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*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* 'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling 'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA 'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala' SUNDAY TIMES 'A tale of immense courage and conviction' INDEPENDENT 'She has the heart and courage of a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of...

SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain’s most remarkable 20th century figures...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today “A blistering tell-all history. In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses [that] the...

Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days in Congress to his years in the Oval Office, she made Hope and Change happen through blood, sweat, tears and lots of briefing binders. But for every historic occasion - meeting the queen at Buckingham Palace, bursting in on secret climate talks or nailing a campaign speech in a hailstorm - there were dozens of less-than-perfect moments when it was up to Alyssa to save the day.

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" ( Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man.

Helmut Schmidt erzählt in seinem neuen Buch von seinen Vorbildern. Von den Menschen, die ihn so geprägt haben, dass er sich an deren Beispiel bis heute orientiert. Die frühe Lektüre von Mark Aurel und Cicero, die Beschäftigung mit Kant, Weber und Karl Popper waren entscheidend in der Entwicklung des Politikers, der in seiner aktiven politischen Zeit als ein Verfechter des Pragmatismus galt. Dennoch wurde seine Politik stets von einer sittlichen, tief verinnerlichten Grundorientierung geleitet, die er sowohl den großen Denkern als auch Begegnungen in der Schulzeit oder seiner Frau Loki verdankte.

Der unaufhaltsam scheinende Aufstieg der AfD verändert nicht nur die politischen Kräfteverhältnisse in Deutschland – er droht das Land zu spalten, während die traditionellen Parteien immer verzweifelter versuchen, den Siegeszug zu stoppen. Es gibt kaum einen Journalisten, der die AfD und ihr Umfeld so gut kennt wie Justus Bender. Seit ihren Anfängen im Jahr 2013 begleitet er den Aufstieg der Partei mit investigativen Recherchen und berichtet über ihre innerparteilichen Querelen und rasante Radikalisierung.

From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan, a “timely, riveting” (The Washington Post) new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—one that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War. Henry...

From the bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution comes an elegiac tribute to one of America's most beloved leaders. It is twenty years—a full generation—since Ronald Reagan first walked into the White House and ignited a revolution. From the beginning, he enjoyed the American...

The shocking true story of international intrigue —“a highly detailed, engrossing work” (Kirkus Reviews)—involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. “In a post-truth era, we need a lot...

LAURA DAHLMEIER prominent als erfolgreiche Biathletin und Olympiasiegerin, die sich mit nur 25 Jahren aus dem Leistungssport zurückzog. Eine strahlende Siegerin im Licht der Sportberichterstattung. Doch Biathlon war immer nur ein Teil ihres Lebens. Lauras große Leidenschaft gehörte den Bergen...

His name was Geronimo. And any mention of that name immediately conjures up images of the last gasp of Native American control of the Western Frontier. Geronimo, to be sure, was one of the most effective leaders in the resistance against America’s westward advance, but he was much more than just a good field commander for the Apaches. For even after the West was supposedly won, Geronimo proved more than ready to adapt. In this book, you will get the full picture of Geronimo: the good, the bad, and the downright incredible.

Lincoln as He Really Was, by Charles T. Pace, is a refreshingly truthful antidote to the standard Lincoln mythology. It is refreshing because it is so fact-based and well-documented and devoted to historical truth.

Bob Kerrey grew up outside Lincoln, Nebraska, in the 1950s, and in his trademark style - serious, sometimes wry - he tells of his journey from that heartland to the dangers of Vietnam, to the hospitals where he recovered from his grievous injuries, and finally to the Nixon White House where he was awarded the Medal of Honor.

In a fascinating biography, Lizzi’s daughter, Elona Russell, begins by detailing her mother’s life. She was raised by a strong-willed father who considered her his property in a patriarchal society.

From a quiet street in a small town to the avenues of power in Washington, D.C, from the comfort of obscurity to the spotlight of radio and television, from a broken heart to a position of strength and responsibility, God wove the chords of my life in such twists and turns, it took a book to explain it all. If I knew why He called ME, I would tell you. My parents could have walked out of the pages of "Grapes of Wrath." My beginnings were unremarkable, yet God gave me a remarkable life. God's Velvet Hammer is my story.

Herbert Reul war schon immer ein Politiker, der sich nicht vor schweren Aufgaben scheut. Im Gegenteil, im Laufe seiner Amtszeit als Innenminister von NRW bringt er zahlreiche Maßnahmen in Gang zur Bekämpfung von Terrorismus, Cyberkriminalität und Clanverbrechen. Dabei zeichnet ihn aus, dass er sich weder von Panikmache noch von Aktionismus leiten lässt. Besonnen geht er vor, und dennoch konsequent. Nicht selten legt er den Finger in die Wunde und benennt klar, was sich ändern muss. Sein dringendstes Anliegen: Das Leben in Deutschland wieder sicherer machen.

George Washington was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father who worked as the nation's first president from 1789 to 1797. Washington was called leader of the Continental Army by the Continental Congress, and he led the Patriot forces to triumph in the American Revolutionary War.