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Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A gripping account of the Allied liberation of Western Europe, masterfully told by Emmy-award winning writer and historian Martin King. Through the autumn of 1944, Allied troops made their way across Nazi-occupied Europe, liberating towns and villages as they went. Driving Back the Nazis explores this process of liberation, from the arrival of Allied forces in Paris through the emancipation of Belgium to the closing down of Nazi prison camps. But...
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Series
The Handmaid's Tale volume 2
Language
English
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Margaret Atwood?s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid?s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid?s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially...
Author
Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Whatever happened to the Nazis after World War II? While the Nuremberg trials saw key party members prosecuted, it was impossible to imprison every German who had supported the Third Reich. This is the story of what happened to the Nazis who escaped justice. These cases include: ? The Nazis who ran away to South America and the Nazi hunters who tracked them down ? 'Useful' Nazis such as Wernher von Braun who became the rocket scientists for other...
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Brought to you by Penguin. Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars...
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Publisher
HarperNorth
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It was only by accident that Peter as a child discovered that his father, Fred Bradley, was in fact born Fritz Brandes. And it was only after his father?s death in 2004 that Peter was able to begin to piece together the family?s story and set out on the journey - literally and figuratively - that forms the basis of his book. Peter?s family were German Jews. In 1938, his father was imprisoned in Buchenwald in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. He was...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'....
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Publisher
Elliott & Thompson
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'I can't imagine reading a better book this year? Daily Mirror Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation?s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn?t changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey,...
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