Books similar to A Dictator Calls
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Chernobyl
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On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighter
Last Witnesses
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Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich
What did it mean to grow up in the
The Gulag Archipelago
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A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand mast
Midnight in Chernobyl
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The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life
Power and Progress Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over..
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The extraordinary untold story of how technological change has shaped our history and determined who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity.
Throughout history, technological change - wh
Going Infinite The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire, making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs, celebrities and world leaders vied for hi
Archipelag GUŁag Tomy 1-3
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Podróż w głąb radzieckiego piekła! Archipelag GUŁag – monumentalna praca słynnego pisarza i myśliciela Aleksandra Sołżenicyna, poświęcona więzienno-obozowej martyrologii narodu rosyjskiego i obywate
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
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The powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WW
Knowing What We Know The Transmission of Knowledge..
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look a
World Enemy No. 1
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In the Nazi imagination, the USSR was the most powerful Jewish organization in the world. They called it ‘World Enemy No. 1’.
The shocking number of Soviet citizens who lost their lives between 19
Meltdown
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A 166-year-old bastion of Swiss banking, Credit Suisse was among the most important and influential financial institutions in the world – but a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, dirtie
Unnatural Causes
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Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.
He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.
He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most high-profile cases
Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety
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Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety była gotowa już w 1983 roku. Dwa lata przeleżała w wydawnictwie. Autorkę oskarżono o ""pacyfizm, naturalizm oraz podważanie heroicznego obrazu kobiety radzieckiej""
Czarnobylska modlitwa Kronika przyszłości
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„26 kwietnia 1986 roku o godzinie pierwszej minut dwadzieścia trzy pięćdziesiąt osiem sekund seria wybuchów obróciła w ruinę reaktor i czwarty blok energetyczny elektrowni atomowej w położonym niedal
Opowiadania kołymskie
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Literacka wersja słynnego Archipelagu Gułag. To, co widziałem, tego człowiek nie powinien widzieć, nie powinien o tym wiedzieć. "Rzeczywistości łagrów, przeżywanej przez miliony ludzi, nie można po
How to Lose a Country The seven steps from democra..
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‘It couldn’t happen here’
Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote.
She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump’s election was sou
Talking to Strangers What We Should Know about the..
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The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wron
Najbardziej tajemniczy kraj świata. The Most Myste..
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Album zawiera wybór fotografii J. Bryana wykonanych w czasie jego wizyt w Związku Sowieckim w latach 1930–1937, 1946–1947 oraz 1956–1959 ukazujących m.in. życie codzienne w Moskwie, Leningradzie, Kij
If Than
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A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author.
'Back in the 1960s, long befor
Soviet Cities Labour, Life & Leisure
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In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed o
Rosyjska misja. Zapomniana opowieść o tym, jak Ame..
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Wiosną 1921 roku w sowieckiej Rosji wybuchła przerażająca klęska głodu. Państwo bolszewickie działało tak źle, że milionom ludzi groziła zagłada. Aby uratować komunistyczny reżim, Włodzimierz Lenin m
Snowing in Bali
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Kathryn Bonella lifts the lid on Bali's nightmarish narcotics underworld. Among the island's drug dealers 'It's snowing in Bali' is code that the south-east Asian paradise is full of cocaine. For the
Unshrinking How to Fight Fatphobia
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For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daugh
The Language of War
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When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterday’s words suffice?
‘We were so happy and didn’t know it…’
A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European suburb with