-May, thousands of Indian troops are engaged in fierce mountain warfare with the aim to flush out the intruders.

The first in a series of plays featuring stories of the American Revolution, The Gathering Storm in America tells the remarkable story of an all-but-forgotten forefather whose actions initiated the tumultuous pre-Revolutionary period in America. It presents both the British and American points of view on issues that led to the Declaration of Independence and the building of a new nation based on democratic principles.

For much of American history, women were second-class citizens in the sense they could not vote or run for office and had few property rights. However, women were often able to overcome social restrictions and forcefully affect the world around them, sometimes nationally. This took a real force of character, determination, and sometimes bravery. Women activists focused on issues such as temperance, women’s property rights, improvident or violent husbands, women’s suffrage, cruelty to animals, concern for child labor, and more. This is the story of five such women.

Born as the heir to the English Throne, the Black Prince was trained from a young age to be king. Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, had other ideas. His love for chivalry, knighthood, and combat brought him on campaigns all over Europe. How did he become known as the Black Prince? What caused his stunning victories against the numerically superior French? How did the Black Prince almost get himself into financial ruin? Why was he the scourge of the French? In this book, we explore every detail of the action-packed life of Edward, the Black Prince.

A true WWII story of love, defiance, and hope

Benito Juárez es una figura central de la historia de México y una de las más estudiadas. En Juárez. El hombre y el símbolo, el público lector encontrará el contexto histórico nacional e internacional en que se formó el estadista, su vida familiar y su conversión en símbolo de mexicanidad, de defensa de la soberanía nacional y del Estado laico.

Walt Whitman was the first incarnation of the great American poet. A humble, unsuspecting figure who managed to capture America’s soul, Whitman came to prominence in the Civil War era of the 1860s and continued to grow as an artist as his nation grew along with him. In this book, we will discover the tragedies and triumphs of a man who had an extraordinary way with words and has become known as the father of free verse: Walt Whitman.

In researching for the book Mobile Under Siege, author Paula Lenor Webb, came across a woman unlike any other who lived in the 1800s. Octavia Walton LeVert, living in the wealth and wilds of the expanding United States, influenced those around her. Paula realized how fascinating this story was and set out to discover more. After five years of traveling, visiting archives, and private collections, Paula Webb has written the true story of a woman ahead of her time.

Het verhaal van Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema blijft mensen fascineren, nu met de musical over zijn leven en de grootse herdenking van de bevrijding is zijn biografie meer dan populair. "Soldaat van Oranje" is niet alleen een spannend verhaal maar ook een historisch document over de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Prins Bernhard schreef niet voor niets over dit boek: "Ik ben erbij geweest, en zo was het." "Soldaat van Oranje" is een van de beroemdste boeken over de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

On April 2, 1855, Texas Ranger Nelson Lee was one of four survivors of a night attack by the Comanches. He escaped death by torture by fascinating his captors with an alarm watch, convincing them he alone had the spiritual powers to make the watch work. This classic tells the tale of Lee's captivity and daring escape.

Albert Speer, uno de los principales jerarcas nazis, fue arquitecto de Hitler y Ministro de la Producción de Armamentos. Fue el responsable de la deportación y muerte de millones de trabajadores esclavos que fueron forzados trabajar en condiciones denigrantes en las industrias de guerra. Se estima que 14 millones de trabajadores fueron utilizados contra su voluntad. para incrementar 4 veces la producción de armamentos durante la gestión de Albert Speer.