This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg.

Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa in 1889. Christened as Anna Gorenko, she adopted her penname from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo and lived most of her life in Saint Petersburg, the city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married...

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury...

In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine, part of Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the ‘Wagner Group’ faded back into shadow, only to reemerge in the Middle East, where they'd go toe-to-toe with the U.S., and in Africa, where they'd earn praise for ‘tough measures’ against insurgencies yet spark outrage for looting,...

Moscow is not called the New Babylon for nothing. Many languages, human destinies and passions intersect in this amazing city. But sometimes the clash of traditional ways, cordiality, hospitality and the cruel laws of modern life leads to unexpected consequences... All the secrets and mysteries of the capital's life are revealed in their action-packed stories by recognized masters of the...

In 1899 and 1900 Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) visited Russia. The impressions from this trip led to the publication of the ‘Book of Hours’, a very unusual work written on behalf of an Orthodox monk. In addition to the ‘Book of Hours’, this edition includes translations of other works by Rilke, Francis of Assisi and Angelus Silesius, allowing a broader look at the work of the German poet. The...

A native of Prague who wrote in German, he deeply felt his involvement in European culture and firmly believed that ‘the inner world of man is valuable, it is full of secret meanings and senses that only he understands.’ This edition contains Rilke’s most significant poetry books in brilliant translations by Vladimir Mikushevich.

Seventeen-year-old Debora Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; 1930 is a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Debora finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is...

Deep in the Pacific Ocean sits Point Nemo: the spaceship graveyard. But it’s not only ships that sit at these dark depths. There’s a structure never made by human hands. And that structure seems to be…waking up. The crew of the experimental submarine Andromeda have been chosen to investigate this mystery. But they aren’t the only ones pursuing it. The master pirate Black Manta is on the...

The story of the Nativity of the Savior is not just an ancient wonderful tale. This story takes place in eternity, never ends, but always continues. A story with a thousand faces. The anthology Christmas Classics presents the Ukrainian faces of this thousand. It collects Christmas prose, primarily Christmas and Christmas Eve stories, written at different times by different people - men and...

Wind in den Weiden ist ein Klassiker der englischen Kinderliteratur. Seine Hauptpersonen, vier liebenswerte vierfüßige Gentlemen, haben schon Generationen von jungen und älteren Leserinnen und Lesern zum Schmunzeln, aber auch zum Nachdenken gebracht - denn das, was Ratte, Maulwurf, Kröterich und Dachs so alles widerfährt, trägt oft sehr menschliche Züge.

Für Eingeweihte ein unvergessener Genuss, und für Neuentdecker ein wahrer Schatz unverfälschter Hausmannskost: Schmorwurst mit Salzkartoffeln, Stukkartoffel, Pommersches Gänseklein und Hefeklößchen sind nur vier Beispiele aus diesem wunderbaren Buch. Hannelore Doll-Hegedo serviert in diesem Buch die besten Rezepte aus Pommern, erzählt kleine Geschichten rund ums Essen und gibt auch so manches...