Simon Sebag Montefiore

Comment Staline est-il devenu Staline? Issu d'un milieu populaire, le jeune Joseph Staline est un homme curieux, séducteur et déjà attiré par le pouvoir...

We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago.

From the ancient times, via crusades and world wars, up to the 21st century, this accessible history introduces listeners to the titans who changed the world....

In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research, brilliant synthesis and narrative élan, Simon Sebag Montefiore chronicles the life and lives of Stalin’s court from the time of his acclamation as “leader” in 1929, five years after Lenin’s death, until his own death in 1953 at the age of 73....

Winter, 1916: in St Petersburg, Russia. An English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police....

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface....

A jubilant Moscow is celebrating the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler when gunshots ring out though the city's crowded streets....

Shylo has always been the weakest and quietest of all of his family; his siblings spend their days making fun of him for not being like the rest of them....

Escrito en la historia conmemora las mayores y más importantes cartas del panorama político, cultural, artístico, o de la vida privada de aquellos personajes célebres que influyeron en el devenir de nuestra historia....

This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....

Voices of History celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the 21st century....