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During the 1930s the Soviet Union launched a major effort to create a modern Air Force. That process required training tens of thousands of pilots. Among those pilots were larger numbers of young wo……続きを見る

The real history behind the classic war movie and the men who plotted the daring escape from a Nazi POW camp. Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th–25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldi……続きを見る

Turvemökistä vallan huipulle - millä hinnalla? Rutiköyhän oululaispojan tie koko Suomen silmätikuksi. Politiikkaa, urheilua ja kulttuuria, suosionosoituksia ja selkäänpuukotusta. Nuori sähköasentaja……続きを見る

Miten jytky syntyi? Timo Soini käy läpi rooliaan huimaa vauhtia kasvaneen puolueen johtajana, EU-parlamentissa ja kotimaan politiikassa. Mistä puolueen menestys tuli? Timo Soini ja hänen puolueensa ……続きを見る

Hitaasti kiihtyvän pitkän kirin mies Sauli Väinämö Niinistö mikä hän on miehiään? Värittömäksi ja vakavaksi luonnehditusta pikkukaupungin poliitikosta kehittyi 1990-luvun haasteellisten vuosien jälk……続きを見る

Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) – Poet Laureate and Civil War hero – is one of the most influential and neglected figures in the history of British theatre. He introduced 'opera', actresses, scenes……続きを見る

»Alle glücklichen Familien sind einander ähnlich, jede unglückliche Familie ist unglücklich auf ihre Weise.« Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina Mit der ersten Familie beginnt die Menschheit. Die folgenden F……続きを見る

Yritysjohtajasta politiikan huipulle Kattava henkilökuva kertoo, mikä Juha Sipilä on miehiään ja miten aloitteleva poliitikko harppasi pystymetsästä vanhan valtapuolueen johtoon ja pian sen jälkeen ……続きを見る

Mistä on kyse Jussi Halla-ahon puolueen kohutussa etnonationalismissa? Ketkä kansanedustajat itkivät ja tekivät diilejä valitessaan puoliaan perussuomalaisten hajotessa? Kuka edustaja kirjaimellises……続きを見る

Award winning team of Sean Michael Wilson and Akiko Shimojima have ventured into new territory in this, their ninth book together, on the explorer Mamiya Rinzo (間宮 林蔵) who mapped Sakhalin Island……続きを見る

A fascinating portrait of one of Australia’s most influential women Elected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye, and is the……続きを見る

Dans "La vie et les légendes intimes des deux empereurs, Napoléon Ier et Napoléon II", Jacques-Albin-Simon Collin de Plancy nous offre une exploration captivante et richement documentée des destinée……続きを見る

“Running away from God doesn’t work. I had tried.” ーRoger Benimoff As he left for his second tour of duty as an Army chaplain in Iraq, Roger Benimoff noted in his journal: I am excited and I am sca……続きを見る

The Israeli Special Forces' operation at Entebbe goes down in history as one of the most audacious counter-terrorist assaults ever conducted. On 27 June 1976, four terrorists - two of the Popular Fr……続きを見る

The French Foreign Legion: a true adventure of determination and grit in the hostile North African desert. In 1960, at only nineteen years old, Simon Murray traveled alone to Paris, Marseilles, and ……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Set in the 1740s, just after the start of the French and Indian wars, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer……続きを見る

This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force. The eldest three flew during WW2 and all three died. The youngest, not old enough to see wartime ……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’ Set in frontier Am……続きを見る

The number 1 non-fiction bestseller.More than 100,000 copies sold! 'What we have, we hold'MOttO OF AUStRALIA'S 2/17tH BAttALIONIn the tradition of his bestselling Kokoda, Peter FitzSimons, Australia……続きを見る

Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, ev……続きを見る

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's ser……続きを見る

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the story of a journey across the Universe as it was known in the Middle Ages, a work of science fiction ante litteram. Dante had an encyclopedic mind, no dou……続きを見る

Born with the 20th century, Otto Peltzer overcame a lonely childhood, beset by illness, to gain a doctorate in sociology and multiple world records on the running track. He competed in two Olympics,……続きを見る

Simone Müller porträtiert 14 Jüdinnen und Juden sowie eine Zeugin Jehovas, die zwischen 1923 und 1942 geboren wurden und als Kinder oder Jugendliche Hitlers Terrorregime überlebten. Sie gehören zur ……続きを見る

Desde fines de junio hasta julio de 1944, apareció el informe Vrba-Wetzler en periódicos y transmisiones de radio en Estados Unidos y Europa, particularmente en Suiza, lo que llevó a los líderes mun……続きを見る

Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award, and nominated for the PEN/JR Ackerley prize. The powerful memoir of a Mullaghmore bombing survivor ___________________________________ On the Au……続きを見る

En las postrimerías de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante el verano de 1945, llegó a Italia una riada de refugiados y supervivientes de la persecución nazi, entre los que se encontraban grupos de pa……続きを見る

Defecto de forma nos descubre la faceta más visionaria de Primo Levi. Si en sus libros sobre Auschwitz se adentra en los límites de lo humano, en estos magníficos cuentos científico-fantásticos expl……続きを見る

Tutto ebbe inizio in una notte d'estate di fine luglio, anche se a tutt'oggi, d' allora sono ormai passati sei anni, non saprei dirvi con precisione quale potrebbe essere stata la causa che lo ha de……続きを見る

On October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers in their barracks at the Beirut International Airport (BIA) and 58 French paratroopers at their headquart……続きを見る