"A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer of...
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"Alésia, 52 avant J.-C. La Gaule n'est pas encore entièrement conquise mais deux ennemis, que tout oppose, se livrent un combat à mort : Jules César, proconsul, et Vercingétorix, à la tête de la révolte gauloise. La défaite du chef arverne signe la victoire du futur empe...
"In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was the culmination of a brief, brilliant life lived in the shadow of clinical depression--a condition exacerbated by her tempestuous relationship with mercurial poet Ted Hughes. The ensuing years saw Plath ris...
Megan Marshall's innovative books, including 'The Peabody Sisters' and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Margaret Fuller', are treasured works of American biography. In the richly absorbing essays of 'After Lives', Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art and life, reinventing ...
The first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view o...
""Instantly fascinating, brimming with twisting narratives and unforgettable endings ... The Last Dream stands alone as a major literary talent's virtuosic debut."--Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr! Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-...
"The Great Persecution under Diocletian and his imperial colleagues and successors is a foremost concern of modern scholarship on Roman persecution of Christians. This book is a systematic and comprehensive study of that persecution. Its focus is on events from 284 when Diocletia...
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 The 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017, Elle Magazine The 32 Most Exciting Books Coming Out in 2017, BuzzFeed 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2017, Nylon Magazine 33 New Books to Read in 2017, The Huffington Post Mos...
Master storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln-two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation's gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious ma...