When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of...

‘Welch ein Anblick für die Welt’, notierte Joseph Goebbels geschockt in seinem Tagebuch. ‘Ein geistig zerrütteter zweiter Mann nach dem Führer. Grauenhaft und unausdenkbar.’ Da war Rudolf Hess soeben zu seinem mysteriösen Flug nach England aufgebrochen, um im Alleingang Frieden zu stiften. Wer war dieser von Rätseln umgebene Mann, der wie ein Schatten Hitlers wirkte, in Nürnberg zu lebenslanger...

Ihre Gäste und ihr Gespür für die Wiener Gesellschaft haben sie berühmt gemacht: Anna Sacher, legendäre Chefin des Hotel Sacher zur Zeit der Jahrhundertwende. Das Hotel wird zur Bühne, auf der sich alle begegnen: Kaiserin Sisi, Kronprinz Rudolf, Schnitzler, Klimt, Mahler, die Rothschilds und Wittgensteins. Die Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Lebens und zugleich ein Stück europäische...

This is her first book of non-fiction - a collection of essays, memoirs and reflections on memory and forgetting, music and love, emigration and connection to Belarus through the ghostly identity of a man who once believed that music was stronger than death and lyrics were more important than life.

The author of this book considers himself a professor of emigration. But his life is full of typos, as he himself admitted. He left Minsk for Kyiv, from there to Warsaw, and ended up in Berlin. Why did it happen? How much does glass and aluminum containers cost in Germany? What does an eye prosthesis look like? How to avoid a madhouse when faced with German bureaucracy? What does...

Als Kind und junger Mann erlebte Sebastian Haffner den Ersten Weltkrieg, die galoppierende Inflation 1923, die Radikalisierung der politischen Parteien in der Weimarer Republik, den unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg der Nationalsozialisten. Ohne politisch oder rassisch verfolgt zu sein, emigrierte er 1938 nach England. Aus seinem Nachlass stammen diese Erinnerungen an seine ersten drei Lebensjahrzehnte,...

Anne Franks Tagebuch, weltbekannt und geliebt, liegt jetzt in einer völlig neuen Fassung vor: »Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank: Graphic Diary. Umgesetzt von Ari Folman und David Polonsky« ist eine einzigartige Kombination aus dem Originaltext und lebendigen, fiktiven Dialogen, eindrücklich und einfühlsam illustriert von Ari Folman und David Polonsky. Beide bekannt für ihr Meisterwerk »Waltz with...

This book is the third in a documentary series about the fates of Soviet writers. The first, ‘The Knot. Poets of Friendship and Breaks,’ is dedicated to the 1920s and 1930s. The second, ‘Noah’s Ark of Writers,’ is about the evacuation of Soviet writers and their families during the war to Tashkent, Alma-Ata, Chistopol, and Yelabuga. Together, these books create a kind of fresco of Soviet...

Das Tagebuch von Anne Frank ist Symbol und Dokument zugleich. Symbol für den Völkermord an den Juden durch die Nazi-Verbrecher und Dokument der Lebenswelt einer einzigartig begabten jungen Schriftstellerin.

Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olia’s grandmother’s deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her aunt Zhenia’s school protest, to her own parents’ flight from Ukraine when their village was occupied in 2022._x000D_

The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women-who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons-and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a...

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his fellow Ukrainians. What began as a local organizing effort exploded onto the international stage as readers around the globe looked to Zhadan as a key eyewitness documenting Russian atrocities.