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"In this exciting, meticulously researched narrative, best-selling author and historian Winston Groom returns to tell one of the most monumental stories of the twentieth century. It is the tale of three remarkably different men, joined in a mission to end World War II and restore order. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin redefined a generation and transformed its political future. Their leadership--wise, decisive, and sometimes...
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No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as "carrying France on [his] shoulders."
In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler's Germany. Thereafter, he twice rescued the nation from defeat and decline by extraordinary...
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An original and authoritative account of Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide.
"Pietrusza steers clear of the pat narrative regarding Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented 1936 re-election landslide, and instead weaves an intricate tale of a polarized nation; of America's complex, calculating, and politically successful president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the very top of his Machiavellian game; and the unlocking of the puzzle...
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In Finding Jackie, Oline Eaton resurrects the Jackie Kennedy Onassis who has been culturally erased, who we need now more than ever-not the First Lady who was a paragon of femininity, fashion, American wifeliness and motherhood, but rather the kaleidoscopic Jackie who emerged after the murder of her husband changed her world and ours. Here is the story of Jackie's reinvention into an adventurer, a wanderer, a woman and an idea in whom many Americans...
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"Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin were a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth...
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America."--
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An engaging and original account of 1921, a pivotal year for Churchill that had a lasting impact on his political and personal legacy.
After the tragic consequences of his involvement in the catastrophic Dardanelles Campaign of World War I, Churchill's political career seemed over. He was widely regarded as little more than a bombastic and unpredictable buccaneer until, in 1921, an unexpected inheritance heralded a series of events that laid the...
8) Young Hitler
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When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, he was just twenty-five years old. It was a time he would later call the "most stupendous experience of my life." That war ended with Hitler in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. The world he eventually opened his newly healed eyes to was new and it was terrible: Germany had been defeated, the Kaiser had fled, and the army had been resolutely humbled. By peeling back the layers of Hitler's childhood,...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Tito en moins d'une heure!
La vie et l'action politique de Josip Broz, mieux connu sous son surnom Tito, ne peuvent être dissociées de son pays, la Yougoslavie, dont il est à la tête de 1946 à sa mort, en 1980. Dans un contexte de guerre froide, il en fera ainsi le seul pays européen à rejoindre le mouvement des non-alignés, dont il est l'un des fondateurs.
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Mao Zedong en moins d'une heure !
Personnalité controversée, Mao Zedong est l'un des dirigeants politiques les plus importants du XXe siècle. Vénéré comme un dieu en Chine o son image se retrouve partout, Mao a pourtant du sang sur les mains : on considère que près de 70 millions de Chinois seraient morts à la suite de sa politique...
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The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history. All of them led with courage - but also with great optimism. The pope helped ordinary Poles and East Europeans banish their fear of Soviet Communism, convincing them that liberation was possible. The prime minister restored her country's failing economy by reviving the "vigorous virtues" of the British people. The...
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Saturday, November 3, 1956 The United Nations, New York City about 10 p.m. Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal composed of seventy-eight painstakingly chosen words. These words, shaped by caution and hope, are a last-ditch attempt to prevent a conflict in Egypt from igniting a conflagration throughout the Middle East....
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Alors que la France perd progressivement ses colonies africaines, Léopold Sédar Senghor souhaite créer une nouvelle forme de coopération entre la France et le Sénégal. Son rêve était de créer une civilisation universelle basée sur le respect des différentes cultures. Senghor a été élu président de la nouvelle République du Sénégal et a occupé ce poste pendant 20 ans. Pourtant, il a poursuivi sa grande passion, l'écriture, et a...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur John Fitzgerald Kennedy en moins d'une heure!
Lorsque, le 22 novembre 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, en visite à Dallas, est abattu, c'est toute une vision de l'Amérique qui sombre avec lui : celle d'un pays jeune et dynamique o tout devient possible, de la conquête de l'espace au début de la lutte contre une ségrégation qui gangrène le pays depuis trop longtemps déjà. Pour son successeur, Lyndon...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Kennedy y su lucha contra el comunismo, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
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• Descubrir más sobre el personaje de Kennedy y su vida antes y después de llegar a la política, desde que es un niño hasta que muere asesinado
• Analizar el contexto histórico en el que se enmarca la vida de Kennedy: desde...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Lyndon B. Johnson, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
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• Conocer más sobre Lyndon B. Johnson, a quien las circunstancias colocan a la cabeza de su país tras el asesinato de Kennedy y obligan a intervenir en Vietnam para frenar el avance comunista
• Obtener más datos sobre el estilo de vida estadounidense...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Josip Broz Tito in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life of Josip Broz Tito, Marshal of Yugoslavia, who exercised a decisive influence on the country's history from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to his death in 1980. In particular, he defied Stalin's leadership of the international Communist movement,...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Léopold Sédar Senghor en moins d'une heure!
« J'ai toujours rêvé de concilier francophonie et négritude. Ce rêve est maintenant une réalité. » Cette phrase de Léopold Sédar Senghor adressée à l'UNESCO reflète bien le combat de ce grand homme du XXe siècle. Alors que la France se défait peu à peu de ses colonies africaines, Léopold Sédar Senghor souhaite mettre en place une collaboration...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Léopold Sédar Senghor, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir la política de discriminación y de paternalismo que Francia aplica sobre sus colonias, y que genera el nacimiento de un sentimiento anticolonialista
• Conocer a Léopold Sédar Senghor, que sueña con una civilización universal...
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“Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege” is a first-hand account of the 118-day siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War in South Africa. The author, Henry Woodd Nevinson, was a British war correspondent who was trapped inside the besieged town along with the civilian population and British soldiers. The book describes the daily struggles of life under siege, including the shortage of food and water, the constant bombardment by Boer artillery, and...
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