Bookshelf - Storia
Bookshelf - Storia
 | The IllegalsRussia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the WestShaun WalkerProfile Books-17-04-2025448 pagesDescription: The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Astonishing, but underreported at the time, was the fact that among these ten spies were three couples who had spent decades living as Americans and an agent who had lived as an Uruguayan photographer for so long that he could barely even speak Russian. They had hidden their true identities from their children, neighbours, and even occasionally their partners. The Illegals captures the untold history of Russia's deep cover spy programme, following its evolution from the talented "great Illegals" of the 1920s and '30s up to the 21st century, when agents maintained their fake identities and loyalties even after the fall of the Soviet Union. Directorate S, which ran the illegals programme, is the most secretive within the KGB, but through hundreds of interviews and access to never-before-seen archives and files, Shaun Walker has been able to capture a history as essential as it is character-driven and entertaining.9781788167772L1Non Fiction,StoriaFormat: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 448 |
 | The Forgotten SoldierWar on the Russian Front, a True StoryGuy SajerCassell & Co. Ltd.-15-07-1999560 pagesDescription: This book recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer’s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov. His German footsoldier’s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said "may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited." Now it has been handsomely republished as a hardcover containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.9780304352401L1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,European History,20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 560 |
 | Il pilota di ferroHans U. RudelAlenia - VolareDescription: Non troverete Hans Ulrich Rudel nelle classifiche dei maggiori assi tedeschi della Seconda guerra mondiale: in 2.530 missioni non ha abbattuto neppure un aereo. Però ha fatto saltare in aria oltre 500 carri armati sovietici, è stato abbattuto una trentina di volte, ha perso una gamba (portata via da una granata durante un attacco) e ha comunque continuato a volare e combattere per tutta la durata del conflitto, diventando così un esempio di coraggio e di resistenza fisica alle avversità. Rudel nasce il 2 luglio 1916 a Seiferdau, nella Slesia, da una famiglia severa che lo educa al rispetto delle virtù belliche e all’obbedienza alle regole. Bambino apparentemente fragile e insicuro, a dodici anni rimane profondamente colpito dal racconto delle due sorelle che avevano assistito a una manifestazione aerea, tanto da decidere di diventare aviatore a qualunque costo. I suoi studi classici danno esiti alterni, ma con l’esercizio fisico cresce anche la sua audacia, fino a manifestare una radicata passione per le attività pericolose, tipo saltare dai trampolini con la moto. Nel 1936 entra in aeronautica grazie a un concorso e viene inviato alla scuola di guerra aerea di Wilpark-Werder e poi a quella di volo di Werdere. Inizialmente deluso per l’assegnazione agli Stuka come ricognitore, nel 1941, con l’inizio dell’Operazione Barbarossa, comincia la sua carriera di bombardiere in picchiata: tra incidenti di volo, avventure e missioni al limite, diventa l’incubo delle truppe corazzate russe. Non lo fermano le malattie, né i tentativi dello Stato maggiore di dargli incarichi più quieti: studia le caratteristiche dei carri sovietici e mette a punto tecniche per attaccarli usando gli JU 87 riequipaggiati con cannoni da 37 mm. Rudel porta il suo squadrone di cannoniere volanti contro i T 34 russi fino all’ultimo giorno di guerra. Si consegna agli alleati tirando un pugno in faccia a un soldato americano che tentava di strappargli le decorazioni dalla divisa. Dopo la guerra si trasfL1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,Aeronautica ,Storia |
 | AftermathLife in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955Harald JähnerNational Geographic Books-21-02-2023416 pagesDescription: How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history—"filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries" (The New York Times)—of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. Featuring over 40 eye-opening black-and-white photographs and posters from the period. The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins—no mail, no trains, no traffic—with bodies yet to be found beneath the towering rubble. Aftermath received wide acclaim and spent forty-eight weeks on the best-seller list in Germany when it was published there in 2019. It is the first history of Germany's national mentality in the immediate postwar years. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Harald Jähner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. Poised between two eras, this decade is portrayed by Jähner as a period that proved decisive for Germany's future—and one starkly diff...9780593313930L1StoriaCategories: Europe World History,Germany,World War II Translators: Shaun Whiteside Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 416 |
 | Mustang: The Untold StoryThe Untold StoryMatthew WillisKey Publishing Ltd-01-01-2024288 pages9781802826838L1Aeronautica ,StoriaCategories: History,Military Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 288 |
 | Fino all'ultima ora. Le memorie della segretaria di Hitler 1942-1945Traudl JungeMondadori-01-01-2004270 pagesDescription: Dal 1942 al 1945 Traudl Junge è stata, poco più che ventenne, la segretaria privata di Adolf Hitler. "Fino all'ultima ora" sono le memorie che scrisse immediatamente dopo la guerra, tra il 1947 e il 1948, quando ancora la giovane età non le consentiva di rendersi davvero conto della straordinaria esperienza da lei vissuta e della gravità di quanto era accaduto in quegli anni. L'immagine di Hitler che si ricava da queste pagine è quella di un capo piacevole e gentile, quasi una figura paterna. La giovane Traudl registra con occhio ingenuo e attento numerosi dettagli appartenenti alla vita privata del dittatore tedesco e ci apre le porte su piccoli e grandi eventi di cui non comprende l'importanza e la gravità.9788804532422C1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 270 |
 | Memorie di una interprete di guerraElena RzhevskayaVoland-09-07-2015461 pagesDescription: Mosca, ottobre 1941. Sono passati quattro mesi dall’attacco della Germania hitleriana all’URSS. Elena Rževskaja, ventiduenne, lascia la fabbrica di orologi dove lavora e si iscrive a un corso per interpreti militari. Inizia un’avventura che la porterà a diventare testimone attenta e partecipe della guerra, in un movimento continuo che attraverso cittadine e villaggi sconvolti dal conflitto la condurrà al fronte, e infine a Varsavia e a Berlino. Ed è qui, nel suo ruolo di interprete militare, che la giovane Elena si troverà nel maggio del ’45 al centro della misteriosa vicenda del riconoscimento del corpo carbonizzato di Hitler, di cui Stalin non informa neanche il maresciallo Žukov, comandante dell’Armata Rossa che entra vittoriosa in Berlino. E a questo punto il libro da avvincente narrazione diventa anche un ineludibile documento storico che contribuisce a chiarire una delle vicende più oscure della Seconda guerra mondiale. Il libro è arricchito da un inserto fotografico con immagini d’epoca di proprietà dell’autrice.9788862431200C1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaTranslators: Daniela Di Sora Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 461 |
 | Viaggio in CalabriaCharles DidierRubbettino Editore-01-01-2008106 pagesDescription: Il viaggio di un romantico nella Calabria del 1830, di cui sono protagonisti assoluti il "viandante" Charles Didier e la straordinaria natura della regione: altera e terrifica, suggestiva e ammaliante. Una natura che si popola di personaggi e vicende del mondo classico, ma anche dell'umanità calabrese contemporanea, con la quale Didier non disdegna mai il dialogo e di cui coglie e comprende sia l'emarginazione sociale ed economica, sia i fermenti politici che la vedono protagonista non secondaria delle vicende risorgimentali italiane, seguite con attenzione dallo scrittore svizzero francese per la parte relativa al Mezzogiorno. Una descrizione di paesaggi e atmosfere nel più autentico spirito del romanticismo, ma anche una relazione che registra sottotraccia, come un sensibile sismografo, alcuni aspetti politico-sociali della Calabria pre-unitaria. Introduzione di Saverio Napoletano.9788849820690L4Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: Travel Language: it |
 | Frederick the Great: King of PrussiaTim BlanningPenguin-06-10-2016648 pagesDescription: Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects and writers, most famously Voltaire. From early in his reign he was already a legendary figure - fascinating even to those who hated him. Tim Blanning's brilliant biography recreates a remarkable era, a world which would be swept away shortly after Frederick's death by the French Revolution. Equally at home on the battlefield or in the music room at Frederick's extraordinary miniature palace of Sanssouci, Blanning draws on a lifetime's obsession with the 18th century to create a work that is in many ways the summation of all that he has learned in his own rich and various career. Frederick's spectre has hung over Germany ever since: an inspiration, a threat, an impossible ideal - Blanning at last allows us to understand him in his own time.9780141039190C1Storia,Biografie, lettere e memorieCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,Biography: Royalty,European History Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 28 |
 | Heisenberg's WarThe Secret History of the German BombThomas PowersKnopf-16-02-1993607 pagesDescription: The inspiration for Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, Heisenberg's War tells of the interplay between science and espionage, morality and military necessity, and paranoia and cool logic that marked the German bomb program and the allied response to it. On the basis of dozens of interviews and years of research, Thomas Powers concludes that Werner Heisenberg, who was the leading figure in the German atomic effort, consciously obstructed the development of the bomb and in a famous 1941 meeting with his former mentor Neils Bohr in effect sought to dissuade the Allies from their pursuit of the bomb. > "Full of fascinating characters, deeds of heroic daring ... a powerful book."New York Times "Provocative ... gripping."New Yorker "Superbly researched and well-written."Time Magazine9780394514116L1Scienza e Tecnologia ,StoriaCategories: NON-CLASSIFIABLE Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 607 |
 | L'oro e la patria. Storia di Niccolò Introna, eroe dimenticatoFederico FubiniMondadori-20-02-2024216 pagesDescription: Il 20 settembre 1943 alle quindici e trenta un manipolo di ufficiali nazisti varca la soglia di palazzo Koch, elegante sede della Banca d'Italia. Fra loro c'è il tenente colonnello delle SS Herbert Kappler, comandante dello spionaggio hitleriano. I tedeschi presentano le loro richieste al governatore Vincenzo Azzolini: vogliono l'oro della Banca d'Italia, tutto l'oro. In quel momento, nei suoi caveau, l'istituto di via Nazionale ne custodisce quasi 120 tonnellate. Un solo uomo, all'interno della banca centrale, decide di opporsi e organizza un sofisticato inganno per impedire ai nazisti di trafugare la ricchezza degli italiani. Si chiama Niccolò Introna, è un dirigente di settantacinque anni, un fervente valdese che tiene sermoni alle comunità di fedeli nei giorni di festa. Durante il fascismo, Introna aveva combattuto in segreto la corruzione e il sistema cleptocratico attorno a Mussolini, documentando le operazioni del duce per trafugare il denaro pubblico. Un servitore dello Stato. Eppure, il suo nome, per le vicende finora mai raccontate e portate alla luce in questo libro, verrà volutamente cancellato e dimenticato. Federico Fubini ha avuto accesso alle circa ottantamila pagine di documenti, in parte riservati, che il funzionario accumulò per tutta la vita, e ricostruisce per la prima volta, in modo inoppugnabile, l'appropriazione di denaro pubblico da parte di Mussolini e tutta la sofferta vicenda dell'oro della Banca d'Italia. La storia di Introna, le sue lotte antifasciste, la sorda e caparbia ostilità dei suoi molti nemici trasmettono un monito che arriva con forza all'Italia di oggi.9788804769194L1Storia,Biografie, lettere e memorieCategories: Biografie e autobiografie,Storia,Ideologie politiche Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 216 |
 | SASRogue Heroes - Soon to Be a Major TV DramaBen. MacintyrePenguin-18-08-2022384 pagesDescription: THE BOOK BEHIND THE BBC SERIES 'SAS: ROGUE HEROES' From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SAS In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality. 'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' Antony Beevor9780241996904L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: Second World War Format: Paperback Edition: Media tie-in Language: en Pages Read: 384 |
 | Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War IIOperation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed The Course Of World War IiBen MacintyreBloomsbury Publishing PLC-01-01-2001414 pagesDescription: In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple & complicated—Operation Mincemeat. Purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking the Allies were planning to attack Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed & the Allies ultimately chose. Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 & the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu were very different. Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was an aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. A perfect team, they created an ingenious plan: equip a corpse with secret (but false) papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would hopefully take the bait. The idea was approved by British intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (007's creator). Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis & help bring victory.Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, heroes & a corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller. Unveiling never-before-released material, Macintyre goes into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles & spies, & the German Abwehr agents who suffered the “twin frailties of wishfulness & yesmanship.” He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley & Montagu & their improbable feats into an adventure that saved thousands & paved the way for the conquest of Sicily.9781408885390L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: European History,20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000,Second World War Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 414 |
 | Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy (reissued)Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story Of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, SpyBen MacintyreBloomsbury Publishing PLC-01-01-2001372 pagesDescription: “Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus- spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.” —William Grimes, The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of 2007 One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times Best of the Year Round-Up New York Times Editors’ Choice Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman’s full story for the first time. It’s a gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.9781408885406L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: True War & Combat Stories,Second World War,Espionage & Secret Services Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 372 |
 | Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day SpiesThe True Story of The D-Day SpiesBen MacintyreBloomsbury Publishing PLC-22-09-2016448 pagesDescription: Six real British spies (one dies), plus fake national network, divert Nazis from 6 June 1944 so 150K Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy sustain lower than expected casualties. Double Cross includes handsome brilliant director "Tar", colorful MI5 handlers, Nazi counterparts. The nucleus was Wodehouse Wooster imitator Jebsen, Serbian playboy Popov, boastful nationalistic Polish Czerniawski, bisexual party-girl Elvira, García with diploma in chicken farming and volatile Lily, nearly their downfall after losing her dog Babs. Includes index, 32 pages photos.9781408885413L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: Military History Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 448 |
 | KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachevthe inside story of its foreign operations from Lenin to GorbachevChristopher M. Andrew,Oleg GordievskyHarperCollins Publishers-31-12-1990776 pagesDescription: A history of Soviet intelligence service & the evolution of the KGB. An international bestseller critically acclaimed as "undoubtedly the most important book ever written on Soviet espionage."--San Francisco Chronicle9780060166052L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: Politics & Government,Espionage & Secret Services Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 776 |
 | I prigionieri dei Savoia. La vera storia della congiura di FenestrelleAlessandro BarberoLaterza-01-01-2014369 pagesDescription: Questa è la storia di ciò che accadde veramente a Fenestrelle, ma anche a Torino, a Napoli, a Milano, a Gaeta e in altri luoghi d’Italia, fra 1860 e 1861, quando l’esercito delle Due Sicilie venne sconfitto in una guerra non dichiarata, i suoi uomini fatti prigionieri o sbandati, e poi trasportati al Nord per essere arruolati contro la loro volontà nell’esercito italiano. «La sera del 9 novembre 1860 una colonna di soldati in lacere uniformi turchine, disarmati e sotto scorta, marciava lungo la tortuosa strada alpina che risale la Val Chisone, nelle montagne piemontesi, verso la fortezza di Fenestrelle...». Chi erano quegli uomini? Cosa accadde davvero ai prigionieri napoletani trasportati al Nord nel 1860, e in genere agli ex-soldati borbonici caduti nelle mani delle autorità vittoriose negli anni che portarono all’unità d’Italia? Erano migliaia? Quanti sopravvissero e quanti morirono di stenti, di fame e di freddo? Chi navighi nella rete alla ricerca di informazioni o di opinioni su Fenestrelle e sulla deportazione dei prigionieri di guerra meridionali al Nord è subito colpito dall’estrema violenza del linguaggio e dal ricorrere di termini di confronto novecenteschi impiegati senza alcuna prudenza: campi di concentramento, lager, Auschwitz, sterminio. Intorno al destino di quei soldati è stata sollevata negli ultimi anni una cortina di interrogativi fumosi e di sospetti gratuiti, che può essere smantellata solo attraverso un’aderenza scrupolosa ai fatti dimostrati. Ales...9788858111352L1StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 369 |
 | Commandant Of AuschwitzRudolf Höss,Primo LeviWeidenfeld & Nicolson-05-07-2000256 pagesDescription: An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three million Jews, from the time of its creation (he was responsible for building it) in 1940 until late in 1943, by which time the mass exterminations were half completed. Before this he had worked in other concentration camps, and afterwards he was at the Inspectorate in Berlin. He thus knew more, both at first-hand and as an administrator, about Nazi Germany's greatest crime than did any save two or three other men. Taken prisoner by the British, he was handed over to the Poles, tried, sentenced to death, and taken back to Auschwitz and there hanged. During the period between his trial and his execution, he was ordered to write his autobiography. This is it. Hoess repeatedly says he was glad to write the book. He enjoyed the work. And finally the most careful checking has shown that he took great pains to tell the truth. Here we have, painted by his own hand, a vivid and unforgettable self-portrait of one of the great monsters of all time. To this are added portraits of some of his more spectacular fellow-criminals. The royalties from this macabre but historically important book go to the fund set up to help the few survivors from the Auschwitz camps.9781842120248L1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military,European History Translators: Constantine Fitzgibbon Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 256 |
 | The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold WarThe Spy And The Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story Of The Cold WarBen MacintyrePenguin-30-05-2019370 pagesDescription: A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of spying. Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of espionage, betrayal and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever...9780241972137L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,European History,20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 370 |
 | Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold WarA History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold WarDanny OrbachPegasus Books-01-02-2022400 pagesDescription: Shrouded in government secrecy, clouded by myths and propaganda, the enigmatic tale of Nazi fugitives in the early Cold War has never been properly told—until now. In the aftermath of WWII, the victorious Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals “to the ends of the earth.” Yet many slipped away to the four corners of the world or were shielded by the Western Allies in exchange for cooperation. Most prominently, Reinhard Gehlen, the founder of West Germany's foreign intelligence service, welcomed SS operatives into the fold. This shortsighted decision nearly brought his cherished service down, as the KGB found his Nazi operatives easy to turn, while judiciously exposing them to threaten the very legitimacy of the Bonn Government. However, Gehlen was hardly alone in the excessive importance he placed on the supposed capabilities of former Nazi agents; his American sponsors did much the same in the early years of the Cold War.9781643138954L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: True Crime,20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000,Second World War Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 400 |
 | Canale MussoliniJames BarrMondadori-12-02-2013460 pagesDescription: Canale Mussolini è l'asse portante su cui si regge la bonifica delle Paludi Pontine. I suoi argini sono scanditi da eucalypti immensi che assorbono l'acqua e prosciugano i campi, alle sue cascatelle i ragazzini fanno il bagno e aironi bianchissimi trovano rifugio. Su questa terra nuova di zecca, bonificata dai progetti ambiziosi del Duce e punteggiata di città appena fondate, vengono fatte insediare migliaia di persone arrivate dal Nord. Tra queste migliaia di coloni ci sono i Peruzzi. A farli scendere dalle pianure padane sono il carisma e il coraggio di zio Pericle. Con lui scendono i vecchi genitori, tutti i fratelli, le nuore. E poi la nonna, dolce ma inflessibile nello stabilire le regole di casa cui i figli obbediscono senza fiatare. Il vanitoso Adelchi, più adatto a comandare che a lavorare, il cocco di mamma. Iseo e Temistocle, Treves e Turati, fratelli legati da un affetto profondo fatto di poche parole e gesti assoluti, promesse dette a voce strozzata sui campi di lavoro o nelle trincee sanguinanti della guerra. E una schiera di sorelle, a volte buone e compassionevoli, a volte perfide e velenose come serpenti. E poi c'è lei, l'Armida, la moglie di Pericle, la più bella, andata in sposa al più valoroso. La più generosa, capace di amare senza riserve e senza paura anche il più tragico degli amori. E Paride, il nipote prediletto, buono e giusto, ma destinato, come l'eroe di cui porta il nome, a essere causa della sfortuna che colpirà i Peruzzi e li travolgerà.9788804628040G1StoriaCategories: Contemporary Fiction Format: Paperback Language: it Series/Volume: Canale Mussolini, Vol. 1 |
 | Memorie del Terzo ReichAlbert SpeerMondadori-01-01-1997682 pagesDescription: La più acuta e sconvolgente analisi dall'interno del nazismo. Speer, numero 2 del regime, fu artefice insieme a Hitler di quella delirante «architettura da megalomani» che portò alla costruzione della nuova Cancelleria e all'accurata progettazione urbanistica per il futuro «Reich millenario». Divenne poi ministro degli Armamenti durante la II Guerra mondiale, e permise ad una Germania stremata di proseguire il conflitto, ma fu anche uno dei pochi a opporsi alla distruzione sistematica degli impianti industriali tedeschi, tanto da arrivare a progettare un attentato per porre fine ai piani suicidi che il Fuhrer meditava per la sua nazione. Attraverso il filtro di un'esperienza autobiografica, l'autore ci consegna una dettagliata e meticolosa testimonianza «dall'interno» sulla nascita e il crepuscolo dei nazisti: nessun altro ha saputo più efficacemente descrivere Hitler e la sua corte di uomini e di assassini.9788804422990G1StoriaCategories: History Translators: Enrichetta Maffi,Quirino Maffi Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 682 |
 | Storia militare della seconda guerra mondialeBasil H. Liddell HartMondadori-01-01-19951088 pagesDescription: Il libro ricostruisce l'ultimo conflitto mondiale nella complessa contradditorietà dei suoi sviluppi militari, in un quadro completo delle componenti che ne determinarono l'esito finale dall'Europa all'Estremo Oriente: la tattica e la strategia di vincitori e vinti; la potenza industriale al servizio degli eserciti in lotta; l'efficacia delle scelte tecniche e delle applicazioni tecnologiche realizzate nel campo degli armamenti, della guerra d'offesa e di difesa, dalle nazioni belligeranti. Un'esposizione densa, serrata, tutta basata sui fatti, che però non trascura la funzione decisiva svolta dal fattore uomo sulla condotta generale della guerra, dalla capacità degli opposti stati maggiori al genio militare dei singoli generali, al valore combattivo delle truppe.9788804421511L1StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 1088 |
 | Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie CanalGod, Gold, and Murder on the Erie CanalJack KellySt. Martin's Press-05-07-2016304 pagesDescription: The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier. Men and women saw God face to face, gained and lost fortunes, and reveled in a period of intense spiritual creativity. Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this "psychic highway" from its opening in 1825 through 1844. "Wage slave" Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, the reader encounters America's very first "crime of the century," a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers. A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history.9781137280091L1Storia11-03-2023 - 26-03-2023Categories: History Of The Americas,Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900,Social & Cultural History Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 304 |
 | Bombardamenti su Ancona e Provincia 1943/1944Camillo CagliniCassa di Risparmio di AnconaDescription: Contiene relazioni sulle incursioni aeree subite dalla provincia di Ancona redatte dalla Prefettura di Ancona e dal Comitato provinciale di protezione anti aerea.L5Storia |
 | Rommell'ambiguità Di Un Soldatol'ambiguità di un soldatoDavid FraserMondadori-01-01-1996576 pagesDescription: Il mome di Erwin Rommel e le sue imprese militari sono circondati da un alone di leggenda. Ma chi era veramente la "volpe del deserto"? A tale quesito si propone di rispondere David Fraser, uno dei più importanti generali inglesi, con questa imponente biografia. Dotato di un prodigioso istinto tattico e di un innato "senso" della battaglia, Rommel credeva innanzitutto al primato dell'offensiva, nell'efficacia della sorpresa, nell'irrinunciabilità dell'intervento diretto nei momenti cruciali del combattimento. Alieno da ogni forma di arroganza e autoritarismo, rispettato, temuto e ammirato persino dagli avversari, si mostrò generoso con i suoi soldati e leale nei confronti del nemico, senza macchiarsi degli orrendi crimini compiuti dai nazisti. Nel deserto nordafricano il campo di battaglia a lui più congeniale, alla testa delle truppe corazzate dell'Afrika Korps, ebbe modo di dimostrare tutto il suo valore, pur dovendo fare i conti con una netta inferiorità di mezzi e con l'irrazionalità degli ordini che venivano dall'alto. Dopo il fallito attentato al Fuhrer la sorte di Rommel fu segnata.9788804418443L4Storia,Biografie, lettere e memorieCategories: Biography & Autobiography Translators: Andrea Buzzi Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 576 |
 | An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in IndiaThe British Empire In IndiaShashi TharoorAleph Book Company-15-11-2016360 pagesDescription: In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain’s ‘conscious and deliberate bleeding of India… [was the] greatest crime in all history’. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British—in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that beggars belief. When the East India Company took control of the country, in the chaos that ensued after the collapse of the Mughal empire, India’s share of world GDP was 23 per cent. When the British left it was just above 3 per cent. The British empire in India began with the East India Company, incorporated in 1600, by royal charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, to trade in silk, spices and other profitable Indian commodities. Within a century and a half, the Company had become a power to reckon with in India. In 1757, under the command of Robert Clive, Company forces defeated the ruling Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula of Bengal at Plassey, through a combination of superior artillery and even more superior chicanery. A few years later, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing an edict that replaced his own revenue officials...9789383064656L4Storia16-11-2022 - 22-11-2022Categories: Political Science Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 360 |
 | The First and the LastAdolf GallandDead Authors Society-01-01-2020162 pagesDescription: "Adolf "Dolfo" Joseph Ferdinand Gallnd (1912-1996) was a German Luftwaffe General and one of the greatest flying aces of World War II. He flew 705 combat missions, and fought on the Western and the defence of the Reich fronts. He survived being shot down four times and was credited with an astonishing 104 aerial victories, all of them against the Western Allies. He is a legend of aerial combat, and this is his heroic story."--Back cover.9781774640746L4Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Autobiographies Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 162 |
 | Ribelli e partigianiLa resistenza nelle Marche 1943-1944Ruggero GiacominiL4Storia |
 | La battaglia di Ancona del 17-19 luglio 1944 e il secondo corpo d'armata polaccoGiuseppe CampanaL4Storia |
 | Il Coraggio di RischiareVecchie carte di ditte OsimaneAnonymus AuximanusL4Storia |
 | Osimo liberaLa resistenza e la lotta di liberazione, i verbali del CLNL4Storia |
 | C'era una volta... AnconaCartoline e foto d'epocaAldo ForlaniL4Storia |
 | Il porto di Ancona e le sue navi dall'antichità ad oggiDina Marika RiccardiniL4Storia |
 | 1943-1945 Tempo di sfollamentoDa Ancona al CasseroGiuseppe Campana,Mario FratesiL4Storia |
 | Boccolino da Osimo nel suo tempoMassimo MorroniL4Storia |
 | Quota 360Il Monte della CresciaCarlo GobbiL4Storia |
 | Storia di Osimo vol.2Don Carlo GrillantiniL4Storia |
 | Storia di Osimo vol.1Don Carlo GrillantiniL4Storia |
 | Ancona 1944Immagini dei fotografi di guerra Inglesi e PolacchiGiuseppe Campana,Raimondo OrsettiL4Storia |
 | Federico il GrandeAlessandro BarberoSellerio-01-05-2007230 pagesDescription: Da giovane era stato il figlio ribelle e avventuroso di un padre violento e militarista; amava la musica, suonando e componendo con estro; leggeva instancabilmente, e la conversazione con i filosofi era nella sua giornata la cosa più importante; dichiarava il re primo servitore dello stato e la «corona un cappello che lascia passare la pioggia». Eppure, in una politica europea già spregiudicata, Federico il Grande inaugurò un cinismo aggressivo, strumento della volontà di potenza entrata - secondo alcuni storici - nei geni maligni dell'Europa futura; era sleale e ingrato, «il malvagio uomo» lo chiamava Maria Teresa d'Austria. Si reputava un philosophe innanzitutto: strano philosophe che disprezzava l'umanità. Figura doppia, contraddittoria, enigma sfuggente, e quindi soggetto ideale per una biografia.9788838922251L3Storia23-12-2022 - 03-01-2023Categories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 230 |
 | AnconaRosario PaviaLaterza-01-01-1990231 pages9788842035848L3StoriaCategories: History,Urbanization Pages Read: 231 |
 | CosenzaLa Calabria illustrata vol.IIIEugenio ArnoniL3Storia |
 | Storie di BientinaCarlo FerrantiL3Storia |
 | La misteriosa storia di Troiale millenarie e drammatiche vicende, tra realtà e leggenda, di una città simbolo dalla sua fondazione all'epoca romana e bizantinaBirgit BrandauNewton & Compton-01-01-2004130 pagesDescription: La storia della città di Troia, che attrae da sempre archeologi e appassionati di storia antica, è ancora oggi argomento di controversi dibattiti accademici tanto da risultare, nonostante le molte evidenze archeologiche a disposizione, di difficile ricostruzione. Attraverso moderni strumenti di lavoro, quali immagini, scansioni, planimetrie, grafici e ricostruzioni virtuali al computer, gli autori tracciano una vera e propria storia illustrata di Troia: una città virtuale che è percorsa attraverso tutte le sue fasi storiche, dalle più antiche fino all'epoca romana e a quella bizantina.9788854100633L3StoriaCategories: History Format: Hardcover Language: it |
 | Amedeo. Vita, avventure e amori di Amedeo Guillet. Un eroe italiano in Africa orientaleSebastian O'Kelly01-01-2002391 pages9788817870290L3Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Language: it Pages Read: 391 |
 | Storia di RomaIndro MontanelliRizzoli-01-01-2006452 pagesDescription: Montanelli ha raccontato la storia con un amore eccezionale. Questo saggio ne mostra le doti di divulgatore, capace di coniugare la precisione dello studioso alla vivacità del narratore. Rivivono figure imponenti - da Annibale a Cesare, da Augusto a Caligola e Nerone - in una straordinaria ricostruzione degli avvenimenti del più grande impero occidentale.9788817000192L3StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 452 |
 | GaribaldiMontanelli e NozzaL3Storia |
 | La vita quotidiana in Francia e Inghilterra al tempo dei cavalieri della Tavola rotondaMichel PastoureauRizzoli-01-01-1990240 pages9788817167970L3StoriaCategories: History Language: it |
 | Il prefetto di ferro: L'uomo di Mussolini che mise in ginocchio la mafiaArrigo PetaccoMondadori-01-01-2004237 pagesDescription: In questo libro Arrigo Petacco ci racconta la verità sulle gesta quasi leggendarie del prefetto Cesare Mori, incorruttibile funzionario "piemontese" inviato dal governo fascista in Sicilia per debellare la mafia. La sua azione energica permise di distruggere quasi interamente la struttura di base della malavita organizzata siciliana e offrì a Mussolini un argomento per la sua propaganda. Ma quando Mori iniziò a diventare troppo famoso e soprattutto a indagare troppo in alto, venne messo da parte, e le tracce del suo lavoro accuratamente eliminate. Quella del "prefetto di ferro" è una storia tipicamente italiana, incentrata su un personaggio prima mitizzato poi dimenticato, che Petacco restituisce finalmente alla sua verità storica.9788804532750L3StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 237 |
 | La Guerra in EuropaFrido Von Senger und EtterlinL3Storia |
 | Storia del Giappone: Dalle origini ai giorni nostriEdwin O. ReischauerBompiani-01-01-1998372 pagesDescription: Questo libro ebbe origine da una serie di lezioni che Reischauer, tenente colonnello nell'esercito degli Stati Uniti, tenne durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. "Storia del Giappone" è una ricostruzione storica dell'impero del Sol Levante, dalle origini fino alla nascita della moderna monarchia costituzionale. Il volume è diviso in tre parti: la prima descrive il Giappone tradizionale, gli influssi della ben più alta civiltà cinese e la lunga e complessa stagione feudale; la seconda si occupa dell'ascesa del militarismo, dalla nascita del moderno stato fino alla Seconda guerra mondiale; la terza parte prende in considerazione la rinascita del primo dopoguerra, il radicale cambiamento del ruolo del Giappone negli affari mondiali.9788845246302L3StoriaCategories: European History Translators: Maria Sepa Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 372 |
 | Quell'ultimo ponteCornelius RyanBook Club Associates-01-01-1975670 pagesDescription: A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day. In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. Focusing on a vast cast of characters -- from Dutch civilians to British and American strategists to common soldiers and commanders -- Ryan brings to life one of the most daring and ill-fated operations of the war. A Bridge Too Far superbly recreates the terror and suspense, the heroism and tragedy of this epic operation, which ended in bitter defeat for the Allies.L3StoriaFormat: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 670 |
 | The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an EmpireClimate, Disease, and the End of an EmpireKyle HarperPrinceton University Press-09-04-2019440 pagesDescription: How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome's power--a story of nature's triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. The Fate of Rome is Harper's sweeping account of how one of history's greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature's violence.9780691192062L3StoriaCategories: Classical History / Classical Civilisation,History Of Medicine,Infectious & Contagious Diseases Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 440 |
 | Il sangue dei vintiGiampaolo PansaSperling & Kupfer-01-10-2003381 pagesDescription: Che cosa accade quando finisce una guerra civile? Giampaolo Pansa, dopo aver scritto molto sulla Resistenza e sui partigiani, s'inoltra su un terreno poco battuto e assai controverso: la resa dei conti imposta ai fascisti sconfitti. Aiutato da una vastissima documentazione, ricostruisce nei dettagli decine di eccidi e centinaia di omicidi, compiuti per punizione, per vendetta, per fanatismo politico e per odio di classe. Il teatro di questo bagno di sangue è l'Italia del nord, dal 25 aprile 1945 alla fine del 1946. L'autore svela vicende prima d'ora ignorate e descrive la fine di migliaia di italiani che, pur avendo scelto di combattere l'ultima battaglia di Mussolini, non erano tutti criminali di guerra da punire con la morte.9788820035662L3Storia28-02-2015 - 12-04-2018Categories: World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities,World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Italy,World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements Format: Hardcover Language: it Pages Read: 381 |
 | La Grande GuerraL3Storia |
 | Il Risorgimento ItalianoL3Storia |
 | L'Italia di Giolitti: 1900-1920Indro MontanelliBUR Biblioteca Univerzale Rizzoli363 pagesDescription: Dall'omicidio di Umberto I fino al ''Natale di sangue'' fiumano, la scena politica italiana è dominata da un solo uomo: Giolitti. E' lui a guidare il Paese in un ventennio di guerre e crisi del sistema liberale. Montanelli tratteggia non solo il ritratto di un grande politico, ma quello di un'intera civiltà sull'orlo del baratro dittatoriale.9788817258302L3StoriaCategories: European History Format: Hardcover Language: it Pages Read: 363 |
 | Storia dei GreciIndro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 12Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 11Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 10Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 9Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 8Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 7Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 6Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 5Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 4Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 3Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 2Indro MontanelliL2Storia |
 | NagasakiLife After Nuclear WarSusan SouthardViking-28-07-2015389 pagesDescription: “[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”—The Wall Street Journal “A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb’s enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book’s biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks in the decades since 1945.” —The New Yorker The enduring impact of a nuclear bomb, told through the stories of those who survived: necessary reading as the threat of nuclear war emerges again. On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, a small port city on Japan’s southernmost island. An estimated 74,000 people died within the first five months, and another 75,000 were injured. Nagasakitakes readers from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the first-hand experiences of five survivors, all of whom were teenagers at the time of the devastation. Susan Southard has spent years interviewinghibakusha(“bomb-affected people”) and researching the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. She weaves together dramatic eyewitness accounts with searing analysis of the policies of censorship and denial that colored much of what was reported about the bombing both in the United States an...9780670025626G1StoriaCategories: Asia World History,Japan,World War II Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 389 |
 | Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights CrossAlbrecht WackerPen & Sword Military-11-02-2016178 pagesDescription: Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knight's Cross. An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while convalescing and so impressed his superiors with his proficiency that he was returned to the front on his regiment's only sniper specialist. In this sometimes harrowing memoir, Allerberger provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in field craft, discipline and routine required of the sniper, a man apart. There was no place for chivalry on the Russian Front. Away from the film cameras, no prisoner survived long after surrendering. Russian snipers had used the illegal explosive bullet since 1941, and Hitler eventually authorized its issue in 1944. The result was a battlefield of horror. Allerberger was a cold-blooded killer, but few will find a place in their hearts for the soldiers of the Red Army against whom he fought.9781781590041G1StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,Memoirs,European History Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 178 |
 | Un Esercito All'albaRick AtkinsonMondadori-01-01-2003751 pagesDescription: > WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER > In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power. Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel. Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.9788804512356G1StoriaCategories: History Format: Hardcover Language: it Pages Read: 751 Series/Volume: World War II Liberation Trilogy, Vol. 1 |
 | An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master AgentRichard Sorge, Stalin's Master AgentOwen MatthewsBloomsbury Publishing PLC-21-03-2019320 pagesDescription: The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge - the man John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation who found new, radical faiths after their experiences on the battlefields of the First World War, Sorge became a fanatical communist - and the Soviet Union's most formidable spy. Like many great spies, Sorge was an effortless seducer, combining charm with ruthless manipulation. He did not have to go undercover to find out closely guarded state secrets - his victims willingly shared them. As a foreign correspondent, he infiltrated and influenced the highest echelons of German, Chinese and Japanese society in the years leading up to and including the Second World War. His intelligence regarding Operation Barbarossa and Japanese intentions not to invade Siberia in 1941 proved pivotal to the Soviet counteroffensive in the Battle of Moscow, which in turn determined the outcome of the war. Never before has Sorge's story been told from the Russian side as well as the German and Japanese. Owen Matthews takes a sweeping historical perspective and draws on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives - along with testimonies from those who knew and worked with Sorge - to rescue the riveting story of the man described...9781408857793G1StoriaCategories: European History Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 320 |
 | A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great BetrayalBen MacintyreBloomsbury-01-01-2015354 pagesDescription: From Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author Ben Macintyre, the true untold story of history's most famous traitor. Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby’s two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen family papers, and with the cooperation of former officers of MI6 and the CIA, this definitive biography unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.9781408851784G1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,Storia12-05-2015 - 12-04-2018Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 354 |
 | Devil's Diary: Hitler's High Priest and the Hunt for the Lost Papers Ofthe Third ReichRobert K. Wittman,David KinneyCollins-01-03-2016320 pagesDescription: This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'chief philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology - interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents.9780007576647G1StoriaCategories: Germany Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 320 |
 | Cavallo Pazzo. Storia del capo sioux che vinse a Little BighornLarry McMurtryMondadori-29-04-2003126 pagesDescription: Figura chiave della storia americana e personaggio leggendario agli occhi degli indiani d'America, Cavallo Pazzo è il guerriero sioux protagonista della drammatica battaglia di Little Bighorn. In questa agile ma accurata biografia lo scrittore McMurtry ne racconta la vita e l'epica morte, restituendo un ritratto a tutto tondo del capo indiano.9788804516392G1StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 126 |
 | La prima guerra mondiale. Una storia illustrataHew StrachanMondadori-01-01-2009359 pagesDescription: Il 1914 segnò la fine di un'epoca e l'inizio di una nuova era. Di colpo l'Europa sprofondò in un conflitto di portata e intensità tali da determinare il tramonto della civiltà della borghesia e del capitalismo liberale che aveva dominato per tutto il XIX secolo. Dopo la Grande Guerra il mondo non fu più lo stesso: un senso di crisi morale e civile sostituì l'ottocentesca fiducia nel progresso; gli Stati Uniti sottrassero il primato culturale ed economico al Vecchio continente; un'idea di Stato forte prevalse a discapito dei principi liberali, aprendo la strada all'affermarsi di totalitarismi di destra e di sinistra. In queste pagine lo storico Hew Strachan descrive il sistema di relazioni internazionali e le trame diplomatiche che furono all'origine della Prima guerra mondiale, ripercorre gli avvenimenti militari e politici che ne segnarono le svolte fondamentali, analizza gli elementi sociali ed economici che furono i fattori realmente determinanti per il crollo degli imperi centrali. Avvalendosi di un nutrito apparato fotografico in gran parte sconosciuto, l'autore offre al grande pubblico un valido e aggiornato compendio di una delle pagine più cruciali e drammatiche della storia moderna.9788804592822G1StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 359 |
 | Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret PoliceThe Untold Story Of The East German Secret PoliceJohn O KoehlerBasic Books-17-08-2000478 pagesDescription: In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or “Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. Koehler methodically reviews the Stasi's activities within East Germany and overseas, including its programs for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, art theft, and special operations in Latin America and Africa.Koehler was both Berlin bureau chief of the Associated Press during the height of the Cold War and a U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His insider's account is based on primary sources, such as U.S. intelligence files, Stasi documents made available only to the author, and extensive interviews with victims of political oppression, former Stasi officers, and West German government officials. Drawing from these sources, Koehler recounts tales that rival the most outlandish Hollywood spy thriller and, at the same time, offers the definitive contribution to our understanding of this still largely unwritten aspect of the history of the Cold War and modern Germany.9780813337449G1StoriaCategories: General & World History,European History,Police & Security Services Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 478 |
 | The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945Rick AtkinsonHenry Holt and Co.-14-05-2013877 pagesDescription: The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he tells the most dramatic story of all—the titanic battle for Western Europe. D-Day marked the commencement of the final campaign of the European war, and Atkinson’s riveting account of that bold gamble sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was Operation Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich—all these historic events and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a mesmerizing cast of characters. Atkinson tells the tale from the perspective of participants at every level, from presidents and generals to war-weary lieutenants and terrified teenage riflemen. When Germany at last surrenders, we understand anew both the devastating cost of this global conflagration and the enormous effort required to win the Allied victory. With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Atkinson’s accomplishment is manifest. He has produced the definitive chronicle...9780805062908G1StoriaCategories: European History,Second World War Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 877 |
 | No Surrender: My Thirty-Year WarHiroo OnodaUS Naval Institute Press-31-08-1999224 pagesDescription: In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one day his fellow soldiers would return victorious. This account of those years is an epic tale of the will to survive that offers a rare glimpse of man's invincible spirit, resourcefulness, and ingenuity. A hero to his people, Onoda wrote down his experiences soon after his return to civilization. This book was translated into English the following year and has enjoyed an approving audience ever since.9781557506634G1StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military Translators: Charles S. Terry Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 224 |
 | Bismarck: A LifeA LifeJonathan SteinbergOxford University Press, USA-06-04-2011592 pagesDescription: This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with the constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, a convert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularized schools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheer ability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times. His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreed there was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyond human attributes, in Bismarck's personality. He was a kind of malign genius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold contempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them. As one contemporary noted: the Bismarck regime was a constant orgy of scorn and abuse of mankind, collectively and individually. In this comprehensive and expansive biography--a brilliant study in power--Jonathan Steinberg brings Bismarck to life, revealing the stark contrast between the Iron Chancellor's unmatched political skills and his profoundly flawed human character.9780199782529G1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,European History,20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 592 |
 | Lepanto. La battaglia dei tre imperila battaglia dei tre imperiAlessandro BarberoLaterza-01-01-2010768 pagesDescription: «Non appena in Occidente si sparse la voce della prossima uscita della flotta turca, papa Pio V decise che quella era l'occasione buona per realizzare un progetto che sognava da tempo: l'unione delle potenze cristiane per affrontare gli infedeli in mare con forze schiaccianti, e mettere fine una volta per tutte alla minaccia che gravava sulla Cristianità. Quando divenne sempre più evidente che la tempesta era destinata a scaricarsi su Cipro, il vecchio inquisitore divenuto pontefice, persecutore accanito di ebrei ed eretici, volle affrettare i tempi.» È la primavera del 1570. Un anno e mezzo dopo, il 7 ottobre 1571, l'Europa cristiana infligge ai turchi una sconfitta catastrofica. Ma la vera vittoria cattolica non si celebra sul campo di battaglia né si misura in terre conquistate. L'importanza di Lepanto è nel suo enorme impatto emotivo quando, in un profluvio di instant books, relazioni, memorie, orazioni, poesie e incisioni, la sua fama travolge ogni angolo d'Europa. Questo libro non è l'ennesima storia di quella giornata. È uno straordinario arazzo dell'anno e mezzo che la precedette. La sua trama è fatta degli umori, gli intrecci diplomatici, le canzoni cantate dagli eserciti, i pregiudizi che alimentavano entrambi i fronti, la tecnologia della guerra, di cosa pensavano i turchi dei cristiani e viceversa. Per tessere i suoi fili ci sono volute la prosa appassionante e la maestria rara di Alessandro Barbero.9788842088936G1StoriaCategories: History Format: Hardcover Language: it Pages Read: 768 |
 | Carlo Magno. Un padre dell'Europaun padre dell'EuropaAlessandro BarberoLaterza-01-01-2004451 pagesDescription: Alessandro Barbero presenta una biografia di Carlo Magno. Nel giorno di Natale dell'anno 800 Carlo Magno viene incoronato imperatore. Un poeta rimasto anonimo saluta in lui 'il padre dell'Europa'. Oggi che i popoli del nostro continente sono avviati all'integrazione in un'Europa sovranazionale, la figura di Carlo Magno risulta di sorprendente attualità. Una biografia che unisce al rigore degli studi un'appassionante scrittura letteraria.9788842072126G1StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 451 |
 | La disfatta. Gli ultimi giorni di Hitler e la fine del Terzo Reichgli ultimi giorni di Hitler e la fine del Terzo ReichJoachim FestGarzanti-01-01-2003167 pagesDescription: Nella storia recente non c'è avvenimento catastrofico che possa essere paragonato alla fine del Terzo Reich germanico nel 1945. Non furono solo gli orrori inevitabili di una sconfitta, accentuati dal potere distruttivo delle guerre moderne. Nell'agonia che cancellò l'impero, quando ormai tutti sapevano che la guerra era perduta, compreso il Führer, sembra che fosse all'opera una forza deliberata che portò alla distruzione un intero paese. Dal suo bunker Hitler stesso diede ordine di demolire tutte le infrastrutture necessarie alla continuazione della vita. In questo libro l'autore ricostruisce l'apocalisse tedesca, che condusse un esercito e un intero popolo a eseguire fino all'ultimo ordini di cui potevano comprendere la follia e l'insensatezza.9788811692928G1StoriaCategories: Political Science Translators: Umberto Gandini Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 167 |
 | My Commando Operations: The Memoirs of Hitler's Most Daring CommandoOtto SkorzenySchiffer Publishing Ltd.-01-01-1995468 pagesDescription: The memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny appear here in its first unabridged English edition. Skorzeny's fame began with the successful raid to free Benito Mussolini from the Gran Sasso, Italy in 1943. His elite commandos surprised Italian guards in a daring daytime raid. Hitler presented Skorzeny with the Knight's Cross for this operation. Not only is this raid explained in minute detail, many of Skorzeny's previously unknown operations in all European and Russian theatres of World War II are given in detailed accounts. Operation Griffin - the innovative use of German Kommandos dressed as American soldiers working behind enemy lines - during the Ardennes Offensive in 1944 is given in-depth coverage, as is Skorzeny's rememberances on the Malmedy massacre. Skorzeny also offers his insights into the mysterious Rudolf Hess mission to England in May 1941, and offers a behind the scenes look at German and Russian secret military intelligence, and the workings of Canaris and Gehlen., 16 pages of photographs, 6" x 9"9780887407185G1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaFormat: Hardcover Pages Read: 468 |
 | Fanteria all'attacco. Dal fronte occidentale a Caporettodal fronte occidentale a CaporettoErwin RommelLibreria Editrice Goriziana-01-01-2004427 pagesDescription: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in the Second World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander, with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage, for gathering intelligence, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel graphically describes his own achievements, and those of his units, in the swift-moving battles on the Western Front, in the ensuing trench warfare, in the 1917 campaign in Romania, and in the pursuit across the Tagliamento and Piave rivers. This classic account seeks out the basis of his astonishing leadership skills, providing an indispensable guide to the art of war written by one of its greatest exponents.9788886928748G1StoriaCategories: History Translators: Giorgio Cuzzelli Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 427 |
 | Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's DefeatThe Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's DefeatGiles MiltonPicador-07-02-2017368 pagesDescription: Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now, his talents were put to more devious use: he built the dirty bomb used to assassinate Hitler's favorite, Reinhard Heydrich. Another, William Fairbairn, was a portly pensioner with an unusual passion: he was the world's leading expert in silent killing, hired to train the guerrillas being parachuted behind enemy lines. Led by dapper Scotsman Colin Gubbins, these men—along with three others—formed a secret inner circle that, aided by a group of formidable ladies, single-handedly changed the course Second World War: a cohort hand-picked by Winston Churchill, whom he called his Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Giles Milton's Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a gripping and vivid narrative of adventure and derring-do that is also, perhaps, the last great untold story of the Second World War.9781250119025G1StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,British & Irish History,Second World War Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 368 |
 | Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Battle for FranceD-Day and the Liberation of EuropeJames HollandBantam Press-16-05-2019720 pagesDescription: Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history. Unflinchingly examining the brutality and violence that characterised the campaign, it's time to draw some radically different conclusions. D-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. Its story has been endlessly retold, and yet it remains a narrative burdened by both myth and assumed knowledge. In this reexamined history, James Holland presents a broader overview, one that challenges much of what we think we know about D-Day and the Normandy campaign. The sheer size and scale of the Allies’ war machine ultimately dominates the strategic, operational and tactical limitations of the German forces. This was a brutal campaign. In terms of daily casualties, the numbers were worse than for any one battle during the First World War. ·Drawing on unseen archives and testimonies from around the world ·Introducing a cast of eye-witnesses that includes foot soldiers, tank men, fighter pilots and bomber crews, sailors, civilians, resistance fighters and those directing the action ·An epic telling that will profoundly recalibrate our understanding of its true place in the tide of human history9781787631281G1StoriaCategories: European History,20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000,Military History Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 720 |
 | MacArthur's SpiesThe Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War IIPeter EisnerViking-02-05-2017368 pagesDescription: "MacArthur's Spiesreads likeCasablancaset in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war—and the best part is that it's all true!" —Tom Maier, author ofMasters of Sex A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War II. On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a jewel of a city. Tokyo saw its conquest of the Philippines as the key in its plan to control all of Asia, including Australia. Thousands of soldiers surrendered and were sent on the notorious eighty-mile Bataan Death March. But thousands of other Filipinos and Americans refused to surrender and hid in the Luzon hills above Bataan and Manila. MacArthur's Spiesis the story of three of them, and how they successfully foiled the Japanese for more than two years, sabotaging Japanese efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur’s return. From a jungle hideout, Colonel John Boone, an enlisted American soldier, led an insurgent force of Filipino fighters who infiltrated Manila as workers and servants to stage demolitions and attacks. “Chick” Parsons, an American businessman, polo player, and expatriate in Manila, was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. He escaped in the guise of a Panamanian diplomat, and returned as MacArthur’s spymaster, coordinating the guerrilla efforts with the planned Allied invasion. ...9780525429654G1StoriaCategories: World War II,Asia World History,Southeast Asia Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 368 |
 | Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought ThemHistory's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought ThemJennifer WrightHenry Holt and Co.-07-02-2017336 pagesDescription: A humorous book about history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio—and the heroes who fought them In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. In late-nineteenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome—a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary and led to historic medical breakthroughs. Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the plagues they've suffered from. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues in human history, as well as stories of the heroic figures who fought to ease their suffering. With her signature mix of in-depth research and upbeat storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history’s most gripping and deadly outbreaks.9781627797467G1StoriaCategories: General & World History,Social & Cultural History,History Of Medicine Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 336 |
 | Il giorno della battaglia. Gli alleati in Italia 1943-1944Rick AtkinsonMondadori-01-01-2010906 pagesDescription: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. The Italian campaign’s outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, one of the war’s most complex and controversial commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable. Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, this is narrative history of the first rank. With The...9788804597018G1StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 906 |
 | Caporetto. Una battaglia e un enigmaMario SilvestriBUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli-12-03-2014330 pagesDescription: A Caporetto fu combattuta una delle più grandi battaglie di annientamento della storia contemporanea e si consumò la più drammatica disfatta dell'esercito italiano. Ma come si giunse a quel crollo disastroso? Fu provocato dall'insipienza dell'alto comando italiano? Fu una sorta di ammutinamento delle truppe? Era la prova manifesta dell'incapacità degli italiani di combattere? A un secolo di distanza "l'enigma Caporetto" continua a essere oggetto di dibattiti e discussioni, e in questo volume diventato un classico della storiografia Mario Silvestri ne fornisce una rigorosa analisi, esaminando con attenzione le tappe che portarono alla tragica rovina dell'esercito italiano. Ma quella di Silvestri è soprattutto un'indagine impietosa che risale alle radici profonde di una tragedia prevedibile ed evitabile, rivelando in maniera esemplare le contraddizioni del nostro carattere nazionale e fornendoci così la chiave per comprendere anche le vicende dell'Italia contemporanea. Prefazione di Sergio Romano.9788817071291G1StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 330 |
 | The Kidnapping of Edgardo MortaraDavid I. KertzerVintage-30-06-1998350 pagesDescription: Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.9780679768173G1Storia01-09-2013 - 29-09-2013Categories: Europe World History,Italy,Religion Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 350 |
 | Ammazzate quel fascista!vita intrepida di Ettore MutiArrigo PetaccoArnoldo Mondadori Editore-01-01-2003214 pagesDescription: Il 24 agosto 1943 Ettore Muti, ex segretario del partito fascista, venne trovato cadavere con una pallottola alla nuca nella pineta di Fregene. Sulle ragioni di quel delitto eccellente si sollevò un gran polverone in cui convivevano le ipotesi più diverse e contraddittorie. Muti era in quel momento il fascista più popolare d'Italia. Votato all'avventura per l'avventura, non mancò a nessun appuntamento con la guerra, fin da quando, a quattordici anni, combatté con gli Arditi sul Piave. In questo libro Arrigo Petacco ricostruisce la biografia tumultuosa e avvincente di questo fascista anomalo, ribelle,leale e onesto.9788804523833G1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 214 |
 | ChurchillMartin GilbertMondadori-01-01-1994472 pagesDescription: It is impossible to understand the Second World War without understanding Winston Churchill, the bold British Prime Minister who showed himself to be one of the greatest statesmen any nation has ever known. This lengthy biography is a single-volume abridgment of a massive, eight-volume work that took a quarter-century to write. It covers Churchill's entire life, highlighting not only his exploits during the Second World War, but also his early belief in technology and how it would revolutionize warfare in the 20th century. Churchill learned how to fly a plane before the First World War, and was also involved in the development of both the tank and anti-aircraft defense, but he truly showed his unmatched mettle during his country's darkest moments: "His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened, and most weak; when his own courage, determination, and belief in democracy became at one with the nation," writes Gilbert.9788804428008G1StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 472 |
 | Cavourl'uomo e l'operaItalo De FeoMondadori-01-01-2011520 pages9788804604952G1StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 520 |
 | 9 agosto 378: Il giorno dei barbariAlessandro BarberoLaterza-01-07-2012248 pagesDescription: «Era un’estate torrida, il terreno era secco, le truppe marciando sollevavano un’immensa nuvola di polvere. La marcia durò tutta la mattina. Nel pomeriggio, sotto un sole ancora a picco, i reparti erano allineati intorno ai loro stendardi, e alle urla di sfida dei barbari rispondevano col muggito profondo del barritus, battendo ritmicamente le lance contro gli scudi. Un fragore tetro si spandeva per tutta la pianura. E poi, all’improvviso, la situazione precipitò.» Barbero racconta la battaglia di Adrianopoli, i suoi precedenti e le sue conseguenze. Che non furono dappoco: Adrianopoli non è stata meno decisiva di Waterloo o Stalingrado.9788842084099G1StoriaCategories: European History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 248 |
 | SpymasterThe Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice OldfieldMartin PearceCorgi-26-09-2017482 pagesDescription: 'I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief' Richard Davenport-Hines, The SpectatorSir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer’s son from a provincial grammar school who found himself accidentally plunged into the world of espionage, Sir Maurice was the first Chief of MI6 who didn’t come to the role via the traditional public school and Oxbridge route. Oldfield was the voice of British Intelligence in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of JFK, and was largely responsible for keeping the UK out of the Vietnam War. Working his way to the top of the secret service, he took on the job of rebuilding confidence in the British Secret Service in the wake of the Philby, Burgess and Maclean spy scandals. This is the fascinating life story, told in detail for the first time, of a complex, likable character as well as a formidable intelligence chief.9780552171625G1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography & Memoir,Military,Espionage Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 482 |
 | Storia d'Italia volume 1L'Italia dei secoli bui - L'Italia dei ComuniIndro MontanelliCorriere della sera645 pagesL2StoriaFormat: Hardcover Pages Read: 645 |
 | Death in Normandy: The Last Battles of Michael WittmannThe Last Battles of Michael WittmannJames Sidney LucasShelf Books-19-12-1998119 pagesDescription: Machine gun bullets could not harm the tiger, now arrogantly destroying the British vehicles as it cruised along the column... In the market square personnel carriers were driven into side streets to clear the area. On the road the vehicles were halted awaiting futher orders. Just below the crest of point 213 commanders were making frantic efforts to bring their vehicles out of the confusion all round them and to get them into action. Wittmann saw them and appreciated the threat which they might pose. He decided to switch targets...9781899765119L1Storia,Biografie, lettere e memorieCategories: Literary Studies: General,Military Fiction,Second World War Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 119 |
 | La battaglia. Storia di Waterloostoria di WaterlooAlessandro BarberoLaterza-01-01-2011378 pagesDescription: Una ricostruzione che diventa un racconto pieno di fascino: siamo sul campo di battaglia, ascoltiamo i suoni, vediamo i colori, odoriamo il fumo. Viviamo con i soldati francesi e poi con quelli inglesi e poi con i prussiani in una sorta di ripresa cinematografica a tratti dall'alto, a tratti dal basso, ad altezza d'uomo. Questo libro è il primo ad analizzare la battaglia in una prospettiva europea, dando voce a tutti coloro che vi presero parte, di qualsiasi nazionalità: le loro emozionanti testimonianze costituiscono il filo conduttore del libro.9788842077596L1StoriaCategories: History Format: Paperback Language: it Pages Read: 378 |
 | Engineers of VictoryThe Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World WarPaul KennedyRandom House-29-01-2013464 pagesDescription: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won.Engineers of Victoryis a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success. In January 1943, FDR and Churchill convened in Casablanca and established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan’s imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting, tactical detail,Engineers of Victoryreveals how. Kennedy recounts the inside stories of the invention of the cavity magnetron, a miniature radar “as small as a soup plate,” and the Hedgehog, a multi-headed grenade launcher that allowed the Allies to overcome the threat to their convoys crossing the Atlantic; the critical decision by engineers to install a super-charged Rolls-Royce engine in the P-51 Mustang, creating a fighter plane more powerful than the Luftwaffe’s; and the innovative use of pontoon bridges (made from rafts strung together) to help Russian troo...9781400067619L1StoriaCategories: World War II,World,International Relations Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 464 |
 | The Secret Horsepower Race: Second World War Fighter Aircraft Engine Development on the Western FrontSecond World War Fighter Aircraft Engine Development on the Western FrontCalum E. DouglasHarperTempest-31-07-2020300 pagesDescription: The piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence work carried out by both Britain and Germany would determine the outcome of the first global air war. Advanced jet engines may have been in development but every militarily significant air battle was fought by piston-engined fighters. Whoever designed the most powerful piston engines would win air superiority and with it the ability to dictate the course of the war as a whole. This is the never-before-told story of a high-tech race, hidden behind the closed doors of design offices and intelligence agencies, to create the war's best fighter engine. Using the fruits of extensive research in archives around the world together with the previously unpublished memoirs of fighter engine designers, author Calum E. Douglas tells the story of a desperate contest between the world's best engineers - the Secret Horsepower Race.9781911658504L1Aeronautica ,StoriaCategories: Aircraft Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 300 |
 | Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the RomanovsFaith, Power, and the Twilight of the RomanovsDouglas SmithFarrar, Straus and Giroux-22-11-2016848 pagesDescription: On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. But as the prizewinning historian Douglas Smith shows, the true story of Rasputin's life and death has remained shrouded in myth. A major new work that combines probing scholarship and powerful storytelling, Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the real life of one of history's most alluring figures. Drawing on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries, Smith presents Rasputin in all his complexity--man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. Rasputin is not just a definitive biography of an extraordinary and legendary man but a fascinating portrait of the twilight of imperial Russia as it lurched toward catastrophe.9780374240844L1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,European History Format: Hardcover Language: en Pages Read: 848 |
 | Command and ControlEric SchlosserPenguin-03-07-2014Description: Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort to ensure that nuclear weapons can't be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with men who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons, Command and Control takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that, until now, has been largely hidden from view.9780141037912L1Non Fiction,StoriaCategories: Military History,Nuclear Weapons,Nuclear Issues Format: Paperback Language: en |
 | I Flew for the F�hrer: The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter PilotThe Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter PilotHeinz KnokeGreenhill Books-11-12-2020208 pagesDescription: Heinz Knoke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of the Second World War. This vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs and is a fascinating counterbalance to the numerous accounts written by Allied pilots. Knoke joined the Luftwaffe on the outbreak of war, and eventually became commanding officer of a fighter wing. An outstandingly brave and skillful fighter, he logged over two thousand flights and shot down fifty-two enemy aircraft. He had flown over four hundred operational missions before being wounded in an astonishing 'last stand' towards the end of the war. He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his achievements. In a text that reveals his intense patriotism and discipline, he describes being brought up in the strict Prussian tradition, the rise of the Nazi regime and his own wartime career set against a fascinating study of everyday life in the Luftwaffe. He also reveals the high morale of the force until its disintegration. His memoirs are both a valuable contribution to aviation literature and a moving human story.9781784386023L1Storia,Aeronautica ,Biografie, lettere e memorieCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,Memoirs,European History Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 208 |
 | La presa di Anconadiario privato politico-militare (1860)Carlo Pellion conte di PersanoEdizioni Studio Tesi-01-01-1990456 pages9788876922107L1StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Language: it |
 | Agent Sonya: The True Story of WW2’s Most Extraordinary SpyMoscow's Most Daring Wartime SpyBen MacintyrePenguin-27-05-2021400 pagesDescription: The incredible story of the greatest female spy in history, from one of Britain's most acclaimed historians - available for pre-order now In a quiet English village in 1942, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, the woman known to her neighbours as Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she was racing through the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific intelligence from one of the country's most brilliant nuclear physicists. Secrets that she would transmit to Soviet intelligence headquarters via the radio transmitter she was hiding in her outdoor privy. Far from a British housewife, 'Mrs Burton' - born Ursula Kuczynski, and codenamed 'Sonya' - was a German Jew, a dedicated communist, a colonel in Russia's Red Army, and a highly-trained spy. From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, and helping the Soviet Union build the atom bomb, Sonya conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century. Her story has never been told - until now. Agent Sonya is the exhilarating account of one woman's life; a life that encompasses the rise and fall of communism itself, and altered the course of history. 'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John Preston9780241986950L1Storia,Biografie, lettere e memorieCategories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military,True War & Combat Stories,20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 400 |
 | Le verità nascoste. Trenta casi di manipolazione della storiaPaolo MieliRizzoli-24-09-2019336 pagesDescription: L'eroico ingresso a Fiume del poeta guerriero D'Annunzio è stato usato come mito fondativo dei Fasci di combattimento, eppure molti dei legionari che parteciparono all'impresa non aderirono mai al fascismo. Questo è uno dei trenta episodi di manipolazione della storia che Paolo Mieli smaschera invitando il lettore a diffidare di fonti inattendibili e versioni adulterate. In alcuni casi si tratta di falsi d'autore, come il diario di Galeazzo Ciano corretto ad arte dallo stesso genero del Duce. Altre volte sono invece tentativi, più o meno consapevoli e strumentali, di imporre slittamenti interpretativi e di senso a pagine salienti del nostro passato. Troppo di frequente si riscontra invece un uso politico della - presunta - verità raggiunta. Ecco il filo rosso che collega i saggi qui raccolti: le verità nascoste sono quelle - indicibili, negate e capovolte - che Mieli indaga con il rigore dello storico e l'acume dell'osservatore vigile e inflessibile. Un'analisi che dall'Italia del Novecento, con le sue più ingombranti e fondamentali figure (Mussolini, De Gasperi, Togliatti), attraversa alcuni temi ancora oggi di grande attualità come l'antisemitismo e il populismo. Fino a gettare nuova luce su personaggi dello scenario internazionale quali Churchill, Stalin, Mao e su passaggi poco conosciuti o spesso misconosciuti della storia antica e moderna, dalla rivolta di Spartaco alla "congiura" di Tommaso Campanella. Un tracciato, quello indicato in Le verità nascoste, che suggeris...9788817142700L1StoriaCategories: Storia del libro,Storia sociale e culturale,Studi culturali e sociali Format: Hardcover Edition: 1 Language: it Pages Read: 336 |
 | The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First CenturyViolence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First CenturyWalter ScheidelPrinceton University Press-18-09-2018528 pagesDescription: Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.9780691183251L1Storia,Scienza e TecnologiaCategories: General & World History,Social & Cultural History,Violence In Society Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 528 |
 | The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CEFinding the Words 1000 BC-1492 ADSimon SchamaVintage-11-09-2014512 pagesDescription: It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain. And a great story unfolds. Not - as often imagined - of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Which makes the story of the Jews everyone's story, too.9780099546689L1StoriaCategories: General & World History,Social & Cultural History,History Of Religion Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 512 Series/Volume: The Story of the Jews, Vol. 1 |
 | Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900The Story of the Jews 1492-1900Simon SchamaVintage-04-10-2018800 pagesDescription: A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians. Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews’ expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany. The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stage coaches and the railways; trudges the dawn streets of London, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon’s ruined army. The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jews’ search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever. ‘A magnificent achievement…’ Jonathan Freedland, Guardian ‘An extraordinary cultural journey, filled with astonishingly colourful and outrageous characters … Schama delivers a superb and thrilling ride, both inspirational and tragic’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mail on Sunday9780099590064L1StoriaCategories: General & World History,Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700,Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 Format: Paperback Language: en Series/Volume: The Story of the Jews, Vol. 2 |
 | Marx's GeneralThe Revolutionary Life of Friedrich EngelsTristram HuntPicador-03-08-2010464 pagesDescription: "Written with brio, warmth, and historical understanding, this is the best biography of one of the most attractive inhabitants of Victorian England, Marx's friend, partner, and political heir."—Eric Hobsbawm Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family, he spent his life enjoying the comfortable existence of a Victorian gentleman; yet he was at the same time the co-author of The Communist Manifesto, a ruthless political tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so that Karl Marx could have the freedom to write. Although his contributions are frequently overlooked, Engels's grasp of global capital provided an indispensable foundation for communist doctrine, and his account of the Industrial Revolution, The Condition of the Working Class in England, remains one of the most haunting and brutal indictments of capitalism's human cost. Drawing on a wealth of letters and archives, acclaimed historian Tristram Hunt plumbs Engels's intellectual legacy and shows us how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his exuberant personal life with his radical political philosophy. This epic story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal at last brings Engels out from the shadow of his famous friend and collaborator.9780805092486L1Biografie, lettere e memorie ,StoriaCategories: Biography & Autobiography Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 464 |
 | The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for BerlinThe Classic History of the Battle for BerlinCornelius RyanSimon Schuster-01-05-1995571 pagesDescription: The classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the final defeat of Nazi Germany. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades to come. Cornelius Ryan's compelling account of this final battle is a story of brutal extremes, of stunning military triumph alongside the stark conditions that the civilians of Berlin experienced in the face of the Allied assault. As always, Ryan delves beneath the military and political forces that were dictating events to explore the more immediate imperatives of survival, where, as the author describes it, “to eat had become more important than to love, to burrow more dignified than to fight, to exist more militarily correct than to win.” It is the story of ordinary people, both soldiers and civilians, caught up in the despair, frustration, and terror of defeat. It is history at its best, a masterful illumination of the effects of war on the lives of individuals, and one of the enduring works on World War II.9780684803296da localizzareStoriaCategories: General & World History,European History,Second World War Format: Paperback Language: en Pages Read: 571 |