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なぜ日本兵１万人が消えたままなのか？滑走路下にいるのか、それとも……民間人の上陸が原則禁止された硫黄島に４度上陸し、日米の機密文書も徹底調査。

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『源氏物語』がなければ道長の栄華もなかった！　無官で貧しい学者の娘が、なぜ世界最高峰の文学作品を執筆できたのか？後宮で、道長が紫式部に期待したこととは？

『忘れられた日本人』で知られる民俗学者・宮本常一とは何者だったのか。その民俗学の底流にある「思想」とは？

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

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ヒトラー、織田信長、ゾルゲ、マリー・アントワネット、ポル・ポト・・・ 多大な犠牲の上に彼らが残した〝黒い足跡〟とは？

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ナチスが実現させようとしていた世界とは？

Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich, the German-American actress and singer, was one of the biggest stars of the 20th century. These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII.

In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life. For the owner, Leopold Pfefferberg, had a story he'd been trying to interest writers and Hollywood in for years. It was the story of Oskar Schindler. In Searching for Schindler, Keneally describes how he went on to discover the full, extraordinary tale of the Aryan who risked his life to save hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, interviewing many of the survivors around the world.

This fascinating life story of Wieslaw Jozef Sporyszkiewicz takes us to Poland, the United States of America, and Great Britain, from struggles to triumphs, from dreams of freedom to torture, through building positive societies and helping others, eventually dying early and unexpectedly at the age of 56 from controversial reasons.

श्रीरामजन्मभूमीचा रोमांचक इतिहास पुढच्या पिढीला कळवा ह्यासाठी हे पुस्तक प्रकाशित केले आहे. लेखकांनी १८८५ ते १९१९ पर्यंतचा संघर्ष, आंदोलने आणि न्यायालयीन लढा ह्याचा इतिहास ह्या पुस्तकात मांडला आहे. हिंदू संमेलने, संघ शिबिरे, विश्व हिंदू परिषदेची स्थापना, शिलान्यास, रथयात्रा, १९९२ची क्रांती, अलाहाबाद उच्च न्यायालयाचा निर्णय असे अनेक टप्पे पुस्तकात येऊन जातात. हा इतिहास श्रोत्यांना प्रेरणादायी ठरेल अशी खात्री आहे.

More than fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his murder continues to haunt the American psyche and stands as a turning point in our nation's history. The Warren Commission rushed out its report in 1964, but questions continue to linger: Was there a conspiracy? Was there a coup at the highest levels of government? On the Trail of the Assassins—the primary source material for Oliver Stone's hit film JFK—is Garrison's own account of his investigations into the background of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy.

Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishing the Book of Mormon and starting what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He built temples, founded a city-state in Illinois, ran for president, and married more than thirty women. This self-made prophet thrilled his followers with his grand vision of peace and unity, but his increasingly grandiose plans tested and sometimes shattered their faith.

Das Hörbuch erzählt, wie die Familie ten Boom in den Niederlanden während der Zeit des Naziregimes vielen Verfolgten Schutz bot und wie sie später selbst ins KZ gerät. Dort erlebte Corrie inmitten von Hass, Gewalt und Demütigungen immer wieder Gottes bewahrende Hilfe. Ein überwältigender Bericht von Schuld und Vergebung.

Part hidden history, part love letter to creative innovation, this is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a dancer, Loie Fuller, and a scientist, Marie Curie, brought together by an illuminating discovery.

Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than 30 years, having started sleuthing on behalf of society’s finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world, but beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class-obsessed and male-dominated world. And - as Susannah Stapleton reveals - she was a most unreliable witness to her own life. Who was Maud? And what was the reality of being a female private detective in the Golden Age of Crime?

When Annie marries Harry after years of heartache in a London slum she believes she's found her happy ever after. But the horrors of the Blitz soon threaten everything they hold dear. The terrible sights Harry witnesses as an air raid warden bring back traumatic memories of his time during the First World War. Suddenly Annie finds herself struggling to cope not only with life in wartime and two little children, but also with a husband who seems like a stranger.

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教科書に載っているあの人たちには誰にも言えない過去があった

Benjamin Franklin's wide range of activities and interests opened the doors of the world to him. Printer, inventor, philosopher, ambassador, champion of liberty - his influence has been felt by every American generation. And to everything he touched, including this autobiography, Franklin brought originality and wit.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.