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...

Als Lemmy Kilmister am 28. Dezember 2015 starb und sein Teamkollege Mikkey Dee einen Tag später das Ende der Band erklärte, brach für die Fans eine Welt zusammen. Vierzig Jahre sorgte Lemmy, der berühmteste und wichtigste Repräsentant des Heavy Metal, dessen Karriere damit begann, dass er bei Jimi Hendrix die Marshalls aus dem Transporter schleppte, mit seinem martialischen Rock ’n’ Roll in der...

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...

Чувства к чешской журналистке Милене Есенской стали самым ярким переживанием в жизни ‘пражского гения’. Их роман продлился недолго, но переписка продолжалась несколько лет. Именно Милене писатель передал свои дневники и ставшее позднее известным ‘Письмо отцу’, а их непростые, эмоциональные отношения нашли отражение в главном произведении Кафки – романе ‘Замок’. Эти письма без ответа отчасти...

Leonid Andreyev’s work continues to spark debate among critics. For some, his writings represent ‘exemplary depravity’; others discern in them ‘a powerful breath of talent.’ But what was the writer truly like—a cold cynic or a sensitive, vulnerable soul? Why, despite being a patriot, did he reject the Revolution? Why did he attempt suicide? The answers lie in this new biography.

The book recounts the turbulent life story of Pyotr Patrushev—a man who fled the USSR in 1962 and was sentenced to death by firing squad for 'treason against the Motherland.' He now lives in Australia by the ocean, writing books and articles and working as a translator.

Family and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the leaders of her country, the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania. Then, almost overnight, the Berlin Wall fell and the pillars of her society toppled. The local statue of Stalin, whom she had...

A remarkable two-book volume: Diary of A Hunger Striker, the first-hand account of celebrated Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, jailed unfairly as a political prisoner, during his 145-day-long hunger strike in a Russian prison; and Four and a Half Steps, his newest collection of short stories. Sentsov’s prison diary begins three days into his indefinite hunger strike, as he calls for the...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, novelist and journalist Andrey Kurkov was forced to flee his hometown of Kyiv. This journal is a harrowing record of the months leading up to and after the invasion, as Kurkov and his family migrate to western Ukraine for shelter. Surrounded by others fleeing violence, he pens incisive dispatches on the latest border conflicts and bombardments, and...

The gritty memoir of a former US Marine and Presidential Guard, who, after being unjustly held and abused in a Russian gulag for three years and freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange, seeks revenge against his former Russian captors by volunteering to fight in Ukraine.

‘Человек испытывает потребность в немалом – в бесконечности и чуде – и правильно поступает, когда не довольствуется меньшим и не чувствует себя в мире как дома, пока эта потребность не удовлетворена’, – возможно, эта фраза из одного из писем Винсента Ван Гога к брату Тео, как никакая иная, раскрывает суть души великого художника, вечно бредущего по крестному пути поисков совершенства....

Что будет с правдой в эпоху фейков, информационных войн и искусственного интеллекта? В поисках ответов на этот насущный вопрос Вернер Херцог пускается в прихотливое путешествие по тропинкам мировой истории: от императора Нерона до Илона Маска, от фараона Рамсеса II до рассказов о похищении инопланетянами, от опер Джузеппе Верди до ChatGPT. Действительно ли мы вступили в эпоху постправды,...