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Jana Hensel war dreizehn, als die Mauer fiel. Von einem Tag auf den anderen war ihre Kindheit zu Ende. Die vertrauten Dinge des DDR-Alltags verschwanden gleichsam über Nacht – plötzlich war überall Westen, die Grenze offen, die Geschichte auch. Eine ganze Generation machte sich daran, das veränderte Land neu zu erkunden. Jana Hensel erzählt von ihrem Leben in der Schwebe zwischen Ost und West.

Germany one felt the world’s wrath for crimes committed during the Nazi regime. More recently, it received extravagant praise for facing up to the atrocities. The country now boasts of new Jewish museums, Holocaust memorials, restored synagogues, and classroom lessons designed to honor its Jewish heritage and teach tolerance. This effort was led not by politicians or historians, but by local citizen activists, few of them Jewish, almost all of them born after World War II. They could have shrugged off responsibility for evils done before they were born.

A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War.

An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman emperor Septimius...

A Force for Good is the biography of the heroic life of Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a courageous young German Jewish woman who leveraged her wealth and family connections to save countless children from annihilation at the hands of the Nazis.

Desde la esclavitud (Up from Slavery) Por Booker T. Washington · Traducción de Mateo Calderón. La inspiradora autobiografía de uno de los grandes educadores y líderes afroamericanos de la historia.

Harriet Tubman is one of the most iconic figures in American history, yet much of her story has been fragmented, misunderstood, or incomplete. While countless books recount her courage on the Underground Railroad, few explore the full scope of her strategic brilliance, military service, and lifelong leadership. Harriet Tubman sets out to correct the record. Drawing on research and rare family oral history, authors Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels—Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece—present the first biography to involve a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.

Dissatisfied with the reductive clichés that now define Jefferson’s legacy, Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano restore the founding father to his historical context, elucidating in three essays how Jefferson’s understanding of history shaped his responses to the crises of his time, how he conceived of the physical entity that became the United States, and how he articulated a new national identity in 1776. Through their search for understanding, Onuf and Cogliano demonstrate not only why Jefferson matters, but how his wisdom can be applied today.

Xi Jinping herrscht über 1,4 Milliarden Menschen und die zweitgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Welt. Dennoch ist überraschend wenig über ihn bekannt. Der erfahrene Auslandskorrespondent Michael Sheridan hat alles zusammengetragen, was er in 20 Jahren aus Insiderberichten und eigenen Reportagen über den chinesischen Staatspräsidenten recherchieren konnte, und zeichnet das bislang wohl detaillierteste Bild des starken Mannes in Peking und seines Werdegangs.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t just lead America through its worst economic collapse and its biggest war, he reengineered what government even meant. From the chaos of the Great Depression to the firestorm of World War II, FDR expanded power, rewrote rules, and built systems that still shape American life today.

Torn between his love of Iran - the land where his family’s roots have existed for over 2,500 years - and his desire for religious and political freedom, Isaac Yomtovian takes readers on a journey through his childhood in Tehran to his eventual immigration to America. Isaac weaves his recollections with deep insights into Iranian culture and history, the current Islamic regime, and United States-Iranian relations. My Iran intimately depicts a society that is both friendly and intolerant, modern and religious, and theocratic and rooted in democracy.

Kindheit am Nordufer eröffnet die NorduferTrilogie – ein kurzer, intensiver erster Teil, in dem jede Minute Bedeutung trägt. Dieses Hörbuch führt zurück in eine BerlinerWeddingKindheit der 70er und 80er Jahre: Kohlekeller, Hinterhöfe, Außentoilette im Treppenhaus, Streit, Trennungen – und dennoch immer wieder kleine Lichtblicke, Musik und stille Träume. Es ist der ehrliche Rückblick auf ein Mädchen, das früh Verantwortung übernehmen musste und trotzdem nie aufgehört hat zu hoffen.

Discover the remarkable life of George Armstrong Custer... George Armstrong Custer is remembered for his last stand—that fateful day at the Little Bighorn when he and his unit were caught in an ambush that would end their lives. But Custer's story was much more than that single moment of catastrophe. From a mischievous farm boy in Ohio to a struggling West Point cadet, Custer lived a life of constant drama. He became the Union's youngest general, a daring Civil War hero who rode fearlessly into battle with his signature golden locks flowing behind him.

From the opulent palaces of imperial Russia to the burning sands of ancient Egypt, Passions of Power reveals the secret love lives that changed the course of history. Dive into the seductive and volatile romances of iconic rulers—Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, whose union threatened the stability of Rome; Napoleon and Joséphine, entangled in a love both intoxicating and destructive; and Catherine the Great, whose personal passions were as legendary as her political ambition.

Castro: A Biography by Consent offers the most comprehensive and in-depth life history of one of the most iconic and controversial revolutionary leaders of the modern world. Respected by some, despised by others, Fidel Castro was a force to reckon with, and Claudia Furiati spent nine years of intensive research unraveling and chronicling his story through seven decades of Cuban history.

Did Savarkar battle a stormy sea when he attempted his legendary escape at Marseilles? Did Gandhiji and he stay together ‘as friends’ in London as Savarkar claimed during Gandhiji’s assassination trial? Did he turn against Muslims because of the cruelty of jailers in the Andamans? What is...

In meiner Kindheit konnte ich nur das Wesen zweier Generationen wahrnehmen: meiner Großeltern (mütterlicherseits) und meiner Eltern. Meine Großeltern lachten und scherzten mit ihren Enkeln, obwohl ihre Gesichter die fatalistische Last des Leidens trugen, das sie in den schweren Jahren der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Europa erfahren hatten. Sie waren da gewesen und kannten den Sinn des Lebens, der alles übersteigt, was wir uns vorstellen können. So einfach ist es, dass ihre Gesichter uns den Unterschied zwischen Existenz und bloßem Überleben zeigen.

Ten Years from Slavery: The Story of Bishop William Edward Fuller, Sr. is a powerful and inspiring historical audiobook that traces the extraordinary rise of a Black religious pioneer whose life helped shape American spiritual and social history. Written and narrated by his grandchildren, this intimate family memoir brings authenticity, warmth, and lived experience to a story that spans Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the early Civil Rights Movement.

Eighteen-year-old Anita was plucked out of the Nazi death machine as she arrived at Auschwitz by a twist of fate: she played the cello, and the camp orchestra needed a cellist. Told through Anita's sharp-etched memories, alongside family letters and other historical documents, Inherit the Truth is a portrait of how their everyday life - cello and Latin grammar lessons, reading books as a family - turned by degrees to one of unimaginable horror.