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Featuring a renowned author team and the best recent scholarship,
World in the Making: A Global History explores both the global and
local dimensions of world history. Abundant full-color maps and
images, along with other special pedagogical features that
highlight the lives and voices of the world's peoples, make this
synthesis accessible and memorable for students-all at an
affordable low price.
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.
Welcome to another round of history's most absurd stories and the
timeless lessons that come with them. In More Lessons from History,
Alex Deane has unearthed yet more bizarre tales that you certainly
haven't heard before. If you're wondering how large, flightless
birds might organise themselves against a military regiment, how
you should respond to the glare of an international rugby player
whose glass eye you just knocked out, exactly why carrots are
orange, or whether the world's worst-run battleship ever ceased
firing upon her comrades-in-arms, then look no further. In this
second volume of his acclaimed series, Alex Deane reminds us that,
throughout history, human nature has remained exactly the same, and
the way that people responded to the most amusing, horrifying and
convoluted of circumstances in the past can teach us everything we
need to know about who we are today.
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.
* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * 'Anybody who loves the printed
word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book
about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of the loveliest
books to have been published for many, many years' Alexander McCall
Smith 'Quite simply the best gift for any book lover this year, or
perhaps ever' Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times Literary Book of the Year
'An utterly joyous journey into the deepest eccentricities of the
human mind... The most cheering, fascinating book I've read for
ages' Guardian From the author of the critically acclaimed and
globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky
Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman's Library is a unique,
beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of
literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt down the
very strangest books ever written, and uncover the fascinating
stories behind their creation. This is a madman's library of
eccentric and extraordinary volumes from around the world, many of
which have been completely forgotten. Books written in blood and
books that kill, books of the insane and books that hoaxed the
globe, books invisible to the naked eye and books so long they
could destroy the Universe, books worn into battle, books of code
and cypher whose secrets remain undiscovered... and a few others
that are just plain weird. From the 605-page Qur'an written in the
blood of Saddam Hussein, through the gorgeously decorated
15th-century lawsuit filed by the Devil against Jesus, to the lost
art of binding books with human skin, every strand of strangeness
imaginable (and many inconceivable) has been unearthed and bound
together for a unique and richly illustrated collection ideal for
every book-lover.
'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private
leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of
the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the
extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful -
and elusive - woman in the world. Angela Merkel has always been an
outsider. A pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East
Germany, she spent her twenties working as a research chemist, only
entering politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And yet within
fifteen years, she had become chancellor of Germany and, before
long, the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed author Kati
Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With
unparalleled access to the chancellor's inner circle and a trove of
records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique
political genius that is the secret to Merkel's success. No other
modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression,
enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire
continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided.
Again and again, she's cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin
and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships
with allies like Obama and Macron. Famously private, the woman who
emerges from these pages is a role model for anyone interested in
gaining and keeping power while staying true to one's moral
convictions. At once a riveting political biography, an intimate
human portrait and a revelatory look at successful leadership in
action, The Chancellor brings forth from the shadows one of the
most extraordinary women of our time.
The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion
created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth
anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins
reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day
crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western
civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the
twentieth century.
The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who
presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of
modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic
rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language
that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon.
But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals
how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and
the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped
all three of the major religions--Christianity, Judaism and
Islam--paving the way for modern views of religion and violence.
The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war
also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century,
giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and
communism.
Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters--from
Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian
Genocide--Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that
brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as
never before and shows how religion informed and motivated
circumstances on all sides of the war.
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