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Foreign Bodies - Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations (Hardcover): Simon Schama Foreign Bodies - Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations (Hardcover)
Simon Schama
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Among the Russians (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed): Colin Thubron Among the Russians (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed)
Colin Thubron
R403 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue.  With a keen grasp of Russia's history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the perfect guide to a country most of us will never get to know firsthand.  Here, we can walk down western Russia's country roads, rest in its villages, and explore some of the most engaging cities in the world.  Beautifully written and infinitely insightful, Among the Russians is vivid, compelling travel writing that will also appeal to readers of history and current events--and to anyone captivated by the shape and texture of one of the world's most enigmatic culture.

Putin's Kleptocracy - Who Owns Russia? (Paperback): Karen Dawisha Putin's Kleptocracy - Who Owns Russia? (Paperback)
Karen Dawisha
R544 R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Save R87 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Works of Sven Aggesen - Twelfth-century Danish Historian (Paperback): Sven Aggesen The Works of Sven Aggesen - Twelfth-century Danish Historian (Paperback)
Sven Aggesen; Translated by Eric Christiansen
R367 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Escape Artist - The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (Hardcover): Jonathan Freedland The Escape Artist - The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (Hardcover)
Jonathan Freedland
R620 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R112 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A MAIL ON SUNDAY, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN, THE SPECTATOR, TIME, DAILY EXPRESS AND DAILY MIRROR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Thrilling' Daily Mail 'Gripping' Guardian 'Heartwrenching' Yuval Noah Harari 'Magnificent' Philip Pullman 'Excellent' Sunday Times 'Inspiring' Daily Mail 'An immediate classic' Antony Beevor 'Awe inspiring' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Shattering' Simon Schama 'Utterly compelling' Philippe Sands 'A must-read' Emily Maitlis 'Indispensable' Howard Jacobson Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Oskar Schindler . . . Rudolf Vrba. In April 1944 nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba and fellow inmate Fred Wetzler became the first Jews ever to break out of Auschwitz. Under electrified fences and past armed watchtowers, evading thousands of SS men and slavering dogs, they trekked across marshlands, mountains and rivers to freedom. Vrba's mission: to reveal to the world the truth of the Holocaust. In the death factory of Auschwitz, Vrba had become an eyewitness to almost every chilling stage of the Nazis' process of industrialised murder. The more he saw, the more determined he became to warn the Jews of Europe what fate awaited them. A brilliant student of science and mathematics, he committed each detail to memory, risking everything to collect the first data of the Final Solution. After his escape, that information would form a priceless thirty-two-page report that would reach Roosevelt, Churchill and the pope and eventually save over 200,000 lives. But the escape from Auschwitz was not his last. After the war, he kept running - from his past, from his home country, from his adopted country, even from his own name. Few knew of the truly extraordinary deed he had done. Now, at last, Rudolf Vrba's heroism can be known - and he can take his place alongside those whose stories define history's darkest chapter.

My Name Is Selma - The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbruck Survivor (Paperback): Selma van de Perre My Name Is Selma - The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbruck Survivor (Paperback)
Selma van de Perre
R460 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R81 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tor! - The Story of German Football (Paperback): Uli Hesse Tor! - The Story of German Football (Paperback)
Uli Hesse
R481 R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Germany did not have professional players or a national league until the 1960s, yet it became one of the most successful football nations in the world. Tor! (Goal!) traces the extraordinary story of Germany's club and international football, from the days when it was regarded as a dangerously foreign pastime, through the horrors of the Nazi years to postwar triumphs and the crisis of the new century. Tor! challenges the myth that German football is 'predictable' or 'efficient' and brings to life the fascinating array of characters who shaped it: the betrayed pioneer Walther Bensemann; the enigmatic genius Sepp Herberger; the all-conquering Franz Beckenbauer; the modern misfit Lothar Matthaus. And even the radio commentator Herbert Zimmermann, whose ecstatic cries of 'Tor!' greeted the winning goal in the 1954 World Cup final and helped change a whole nation's view of itself. Fully revised and updated ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Tor! is the definitive history of German football.

Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production, 1796-1918 - Experiment, Expertise, Experience (Hardcover): Rob Boddice Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production, 1796-1918 - Experiment, Expertise, Experience (Hardcover)
Rob Boddice
R11,775 Discovery Miles 117 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection pieces together a wealth of material in order to get inside the experience of scientific practice in the long nineteenth century. It aims to reach, or perhaps to facilitate, an understanding of the ways in which the value of scientific knowledge was produced, lived and challenged. The new turn to the history of experience suggests a logic to the compilation of material that is completely original: the sources are not selected according to the historical success of an idea or experiment, but for the ways in which scientific endeavour loaded knowledge claims with political or moral value, coupled with attendant practical justifications. Thus, 'bad ideas' sit alongside 'good'; now discountenanced practices take their place among the revered. In sum, they reveal an experimental culture that was not merely orientated toward cold knowledge or intellectual output, but defined by shifting sets of affective practices and procedures and the making of expertise out of the lived experience of doing science.

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad - The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II (Hardcover): Iain MacGregor The Lighthouse of Stalingrad - The Hidden Truth at the Heart of the Greatest Battle of World War II (Hardcover)
Iain MacGregor
R823 R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Save R133 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Demon-Haunted Land - Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany (Paperback): Monica Black A Demon-Haunted Land - Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany (Paperback)
Monica Black
R537 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R88 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Well I Never Knew That!  Did Romans Design the Space Shuttle? - The Roman Empire - Fascinating Facts and Everyday Phrases... Well I Never Knew That! Did Romans Design the Space Shuttle? - The Roman Empire - Fascinating Facts and Everyday Phrases Explained (Hardcover)
Peter Ryding 2
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An amusing, fascinating and intriguing description of the origins of everyday phrases, the titles in the 'Well I Never Knew That ' series reveals how many of our common expressions and sayings came to be.

The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback): Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
Anne Frank
R214 Discovery Miles 2 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart." Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank is the story of a 13=year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.

The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die (Paperback): Peter Lantos The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die (Paperback)
Peter Lantos
R183 Discovery Miles 1 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important read. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town, travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another: sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows - and as Peter realises that this adventure is really a nightmare - watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning maths from his mother in Belsen. All this is drawn against a background of terror, starvation, infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his mother can return home. Professor Peter Lantos is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life was an internationally renowned clinical neuroscientist. His memoir, Parallel Lines (Arcadia Books, 2006) was translated into Hungarian, German and Italian. Closed Horizon (Arcadia, 2012) was his first novel. Peter was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for 'services to Holocaust education and awareness'. He is one of the last of the generation of survivors and this - his first book for children - will serve as a testimony to his experience. Peter lives in London.

Vienna - The International Capital (Hardcover): Angus Robertson Vienna - The International Capital (Hardcover)
Angus Robertson
R778 R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Save R75 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building summits during the Cold War, it is the Austrian capital that has been the scene of key moments in European and world affairs. History has been shaped by scores of figures influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria Theresa, Count Metternich, Bertha von Suttner, Theodore Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, John F. Kennedy and many others. In a city of great composers and thinkers it is here that both the most positive and destructive ideas of recent history have developed. From its time as the capital of an imperial superpower, through war, dissolution, dictatorship to democracy Vienna has reinvented itself and its relevance to the rest of the world.

Enlightenment at court - Patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe (Paperback): Thomas Biskup, Benjamin... Enlightenment at court - Patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe (Paperback)
Thomas Biskup, Benjamin Marschke, Andreas Pecar, Damien Tricoire
R2,556 Discovery Miles 25 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the royal and princely courts of Europe as important places of Enlightenment. The households of European rulers remained central to politics and culture throughout the eighteenth century, and few writers, artists, musicians, or scholars could succeed without establishing connections to ruling houses, noble families, or powerful courtiers. Covering case studies from Spain and France to Russia, and from Scandinavia and Britain to the Holy Roman Empire, the contributions of this volume examine how Enlightenment figures were integrated into the princely courts of the Ancien Regime, and what kinds of relationships they had with courtiers. Dangers and opportunities presented by proximity to court are discussed as well as the question of what rulers and courtiers gained from their interactions with Enlightenment men and women of letters. The book focusses on four areas: firstly, the impact of courtly patronage on Enlightenment discourses and the work as well as careers of Enlightenment writers; secondly, the court as an audience to be catered for by Enlightenment writers; thirdly, the function of Enlightenment narratives and discourses for the image-making of rulers and courtiers; and fourthly, the role the interaction of courtiers and Enlightenment writers played for the formulation of reform policies.

Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Paperback): Iain MacGregor Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Paperback)
Iain MacGregor
R499 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
They Turned Out So Ill (Paperback): Alistair Nichols They Turned Out So Ill (Paperback)
Alistair Nichols
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Independent Companies of Foreigners are widely regarded as the worst examples of foreign units in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. They were formed, in the last years of these wars, to receive French deserters who had come over to the British in Spain. Each company was intended to serve separately in the garrisons of the West Indies. Instead two of them were used in an active role on the East Coast of America a " this did not turn out well. Drawing of British, French and American sources, this book provides a fuller picture of the men, why the units were formed, why they were used as they were and what actually happened. Judgement can then be made whether the bad reputation of the units, and the soldiers in them, is justified.

Germania - A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern (Paperback): Simon Winder Germania - A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern (Paperback)
Simon Winder
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Sunday Times Bestseller

'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' Independent

There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.

Germania is also a personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. In this startlingly vibrant account, Winder describes Germany’s past afresh, starting with the shaggy world of the ancient forests, all the way up to the present day – and in doing so, he sees and begins to understand a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to betterment. Joining Danubia and Lotharingia in Winder’s endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Germania is a brilliant, vivid and enthusiastic insight to the hidden wonders of Germany

Europe: 1555-1848 (Paperback, illustrated edition): M.C. van Zyl Europe: 1555-1848 (Paperback, illustrated edition)
M.C. van Zyl
R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
The Return - Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (Paperback): Daniel Treisman The Return - Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (Paperback)
Daniel Treisman
R854 R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Save R147 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this critically acclaimed book, now available in paperback, noted scholar Daniel Treisman offers a refreshing and exhaustively reported look at the political, economic, and cultural changes in Russia, with an in-depth examination of the modern state and its role in global affairs.
Almost twenty-five years after Mikhail Gorbachev began radically reshaping his country, Russia has changed beyond recognition. In his third book on this subject, Professor Daniel Treisman takes stock of the country that has emerged from the debris of Soviet communism and addresses the questions that preoccupy scholars of its history and politics: Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Could its collapse have been avoided? Did Yeltsin destroy too much or too little of the Soviet political order? What explains Putin's unprecedented popularity with the Russian public?
Based on two decades of research and his own experiences in the country, Treisman cuts through the scholarly and journalistic debates to provide a portrait of a country returning to the international community on its own terms. At a time when global politics are more important than ever, "The Return " illuminates the inner workings of a country that has increasingly come to influence, and which will continue to shape, American foreign policy and world events.

Whizzbangs and Woodbines - Tales of Work and Play on the Western Front (Paperback): J. C. V. Durell Whizzbangs and Woodbines - Tales of Work and Play on the Western Front (Paperback)
J. C. V. Durell
R390 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1918 Whizzbangs and Woodbines presents a candid portrait of life behind the lines on the Western Front by Reverend Durell, then Rector of Rotherhithe, and Chief Commissioner of the Church Army in France.The Church Army, along with its counterparts the YMCA, TOC-H and Salvation Army played an important part in the support and morale of soldiers in war. In addition to providing spiritual support,the Church Army welcomed more than 200,000 men each day to their recreation huts and provided visits and gifts to the wounded, tents and hostels near the front lines, drove ambulances, mobile canteens and kitchen cars.In addition to voluntary Church services, for those who wished to attend, a simple salvation from trench life was offered; music, singing, concerts, card games,billiards and refreshments, all small measures of joy in the midst of dangers and hardships and as vital to the continued war effort as bullets and shells. For a packet of woodbines and a cup of tea was restorative ammunition enough for the average British Tommy.

German Submarine Warfare - A Study of its Methods and Spirit, Including the Crime of the Lusitania (Paperback): Wesley Frost German Submarine Warfare - A Study of its Methods and Spirit, Including the Crime of the Lusitania (Paperback)
Wesley Frost
R418 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1918, this book is a record of observations and evidence compiled by the then US Consul in Queenstown, Eire. A rare study from first-hand accounts. Contains detailed testimonies of survivors from over fifty vessels attacked and often sunk by German submarines during the Great War.A vivid and accurate picture of the tactics and motives of German submarine warfare is provided in the first part of the book. The second part concentrate son the attack and sinking of RMS Lusitania. The sinking of the Lusitania remains a controversial topic with the loss of 1,198 lives on 7May 1915

Agony of Belgium - The Invasion of Belgium; August - December 1914 (Paperback, New edition): Major Frank Fox Agony of Belgium - The Invasion of Belgium; August - December 1914 (Paperback, New edition)
Major Frank Fox
R364 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Save R20 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent, recounts events that the modern European mind would probably wish to forget. The bravery and resilience of the relatively new and untested Belgian Army, following the rejection of the German Ultimatum by the King, deserves a wider audience. Throughout this account the courageous and noble qualities of King Albert in the dark days come to the fore. Whether at the Front as an active Commander-in-Chief; with his people during Zeppelin raids and artillery bombardments at Antwerp; declining refuge in France after the retreat from Ostend; or rallying his troops for rearguard actions his conduct was of the finest. His account of the "frightfulness" of the events in Louvain against the civilian population- including women and children- and the sacking of cultural treasures was not at first believed by Officials in Antwerp. However his reporting of Zeppelin raid shelped to arouse public opinion in the United States.Fox provides vivid descriptions of a terrible, and little known, conflict.

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? - The German Democratic Republic and What Became of it (Paperback): Bruni De La Motte, John... Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? - The German Democratic Republic and What Became of it (Paperback)
Bruni De La Motte, John Green
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Munich, 1938 - Appeasement and World War II (Paperback): David Faber Munich, 1938 - Appeasement and World War II (Paperback)
David Faber
R510 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R76 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting in Munich with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. As he disembarked from the aircraft, he held aloft a piece of paper, which contained the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with one another again. He had returned bringing "Peace with honour--Peace for our time."

Drawing on a wealth of archival material, acclaimed historian David Faber delivers a sweeping reassessment of the extraordinary events of 1938, tracing the key incidents leading up to the Munich Conference and its immediate aftermath: Lord Halifax's ill-fated meeting with Hitler; Chamberlain's secret discussions with Mussolini; and the Berlin scandal that rocked Hitler's regime. He takes us to Vienna, to the Sudentenland, and to Prague. In Berlin, we witness Hitler inexorably preparing for war, even in the face of opposition from his own generals; in London, we watch as Chamberlain makes one supreme effort after another to appease Hitler.

Resonating with an insider's feel for the political infighting Faber uncovers, "Munich, 1938 "transports us to the war rooms and bunkers, revealing the covert negotiations and" "scandals upon which the world's fate would rest. It is modern history writing at its best.""

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