The author of this book, V.V. Galin, is well-known to readers for his books ‘Forbidden Political Economy,’ ‘The Political Economy of War,’ etc. This book shows how the triumph of liberal ideas in the world inevitably leads to war. This was the case at the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1930s, and the same is happening now. Why is the triumph of ‘democracy’ a dead end in the...

In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendant’s box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no ‘manager of the Holocaust,’ as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendt—covering the trials for The New Yorker—believed him. Eichmann Before Jerusalem challenges this history for the first time, completely reassessing Eichmann’s story and...

Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szablowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens—Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Uganda’s Idi Amin, Albania’s Enver Hoxha, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat pilaf,...

Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks.

In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was Democracy in America, a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville looked to the flourishing deomcratic system in America as...

Revolt in the Desert is Lawrence of Arabia's classic military memoir, an account of the experiences of one remarkable British officer's war from his own perspective, a war of lightning raids, of blown up railway tracks and trains, ambushes and open battles of Arabs against the Ottoman Turks. Here are the Imperial Camel Corps, armoured car squadrons, daring RAF pilots and their aircraft, Ghurkha...

Why did European, and later Euro-Atlantic, civilizations achieve the most spectacular successes in the history of mankind? Why was it Europe, first independently and later together with the United States of America, that created the world in which we live today? What predetermined the global hegemony of the European worldview – industry, military power, or something else? And what influence...

In this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a...

Hans-Georg Maaßen diniert mit Donald Trump, JD Vance verteidigt in München die AfD, ein rechter Polit-Neuling aus Polen wird im Oval Office empfangen. Rechte Parteien und Interessenvertreter vernetzen sich international schneller als je zuvor, offen und hinter den Kulissen wird intensiv am Export des Trumpismus nach Europa gearbeitet – mit potenziell dramatischen Folgen für die Zukunft des...

Friedrich Merz steht vor gewaltigen Aufgaben. Während Trump und Putin die alte Weltordnung zerstören, droht die AfD die politische Mitte in Deutschland zu sprengen. Der neue Bundeskanzler will ganz anders regieren als die abgewählte Ampel-Koalition. Dabei sind die Herausforderungen, an denen die Ampel krachend gescheitert ist, dieselben geblieben: Wirtschaftskrise, Klimawandel, Migration und...

Drei Freundinnen, ein Küchentisch, vor den Fenstern die Nacht: Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler und Wenke Seemann reden. Über sich als „Ostfrauen“, was auch immer diese Schublade bedeutet, über das Glück krummer Lebensläufe, über die Gegenwart mit ihrer sich ständig reindrängelnden Vergangenheit. Es wird getrunken, gelacht und gerungen, es geht um Erinnerungsfetzen und Widersprüche, um die...