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Black Earth - The Holocaust As History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE The essential new book by the author of Bloodlands - 'The most important work of history for years', Antony Beevor A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present. We have come to see th ...Show more
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German c ...Show more
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges prevailing myths and draws disturbing parallels with the present.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEWe have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than ...Show more
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines. They had been murdered in the lawless killing zones created by the German c ...Show more
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Housum Professor of History Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
Category: Judaica
"A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time." In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on n ...Show more
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes starved, shot and gassed fourteen million people in a zone of death between Berlin and Moscow. These were the bloodlands - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast. In a twel ...Show more
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
Americans call the Second World War The Good War. But before it even began, Americas wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. A ...Show more
Bloodlands - Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
"In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow.In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields today s Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast an ave ...Show more
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back - A Memoir of the Gulag by Julius Margolin; Stefani Hoffman (Translator); Timothy Snyder (Foreword by); Katherine R. Jolluck (Introduction by)
Category: History
Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, disease, and exhaustion, and some were killed by criminals and camp guards. In 1939, as the Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland, many Polish citizens found themselves ...Show more
On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Category: Languages and Reference
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapse ...Show more
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Graphic Edition) by Timothy Snyder
Category: Graphic Novels
A graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, the New York Times bestselling guide to protect democracy and resist modern-day authoritarianism. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism. From Nazism to communism, these were movements in which a leader or a party claimed ...Show more
On TyrannyTwenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Category: Philosophy and Religion
"We are rapidly ripening for fascism. This American writer leaves us with no illusions about ourselves." --Svetlana Alexievich, Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political ord ...Show more