Geschichte & Politik

Where the Stones Sing

Eithne Massey

A vivid story of a fight for survival in darkest medieval DublinAs the spectre of the Black Death hovers over Dublin in the fourteenth century, Kai is plucked from the filthy streets to sing in th...

Faraway Home

Marilyn Taylor

Karl and Rosa's family watch in horror as Hitler's troops parade down the streets of their home city -- Vienna. It has become very dangerous to be a Jew in Austria, and after the...

17 Martin Street

Marilyn Taylor

A web of secrets can risk lives …When Hetty's family move to Martin Street near Portobello bridge in Dublin, they're not sure of their welcome. And next door, Ben's family are not su...

Vulgar the Viking and the Great Gulp Games

Odin Redbeard

Vulgar the Viking is all a-quiver. The villages of Blubber and Gulp are about to compete in the Great Gulp Games! Every year, Blubber gets clobbered, but Vulgar is determined that this time, thing...

Noche de alacranes

Alfredo Gómez Cerdá

Un profesor de instituto invita a Catalina Melgosa, testigo directo de la posguerra española, a dar una charla a sus alumnos. El contacto con los jóvenes y el hecho de que recuerde un episodio d...

Die Palästinenser

Johannes Gerloff

Die Meinungen über die Palästinenser sind so schwarz-weiß wie Arafats Kopftuch. Die einen sehen in ihnen nur die verfolgte Minderheit. Die anderen nur ihre Gräueltaten. Gerloff blickt hinter d...

El festín de la muerte

Jesús Díez de Palma

Da igual de dónde seas o a qué te dediques. Da igual que estés en Polonia, en Alemania o en Rusia; que seas un niño o un adulto, una promesa del fútbol o un soldado enrolado a la fuerza. Ni l...

Vulgar the Viking and the Rock Cake Raiders

Odin Redbeard

Vulgar is a Viking boy who longs for the glory days of raiding, pillaging and enormous beards. Life in the village of Blubber is so dull, it's all knitting and goat-herding and yawwwnnn. Vulga...

Operação Overlord - O Dia D e a Batalha da Normandia 1944

Max Hastings

"O retrato de um tremendo confronto armado compensatório para os Aliados, e não para os alemães, na vitória final. Os primeiros relatos do cenário em que ocorreram os desembarques e seus ...

Fidel & Che

Simon Reid Henry-cl

Fidel & Che - Uma Amizade Revolucionária é a história do filho de um camponês, estudioso e rebelde - Fidel Castro - e da sua amizade com o médico Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Ainda muito jovens...

O regresso da história e o fim dos sonhos

Robert Kagan

A esperança numa nova ordem internacional pacífica, depois do fim da Guerra Fria, foi desfeita por cruas realidades: as grandes potências estão de novo em competição pelo respeito e influên...

Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Lorraine Hansberry

Steve Jobs The Man Who Thought Different

Blumenthal Karen Blumenthal

Signum

Dr. Michael Römling

Zeitzeugen: Mietek Pemper

Hermann Vinke

Biografisches Porträt des Zeitzeugen Mietek Pemper: Als KZ-Häftling war er Sekretär von Amon Göth, dem brutalen Kommandanten des KZ Plaszów. Er wirkte an der Rettung von über 1000 Juden durc...

Humanity in the Midst of Inhumanity

Shahkeh Yaylaian Setian

Setian provides stories submitted by sixteen descendants of survivors who were saved by Muslims during the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks. She offers a corrective to mitig...

1314 And All That

Scoular Anderson

This history of Scotland addresses the questions that other texts ignore, such as: was Bannockburn a cake?; how bonnie was Prince Charlie?; and wha's like us? Combining accuracy and humour, th...

Big Book of History

Laura Welch

BIG BOOK OF HISTORY Learning Just Became BIG FUN! Families, schools, and churches can unfold 15 feet of the most interesting history of the world. This easy to follow, color-coded, multi-stream ti...

World War II

Allan Burnett

Acclaimed children's author Allan Burnett turns his attention to the Second World War in a book of explosively exciting and emotionally charged tales of bravery and adventure. Featuring t...

Columba and All That

Allan Burnett

Columba And All That is a real-life adventure packed with historical facts about the legendary Celtic saint. Join Columba as he leaves his home in Ireland for the undiscovered country of Scotland....