Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) gehörte zu den herausragenden Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Widerstands gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Der evangelische Theologe arbeitete aktiv mit an den Versuchen, das Hitler-Regime gewaltsam zu beseitigen. Im Frühjahr 1943 wurde er verhaftet; im April 1945 erhängte ihn ein SS-Standgericht kurz vor dem Eintreffen der US-Truppen.

Never before have Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky written documentary prose - only fiction. We never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fantasy that Oldie is used to. A different language, a different style - to match the circumstances.

Ihre Gäste und ihr Gespür für die Wiener Gesellschaft haben sie berühmt gemacht: Anna Sacher, legendäre Chefin des Hotel Sacher zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende. Das Hotel wird zur Bühne, auf der sich alle begegnen: Kaiserin Sisi, Kronprinz Rudolf, Schnitzler, Klimt, Mahler, die Rothschilds und Wittgensteins. Die Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Lebens und zugleich ein Stück europäische...

Passport to Paris is a witty, pleasantly chatty, richly detailed memoir of a life in emigration and of a dual career in the ‘serious’ and ‘popular’ music worlds. It provides one of the most vivid and refreshingly buoyant accounts of the perilous exodus from the collapsed Russian Empire undertaken by some two million people during the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also includes rare intimate...

The memoirs of Marshal Kirill A Meretskov describes the most important military actions of the 20th century in the history of the USSR: starting with the Russian Civil War, service fighting the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, the Winter War with Finland and service during World War II, including the Japanese front.

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...

Im glühend heißen Sommer 1933 spitzt sich die politische Lage in Europa zu - und die der Familie Mann: Thomas und Katia Mann und ihre sechs Kinder sind nach abenteuerlichen Fluchten im Juni in dem verträumten Hafenort Sanary am französischen Mittelmeer gestrandet. Und jetzt wissen sie alle weder vor noch zurück.

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is someone who knows how to work with chaos. She's known it since her hungry childhood during the war. Today, the girl who sang in the courtyards of Kuibyshev for bread is a celebrated writer, and people call her ‘great.’ But today, Petrushevskaya says, ‘There Is No Time.’ That's the title she gave to her book, which she's long wanted to compile from the texts of an...

Before emigrating, she participated in saving the Solzhenitsyn Archive after his arrest, miraculously escaping repression herself. In exile, she worked for the renowned Ardis publishing house and was a BBC journalist during its golden age. In perestroika-era Moscow, she witnessed and participated in the era of free speech... Masha Slonim's long-awaited memoir is a spy thriller, a dramatic...

Foreigners gathered under this cover. Some by passport, some by spirit, and some simply too flamboyant for this world. Meryl Streep and Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alla Pugacheva and Jean Cocteau, Vera Polozkova and Greta Garbo. And also Audrey Hepburn, Margarita Terekhova, Andrey Danilko, Renata Litvinova... They have one thing in common: they are ‘different,’ they ‘didn't fit in’—and so they...