The British people had no sooner finished rescuing their trapped army from Dunkirk than they found themselves preparing for an attack from the Germans once again. This time, the Nazi menace struck from the air, as Hitler's Luftwaffe bombed the British in an attempt to break their spirit and force Great Britain to ac...

**A New York Times bestseller • A finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize, 2025 Cundill History Prize, and 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker “An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the ...

In the late 17th century, a devastating conflict erupted between English colonists and indigenous peoples that would forever alter the course of North American history. King Philip's War wasn't merely a territorial disputeーit was a desperate struggle for cultural survival as Native Americans watched their way of li...

Charles II of England remains one of the most easily identifiable and best known of England's monarchs. Deprived of his throne following the execution of his father, he contended with hardship and exile before achieving a peaceful restoration and the beginning of what would be remembered as a colorful period of Engl...

The Gallipoli Campaign is known as one of the worst blunders committed by the Allied forces during the First World War. Despite being first thought up long before the beginning of the war, it was ultimately a hastily arranged campaign that the British hoped would knock the Ottoman Empireーone of the Central Powersー...

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Em O assassinato de uma nação: como os Estados Unidos e a OTAN destruíram a Iugoslávia, Michael Parenti descortina o programa imperialista por trás do ataque dos Estados Unidos e da OTAN ao país dos Bálcãs. Os bons contra os maus; civilização versus barbárie; cruzada humanitária para interromper um genocídio; bombar...

Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. As a painter, he never considered glamorizing what he saw, and he was a master of creating extraordinary scenes with light and shadows. His paintings were unique for their ability to depict action and m...

By the age of 26, John Wilkes Booth had achieved success on the stage. He had rugged good looks and the fame he craved. Yet that wasn't enough for the fanatical actor. On April 14, 1865, just a few days following the end of the American Civil War, Booth stepped into the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washingt...

Eine Dynastie – zwei Reiche: Nach der Abdankung Kaiser Karls V. teilten sich die Habsbur-ger in eine spanische und eine österreichische Linie. Arno Strohmeyer verfolgt die Geschichte beider Herrscherhäuser bis zum Ende der spanischen Linie 1700 und dem Aussterben des österreichischen Zweiges im Mannesstamm 1740. Er ...

"Amor, sacrificio y redención en medio de la Revolución Francesa." En Historia de dos ciudades, Charles Dickens nos transporta a París y Londres durante una de las épocas más turbulentas de la historia. Con personajes inolvidables, giros dramáticos y una narrativa magistral, esta obra nos muestra cómo la esperanza p...

The Assyrian Empire was the largest, most powerful, and longest-lasting in the ancient world. It included lands that comprise modern Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and Cyprus as well as large parts of modern Saudi Arabia, Libya, Turkey, and Iran. The Assyrian army was the mo...

What would Russia look like today if there had never been a Peter the Great? Peter I did so much for Russia, including changing the education system to reach more people, reorganizing the government and the Russian Orthodox Church, and even modernizing the dress and social living standards of the Russian people. Ins...

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1.《中国国家地理百科全书》是一套色彩艳丽、内容丰富、特色鲜明的大众地理读物。 2.全书内容是经过社科院专家和中国地理协会的老师专门审核后完成的，地理知识具有较高的权威性。3.全书共分10卷，分别从多方面介绍了世界七大洲的200多个国家与地区，资料翔实、数据全面、图片丰富。4.这套书也是目前国内图书市场上为数不多的以彩图版的形式...

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