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      (Th)ings and (Th)oughts [Veshchi i ushchi]
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          (Th)ings and (Th)oughts [Veshchi i ushchi]
              Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunova’s (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is a spellbinding collection of thematically-linked short prose. A teacher contemplates leaving her husband after learning that he doesn’t have a soul; a functionary realizes that the only way to survive in contemporary Russia is to go insane; cars fall inexplicably from the sky;...
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              (Th)ings and (Th)oughts [Veshchi i ushchi]
                  Twisting the art of the fairytale into something entirely her own, Alla Gorbunova’s (Th)ings and (Th)oughts is a spellbinding collection of thematically-linked short prose. A teacher contemplates leaving her husband after learning that he doesn’t have a soul; a functionary realizes that the only way to survive in contemporary Russia is to go insane; cars fall inexplicably from the sky;...
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                      Moscow 1937
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                          Moscow 1937
                              In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of the Soveit regime in the late 1930s spiralled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which one and a half million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also...
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                              Moscow 1937
                                  In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of the Soveit regime in the late 1930s spiralled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which one and a half million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also...
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                                  Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel 1931-1943
                                      A respected historian and author of Hitler's Beneficiaries offers an intriguing portrait of a child victim of the Holocaust, eleven-year-old Marion Samuel, killed in 1943 in Auschwitz, reconstructing her brief life and that of her family as they became caught up in the harsh grip of persecution and genocide.
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                                      Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel 1931-1943
                                          A respected historian and author of Hitler's Beneficiaries offers an intriguing portrait of a child victim of the Holocaust, eleven-year-old Marion Samuel, killed in 1943 in Auschwitz, reconstructing her brief life and that of her family as they became caught up in the harsh grip of persecution and genocide.
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                                              The Remembered Soldier [De herinnerde soldaat]
                                                  The Remembered Soldier [De herinnerde soldaat]
                                                      An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination: Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One day a woman, Julienne, appears and recognizes...
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                                                      The Remembered Soldier [De herinnerde soldaat]
                                                          An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination: Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One day a woman, Julienne, appears and recognizes...
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                                                          The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism
                                                              Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, after nearly ten years of research, he offers a timely and compelling new approach on Russian history—one that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the fall of the Soviet Union—and argues that its ending is yet to come. Starting with the historic launch of the first human into space in April...
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                                                              The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-lived Victory over Totalitarianism
                                                                  Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, after nearly ten years of research, he offers a timely and compelling new approach on Russian history—one that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the fall of the Soviet Union—and argues that its ending is yet to come. Starting with the historic launch of the first human into space in April...
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                                                                      Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
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                                                                          Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
                                                                              In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on...
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                                                                              Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
                                                                                  In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on...
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                                                                                  Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer [Eichmann vor Jerusalem]
                                                                                      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...
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                                                                                      Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer [Eichmann vor Jerusalem]
                                                                                          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...
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                                                                                          How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein Idi Amin Enver Hoxha Fidel Castro and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
                                                                                              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,...
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                                                                                              How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein Idi Amin Enver Hoxha Fidel Castro and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
                                                                                                  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,...
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                                                                                                      Flying Classroom [Das fliegende Klassenzimmer]
                                                                                                          Flying Classroom [Das fliegende Klassenzimmer]
                                                                                                              Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called 'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and his friends - nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry (particularly...
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                                                                                                              Flying Classroom [Das fliegende Klassenzimmer]
                                                                                                                  Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called 'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and his friends - nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry (particularly...
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                                                                                                                  Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist [Fabian: Die Geschichte eines Moralisten]
                                                                                                                      Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, ‘aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair,’ a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the...
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                                                                                                                      Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist [Fabian: Die Geschichte eines Moralisten]
                                                                                                                          Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, ‘aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair,’ a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the...
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                                                                                                                              Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
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                                                                                                                                  Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
                                                                                                                                      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...
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                                                                                                                                      Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
                                                                                                                                          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...
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