Scores sewn into coat linings, instruments hidden in suitcases, sheet music stashed among dirty laundry, concertos written on discarded food wrappers - these are just some of the ingenious ways prisoners in civilian, political and military captivity...Loe edasi...
This is the story of a father, as seen through the prism of a daughters memories of him. The personal story is offset against a greater political context and the destructive impact of nationalism on individuals and their families. It is a tale of su...Loe edasi...
This is the story of a father, as seen through the prism of a daughters memories of him. The personal story is offset against a greater political context and the destructive impact of nationalism on individuals and their families. It is a tale of su...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691262529)
A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terrorDuring the spring of 1933, Stalins police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regimes ;cleansing of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691262529)
A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terrorDuring the spring of 1933, Stalins police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regimes ;cleansing of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to...Loe edasi...
An extraordinary, emotionally intense novel spanning World War II Europe to 1960s New York City with an unsettling psychological edge, We Are Only Ghosts depicts not only the horrors of the death camps but the toll on those who survivedpowered by a s...Loe edasi...
Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and...Loe edasi...
A gripping, unflinching biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, one of the most notorious and contradictory figures at the heart of the Nazi regime, and her transformation from harmless small-town girl to hardened killer. With new details and previousl...Loe edasi...
Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a small village in Greece during the Holocaust, to America, where the intertwined lives of three survivors are forever changed by the perils of deception and the gra...Loe edasi...
Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britains colonial government was to detain ne...Loe edasi...
See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children.Stefan and Marion Hesss happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called "e;this dying...Loe edasi...
December 7, 1941 changed the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who became enemy in the eyes of the United States government within hours. With Pearl Harbor still smoldering, these men would be arrested and put into the enemy alien internment s...Loe edasi...
December 7, 1941 changed the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans who became enemy in the eyes of the United States government within hours. With Pearl Harbor still smoldering, these men would be arrested and put into the enemy alien internment s...Loe edasi...
On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at Sachsenhausen violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery dArguto. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Ku...Loe edasi...
This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian enemy alien internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Empire...Loe edasi...
This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian enemy alien internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Empire...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jan-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674291102)
Finalist, 2024 PEN Translation PrizeIn The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jan-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031139482)
This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemyslowa street, or the Polen-Juge...Loe edasi...
