Eingepfercht auf einem Schiff hoffen jüdische Flüchtlinge auf ein neues Leben in Israel. Thomas Mann ist als berühmter Schriftsteller in den USA zwar privilegiert, aber auch er muss sich in einem Leben im Exil einrichten. Marianne Cohn gelingt die Rettung nicht. Sie wird auf der Flucht in die Schweiz geschändet und erschossen. Das Exil in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus besteht aus unendlich...

‘Memorial is a community of public organizations working on human rights and the history of victims of Soviet repression. At the moment when the Nobel Committee awarded Memorial the Peace Prize, Boris Belenkin was in Moscow in the courthouse and was a defendant in a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor's office, which had seized the society's premises. This book is not the history of Memorial,...

The book is about one of the largest archaeological monuments of the Mountain Crimea, which is the cave city, Eski-Kermen. It was founded in the Middle Ages.

Detailed reports from the Nurnberg war crimes trials after World War Two.

In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner for nearly three years at a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk.

In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow,...

The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women-who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons-and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a...

Revolutions do not happen unexpectedly, empires do not perish out of the blue. The main lesson we can learn from the 1917 revolution is an understanding of why the emperor and his entourage, in a situation that required radical internal reforms, not only did not dare to carry out these reforms, but, on the contrary, tried with all their might to reverse the country's development,...