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War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance (Paperback): The Kyiv Independent War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance (Paperback)
The Kyiv Independent
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How does a newsroom, made up of young journalists, change overnight into a war zone? How do you do your job as a correspondent when the conflict is literally on your doorstep? Reporting the facts as closely as possible is in itself a form of resistance, especially for this editorial staff, at least one of whose members has decided to abandon the pen and don the uniform. One was covering the business world in Ukraine, another was reporting on entertainment, a third was dealing with geopolitics, when suddenly the Russian army crossed the border. Staying is the choice they all made: to face the uncertainty of living and working in an active war zone head on. The power cuts, threat to life, concern for family members, trips to and from shelters while their city or town is subjected to lethal attacks - despite it all, they keep informing. In War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance, written on the spot, day by day, the journalists of The Kyiv Independent share their work on the war that is ravaging their country. Combining articles published during the conflict with personal accounts, they give us an unprecedented inside look at the reality of the Russian invasion and its consequences on the lives of Ukrainians. Their names are Olga, Daryna, Illia, Jakub, Toma, Anna, Igor, Oleg, Natalia, Artur, Daria, Asami, Thaisa, Dylan, Sergiy, Alexander ... Their lives will never be the same again. Nor will ours.

The Shortest History of England (Paperback): James Hawes The Shortest History of England (Paperback)
James Hawes
R279 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R50 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
White Too Long - The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Paperback): Robert P. Jones White Too Long - The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Paperback)
Robert P. Jones
R451 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tuesdays With Morrie - An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson (Paperback): Mitch Albom Tuesdays With Morrie - An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson (Paperback)
Mitch Albom
R304 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague?

Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it?

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. v TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.

Beyond the Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover): Katja Hoyer Beyond the Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
Katja Hoyer
R777 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R139 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd 'One of the best young historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew Roberts In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West. Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.

Belfast '69 (Paperback): Andrew Walsh Belfast '69 (Paperback)
Andrew Walsh
R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Belfast, August 1969. A campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland (which had begun less than two years previously) degenerates into intercommunal violence as centuries of mistrust, animosity, and blatant sectarianism come to a shuddering head. The three days of August 13th, 14th, and 15th drastically changed the course of Northern Irish history and also radicalised a generation of Catholic youths. On the Protestant side, there was similarly little to predict that their young generation would become embroiled in the longest period of Irish Troubles to date. The UVF, dormant since the creation of the state, was revived in 1966, but it was barely mentioned anywhere outside the Shankill Road; by 1972 it was involved in full conflict. Belfast '69 provides interviews with individuals from both sides of the conflict, many of whom went on to join the various 'armies' that sprung up in the wake of the riots. Many British Army officers who were only passive onlookers in those early days also offer up their own stories. By analysing these fascinating personal accounts in the wider context of the Troubles, alongside other key sources, Belfast '69 seeks to answer the most pertinent questions about the events of those days. How were the emerging youth of both sides radicalised by the violence? How did the events drive an otherwise-indifferent generation to carry out some of the most heinous crimes in Irish history? And, most importantly, can today's society learn from the bloody mistakes of our recent past?

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Paperback): Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Paperback)
Yuval Noah Harari 1
R265 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R53 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From the phenomenal bestselling author of Sapiens and Homo Deus

How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war or ecological catastrophe?

What do we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism?

How should we prepare our children for the future?

21 Lessons is an exploration of what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.

'Fascinating…Harari has teed up a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the 21st century' Bill Gates, New York Times

Animal Farm: Annotation Edition (Paperback): George Orwell Animal Farm: Annotation Edition (Paperback)
George Orwell
R183 Discovery Miles 1 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Animal Farm by George Orwell - Annotation Edition. This annotation edition of Orwell's well-known satire is perfect for students and Orwell enthusiasts alike. Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra wide margins and double spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations. They include: Large spaces between lines and large outer margins, perfect for highlighting and note-taking. Pages for note-taking in every book. A large, easy to read font and left-justified text for children who struggle to access the printed word. Top tips on effective annotation from English teacher and 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 guide, study guide, app, student book, revision cards and essay planners - the most comprehensive support for GCSE set texts available!

Landslide - The Final Days of the Trump Presidency (Paperback): Michael Wolff Landslide - The Final Days of the Trump Presidency (Paperback)
Michael Wolff
R503 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R84 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Violence - A Modern Obsession (Paperback): Richard Bessel Violence - A Modern Obsession (Paperback)
Richard Bessel 1
R309 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R100 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

King Charles III - 100 Moments from His Journey to the Throne (Hardcover): King Charles III - 100 Moments from His Journey to the Throne (Hardcover)
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Paperback): Sheila Fitzpatrick The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
Sheila Fitzpatrick
R289 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R49 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Prisoner in His Palace - Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid (Paperback): Will Bardenwerper The Prisoner in His Palace - Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid (Paperback)
Will Bardenwerper
R461 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R81 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hoax - Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (Hardcover): Brian Stelter Hoax - Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (Hardcover)
Brian Stelter
R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 In Stock
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
Black Magic - What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph (Paperback): Chad Sanders Black Magic - What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph (Paperback)
Chad Sanders
R461 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R81 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Iron Fist From The Sea - Top Secret Seaborne Recce Operations (1978-1988) (Paperback): Arne Soderlund, Douw Steyn Iron Fist From The Sea - Top Secret Seaborne Recce Operations (1978-1988) (Paperback)
Arne Soderlund, Douw Steyn
R310 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R62 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From Cabinda in Angola to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, 4 Reconnaissance Regiment conducted numerous clandestine seaborne raids during the Border War. They attacked strategic targets such as oil facilities, transport infrastructure and even Russian ships. All the while 4 Recce’s existence and capability was largely kept secret, even within the South African Defence Force.

With unparalleled access to previously top secret documents, 50 operations undertaken by 4 Recce, other Special Forces units and the South African Navy are described here in Iron Fist From The Sea. The daunting Operation Kerslig (1981), in which an operator died in a raid on a Luanda oil refinery and others were injured, is retold in spine-tingling detail. The book reveals the versatility and effectiveness of this elite unit and also tells of both the successes and failures of its actions. Sometimes missions go wrong, as in Operation Argon (1985) when Captain Wynand Du Toit was captured. This fascinating work will enthrall anyone with an interest in Special Forces operations.

Iron Fist From The Sea takes you right to the raging surf, to the adrenalin and fear that is seaborne raiding.

Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal (Paperback): George Packer Last Best Hope - America in Crisis and Renewal (Paperback)
George Packer
R440 R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Countdown Bin Laden - The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the MasterMind of 9/11 to Justice (Paperback): Chris Wallace Countdown Bin Laden - The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the MasterMind of 9/11 to Justice (Paperback)
Chris Wallace; As told to Mitch Weiss
R475 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam - An Epic History of a Tragic War (Paperback): Max Hastings Vietnam - An Epic History of a Tragic War (Paperback)
Max Hastings 2
R380 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R76 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator 'A masterful performance' Sunday Times 'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh's warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million people. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners' victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, Huey pilots from Arkansas. No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings' readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the 21st century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.

Hoax - Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (Paperback): Brian Stelter Hoax - Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (Paperback)
Brian Stelter
R490 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside (Hardcover): Rebecca Smith Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside (Hardcover)
Rebecca Smith
R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land, but often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there. Starting with Rebecca Smith's own family history - foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal - Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed. As industry has transformed - mines closing, country estates shrinking, farmers struggling to make profit on a pint of milk, holiday lets increasing so relentlessly that local people can no longer live where they were born - we are led to question the legacy of the countryside in all our lives. This is a book for anyone who loves and longs for the countryside, whose family owes something to a bygone trade, or who is interested in the future of rural Britain.

The Great Railroad Revolution (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition): Christian Wolmar The Great Railroad Revolution (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
Christian Wolmar
R572 R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Save R84 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status.

Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them.

In "The Great Railroad Revolution," renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.

A History of The Princess Mary's Hospital Royal Air Force Akrotiri 1963 - 2013 (Paperback): David Vassallo A History of The Princess Mary's Hospital Royal Air Force Akrotiri 1963 - 2013 (Paperback)
David Vassallo
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Age of Entitlement - America Since the Sixties (Paperback): Christopher Caldwell The Age of Entitlement - America Since the Sixties (Paperback)
Christopher Caldwell
R494 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R86 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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