The book, based on memories of a native son and the research of a scholar, is an amalgam of descriptions and discussions, peppered with conversations, personal observations and an acute observer's reflections, focused on the fabric of life in the city of Lodz and its vicinity.
A gradual shift can be discerned in how the concept of racism is seen, interpreted, and opposed in response to emergent realities and evolving discourses.
Born of a preoccupation with saints and sinners, The Evil That Men Do is Brian Masters' investigation into the nature of good and evil, and the different ways in which they can be manifested.
Ereignis, Bild, Kontext: über die komplexe Entschlüsselung von Fotografien aus der Zeit des NationalsozialismusFotografien gelten heute als eine zentrale Quelle zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung.
A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.
A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing.
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal .
This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (OB), accompanied by never previously published photographic postcards from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (OB) soldiers.
'This is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today' - Eamonn McCannThe 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and gerrymandering.
Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
'Written with Burleigh's characteristic brio, with pithy summaries of historical moments (he is brilliant on the Americans in Vietnam, for example) and full of surprising vignettes' - The Times 'Book of the Week'In Day of the Assassins, acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh examines assassination as a special category of political violence and asks whether, like a contagious disease, it can be catching.
La identificación de las actitudes de la ciudadanía durante la Dictadura franquista es una de las cuestiones más debatidas y polémicas en el ámbito de nuestra historiografía.
La identificación de las actitudes de la ciudadanía durante la Dictadura franquista es una de las cuestiones más debatidas y polémicas en el ámbito de nuestra historiografía.
In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary.
In a series of powerful accounts drawn from diaries, letters, sound archives and interviews recorded during the period of devastation, discovery and transformation that make the blitz such an outstanding event in Britain's recent past, "e;The Blitz"e; brings to life the intense experiences, as they happened all over Britain.
Irish Sunday Times BestsellerA true story of war, peace and friendship: a Nazi colonel and an Irish priestThe story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII, when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler, SS Obersturmbanfuhrer, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of 'cat and mouse' of epic proportions.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the Guardian First Book award'I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide' - Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm'Should be compulsory reading' - The GuardianIn 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority.
Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horrors of this devastating war.
"e;Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear"e; Salman RushdieRaif Badawi, a Saudi Arabian blogger, shared his thoughts on politics, religion, and liberalism online.
