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The Last Empire

The Final Days of the Soviet Union

par Serhii Plokhy ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal)On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, ... En savoir plus

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal)On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative,
... En savoir plus
The Wrong Stuff

How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned

par John Strausbaugh ...

A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and ... En savoir plus

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A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and
... En savoir plus
Agent Zigzag

A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

par Ben Macintyre ...

For readers of World War II history, espionage, fans of John le Carré and Alan Furst, and of Ben Macintyre's more recent books.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. In 1941, after training as German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, ... En savoir plus

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For readers of World War II history, espionage, fans of John le Carré and Alan Furst, and of Ben Macintyre's more recent books.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. In 1941, after training as German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless,
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For Profit

A History of Corporations

par William Magnuson ...

**An “eloquent” (Economist) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley **Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years. Meanwhile, corporations continue to amass wealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklessly pursuing profit while leaving society to sort out the costs. In For ... En savoir plus

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**An “eloquent” (Economist) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley **Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years. Meanwhile, corporations continue to amass wealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklessly pursuing profit while leaving society to sort out the costs. In For
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The Last Emperor of Mexico

The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

par Edward Shawcross ...

The “superbly entertaining and well‑researched” (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences.In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and ... En savoir plus

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The “superbly entertaining and well‑researched” (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences.In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and
... En savoir plus
Intellectuals and Society

par Thomas Sowell ...

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public ... En savoir plus

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The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public
... En savoir plus
The Finest Hotel in Kabul

A People's History of Afghanistan

par Lyse Doucet ...

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe story of a hotel. The story of a nation.**When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the ... En savoir plus

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**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe story of a hotel. The story of a nation.**When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the
... En savoir plus
Stranger in the Shogun's City

A Japanese Woman and Her World

par Amy Stanley ...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyA “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan—and portrays the city that would become Tokyo on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.The ... En savoir plus

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyA “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of narrative history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo-period Japan—and portrays the city that would become Tokyo on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West.The
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Vingt-cinq petites histoires derrière l'histoire

par André Duchesne ...

Tous les pays et les grandes villes du monde possèdent et revendiquent des histoires hors du commun. Le Québec n’y fait pas exception. -Harry Houdini, le célèbre magicien, a été assailli à Montréal par un étudiant avant de succomber à ses blessures quelques jours plus tard à Detroit ; -Jackie Robinson, premier joueur noir dans le baseball professionnel, a démarré sa carrière au Québec avec les ... En savoir plus

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Tous les pays et les grandes villes du monde possèdent et revendiquent des histoires hors du commun. Le Québec n’y fait pas exception. -Harry Houdini, le célèbre magicien, a été assailli à Montréal par un étudiant avant de succomber à ses blessures quelques jours plus tard à Detroit ; -Jackie Robinson, premier joueur noir dans le baseball professionnel, a démarré sa carrière au Québec avec les
... En savoir plus
The Spy and the Traitor

The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

par Ben Macintyre ...

The celebrated author of A Spy Among Friends and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Cold War-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union.If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of ... En savoir plus

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The celebrated author of A Spy Among Friends and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Cold War-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the collapse of the Soviet Union.If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of
... En savoir plus
Age of Anger

A History of the Present

par Pankaj Mishra ...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR • Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeOne of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise ... En savoir plus

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR • Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeOne of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise
... En savoir plus
King of Kings

The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

par Scott Anderson ...

**Winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize • Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for History • Finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • Named a Best Book of 2025 by Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Globe and Mail, and Vanity FairFrom the author of the acclaimed international bestseller ... En savoir plus

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**Winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize • Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for History • Finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • Named a Best Book of 2025 by Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Globe and Mail, and Vanity FairFrom the author of the acclaimed international bestseller
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The Siege

A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

par Ben Macintyre ...

**One of Indigo's Top 10 History Books of 2024A brilliant, seat-of-your-pants hostage-taking and daring SAS rescue mission of the Iran Embassy in London in 1980, this is Ben Macintyre at the very height of his story-telling powers.**On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Prince’s Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There, they took 26 hostages, including ... En savoir plus

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**One of Indigo's Top 10 History Books of 2024A brilliant, seat-of-your-pants hostage-taking and daring SAS rescue mission of the Iran Embassy in London in 1980, this is Ben Macintyre at the very height of his story-telling powers.**On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Prince’s Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There, they took 26 hostages, including
... En savoir plus
Klondike

The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899

par Pierre Berton ...

With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a ... En savoir plus

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With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a
... En savoir plus
The Anarchy

The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

par William Dalrymple ...

Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR“Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone.” -The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Return of a King<... ... En savoir plus

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Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR“Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone.” -The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Return of a King<...
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Asperger's Children

The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

par Edith Sheffer ...

“An impassioned indictment, one that glows with the heat of a prosecution motivated by an ethical imperative.” —Lisa Appignanesi, New York Review of BooksIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across ... En savoir plus

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“An impassioned indictment, one that glows with the heat of a prosecution motivated by an ethical imperative.” —Lisa Appignanesi, New York Review of BooksIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across
... En savoir plus
Afloat

Small Boats, Swell and Seaspray

par David Gange ...

'Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight' MOYA CANNONJoin David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.These small boats outnumber decked ships by at least fifty to one. Yet almost all history writing is about big boats. This is a strange ... En savoir plus

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'Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight' MOYA CANNONJoin David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.These small boats outnumber decked ships by at least fifty to one. Yet almost all history writing is about big boats. This is a strange
... En savoir plus
Rasputin

The Downfall of the Romanovs

par Antony Beevor ...

**“This story of credulous, out-of-touch monarchs steering their country into disaster never loses its sinister appeal.”—The New York Times"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy.”—The Sunday TimesFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his ... En savoir plus

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**“This story of credulous, out-of-touch monarchs steering their country into disaster never loses its sinister appeal.”—The New York Times"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy.”—The Sunday TimesFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his
... En savoir plus
Frozen in Time

An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

par Mitchell Zuckoff ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-LaOn November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also ... En savoir plus

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-LaOn November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also
... En savoir plus
The Victorian House

Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

par Judith Flanders ...

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.Some images were unavailable for this electronic edition.The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth ... En savoir plus

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The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.Some images were unavailable for this electronic edition.The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth
... En savoir plus
The Devil That Danced on the Water

A Daughter’s Memoir

par Aminatta Forna ...

An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood – of an idyll that became a nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, the bitterness of exile in Britain and the terrible ... En savoir plus

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An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood – of an idyll that became a nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, the bitterness of exile in Britain and the terrible
... En savoir plus
The Island at the Center of the World

par Russell Shorto ...

**In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history.UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE AND POSTSCRIPT"Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times**When the ... En savoir plus

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**In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history.UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE AND POSTSCRIPT"Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times**When the
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Noble Ambitions

The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II

par Adrian Tinniswood ...

A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought ... En savoir plus

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A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford, dukes and duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats, and a new class of homeowners bought
... En savoir plus
Blitzed

Drugs in Nazi Germany

par Norman Ohler ...

Traduit par Shaun Whiteside ...

**The sensational international bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw**The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the ... En savoir plus

$10.99 CAD

**The sensational international bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw**The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the
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