Martin Dugard

En la primavera de 1865, tras una serie de batallas cada vez más cruentas y atroces, al fin acaba la sangrienta Guerra de Secesión. Con sus generosas condiciones a Robert E. Lee en la capitulación de este para reintegrar a los confederados en la sociedad de los Estados Unidos, el presidente Abraham Lincoln quiere ver cumplido su sueño de volver a unir a la nación. Pero un criminal y su banda de cómplices, y entre ellos quizá algunos políticos de los peldaños más altos del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, no se conforman. El carismático actor John Wilkes Booth, mujeriego y racista impenitente, asesina a Abraham Lincoln en el teatro Ford. La furiosa cacería policial que se organiza convierte inmediatamente a Booth en el fugitivo más buscado de la nación. El detective neoyorquino Lafayette C. Baker desentraña todas las pistas que conducen a Booth, mientras las fuerzas federales persiguen a sus cómplices. La emocionante batida de búsqueda acaba en un fiero tiroteo y varias sentencias de muerte: entre ellas, la de la primera mujer ejecutada en Estados Unidos, Mary Surratt. Con sus vívidos retratos de algunas de las figuras más notables de la historia y una trama que obliga a seguir leyendo hasta el final, Matar a Lincoln es historia, pero parece una novela de intriga.

Nº 1 En Estados Unidos. De los mismos autores de Matar a Lincoln Más de dos millones de lectores se estremecieron con Matar a Lincoln, el fascinante libro de Bill O’Reilly y el historiador Martin Dug

Bill Oreilly y Martin Dugard abordan la maldad de los nazis en un relato fascinante de los valerosos esfuerzos por capturar a los SS fugados tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Cuando los verdaderos horrores del Tercer Reich empezaron a salir a la luz al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, numerosos criminales de guerra nazis que habian participado en el genocidio se dieron a la fuga. Entre estos criminales de guerra estan el atroz Josef Mengele, el Angel de la Muerte, medico que llevo a cabo horribles experimentos con seres humanos en Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, el brutal secretario personal de Hitler; Klaus Barbie, el cruel Carnicero de Lyon; y quiza el nazi mas atroz de todos: Adolf Eichmann.Matar a los SS es el epico relato de la audaz labor de espionaje de los autodenominados cazanazis. Este grupo resuelto y variopinto incluye a un duo frances de marido y mujer, un abogado estadounidense que participo en el desembarco de Normandia, un fiscal aleman que años antes habia jurado lealtad al Partido Nazi, los agentes del Mosad israeli y un superviviente de los campos de exterminio. Durante decadas, estos hombres y mujeres rastrearon el mundo entero en busca de los SS profugos para llevarlos ante la justicia.

James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens. He then began an extraordinary rise from farmboy outsider to the hallowed rank of captain of the Royal Navy, leading three historic journeys that would forever link his name with fearless exploration (and inspire pop-culture heroes like Captain Hook and Captain James T. Kirk). In Farther Than Any Man, noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard strips away the myth of Cook and instead portrays a complex, conflicted man of tremendous ambition (at times to a fault), intellect (though Cook was routinely underestimated) and sheer hardheadedness. When Great Britain announced a major circumnavigation in 1768 -- a mission cloaked in science, but aimed at the pursuit of world power -- it came as a political surprise that James Cook was given command. Cooks surveying skills had contributed to the British victory over France in the Seven Years War in 1763, but no commoner had ever commanded a Royal Navy vessel. Endeavors stunning three-year journey changed the face of modern exploration, charting the vast Pacific waters, the eastern coasts of New Zealand and Australia, and making landfall in Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego, and Rio de Janeiro. After returning home a hero, Cook yearned to get back to sea. He soon took control of the Resolution and returned to his beloved Pacific, in search of the elusive Southern Continent. It was on this trip that Cooks taste for power became an obsession, and his legendary kindness to island natives became an expectation of worship -- traits that would lead him first to greatness, then to catastrophe. Full of action, lush description, and fascinating historical characters like King George III and Master William Bligh, Dugards gripping account of the life and gruesome demise of Capt. James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on traveling farther than any man.

The story of Jesuss crucifixion as its never been told before Millions of readers have been thrilled by author Bill OReilly and historian Martin Dugards Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of non-fiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The OReilly Factor details the shocking events leading up to the execution of the most influential man who ever lived: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion people attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. In this riveting and fact-based account of Jesuss life and times, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, and John the Baptist are among the many legendary figures who rise up off the page.Killing Jesus not only takes readers inside this most volatile epoch, it also recounts the seismic political and historical events that made Jesuss death inevitable and changed the world for ever.

General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident-and may very well have been an act of assassination. Killing Patton takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Pattons tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.

The No.1 New York Times Bestseller In January 1961, as the cold war escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of communism while he learns the hardships, solitude and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. At the same time, JFK acquires a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Then, in the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, a sequence of gunshots kills a beloved president and sends America into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath. A page-turner from beginning to end, Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and deceit of Camelot, bringing history to life fifty years after the most notorious crime of the twentieth century. Immersively written . . . A powerful historical precis Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun by Bill OReilly and Martin Dugard takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale invasion of Japan.Across the globe in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. In Washington, DC, FDR dies in office and Harry Truman ascends to the presidency, only to face the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon. And in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, who is considered a deity by his subjects, refuses to surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Told in the same page-turning style of Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan, this epic saga details the final moments of World War II like never before.

From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill OReillys Killing series, comes a fast-paced, dramatic account of the famous yet little-understood battle that turned the tide of World War II.1942. Everywhere around the world, the Allies are losing the war. Nowhere is this felt more completely than in the Pacific, where Japanese sea and ground forces claim victory after victory. Singapore falls. Then the Philippines. The vaunted American Navy fights to a draw with the Japanese at the Battle of Coral Sea. Americas lone moral victory is Colonel Jimmy Doolittles bombing raid on Tokyothough even that is tinged with tragedy as two crew members are shot down and beheaded.Meanwhile in Honolulu, a brilliant young naval officer is determined to break Japans top secret codes. Lieutenant Commander Joseph Rochefort is close to cracking the code by April. He is then startled to learn that the Japanese are planning yet another major invasion somewhere in the Pacific. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is planning to send four aircraft carriers to complete this task, in a bold attack that will be even larger than the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.Rocheforts methods are unique, and those in power in the US Navy find his data flawed. Simply, many dont believe him. The best mind in the US Navy believes the next big attack will come at New Guinea or Australia.To prove himself, Rochefort must not only find the precise location but predict the date. What ensues is the cat-and-mouse adventure that will become the epic fight known as the Battle of Midway. American and Japanese pilots duel in the skies. Japans Yamamoto will go toe-to-toe with American admirals Chester Nimitz, Jack Fletcher, and Raymond Spruance. The dramatic battle will involve strategy, luck, heartbreakand will dramatically alter the course of World War II.

From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill OReillys Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany.Gripping, popular history at its page-turning best.Alex Kershaw With the precision of a smart bomb, Martin Dugard puts the reader directly into the campaign to destroy Hitler.Bill OReilly Spectacular . . . Taking Berlin is certain to be a massive hit with fans of both history and thrillers alike.Mark Greaney, bestselling author of the Gray Man seriesFall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies top battlefield commander. Meanwhile, the Soviets begin to squeeze Hitlers crumbling Reich from the east. Led by Generals Zhukov and Konev, the Red Army launches millions of soldiers, backed by tanks, artillery, and warplanes, against the Germans, leaving death and scorched earth in their wake, pushing the Wehrmacht back toward their fatherland. As both the Anglo-American alliance and the Soviets set their sights on claiming the capital city of Nazi Germany, Churchill seeks to ensure Britains place in a new world divided by Roosevelts America and Stalins Soviet Union. With a sweeping cast of historical figures, Taking Berlin is a pulse-pounding race into the final, desperate months of the Second World War and toward the fiery destruction of the Thousand-Year-Reich, chronicling a moment in history when allies become adversaries.

The dramatic story behind the running and marathon boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, featuring the stories of Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit, Grete Waitz, and many others, about how a generation of runners turned the marathon into a national obsessionOn September 3, 1970, the New York City Marathon was run for the first time. One hundredtwenty-seven runners paid a one-dollar entry fee, and only one woman competed. Fifty-four years later, nearly fifty thousand runners from all over the world finished the same race. Almost half were women. More than three times as many runners applied, and over two million spectators watched. Marathons are inclusive, fully global, and still exploding in popularity.How did we get from there to here? As Martin Dugard, longtime runner, running coach,and #1 New York Times bestselling author, explains, it was thanks to four very special runners who changed the way America, and the world, saw running. The Long Run celebrates these athletes Frank Shorter, Steve Prefontaine, Joan Benoit, and Grete Waitzand many more, sharing stories of the specific races and social movements that transformed running from a niche sport to a national obsession. It follows Shorter through his early training and his triumph in Munich; Prefontaine in his legendary races, disappointing Olympics, and tragic death; and Benoit and Waitz in their eleven hardwon duels before Benoit won the first womens Olympic Marathon and Waitz broke the tape in the first of five New York City Marathon victories.It is a story with big characters, enormous moments, and a historical arc that has never been completely explored. The Long Run will reveal how the sport of running, and the race that we all know and love, became iconicand how finishing a marathon became a top bucket-listgoal for runners and non-runners alike.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill OReilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris from the grip of the Nazis during World War IITaking Paris does for Paris during World War II what The Splendid and the Vile did for London.James Patterson Heroes and villains abound. Youll enjoy this fast-paced book immensely.Bill OReilly Succeeds triumphantly.The Washington Post May 1940: The world is stunned as Hitlers forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual freedom, and love of liberty, has fallen under Nazi controlperhaps forever. As the Germans ruthlessly crush all opposition, a patriotic band of Parisians known as the Resistance secretly rise up to fight back. But these young men and women cannot do it alone. Over 120,000 Parisians die under German occupation. Countless more are tortured in the citys Gestapo prisons and sent to death camps. The longer the Nazis hold the city, the greater the danger its citizens face. As the armies of America and Great Britain prepare to launch the greatest invasion in history, the spies of the Resistance risk all to ensure the Germans are defeated and Paris is once again free. The players holding the fate of Paris in their hands are some of the biggest historical figures of the era: Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, General George S. Patton, and the exiled French general Charles de Gaulle, headquartered in Londons Connaught Hotel. From the fall of Paris in 1940 to the race for Paris in 1944, this riveting, page-turning drama unfolds through their decisionsfor better and worse. Taking Paris is history told at a breathtaking pace, a sprawling yet intimate saga of heroism, desire, and personal sacrifice for all that is right.

From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill OReillys Killing serieswith more than 12 million copies soldcomes a soaring account of Englands desperate fight to fend off German invasion. Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Adolf Hitlers powerful armies control Europe. England stands alone against this juggernaut, the whole world knowing it is only a matter of time before Nazi Germany unleashes its military might on the island nation. And in London, a new prime minister named Winston Churchill is determined to defeat the Nazi menace, no matter the costs. Luckily for Churchill, one quirky Englishman has seen the future. Air Vice-Marshall Hugh Dowding is head of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command. He has spent years preparing his nations aerial defenses, utilizing the new technology of radar, training hundreds of hand-picked young pilots, and overseeing the design and purchase of the worlds most up-to-date fighter aircraft. In time, the names "Spitfire" and "Hurricane" will become iconic, these airplanes synonymous with a David versus Goliath struggle between the RAF and German Luftwaffe. For the first time in history, the battlefield will not be on land or in water but entirely contested in the skies above. Nazi victory depends upon their overwhelming air power, and the fate of not just the British people but all of Western Civilization hinges on a small group of elite pilots stopping this onslaughta band of brothers who will go down in history as the Few.Taking London puts the reader inside the action, bringing to life the personal sagas of Churchill, Dowding, and legendary fighter pilots like Peter Townsend, Geoffrey Wellum, Richard Hillary, and American Billy Fiske, all set against the defiant backdrop of wartime London. Told in fast-paced, you-are-there fashion, this third book in the epic Taking series is an indelible portrait of the moment the tide of WWII was turned, and the incredible heroes who made it happen.

Nº 1 En Estados Unidos. De los mismos autores de Matar a Lincoln Más de dos millones de lectores se estremecieron con Matar a Lincoln, el fascinante libro de Bill O’Reilly y el historiador Martin Dug

In 1866 Britains foremost explorer, Dr David Livingstone, went in search of the answer to an age-old geographical riddle: where was the source of the Nile? Livingstone set out with a large team, on a course that would lead through unmapped, seemingly impenetrable terrain into areas populated by fearsome man-eating tribes. Within weeks his expedition began to fall apart - his entourage deserted him and Livingstone vanished without trace. He would not be heard from again for two years.While debate raged in England over whether Livingstone could be found in the unmapped wilderness of the African interior, James Gordon Bennet, a brash young American newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalise on the worlds fascination with the missing legend. He commissioned his star reporter, Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands in Wales!), to search for Livingstone. Stanley undertook his quest with gusto, filing reports that captivated readers and dominated the front page of the New York Herald for months.INTO AFRICA traces the journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters. Livingstones is one of trials and set-backs, that finds him alone and miles from civilisation. Stanleys is an awakening to the beauty of Africa, the grandeur of the landscape and the vivid diversity of its wildlife. It is also a journey that succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, clinching his place in history with the famous enquiry: Dr Livingstone, I presume?. In this, the first book to examine the extraordinary physical challenges, political intrigue and larger-than-life personalities of this legendary story, Martin Dugard has opened a fascinating window on the golden age of exploration that will appeal to everyones sense of adventure.

Relato épico sobre a chegada de Ronald Reagan ao poder. Apenas dois meses após assumir a presidência, Reagan encarou a morte, depois que uma bala "destruidora" parou a poucos centímetros de seu coraç

Bill OReilly y Martin Dugard abordan la maldad de los nazis en un relato fascinante de los valerosos esfuerzos por capturar a los SS fugados tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cuando los verdaderos horrores del Tercer Reich empezaron a salir a la luz al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, numerosos nazis que habian participado en el genocidio se dieron a la fuga. Entre estos estan el atroz Josef Mengele, el Angel de la Muerte, medico que llevo a cabo horribles experimentos con seres humanos en Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, el brutal secretario personal de Hitler; Klaus Barbie, el cruel Carnicero de Lyon; y quiza el nazi mas atroz de todos: Adolf Eichmann. Matar a los SS es el epico relato de la audaz labor de espionaje de los autodenominados cazanazis. Este grupo resuelto y variopinto incluye a un matrimonio frances, un abogado estadounidense que participo en el desembarco de Normandia, un fiscal aleman que años antes habia jurado lealtad al Partido Nazi, los agentes del Mosad israeli y un superviviente de los campos de exterminio. Durante decadas, estos hombres y mujeres rastrearon el mundo entero en busca de los SS profugos para llevarlos ante la justicia.