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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
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Category: Military
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
On Tyranny - Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Category: Politics
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: Non-Fiction
"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
Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity by Timothy Snyder
Category: Non-Fiction
A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think abou ...Show more
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
Category: History
The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and falsities. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present i ...Show more
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