In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians...
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Биографии и мемуары, История
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, From Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister
The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics.
Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher’s...
An historical biography of the last Tsar of Russia — not Nicholas II, but his brother Michael — Emperor Michael II — who succeeded to the throne when Nicholas abdicated in March 1917. Michael, married to...
The Life of Cesare...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
“A harrowing story. A worthy supplement to the reports of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.”
- Kirkus Reviews
“This is a fascinating story of survival against the worst of odds.”
- JT News
A searing, brutal...
Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman...
Культурология, Обществознание, социология
Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry
The unprecedented mainstreaming of the global pornography industry is transforming the sexual politics of intimate and public life, popularizing new forms of hardcore misogyny, and strongly contributing to the sexualization of children. Yet,...
Russia at war...
An autobiography of Alexander Todd - chemist, Nobel laureate, Royal Society President. Extremely interesting and full of historical...
After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influence and reach around the world. Lenin was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party during the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and he...