El mariscal Erwin Rommel es un personaje que dejó una huella imborrable en los anales de la historia. Dotado de un gran don de mando logró que se le adjudicara una unidad para la planeada invasión de Francia, la 7ª Panzer. En 1941 y debido a los problemas que enfrentaba el ejército italiano en el norte de Africa, Hitler decide encomendarle una nueva tarea: contener al ejército inglés; sin embargo, este objetivo limitado se convirtió posteriormente en una operación estratégica que estuvo a punto de culminar con la captura de Alejandría. Las memorias de Rommel constituyen un documento que permite adentrarse al "día a día" de este personaje. Basado en los diarios, cartas y otros documentos personales que sobrevivieron a la 2ª Guerra Mundial.

Cayo César Germánico se convierte en emperador romano el año 37 d.C. Inteligente y cultivado, aunque acomplejado por su físico, tiene dos grandes pasiones: el teatro y Drusila, la más bella de sus hermanas. Calígula comienza su reinado adulado por los romanos y las legiones. Hacia el final de su mandato será detestado por todos: durante el mismo se ha comportado como el peor de los dictadores y se ha caracterizado por sus extravagancias, provocaciones y brutalidad.

Esta es la historia de los últimos tiempos de la Rusia de los zares. Mucho se ha escrito sobre aquel período, pero pocos lo hicieron con el conocimiento y la sutileza expositiva de Pradwin. La vida íntima de los grandes personajes, los errores de los gobernantes, las sublevaciones, el contraespionaje, ninguna faceta de aquel agitado período tiene secretos para Pradwin.

Probably the best biography of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, mentioned in Wikipedia, Senses of Cinema, etc. with a lot of black and white pictures. An insight into his character and films.

Einstein In His Own Words collects wisdom and insight straight from the mind of the most famous genius of the 20th century. Read Einstein's thoughts and writings on a variety of subjects, including relativity, black holes, atomic energy, time travel, and more.

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Cryptographers and other spies already know and respect the name of Herbert O. Yardley. He isn't well known by others, but almost fifty years after his death, he has gotten a full, instructive biography. Kahn is the perfect teller of this tale, having written both articles for scholarly journals as well as popular books about intelligence matters. There is not a great deal of detail about the procedures of decryption, which are described only generally, but there is a unique American life here. According to Kahn, Yardley better than anyone foresaw how important cracking signals could be to American intelligence. He created the first permanent agency to intercept messages and break them. He was "the most colorful and controversial figure in American intelligence," and his controversial actions are fully included here.

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In 1665, when an epidemic of the plague forced Cambridge University to close, Isaac Newton, then a young, undistinguished scholar, returned to his childhood home in rural England. Away from his colleagues and professors, Newton embarked on one of the greatest intellectual odysseys in the history of science: he began to formulate the law of universal gravitation, developed the calculus, and made revolutionary discoveries about the nature of light. After his return to Cambridge, Newton's genius was quickly recognized and his reputation forever established. This biography also allows us to see the personal side of Newton, whose life away from science was equally fascinating. Quarrelsome, quirky, and not above using his position to silence critics and further his own career, he was an authentic genius with all too human faults.

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A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world’s biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and temperate species. This book is the first comprehensive account of Vietnam’s natural history in English. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and thirty-five original watercolor illustrations, the book offers a complete tour of the country’s plants and animals along with a full discussion of the factors shaping their evolution and distribution.

This book recounts the artist’s life in fascinating detail, drawing on a treasure trove of Eakins family correspondence and papers that have only recently been discovered.Never before has Thomas Eakins’s story been told with such drama, clarity, and accuracy. Sidney Kirkpatrick sets the painter’s life and art in the wider context of the changing world he devoted himself to portraying, and he also addresses the artist’s private life—the contradictory impulses, obsessions, and possible psychological illness that fired his work.