Historie

Stephen Kotkin

Michael Pollan

Viktor E. Frankl

Between 1942-1945 Frankl labored in four different Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his experience, Frankl argues that man cannot…

David Grann

Douglas Murray

David Christian

Iris Changová

This "New York Times" national bestseller recounts the forgotten story of the brutal massacre of 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese army. "Anyone interested in the relation between war, self…

Eugen Kogon

By the spring of 1945, the Second World War was drawing to a close in Europe. Allied troops were sweeping through Nazi Germany and discovering the atrocities of SS concentration camps. The first to be…

Antony Beevor

A brilliant reconstruction of the Third Reich's final collapse, and the millions of people caught up in The Red Army's brutal desire to avenge Nazi atrocities, now published in B format paperback for…

David Talbot

Now in paperback, this is a biography of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA, who manipulated presidents, protected German war criminals and colluded with the Mafiosi.

Carl E. Schorske

A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time; a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern…

Tony Judt

An acclaimed and magisterial narrative history of Europe in our time. 'It escapes from the stale paradigms of the Cold War, places the European Union in perspective, and has fresh and provocative things…

Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall…

Elie Wiesel

Wiesel's account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps, including a new preface is which he reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring…

Christopher Clark

A brilliantly reviewed history of this 'Great Power' which dominated Europe from the 18th to the 20th Centuries, which includes remarkable accounts of some of the most extraordinary personalities in…

Sojourner Truth

Robert Graysmith

Horrifying in a way no fiction can be, Zodiac is the gripping story of the serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco bay area from 1966 to 1978. The book contains reproductions of the killer's…

Rashid I. Khalidi

Howard Zinn

Lucius A. Seneca

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence…

Benjamin Ferencz

I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that sometimes they are…

Mary Wollstonecraft

Christopher Clark

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering…

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