Un acercamiento a nueve líderes que condujeron a sus naciones a través de las mayores guerras que el mundo haya visto, y cuyas singulares fortalezas y debilidades dieron forma al curso de la historia de la humanidad. Del galardonado autor...
Esta es, sin duda, la mejor biografía de Winston Churchill que se haya publicado. Andrew Roberts, considerado como el mejor historiador militar británico, ha podido utilizar para su trabajo una gran cantidad de documentos que ningún...
Desde la muerte de Napoleón Bonaparte en 1821 se han escrito innumerables libros sobre su vida. Todas las editadas desde 1857 se han basado en la correspondencia que publicó su sobrino Napoleón III, distorsionada con fines polí...
¿Por qué no venció el Eje en la Segunda Guerra Mundial? ¿Por qué los acontecimientos siguieron el curso que todos conocemos y no otro? La tormenta de la guerra no sólo analiza minuciosamente el desarrollo de la...
Mientras desayunaba con sus mariscales el día de la batalla de Waterloo, Napoleón afirmó que Wellington era un mal general, que los británicos eran malos soldados y que antes del mediodía Francia obtendría una...
Across the western world, every sign indicates that Christianity is on a steep decline. Church membership is in a free-fall, with more and more people adopting secular or non-Christian ideals. Day by day, the values we used to take for granted are being...
Yes, yes, and yes! You can. This book is filled with stories of people struggling with self-doubt who put one foot forward and have never looked back. Your age, shape and speed don't matter. Just take the first step and the rest will follow.
âUnarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britainâs savior....
âUnarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britainâs savior....
The call to Christian discipleship is a call to adventure. Holy Habits explores the nature of that adventure through a rich mix of biblical material and inspiring stories. The nurturing role of the ten holy habits of discipleship as seen in Acts 2 is then...
How does democracy work in the new democracies of Eastern Europe? Do the people actually rule as one would expect in a democracy or do the legacies of communism and the constraints of the transition weaken popular control? This book presents a new framewo...
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America -winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of the Fondation Napoleon prize and a New York Times best...
From Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny , this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon.
Robertsâ book follows in the tradition of recent scholarship that seeks to emphasize the importance of popular culture and the wealth of knowledge that can be gained through an analysis of the daily lives and practices of individuals....