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Animal Farm by George Orwell - Annotation Edition. This annotation
edition of Orwell's well-known satire is perfect for students and
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revision guide author, Cindy Torn. When the ill-treated animals of
Manor Farm rebel against their master Mr Jones and take over the
farm, they start to believe in a life of freedom and equality for
all. But slowly, the egocentric and ruthless Napoleon takes control
and the animals are subjected to force and violence from the
corrupt elite - the pigs. As one dictator is replaced with another,
the idea of fairness and equality or all becomes a distant memory.
Class, equality, power and control are some of the themes that run
throughout this novel. Scholastic have a full suite of revision
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'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading'
Observer Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. He has the power
to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours,
meddles in western elections and orders assassinations. Yet many
Russians continue to support him. Under Putin's leadership, Russia
has once again become a force to be reckoned with. Philip Short's
magisterial biography explores in unprecedented depth the
personality of Russia's leader and demolishes many of our
preconceptions about Putin's Russia. To explain is not to justify.
Putin's regime is dark. But on closer examination, much of what we
think we know about him turns out to rest on half-truths. This book
is as close as we will come to understanding Russia's ruler.
'Exhaustively researched... as a chronicle of Putin's public
doings, the book is near faultless' The Times 'Timely... a
comprehensive, extensively researched account of Putin's life' New
Statesman 'Extensively covers the dark moments of Putin's
career.... The Putin of Short's book is not someone you would
invite to dinner' New York Times
After a century that has been described as the most violent in the
history of humanity, Professor Richard Bessel has written an
intelligent and fascinating book on the history of our violent
world and how we have become obsessed about violence. He critiques
the great themes of modern history from revolutionary upheavals
around the globe, to the two world wars and the murder of the
European Jews, to the great purges and, more recently, terrorism.
Violence, it seems, is on everyone's mind. It constantly is in the
news; it has given rise to an enormous historical, sociological,
and philosophical literature; it occupies a prominent place in
popular entertainment; and it is regarded as one of the fundamental
problems affecting social, political and interpersonal relations.
Bessel sheds light on this phenomenon and how our sensitivity
towards violence has grown and has affected the ways in which we
understand the world around us - in terms of religious faith,
politics, military confrontation, the role of the state, as well as
of interpersonal and intimate relations. He critiques our modern
day relationship with violence and how despite its continuing and
inevitable nature, we have become more committed to limiting and
suppressing it. Both historically questioning and intensely
evocative of the most vicious and brutal violence enacted by
mankind, this book shows how the place of violence in the modern
world presents a number of paradoxes and how it is an inescapable
theme in human history.
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.
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.
'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of
complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of
EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis
helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third
Reich and World War II - and how the world allowed them to get away
with it. In 1946, Gunther Quandt - patriarch of Germany's most
iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW - was
arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he
had been forced to join the party by his arch-rival, propaganda
minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt
lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have
only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their
reckoning with this dark past remains incomplete at best. Many of
them continue to control swaths of the world economy, owning iconic
brands whose products blanket the globe. The brutal legacy of the
dynasties that dominated Daimler-Benz, cofounded Allianz and still
control Porsche, Volkswagen and BMW has remained hidden in plain
sight - until now. In this landmark work, investigative journalist
David de Jong reveals the true story of how Germany's wealthiest
business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the
atrocities of the Third Reich. Using a wealth of untapped sources,
de Jong shows how these tycoons seized Jewish businesses, procured
slave labourers and ramped up weapons production to equip Hitler's
army as Europe burnt around them. Most shocking of all, de Jong
exposes how the wider world's political expediency enabled these
billionaires to get away with their crimes, covering up a
bloodstain that defiles the German and global economy to this day.
An Auschwitz escape thriller, following the life mission of one man - whose survival will have implications for hundreds of thousands of lives.
In April 1944 a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.
Vrba would produce from memory a breathtaking report of more than thirty pages revealing the true nature and scale of Auschwitz - a report that would find its way to Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope, eventually saving over 200,000 Jewish lives.
A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, THE ESCAPE ARTIST is the extraordinary story of a complex man who would seek escape again and again: first from Auschwitz, then from his past, even from his own name. In telling his story, Jonathan Freedland - the journalist, broadcaster and acclaimed, multi-million copy selling author of the Sam Bourne novels - ensures that Rudolf Vrba's heroic mission will also escape oblivion.
The Spitfire a " there have been many hundreds, maybe even
thousands, of books written about this beautiful R.J Mitchell
designed, elliptically winged areoplane. But there has yet to be a
book published, which has focused solely on the lesser-known
two-seat variant of graceful Spitfirea |Until now! In two-seater
spitfires, Greg Davis, John Sanderson and Peter Arnold trace the
history of this iconic aircraft a " from its initial design through
to those still taking to the skies today.
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