Novedades

A secret daily account of the German Occupation of the British Channel Islands 1940 - 1945. Philip Le Sauteur (Phil) wrote this diary during the days of Jersey’s Occupation by German forces from July 1940 through to June 1945. At the outbreak of war Phil’s employer, Commander T. Pirouet, was recalled to the Royal Navy. He handed over responsibility of his builders’ merchants business, T. F. Pirouet and Son, to his employee Phil who ran it throughout the Occupation years. The builders’ merchants store soon became a meeting place for trusted friends where news was shared and discussed...

Who needs horror stories when real life has serial killers, cults, and human soup? 20 of the world’s most disturbing real-life crimes - this isn’t fiction. It’s worse! Walk the haunted alleys of Cape Town, navigate Russia’s frozen wastelands, and venture down the shadowed river Thames - each tale expertly written for fans of true crime, murder mystery non-fiction, and gripping criminal investigations. The Iron Box Killer In 1910s Siam, the first documented serial killer in Thai history shocked a nation with his terrifying crimes. The Gatton Murders A peaceful Christmas night ...

Warrant Officer Terry Crump was a Cobra gunship pilot who earned a near-unprecedented seven Distinguished Flying Crosses in his one-year tour in Vietnam. This is the untold story of the Pink Panthers, the 361st Aerial Weapons Company, an all-Cobra unit dedicated to supporting the secret war of MACVSOG. SOG, the so-called "Studies and Observation Group" sent small teams led by Special Forces commandos into Laos and Cambodia in violation of their supposed neutrality. It was considered "the hairiest mission" of the war with more Medals of Honor awarded to SOG teams at Kontum than any other unit.

Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the “Sugar King.” The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific.

Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the daunting task of collecting the war debts from European governments still devastated by WWI and struggling to recover economically. Dealing with the US Congress and the heads of foreign governments on the world stage became one of the great adventures of his life. Mellon vs. Churchill presents Winston Churchill through a different lens, focusing on his service as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Great Britain was the largest debtor to the US.

“Thank god the revolution has begun, honey.” Rumor has it that after Marsha P. Johnson threw the first brick in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, she picked up a shard of broken mirror to fix her makeup. Marsha, a legendary Black transgender activist, embodied both the beauty and the struggle of the early gay rights movement. Her work sparked the progress we see today, yet there has never been a definitive record of her life. Until now.

How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.

Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889) was an American politician who became president of the Confederate States during the Civil War. He took his seat in Congress as the representative for Mississippi in 1847. As a Democrat, Davis was an enthusiastic supporter of the expansion of slavery. In 1861, he resigned from the Senate when the state of Mississippi seceded. During the Civil War, Davis acted as chief executive and commander in chief for the Confederacy. After the war, he was captured and charged with treason.

This autobiography is about how truth can set you free once you go back in time and realize where you really came from as a child. It’s about how one white child out of many that grew up in Florida were raised, nurtured, loved, educated and cared for by black American women and men. In my case, it was my nanny, our maid, and our family foreman. World War II and the Korean War were over and began a period of American prosperity which was not so prosperous for black Americans. Just like in the movie, “The Help” where black women were depicted as being the backbone of Southern homes ...

Foreword by John Nettles I was involved in the making of a TV documentary on the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. Naturally, I wanted to talk to anyone who had been in Jersey during that time and who might be considered an authority on the subject. Whenever and whoever we asked about this, one name always came up: Bob Le Sueur, who was, we were told, without doubt one of the most important voices of the Occupation still living. Robert Winter Le Sueur was working as a young (and handsome) insurance clerk when the German soldiers of 216th Infantry Division came marching into St ...

Richard Weithley was a boy of fourteen when the German Occupation of the Channel Islands began in 1940 - and a young man of nineteen when it finished in 1945. Like many of those living through the period, it is something that he will never forget. This book is an enchanting tale of excitement, humour, romance and intrigue. What started as teenage bravado against the Nazi 'authorities' soon turned into life threatening situations and ended with a dramatic escape from a German military prison. A fascinating account of how the author was forced to grow up under the shadow of the swastika, told...

The reason for the publication of this book is twofold. First, to put into a documentary account of the family stories that I have heard in my lifetime so that future generations will have knowledge of them. Second, to document the many family stories that I have told over my lifetime about actual events in my life.

Dive into the extraordinary life of Britain's greatest naval hero in Robert Southey's definitive biography of Horatio Lord Nelson. With unparalleled insight, Southey captures Nelson's meteoric rise, fierce battles, and unyielding dedication to his country. From the fiery clash at the Nile to the triumph and tragedy of Trafalgar, this richly detailed account paints a vivid picture of the man who reshaped naval warfare and inspired a nation.

Almost a century after his untimely death in 1922, this lively and insightful new assessment explores the man Michael Collins described as ‘father of us all’ and reclaims Arthur Griffith as the founder of both Sinn Féin and the Irish Free State. Since his death when President of Dáil Éireann, Griffith’s role has often been misrepresented. Too radical for some, he was not militant enough for others. His legacy belongs to no single political party today. Colum Kenny argues that efforts to ‘other’ Griffith as ‘un-Irish’ raise uncomfortable questions about Irish identity. A ...

Außergewöhnliche Begebenheiten im Leben der Autorin riefen bei ihren Bekannten und Verwandten häufig Verwunderung hervor. Sie schreibt über zeitgeschichtlich wichtige Ereignisse, einzelne Episoden und auch Details, die wahrhaftig so verlaufen sind. Ihr ist es wichtig, dass die heutige Jugend etwas über die Menschen aus ihrer Generation erfährt, was so bestimmt nicht in Geschichtsbüchern zu finden ist. Es geht um die Erzählung der Geschichten für Menschen in ganz Deutschland und anderswo.

In the early years of TB sanatoriums, mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents … both the young and the old, the rich and the poor … went away to recover at hospitals ... sometimes for years. Because fresh air was believed to cure TB, patients slept by open windows, even in winter, sometimes waking to snow and ice on their thick covering of blankets, frozen water in their glasses, and frozen urine in their pots. Today, while tuberculosis casts its sinister shadow back to earlier times by reemerging in new, drug-resistant forms and infecting one-fourth of the world’s population, ...

She was called the most evil woman in the Bible. Princess Jezebel arrives in Israel determined to bridge two cultures, but when wilderness prophet Elijah declares war on everything she believes, their epic clash will shake the foundations of faith and power. Caught between gods and kings, she fights to protect her family and secure her legacy—even as an ancient curse closes in. History remembers her as a villain. But every villain believes they're the hero of their own story. Discover the woman behind the legend. Get your copy today.

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. The famous English naturalist tells his life story, in his own words. From his birth, to the famed Voyage of the Beagle, to the Origin of Species, to his marriage and family and finally to his theories of life itself.

The book tells the story of a person who, during World War II, saved all 48,000 Jews of Bulgaria. The events described in the book are based on research conducted by Israeli diplomat and intelligence agent - Nir Baruch. Nir Baruch is known for participating in the investigation of the disaster when a Bulgarian fighter plane shot down an Israeli plane with Jewish repatriates on board in 1955. The documents presented in the book are located in: the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The New York Public Library, The Library of Congress, The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

"El tiempo demostró la certeza de mis predicciones. Hidalgo y los que lo sucedieron, siguiendo su ejemplo, desolaron al país, radicaron el odio entre europeos y americanos, sacrificaron millares de víctimas, obstruyeron las fuentes de las riquezas, desorganizaron el ejército, aniquilaron la industria, hicieron de peor condición la suerte de los americanos corrompiendo las costumbres; y lejos de conseguir la independencia, aumentaron los obstáculos que a ella se oponían..." En la historia de México, pocas figuras han sido tan elevadas y derribadas con tanta violencia como Agustín de...