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Empires of the Steppes - The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation (Hardcover): Kenneth W. Harl Empires of the Steppes - The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation (Hardcover)
Kenneth W. Harl
R947 R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Save R177 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of so many across Europe, China and the Middle East. From a single region emerged a great many peoples – the Huns, the Mongols, the Magyars, the Turks, the Xiongnu, the Scythians, the Goths – all of whom went on to profoundly and irrevocably shape the modern world. In this enthralling new history, Professor Kenneth W. Harl draws on a lifetime of scholarship to vividly recreate the lives and world of these often-forgotten peoples from their beginnings to the early modern age. Their brutal struggle to survive on the steppes bred a resilient, pragmatic people ever ready to learn from their more advanced neighbours. In warfare, they dominated the battlefield for over fifteen hundred years. Under charismatic rulers, they could topple empires and win their own.

The Surnames of Scotland - Their Origin, Meaning and History (Hardcover): George F Black The Surnames of Scotland - Their Origin, Meaning and History (Hardcover)
George F Black
R1,250 R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Save R84 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century - The History of American Business Enterprise (Hardcover): Richard N. Langlois The Corporation and the Twentieth Century - The History of American Business Enterprise (Hardcover)
Richard N. Langlois
R950 R876 Discovery Miles 8 760 Save R74 (8%) In Stock

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by trained professional managers is essential to the efficient running of organizations both public and private. And yet if managerialism was the apotheosis of administrative efficiency, why did both its practice and the accompanying narrative lie in ruins by the end of the century? In The Corporation and the Twentieth Century, Richard Langlois offers an alternative version: a comprehensive and nuanced reframing and reassessment of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era. Langlois argues that managerialism rose to prominence not because of its inherent superiority but because of its contingent value in a young and rapidly developing American economy. The structures of managerialism solidified their dominance only because the century’s great catastrophes of war, depression, and war again superseded markets, scrambled relative prices, and weakened market-supporting institutions. By the end of the twentieth century, Langlois writes, these market-supporting institutions had reemerged to shift advantage toward entrepreneurial and market-driven modes of organization. This magisterial new account of the rise and fall of managerialism holds significant implications for contemporary debates about industrial and antitrust policies and the role of the corporation in the twenty-first century.

The Conjure Woman (new edition) (Paperback): Charles W. Chesnutt The Conjure Woman (new edition) (Paperback)
Charles W. Chesnutt; Foreword by Sandra M. Grayson
R214 R175 Discovery Miles 1 750 Save R39 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Featuring a new introduction for this new edition, The Conjure Woman is probably Chesnutt's most powerful work, a collection of stories set in post-war North Carolina. The main character is Uncle Julius, a former slave, who entertains a white couple from the North with fantastic tales of antebellum plantation life. Julius tells of supernatural phenomenon, hauntings, transfiguration, and conjuring, which were typical of Southern African-American folk tales at the time. Uncle Julius tells the stories in a way that speaks beyond his immediate audience, offering stories of slavery and inequality that are, to the enlightened reader, obviously wrong. The tales are fabulistic, like those of Uncle Remus or Aesop, with carefully crafted allegories on the psychological and social effects of slavery and racial injustice. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic, essential books.

Geschichte Der Deutschen Kaiserzeit (Paperback): Von Giesebrecht Wilhelm Von Giesebrecht Geschichte Der Deutschen Kaiserzeit (Paperback)
Von Giesebrecht Wilhelm Von Giesebrecht
R1,338 Discovery Miles 13 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Fall of Robespierre - 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Paperback): Colin Jones The Fall of Robespierre - 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Paperback)
Colin Jones
R420 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By 12.00 midnight at the close of the day, following a day of uncertainty, surprises, upsets and reverses, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He felt that his whole life and his Revolutionary career were drawing to an end. As indeed they were. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off in grisly fashion the next day. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these 24 hours.

Der Staat Des Groen Kurfursten (Paperback): Droysen Johann Gustav Droysen Der Staat Des Groen Kurfursten (Paperback)
Droysen Johann Gustav Droysen
R1,538 Discovery Miles 15 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Air Marshal Sir Keith Park - Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta (Paperback): Murray Rowlands Air Marshal Sir Keith Park - Victor of the Battle of Britain, Defender of Malta (Paperback)
Murray Rowlands
R459 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R85 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Battle of Britain from July to September 1940 is one of the finest moments in our Nation's history. While credit rightly goes to The Few', victory could never have happened without the inspirational command and leadership of New Zealander Keith Park. He and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ensured that Fighter Command was prepared for the Nazi onslaught. Promoted to Air Vice Marshal, Park took over No 11 Group, responsible for the defence of London and South East England in April 1940\. A shrewd tactician and hands-on commander, Park carefully husbanded his limited resources and famously wore down Goering's Luftwaffe, thus forcing Hitler to abandon his invasion plans. Shamefully Dowding and Park were dismissed from their commands in the aftermath of victory due to internal RAF politics. Fortunately, Park's career was far from over and his management of the defence of Malta made significant contribution to victory in the Mediterranean. This balanced and well overdue account hopefully ensures that Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park receives the credit for victory that he so richly deserves.

Remembering Peasants - A Personal History of a Vanished World (Hardcover): Patrick Joyce Remembering Peasants - A Personal History of a Vanished World (Hardcover)
Patrick Joyce
R760 R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Save R142 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Middle Tennessee State University (Paperback): Lisa Pruitt, Holly Barnett, Nancy Morgan Middle Tennessee State University (Paperback)
Lisa Pruitt, Holly Barnett, Nancy Morgan
R636 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Middle Tennessee State University was founded in 1911 as a two-year training school for teachers and has since evolved through myriad changesain name, in size, in administration, and in academic and athletic resources. Change has also swept through the campus with the ebb and tide of the American climate during some of the twentieth centuryas most turbulent eras, including World Wars I and II, the New Deal period, and the Civil Rights Movement. What has remained steadfast through the years at this revered Tennessee institution is a commitment to excellence, and a faculty, staff, and student body in constant pursuit of the rewards of higher education. Located on a 500-acre campus in Murfreesboro, Middle Tennessee State University boasts a wide array of opportunities for a student population of nearly 20,000. Courses in everything from agriscience to aerospace, from criminal justice to the recording industry offer budding scholars a chance to explore a wide variety of disciplines, while they also enjoy participating in team sports, academic societies, and social organizations. Within
these pages, students, alumni, and friends of the university will travel down memory lane through a unique photographic tribute to the Blue Raiders. Images of dormitories in the 1920s, World War II campus drills, the first Greek organizations, General MacArthuras visit, homecoming floats, band performances, and early sports teams illuminate the schoolas colorful history.

Geronimo: Prisoner of Lies - Twenty-Three Years as a Prisoner of War, 1886–1909 (Paperback): W. Michael Farmer Geronimo: Prisoner of Lies - Twenty-Three Years as a Prisoner of War, 1886–1909 (Paperback)
W. Michael Farmer
R605 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R102 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geromino: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into how Chiricahua prisoners of war lived while held in captivity by the United States Army in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen through the eyes of their war leader Geronimo. The indignities and lies they suffered, and how they maintained their tribal culture in the face of great pressure to change or vanish entirely, are brought to life and provided new context through this book.

New commentaries on the laws of England - Partly founded on Blackstone - Vol. 2 (Paperback): James Stephen, Henry J Stephen New commentaries on the laws of England - Partly founded on Blackstone - Vol. 2 (Paperback)
James Stephen, Henry J Stephen
R1,782 R1,690 Discovery Miles 16 900 Save R92 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Command - The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine (Paperback): Lawrence Freedman Command - The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine (Paperback)
Lawrence Freedman
R420 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R92 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian) Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second World War by nuclear warfare, small-scale guerrilla land operations and cyber interference. Freedman takes a global perspective, systematically investigating its practice and politics since 1945 through a wide range of conflicts from the French Colonial Wars, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bangladesh Liberation War to North Vietnam's Easter Offensive of 1972, the Falklands War, the Iraq War and Russia's wars in Chechnya and Ukraine. By highlighting the political nature of strategy, Freedman shows that military decision-making cannot be separated from civilian priorities and that commanders must now have the sensibility to navigate politics as well as warfare.

Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden (Paperback): Michele Micheletti Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden (Paperback)
Michele Micheletti
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sweden, as many other prosperous nations, is presently reassessing its national goals, political culture and collective identity. Newer groups in society are demanding equal treatment, and others whose struggles for recognition are older and unwon, are successfully mobilizing support for political change. Social democratic political hegemony has been eroded and other new political forces are now reinterpreting past political ideas and methods of action and a need for historical perspective. This book analyses the history of Swedish civil society. Social movements and interest organizations have played crucial roles in Sweden. Their history is also Swedish history and concerns struggles for political recognition and welfare state development and cutbacks. Theoretical developments within sociology, social psychology, public choice and political science are combined to enrich the analysis. Some of the theoretical elements used in this book are organizational waves of development, organizational life cycles, political opportunity structure, and topologies of collective action organizations. The book analyzes Swedish civil society history from the Midas to the 1990s. Swedish civil society history is divided into six periods. The role played by collective action organizations in the important developments in politics, society and economy in this one hundred and fifty year period are described, compared and analyzed. The primary focus is the impact of change brought about by these developments on collective action organizations.

The Immortal Games (Paperback): Annaliese Avery The Immortal Games (Paperback)
Annaliese Avery
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

  An explosive romantasy YA, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Lore. "A thrilling, fast-paced, and brutal tale of revenge, loyalty, courage, and friendship. Avery has created a world that is merciless in its cruelty and trickery, and a cast of gods who revel in causing chaos, but Ara, a heroine full of heart, is more than a match for even the wickedest of them." - Melinda Salisbury, bestselling author of Her Dark Wings Every Lunar Eclipse signifies the beginning of The Immortal Games: an epic set of games played by the Gods of Olympus, with randomly-selected humans as their Tokens. The stakes are high; the Gods covet entertainment and glory above all else, for the Tokens, it's about survival. 17-year-old Ara wants revenge. Revenge on the Gods for allowing her older sister to die in the Games. She's determined to be selected as a Token and find a weapon powerful enough to kill a God. But when she's plucked from the clutches of death by Hades, God of the Underworld, the odds are stacked against her. Hades is the outcast of the Gods, and the only one who has never won the games. But he soon realises that Ara does not fear death, just as she does not fear him, and when a wager with Zeus and Poseidon puts both their futures at stake, the games take on a new meaning. With each challenge, the games become more brutal. Can Ara put aside her rage and survive? For fans of Circe, Ariadne and The Silence of the Girls. Perfectly plotted Greek Mythology and Astrology makes this the perfect YA for BookTok. Cover stunningly illustrated by Instagram star, Tom Roberts.

Early Latin - Constructs, Diversity, Reception (Hardcover): J.N. Adams, Anna Chahoud, Giuseppe Pezzini Early Latin - Constructs, Diversity, Reception (Hardcover)
J.N. Adams, Anna Chahoud, Giuseppe Pezzini
R5,363 R4,002 Discovery Miles 40 020 Save R1,361 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.

Borgata: Rise of Empire - A History of the American Mafia (Hardcover): Louis Ferrante Borgata: Rise of Empire - A History of the American Mafia (Hardcover)
Louis Ferrante
R727 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R145 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Historians have previously glazed over the mafia's formative years. In this first volume, Ferrante explores its Sicilian roots, before following a cast of larger-than-life characters who arrived as fugitives on American shores. Through these and other lives - including legendary mobsters Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Seigel - Ferrante tells the extraordinary story of the mafia's rise in America, as they provided alcohol during Prohibition, created the gambling mecca Las Vegas and practically took over the island of Cuba.

City Parks - A stroll around the world's most beautiful public spaces (Hardcover): Christopher Beanland City Parks - A stroll around the world's most beautiful public spaces (Hardcover)
Christopher Beanland
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A visually stunning and beautifully written celebration of park life around the world. The pandemic brought into sharp relief what city dwellers already realised: parks are an absolutely essential part of modern life. From the author who brought you Lido, here are 50 of the world's greatest parks – but not just a list of the examples we already know. Yes, we'll tell you about those storied greats such as Central Park in New York and Phoenix Park in Dublin, but we'll also take you to the Philippines, to Australia, to provincial Britain and around the world to show you the most historic and the most interesting, the newest and most cutting-edge that mix the best of nature and architecture. We'll explore what you can find there, who goes there, why they are important, and how parks respond to their environments, including ones over a road, on old rail lines or in Berlin's former airport. Examples include: • Freeway Park, Seattle, USA: a bizarre and brilliant brutalist park over a motorway. • Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil: this one contains amazing galleries and theatres. • Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, UK: mountains within a city. • Adelaide's parks, Australia: unique in that the entire city centre is enclosed by parks. and many, many more. Illustrated with glorious photographs throughout, this book is a fascinating record of the world's most interesting and innovative parks, and the people who use them – you'll want to visit them all.

The Anatomists' Library, Volume 4 - The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body (Hardcover): Colin Salter The Anatomists' Library, Volume 4 - The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body (Hardcover)
Colin Salter
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

 The Anatomist's Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing. There is a rich history of medical publishing across Europe with outstanding publications from Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, and also many from Persia and Japan.   Because of the high value of accurate medical textbooks, it was these works that pushed the boundaries of illustrated publishing. They commanded the expert illustrators and skilled engravers and hence didn’t come cheaply. They were treasured by libraries and their intrinsic worth has meant that there is an incredible wealth of beautifully preserved historic examples from the 15th century onwards   The enduring popularity of Gray’s Anatomyhas shown that there is a long-term interest in the subject beyond the necessity of medical students to learn the modern equivalent – the 42nd edition (2020) – from cover to cover. But Englishman Henry Gray was late in the field and never saw the enduring success of his famous work. Having first published the surgeon’s reference book in 1858, he died in 1861 after contracting smallpox from his nephew (who survived). He was just 34.   Gray was following on from a long tradition of anatomists starting with Aristotle and Galen whose competing theories about the human body dominated early medicine. However they did not have the illustrative skills of Leonardo da Vinci who was trained in anatomy by Andrea del Verrocchio. In 1489 Leonardo began a series of anatomical drawings depicting the human form. His surviving 750 drawings (from two decades) represent groundbreaking studies in anatomy. However none of Leonardo's Notebooks were published during his lifetime, they only appeared in print centuries after his death.   Brussels-born Andries van Wesel (Andreas Vesalius) professor at the University of Padua is deemed to be the founder of modern anatomical reference with his 1543 work De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem ("On the fabric of the human body in seven books"). An Italian contemporary was Bartolomeo Eustachi who supported Galen’s medical theories. Among other discoveries he correctly identified the Eustachian tube and the arrangement of bones in the inner ear. His Anatomical Engravings were completed in 1552, nine years after Vesalius’s great work, but remained unpublished until 1714.   These are just two entries in a book brimming with an abundance of important illustrated works – with some more primitive examples from the 15th century, up to the 42nd edition of Gray’s in the 21st.  

Clans and Tartans of Scotland (Paperback): Roddy Martine Clans and Tartans of Scotland (Paperback)
Roddy Martine
R214 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R20 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Throughout the world there exists an enduring fascination with our ancestry - who we are and where we come from. Nowhere is this more evident than with the generations of Scots who over the centuries have left their native Scotland to create a new life in the New World - North America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The Scots are a remarkable race with a justifiably proud history and culture which they have successfully passed on through generations. This compact book sets out to identify the larger Scottish clan and family names, their tartans, septs (dependent family names), heraldic crests, mottos, ancestral lands and allegiances. This book features full colour photographs of each tartan as opposed to digital reproductions, allowing readers to see both the textures and patterns.

Photography – A Queer History (Hardcover): Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon Photography – A Queer History (Hardcover)
Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon
R1,212 R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Save R256 (21%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities. How has photography advanced fights against LGBTQ+ discrimination? How have artists used photography to develop a queer aesthetic? How has the production and circulation of photography served to satisfy the queer desire for images, and created transnational solidarities? Photography - A Queer History includes the work of 84 artists. It spans different historical and national contexts, and through a mix of thematic essays and artist-centred texts brings young photographers into conversation with canonical images.

Beaufighter and Mosquito Operations in WWII - The Memoirs of a Radar Operator (Hardcover): John Pemberton Beaufighter and Mosquito Operations in WWII - The Memoirs of a Radar Operator (Hardcover)
John Pemberton
R756 R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Save R142 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Zbysek Necas was just 18, and still a high school student, when he escaped from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia a month before the outbreak of war in 1939. He managed to make his way to Britain where he had a cousin. Necas enlisted in the RAF in 1940, initially being posted as an interpreter at the Czech Depot. Some of his early duties involved the interrogation of captured German aircrew. He was, however, determined to fly. That wish came not as a pilot, but as a radar operator. In time, Necas was posted to 68 Squadron, which throughout the war had a large number of Czech exiles on its strength - one flight was entirely Czech-manned. In this moving memoir, he details just what it was like to serve as part of an RAF night fighter crew during the second half of the Second World War. From the organisation of squadron and operations, to the directing of night fighters in the bomber stream, problems of maintaining contact with the target, the duration of patrols to interception tactics, all, and more, is revealed in this book. Having trained on the Blenheim Mk.IV, Necas' operational patrols began on Bristol Beaufighters, the squadron subsequently converting to de Havilland Mosquitoes. There are of course, the graphic accounts of victory in the air. This includes combat with a Heinkel He 177 Grief over North Sea, or the explosion of a Dornier Do 217 after another successful interception. As well as nighttime intruder operations over Europe, from the summer of 1944, 68 Squadron, Necas included, found itself drawn into the battle against Hitler's V-weapons, particularly the V1. Necas' crew ended the war with three confirmed kills, one probable, and two damaged. After the war, Necas returned to his homeland where he received the tragic news that that none of his immediate family had survived the German occupation. This is Zbysek Necas' story of his part in the defence of Britain's skies and the final victory against the Third Reich.

Pure Wit - The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish (Hardcover): Francesca Peacock Pure Wit - The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish (Hardcover)
Francesca Peacock
R850 R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Save R162 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. ‘My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world.’ Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to a wealthy family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford, before following the court into exile in France. It was there that she met her much older lifelong partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle- upon-Tyne. Cavendish was a revolutionary writer. At a time when literature was dominated by men, she wrote passionately on gender, science and philosophy, defied convention by publishing under her own name, and advocated for women in work that predates the feminist movement. In 1666, she published The Blazing World, a brilliant, trail- blazing proto-novel thought to be one of the earliest works of science fiction. But her legacy divides opinion. And history has largely forgotten her. In Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock shines a spotlight on the fascinating, pioneering, yet often complex and controversial life of Margaret Cavendish.

The Book of Unsolved Mysteries (Hardcover): Publications International Ltd The Book of Unsolved Mysteries (Hardcover)
Publications International Ltd
R501 R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Save R57 (11%) In Stock
The Ambiguity of Virtue - Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews (Hardcover): Bernard Wasserstein The Ambiguity of Virtue - Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews (Hardcover)
Bernard Wasserstein
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle aged Jewish woman, burdened with such a terrible responsibility, merely a pawn of the Nazis, or was her journey a genuine opportunity to save large numbers of Jews from the gas chambers? In such impossible circumstances, what is just action, and what is complicity?

A moving account of courage and of all-too-human failings in the face of extraordinary moral challenges, Th"e Ambiguity of Virtue "tells the story of Van Tijn's work on behalf of her fellow Jews as the avenues that might save them were closed off. Between 1933 and 1940 Van Tijn helped organize Jewish emigration from Germany. After the Germans occupied Holland, she worked for the Nazi appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam and enabled many Jews to escape. Some later called her a heroine for the choices she made; others denounced her as a collaborator.

Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into the twilight world of wartime Europe, to expose the wrenching dilemmas that confronted Jews under Nazi occupation. Gertrude van Tijn's experience raises crucial questions about German policy toward the Jews, about the role of the Jewish Council, and about Dutch, American, and British responses to the persecution and mass murder of Jews on an unimaginable scale."

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