THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people … Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished … Fresh, fast and deeply moving.’ New York TimesA STARTLING, GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE ALIVE IN BRITAIN DURING THE BLITZ, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AROUND CHURCHILL.On Winston Churchill’s first...

10 de maio de 1940. O dia em que Churchill é nomeado primeiro-ministro, Adolf Hitler invade os Países Baixos e a Bélgica. Ao longo do ano seguinte, a Alemanha nazi bombardeia Inglaterra com uma intensidade inédita. Acossado, o «Velho Leão» tenta preservar, a todo o custo, o moral do seu povo… e convencer o presidente Roosevelt de que é do interesse dos Estados Unidos entrar na guerra.Se durante este período a vida pública de Churchill é simplesmente caótica, a sua vida privada não e...

Winston Churchills eerste dag als premier begint met oorlog. Hitler voert een meedogenloze en onafgebroken strijd met een eindeloze reeks bommen, die meer dan 45.000 Britten zal doden. 1940 blijkt een cruciaal jaar, waarin de toekomst van het land én de uitkomst van de oorlog afhangen van de Engelse premier. Erik Larson beschrijft met behulp van dagboekfragmenten, archiefstukken en rapporten die tot voor kort geheim waren op beeldende wijze hoe Churchill het Engelse volk The Art of Being F...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.”—The Wall Street J...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review**September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for...

'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUTOne was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world.The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white bu...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis“One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR

TRA I MIGLIORI LIBRI DEL 2020 SECONDO BARACK OBAMA CONSIGLIATO DA BILL GATES TRA I 5 LIBRI DA REGALARE E LEGGERE A NATALE 2020. 1940-1941, BATTAGLIA D'INGHILTERRA. LA FORMIDABILE CRONACA DEI GIORNI BUI E DI QUELLI LUMINOSI IN CUI CHURCHILL DIVENNE CHURCHILL, UNO DEI PIÙ GRANDI LEADER DELLA STORIA. Il 3 settembre 1939, in risposta all’occupazione della Polonia da parte di Hitler, la Gran Bretagna dichiara guerra alla Germania, e l’intero p...

'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATORSuffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and Himmler amongst others, Erik Larson's new book sheds unique light on events as they unfold, resulting in an unforgettable, addictively readable work of narrative history.Berlin,1933.

Het ware verhaal van de scheepsramp die Amerika bij de Eerste Wereldoorlog betrok Uitgeroepen tot het beste non-fictieboek van 2015 door onder meer Kirkus Reviews en Publishers Weekly 'Larson is journalist die non-fictie schrijft als romans, echte pageturners.' - George R.R. Martin (auteur van Game of Thrones) Op 1 mei 1915, terwijl WO I zijn tiende maand inging, was de luxe oceaanstomer Lusitania van New York onderweg naar Liverpool, met een recordaantal kinderen en peuters. Aan boord van...

'Verreweg Larsons beste en boeiendste werk van historische non-fictie.' - New York Times Berlijn 1933. William E. Dodd wordt de eerste Amerikaanse ambassadeur in het Duitsland van Adolf Hitler, in het jaar dat een keerpunt in de moderne geschiedenis zou blijken. Dodd, een kalme professor uit Chicago, neemt zijn vrouw, zijn zoon en zijn flamboyante dochter Marthe mee. In eerste instantie is Marthe erg onder de indruk van de pracht en praal, de feesten en de knappe politici en officieren van...

'A big, bold approach to the writing of narrative non-fiction . . . it shows how tiny lives may occasionally become caught up in the wonders of the age' GUARDIANIn 1910, Edwardian England was scandalized by a murder.Mild-mannered American Hawley Crippen had killed his wife, buried her remains in the cellar of their North London home and then gone on the run with his young mistress, his secretary Ethel Le Neve.A Scotland Yar...