A career diplomat in the Hungarian Diplomatic Service from the age of 25, Antal Ullein-Reviczky served in Vienna, Paris, Istanbul, and Zagreb from 1919-1938, when he became head of the Press Department at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until Au

Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place 'one of the most colorful in the U.S. 'and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking...

The author, a professor of history, was an adviser to the President of the USSR during the stormy years of perestroika.

Bismarcks »Gedanken und Erinnerungen« sind das bedeutendste Zeugnis politischer Memoirenliteratur in der deutschen Geschichte. Nicht als geschlossene Darstellung seiner politischen Laufbahn oder kontinuierliche Schilderung der historischen Ereignisse entfaltet dieses außergewöhnliche Werk seine Wirkung, sondern als große staatspolitische Reflexion und als brillant erzähltes Erinnerungsbuch, das...

The author of this book considers himself a professor of emigration. But his life is full of typos, as he himself admitted. He left Minsk for Kyiv, from there to Warsaw, and ended up in Berlin. Why did it happen? How much does glass and aluminum containers cost in Germany? What does an eye prosthesis look like? How to avoid a madhouse when faced with German bureaucracy? What does...

Als Kind und junger Mann erlebte Sebastian Haffner den Ersten Weltkrieg, die galoppierende Inflation 1923, die Radikalisierung der politischen Parteien in der Weimarer Republik, den unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg der Nationalsozialisten. Ohne politisch oder rassisch verfolgt zu sein, emigrierte er 1938 nach England. Aus seinem Nachlass stammen diese Erinnerungen an seine ersten drei Lebensjahrzehnte,...

Anne Franks Tagebuch, weltbekannt und geliebt, liegt jetzt in einer völlig neuen Fassung vor: »Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank: Graphic Diary. Umgesetzt von Ari Folman und David Polonsky« ist eine einzigartige Kombination aus dem Originaltext und lebendigen, fiktiven Dialogen, eindrücklich und einfühlsam illustriert von Ari Folman und David Polonsky. Beide bekannt für ihr Meisterwerk »Waltz with...

Das Tagebuch von Anne Frank ist Symbol und Dokument zugleich. Symbol für den Völkermord an den Juden durch die Nazi-Verbrecher und Dokument der Lebenswelt einer einzigartig begabten jungen Schriftstellerin.

Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olia’s grandmother’s deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her aunt Zhenia’s school protest, to her own parents’ flight from Ukraine when their village was occupied in 2022._x000D_

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...

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his fellow Ukrainians. What began as a local organizing effort exploded onto the international stage as readers around the globe looked to Zhadan as a key eyewitness documenting Russian atrocities.

Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running...