‘Man has a need for something immense – for infinity and wonder – and he is right not to be content with less and not to feel at home in the world until this need is satisfied,’ – perhaps this phrase from one of Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother Theo, more than any other, reveals the essence of the great artist's soul, forever wandering along the path of searching for perfection....

Ein Zwischenruf im Zeitalter der politischen Manipulation - auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit mit einem phänomenalen Erzähler Washington PostDer große Erzähler Werner Herzog fragt nach der seltsamsten aller Erzählungen: der von der Wahrheit. Was ist wahr? In einer Welt, die durch Fake News, politische Manipulation und künstliche Intelligenz verunsichert ist, die auf kalte Fakten setzt und doch...

Kokkinaki was perhaps the leading Soviet test pilot setting many world and Soviet records. He worked for several design bureaus, including theIlyushin Design Bureau , where he served as its chief test pilot. He also established the shortest flight route between Europe and the United States. He died in 1985.

Als sich die 21-jährige Margot am 20. Januar 1943 mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem Bruder Ralph treffen will, um die Flucht vor der Gestapo aus Berlin vorzubereiten, erfährt sie, dass ihr Bruder kurz zuvor abgeholt wurde. Und auch die Mutter erscheint nicht; sie hinterlässt ihrer Tochter folgende Botschaft: «Ich habe mich entschlossen, mit Ralph zu gehen, wohin immer das auch sein mag. Versuche, dein...

The gritty memoir of a former US Marine and Presidential Guard, who, after being unjustly held and abused in a Russian gulag for three years and freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange, seeks revenge against his former Russian captors by volunteering to fight in Ukraine.

From Amazon: John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include The Maggot, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower, is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth...

Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov wrote their report ‘Luzhkov: The Results’ at the end of 2009. Luzhkov and his wife, billionaire developer Elena Baturina, sued Nemtsov over it, but they failed to refute most of the facts presented by the ‘perpetually dissenting’ opposition figure. And when Yuri Luzhkov began to obviously irritate President Medvedev – especially after the mayor refused to...

József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go left, his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the ‘lucky’ ones, he was sent to the right, which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the ‘Cold Crematorium’-the so-called...

This true story is a multifaceted picture of modern Russia and Europe, a financial thriller, and a tragicomedy of how life throws together human fates and ambitions to keep this world revolving. Dmitry Pototskiy, a Moscow ranking official, abandons his career in government and returns to the business world. Now his challenge is to find access to unadvertised, high-yield Trade Programs that...

Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt, and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same...

The Ninth Circle is a story about punitive psychiatry that arose in the USSR at the initiative of F. Dzerzhinsky in the early 1920s. Decades passed, and thousands of completely innocent people sat in Soviet special hospitals and nothing changed. The journalist and human rights activist Viktor Davydov knows firsthand about the existence of special psychiatric hospitals: he himself was their...