The Death of Stalin

Four novellas that offer a tantalising glimpse of Sicilian life, from the 1848 revolution to the death of Stalin

DescriptionA man forced into slavery seeks cold-blooded revenge on those who took his freedom. From Fabien Nury, the award winning writer of the be...

DescriptionOpening up about her family history, Tiina revisits the first two decades of her life following World War II, in Tartu, Estonia. The adu...

Reducere. DescriptionPedro Almodovar's films--such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down , All About My Mother, and Talk to Her...

Reducere. Budapest, 1952. When Katalin and her father, M rton, are woken by the ringing of the doorbell in the dead of night, it can mean only one thing. The...

Reducere. Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953. However, ...

*Includes quotes from Anne Frank's diary about life, love, religion, persecution, and more. *Includes pictures of important people and places in An...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new econom...

DescriptionOut of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Luk cs and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (19...

A tight, captivating story of a naive child's encounters with a Soviet dictator, the 20th novel by Robert Littell After the sudden death of his nuc...

An incisive examination into the pairing of psychology and situation that creates despotic leaders from the author of Murderous Minds. Not everyone...

Reducere. Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarde...

DescriptionNot everyone can become a tyrant. It requires a particular confluence of events to gain absolute control over entire nations.First, you ...

Reducere. Beelzebub is the founder and current headmaster of the order of the Fly, a demented court of demons in Hell. He fell from grace with God after kill...

Reducere. Fed up with working for Time magazine in London, Steavenson moved to Georgia on a whim. Stories I Stole relates her time there in twenty vodka-fuel...

Reducere. Description"THE GREEN-EYED LAMA" IS THE BEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN ABOUT MONGOLIA" (JACK WEATHERFORD)THE FIRST MONGOLIAN NOVEL EVER PUBLISHED IN THE W...

Reducere. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world...

Reducere. A true story told through the memoirs of Victor Kramchaninova and his family, these memoirs are a 20th Century Ukrainian odyssey that spans both Wo...

Paul Newman wore his Rolex Daytona every single day for 35 years until his death in 2008. The iconic timepiece, probably the single most sought-aft...

Reducere. A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parac...

Reducere. This is not a self-help book. Its purpose is to not to show us how to apply the lessons of a hero's life in our own. Rather, it is a theoretical bo...