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_

Am 8. November 1939 explodierte im Münchner Bürgerbräukeller eine Bombe. Eigentlich hätte sie Adolf Hitler töten sollen. Wenn dieser Plan aufgegangen wäre, hätte die Weltgeschichte einen anderen Verlauf genommen. Doch der »Führer« verließ vorzeitig den Saal und kam mit dem Leben davon. Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte des Mannes, der die Tat ganz allein plante und ausführte: Johann Georg Elser.

Am 22. Februar 1943 wurde die einundzwanzigjährige Sophie Scholl gemeinsam mit ihrem Bruder Hans und dem Mitstreiter Christoph Probst im Münchner Gefängnis Stadelheim hingerichtet. Sie war Mitglied der „Weißen Rose“, einer Studentengruppe, die mit Flugblättern zum Widerstand gegen Hitler aufgerufen hatte.

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...

Ohne Hans Scholl hätte es die Weiße Rose nicht gegeben. Aber wie kam der 23-Jährige dazu, sein Leben im Kampf gegen Hitler zu riskieren? Robert Zoske zeichnet auf der Grundlage von bisher unbekannten Dokumenten ein neues, faszinierendes Bild des jungen Widerstandskämpfers.

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...

In Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns, Artem Chapeye reveals his war, intimate and senseless, withholding nothing about his motivations, his nightmares, his new relationship with the world. Here one man, a pacifist turned fighter, a story writer turned soldier, a father and husband, considers the reasons for and reactions to war on a very personal level.

World renowned psychologist and internationally bestselling author Edith Eger’s powerful New York Times bestselling book The Choice told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and her journey to freedom. Readers around the world wrote to tell her how The Choice moved them and inspired them to confront their own past and try to heal their pain. They asked her...

Immanuel Kant, der bedeutendste Philosoph der Neuzeit, wurde vor 300 Jahren geboren. Aber sein revolutionäres Denken ist bis heute aktuell. Kant erklärte die Entstehung unseres Planetensystems, begründete eine neue Form von Metaphysik und formulierte den kategorischen Imperativ. Kant war Wegbereiter des Kosmopolitismus und der Idee der Menschenwürde. Sein Denken hat nicht nur die Philosophie...

At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past....

Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism...