Simon Sebag Montefiore

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The Romanovs
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“Succession meets Game of Thrones.” —The Spectator • “The author brings his cast of dynastic...

En cierto sentido, ésta es la primera biografía real de Stalin. Lo que se había publicado hasta ahora no dejaban de ser más que pasajes de su vida y su tiempo, complementados con la historia de la Unión Soviética para compensar la ausencia de información directa sobre uno de los dictadores más famosos del mundo. Sin embargo, en este libro, Simon Sebag Montefiore, que ha tenido acceso a los archivos de Stalin y de sus colaboradores abiertos...

Mais de 170 pequenas biografias dos heróis e vilões que fizeram a história do nosso mundo, pela mão do prestigiado autor, Simon Sebag Montefiore. Rainhas, imperatrizes e atrizes, reis, sultões e conquistadores, profetas, artistas, cortesãs, psicopatas e exploradores. As suas vidas fizeram-se de dramas surpreendentes, de coragem e aventura, de libertinagem e matança, de virtude e crime, de heroísmo e traição. Atravessando mais de três mil...

"Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrolls in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines-- and there may be a traitor among them. The only thing Benya can truly trust is his horse, Silver Socks, and that he will find no mercy in onslaught of Hitler's...

"When shy, quiet Shylo overhears the plan of a band of ratzis to embarrass the Queen, he must travel to Buckingham Palace and convince the Royal Rabbits of London to stop them." --