In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an...

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II. The thrilling story of their courage and defiance, brought to life in the Oscar-nominated film Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, is beautifully told in this special 80th anniversary edition of Annette Dumbach & Jud Newborn's...

His feelings for the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská became the most vivid experience in the life of the ‘Prague genius.’ Their romance didn't last long, but their correspondence continued for several years. It was to Milena that the writer entrusted his diaries and the later famous ‘Letter to his Father,’ and their complex, emotional relationship was reflected in Kafka's main work – the novel...

‘How does a comedian become the face of a nation's fight for survival? In VZ, celebrated Russian author Dmitry Bykov unpacks the extraordinary rise of Vladimir Zelenskyi--from a TV star to a wartime leader defying a global superpower. With wit and razor-sharp insight, Bykov dives into the moments that shaped Zelenskyi's improbable journey, revealing the man behind the headlines. This is not...

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 created...

Introduction written by Steven Cohen. Vladimir Bukharin, brother of the famous Nikolai, was one of of the first Red Directors of Soviet industry and was active in the textile industry. Shortly after his brother's trial, Vladimir was arrested in 1938 and served in labor camps and exile for 18 years. In 1961 he was finally rehabilitated and lived the rest of his days in Moscow.

Published for the first time, often from family archives, the book presents the memoirs of Generals F K Gershel'man and D I Gurko.

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 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.

Fate sometimes lifted him high, sometimes mercilessly threw him down. It seems that everyone knows everything about him - four times Hero of the Soviet Union, hero of Mongolia, outstanding commander, twice awarded the Order of Victory, Marshal G.K. Zhukov. But this is far from true. Zhukov can and should be approached in a new way, and many facts and events of his life should be objectively...