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From the number-one New York Times best-selling authors of Shattered, the definitive account of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, comes the inside story of the historic 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s harrowing ride to victory. Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes use their unparalleled access to key players inside the Democratic and Republican campaigns to unfold how Biden’s nail-biting run for the presidency vexed his own party as much as it did Trump.

As a Russian recruit in World War II, Ivan Makarov witnessed General Chuikov pull out his pistol and shoot their regimental commander as a traitor. That was on his first day at the front. Thrown into an open field to face German tanks and artillery fire, with only rifles and machine guns to defend themselves with, almost 2,000 men of his regiment were wiped out in only six days at the Eastern Front. At this rate, Ivan struggled to comprehend how he would survive the hundreds of battles that lay before him, with death seeming to be the only certainty.

From the authors of the New York Times best-selling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest dogfight in history, and change the momentum of the war in the Pacific - but not without making the ultimate sacrifice.

We Should Be So Lucky, the first book to be released under the Prospect Editions imprint, delves into the secrets behind Australia's remarkable success and why its relative prosperity and good living is not just luck. Australia is often referred to as the 'Lucky Country' where good fortune has delivered people greater wealth, longer lives and better healthcare. But as Andrew argues, the country's relative prosperity and longevity is not just luck – it stems from a unique blend of political, social and economic institutions and values.

At first, they were “Lucky Lima”. Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.

In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only 13 horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season). Veteran turf writer and racing historian Edward L. Bowen takes us through the rich history of one of the most formidable and exciting challenges in all of sport. Bowen covers the trainers, owners, and jockeys who etched their names into the annals of thoroughbred racing, and the “lucky 13” who captured all three jewels of the Triple Crown, racing’s most prestigious prize.

The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China’s new president Xi Jinping. The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family - the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo’s secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo’s supporters; the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, Bo’s wife - was just the first rumble of a seismic power struggle that continues to rock the very foundation of China’s all-powerful Communist Party.

Abdi's world fell apart when he was only 15 and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu. Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with some 60 others, heading to Kenya. On the way, death squads hunted them and they daily faced violence, danger and starvation. After almost four months, they arrived in at refugee camps in Kenya - of the group he'd set out with, only five had survived.

Lucky in Cyprus is a coming-of-age story set in the Middle East during the height of the Cold War. An American teenager - son of a CIA operative - is inspired by grand events and a Greek Cypriot teacher to learn about survival and his art. He witnesses earthquakes and riots and terrorist attacks, but in the end it is his teacher's gentle lessons that keep him whole.

The images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World War II. But what of the sailors who manned the landing craft, going back and forth under fire with nowhere to take cover, their craft the special targets of enemy gunners? In this book, Ken Wiley, a Coast Guardsman on an Attack Transport in the Pacific, relates the intricate, often nerve-wracking story of how the United States projected its power across 6,000 miles in the teeth of fanatical Japanese resistance.

If you're Irish American or African American or Eastern European Jewish American, there's a rich literature to give you a sense of your family's arrival-in-America story. Until now, that hasn't been the case for Chinese Americans. From noted historian Mae Ngai, The Lucky Ones uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family. It's a sweeping story centered on patriarch Jeu Dips' (Joseph Tapes') self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco, and the extraordinary rise it enables.

The Lucky Ace of France tells of the amazing exploits of Captain Georges Guynemer, taking listeners on a journey through his eventful life. A national hero for France and aviation enthusiasts around the world, Guynemer racked up 53 kills in WWI, crashed several planes, and was wounded twice.

Some people are born lucky. Others make their own luck. As a boy, Hank wanted nothing more than to fly like the fighter pilots he admires in the skies over Amsterdam. When the lives of Dutch citizens are turned upside down with the Nazi occupation of Holland, his dreams will have to wait as he witnesses the tragic unfolding of events affecting those around him before finding himself in a fight for his own life.

Tra gli anni settanta e ottanta un misterioso gruppo neonazista ha commesso omicidi in tutto il Nord Italia. Le vittime all’inizio sono emarginati sociali o devianti: senzatetto, prostitute, tossicodipendenti. I delitti vengono rivendicati con volantini che inneggiano al nazismo e firmati “Ludwig”. Mentre parte la caccia al misterioso omicida, Ludwig alza il livello dello scontro e passa a massacrare preti e a compiere vere e proprie stragi dando fuoco a discoteche e sex club. Finché, nel 1984, vengono arrestati due giovani della “Verona bene”. Sono davvero loro i serial killer che ...

Sono trascorsi più di vent'anni dalla sentenza che ha condannato "i compagni di merende" per i delitti del Mostro di Firenze, eppure sono tanti a credere che si tratti di un clamoroso errore. Tra loro c'è il giornalista Francesco Amicone. Lui la verità è convinto di averla trovata: dietro il “maniaco delle coppiette” si nasconderebbe uno degli assassini più ricercati degli Stati Uniti: il killer dello Zodiaco.

Giacinto. Lo sciamano della Repubblica è un podcast in dieci episodi interpretato da Edoardo Leo, che racconta la vita, gli amori e le scandalose battaglie del leader radicale Marco Pannella (1930-2016). Al momento di acquisire popolarità, si era presentato così agli italiani: «Io amo gli obiettori, i fuorilegge del matrimonio, i capelloni sottoproletari anfetaminizzati, i cecoslovacchi della primavera, i nonviolenti, i libertari, i veri credenti, le femministe, gli omosessuali, i borghesi come me, la gente con il suo intelligente qualunquismo e la sua triste disperazione». Un borghese ...

Fontecupa. Il mistero di Serena Mollicone è un'inchiesta che ricostruisce il celebre caso di Serena Mollicone, la diciottenne di Arce (Frosinone) ritrovata cadavere in un bosco nei pressi di Fontana Liri il 1° giugno 2001, due giorni dopo la sua scomparsa. Dopo un inizio incerto, le indagini vengono affidate all'Unità Analisi Crimini Violenti, un organismo specializzato della Polizia di Stato, che individua il responsabile in un carrozziere del posto, Carmine Belli. Durante il processo però l'atto di accusa si rivela inconsistente, e il malcapitato carrozziere viene assolto. Nel frattempo ...

Le regole del Venerabile è l’autobiografia fittizia di Licio Gelli, il capo della Loggia P2, sotto forma di confessione privata, ma completamente aderente alle risultanze storiche e documentali, resa a un carceriere durante la sua permanenza in una prigione svizzera. In dieci episodi, corrispondenti ad altrettante regole di vita da lui stesso inventate, il maestro massonico che convinse molti di avere in pugno le sorti dell'Italia racconta la sua vita più avventurosa di un film, mischiando realtà, bugie e perle di ineguagliabile saggezza nella comica demistificazione di un personaggio ...

Picciotti è il racconto dell'ascesa del clan dei Corleonesi, la più potente associazione criminale in seno a Cosa nostra, dall'assassinio del sindacalista Placido Rizzotto agli ultimi giorni di libertà di Totò Riina. Condotto da Lirio Abbate, arricchito da testimonianze di magistrati, collaboratori di giustizia e da reali deposizioni nelle aule dei tribunali, Picciotti è un racconto che aderisce ai fatti come un saggio e affascina come un romanzo.

This is a fun look at the things we do to bring luck into our lives. Pick up a penny, throw salt over your shoulder, numbers, why I don't put my purse on the floor. It's all about luck. And for most of us, we'd rather be lucky than good.