Product Description: Former New York Times reporter Szulc chronicles the sweep of global events and social transformations since the end of WW II, showing how they relate back to the war and how they have led unexpectedly to the most astonishing development of all: the erosion of Marxism-Leninism and the outbreak of "Democracy Fever" worldwide...read more

Product Description: THE SECRET ALLIANCE is the story of the rescue of more than two million Jews from Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East since World War II. It is the dramatic--and largely unknown--account of the numerous "exoduses" made possible by a remarkable clandestine alliance initiated from Palestine by Shaul Avigur, the mysterious chief of the original Mossad, and Joseph J...read more

Product Description: From the author of Pope John Paul II: A Biography comes a chillingly authentic conspiracy thriller based on actual, never-before-revealed facts surrounding the assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II.“One moment, the white-clad figure, holding on to the iron bar at the back seat of the white Jeep with the left hand, was blessing the faithful in a slow, circular motion of the right hand as the vehicle advanced gently through the human mass filling St...read more

Based on personal interviews with Castro and his closest associates, this definitive biography covers Castro's life from birth to the present and features information drawing on access to thirty years of previously unavailable records. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Details the personal life and religious career of the Polish cleric who, in 1978, became the first non-Italian Pope in over four hundred years, and describes some of his activities as head of the Catholic Church

A study of the composer who wrote some of the most famous piano pieces of all time examines the eighteen years Chopin spent in Paris, alongside some of the greatest creative geniuses of the mid-nineteenth century (view table of contents)

Discusses Israel's rescue of more than two million Jews from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa since the end of World War II