This series delves into the darker, often overlooked chapters of history, uncovering unsettling narratives and lesser-known events. It explores the shadowy aspects of human nature and societal failings that led to tragedy and conflict. Readers will find compelling accounts that shed light on the more somber, yet crucial, elements of the past. It's a captivating exploration of history that refuses to shy away from its most disturbing facets.
Dark History of the American Presidents covers every dirty deed committed behind the White House fence, from financial profiteering and insider trading to illicit bugging of the opposition, including the terms of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
British history during the Tudor Dynasty where England is transformed from a minor medieval kingdom to a European power on the verge of an empire. Illustrated with 180 photographs, paintings, and illustrations.
"Power, corruption and scandal at the heart of the White House"--Cover.
From the Tudors to the Habsburgs to the Windsors, from Vlad the Impaler to Princess Diana, Kings and Queens of Europe is illustrated throughout with 400 colour and black-and-white photographs, genealogies and artworks, and offers a lively, highly varied portrait of European monarchy.
From the string of popes who were poisoned, deposed and mutilated by rivals for the papacy in the early middle ages, to the controversial neutrality of Pope Pius XII during WW II, this history reveals many of the scandals and secrets of the pontiffs.
"In this accessible book, the whole narrative of the Viking story is examined from the eighth to the 11th century. Arranged thematically, [the book] examines the Norsemen from exploration to religion to trade to settlement to weaponry to kingdoms to their demise and legacy. But today questions remain: what prompted the first Viking raids? What stopped their expansion? And how much of the tales of murder, rape and pillage is myth?" --Publisher.
Kości�ł katolicki odegrał niepoślednią rolę w kształtowaniu zachodniej cywilizacji. Od chwili powstania jako mało znacząca żydowska sekta,Kości�ł był zar�wno prześladowany, jak i prześladował sam, stał się potężny, a jednocześnie nie zawsze postępował zgodnie z głoszonymi przez siebie zasadami, głosił wartość moralności i duchowej czystości, choć wstrząsały nim liczne skandale.
A hundred years old, Hollywood is the world's largest film business with its movies adored around the globe. But the drama on-screen has been matched, and is often exceeded by the lives off-screen.
