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The Trouble With Being Born

de E. M. Cioran

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 'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world. Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind. show less
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Eichmann In Jerusalem - A Report On The Banality Of Evil

de Hannah Arendt

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 The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpiece Hannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, this classic portrayal of the banality of evil is as shocking as it is informative - an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling issues of the twentieth century.

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'Exterminate All The Brutes'

de Sven Lindqvist

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 Taking his title from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Sven Lindqvist traces Europe's dark history in Africa in the form of a travel diary and a historical examination of European imperialism and racism over the past two centuries.
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Red Famine - Stalin'S War On Ukraine

de Anne Applebaum

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 Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events. The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine's cultural and political leadership - and then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country's true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.

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The Gates Of Europe - A History Of Ukraine

de Serhii Plokhy

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 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Professor and acclaimed author of Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy traces the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. Fascinating and multilayered, The Gates of Europe is the essential guide to understanding not just Ukraine's past but also its future.

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Conquerors - How Portugal Forged The First Global Empire

de Roger Crowley

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 Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, Crowley brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.

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Ordinary Men - Reserve Police Battalion 11 And The Final Solution In Poland

de Christopher R Browning

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 Takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis' extermination groups and explores in its composition, its actions, and the methods by which it was trained to perform acts of genocide on an industrial scale. This book introduces us to men who killed without hesitation or apparent remorse for years on end.

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Travellers In The Third Reich - The Rise Of Fascism Seen Through The Eyes Of Everyday People

de Julia Boyd

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 The acclaimed history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts
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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

de Edward Gibbon

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 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a selection and bridging commentary that enables the reader to acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the author's work.
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Europe In The High Middle Ages - The Penguin History Of Europe

de William Chester Jordan

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 Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking rubble of the Roman Empire, but from which we are cut off by the great plagues and famines that ended it.
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The Normans In Italy 1016â€“1194

de Andrea Salimbeti e Raffaele (Author) Dâ€™Amato; Ilustração: Florent Vincent

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 This beautifully illustrated title covers the history and armies of the powerful military kingdom founded by the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily, while William the Conqueror was invading England.
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Eight Days In May - How Germany'S War Ended

de Volker Ullrich

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 1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and yet remained agonizingly uncertain. Volker Ullrich's remarkable book takes the reader into a world torn between hope and terror, violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each day unfolds, with Germany now under a new Fuhrer, Admiral Doenitz, based improbably in the small Baltic town of Flensburg. With Hitler dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly lost, the process by which the fighting would end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours continued to circulate about a last stand in the Alps and the Western allies falling out with the Soviet Union. All over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief-stricken and often homeless families watched and waited for the war's end. Eight Days in May is the story of people, in Erich Kastner's striking phrase, stuck in 'the gap between no longer and not yet'.
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The War On The West - How To Prevail In The Age Of Unreason

de Douglas Murray

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 SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER â€˜The most important book of the yearâ€™ Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new book from one of the worldâ€™s foremost political writers

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The Tiger From Pozna?

de Richard Siegert

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 First-hand account written by the gunner of the only Tiger tank left in the Festung.
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The King'S German Legion (2) - 1812â€“16

de Mike Chappell; Ilustração: Mike Chappell

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 The completion of a two-part study of the King's German Legion â€" the largest and most respected of the foreign corps .
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B-24 Liberator Units Of The Fifteenth Air Force

de Robert F Dorr; Ilustração: Iain Wyllie, Mark Rolfe e Mark Styling

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 The sterling work of the Fifteenth Air Force is often overshadowed by the glamorous 'Mighty Eighth', yet the men flying the B-24 fought ceaselessly right through to VE Day.
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Bloodlands - The Book To Help You Understand Today's Eastern Europe

de Timothy Snyder

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 Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. For twelve savage years, on this bloodsoaked soil an average of one million individuals - mostly women, children and the aged - were murdered every year. Though in 1939 these lands became battlefields, not one of these fourteen million was killed in combat. They were victims of a murderous policy, not casualties of war. Int his deeply unsettling and revelatory book, Timothy Snyder gives voice to the testimony of the victims through the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. It is a brilliantly researched, profoundly humane and authoritative bok that demands we pay attention to those that history is in danger of forgetting.
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The Medieval Expansion Of Europe

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 Second revised edition with a new introduction and bibliographical essay surveying recent work and new research in this area. This is a book about Medieval Europe's encounter with the wider world between 1000 and 1500, covering the journeys of Marco Polo, the Crusaders, John of Monte Corvino and others.
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Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500

de Jacques (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris) Le Goff

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 aeo Hardback won unqualified acclaim from a wide range of review media. aeo A tour--de--force 1000 year history from Europea s premier historian. aeo A passionate introduction to the period, giving students the full flavour of the millennium. aeo Hardback won unqualified acclaim from a wide range of review media.
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Paris After The Liberation - 1944 - 1949

de Antony Beevor e Artemis Cooper

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 An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.
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In Europe - Travels Through The Twentieth Century

de Geert Mak

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 Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica.
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Armies In East Africa 1914â€“18

de Peter Abbott; Ilustração: Raffaele Ruggeri

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 The events and the forces are described here in concise detail, and illustrated with rare photographs and striking colour artworks.
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World War Ii Infantry Tactics - Squad And Platoon

de Dr Stephen Bull; Ilustração: Brian Delf e Mike Chappell

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 This work is the first in a two-part study that draws on actual training documents and veterans' descriptions to explain and illustrate the specific "bread-and-butter" of infantry tactics. The main focus is on describing and comparing US, British and German tactics in Europe.
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Slovakian And Bulgarian Aces Of World War 2

de Jiri Rajlich, Petko Mandjukov e Stephan Boshniakov; Ilustração: John (Aviation Author/Artist) Weal, John Weal e Mark (Cover Illustrator) Postlethwaite

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 The story of the Slovak and Bulgarian aces and how they fought alongside Germany in Messerschmitts.
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