Cartes Postales from Greece
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria...
Russian Cuisine: Traditional and Contemporary Home Cooking
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Discover the fascinating details of Russian history, culture and eating habits and enjoy the tasty...
Leopard
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The leopard is the ultimate cat. It makes the lion and the tiger appear overblown and all the other...
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
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During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering...
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La Seduction: How The French Play the Game Of Life
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France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its...
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KIDU: A Relentless Quest. Discover fourteen unique levels where you will live incredible...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Surviving the Holocaust and Stalin: The Amazing Story of the Seiler Family in Books
Jan 29, 2023
No matter how many of these types of books I read, it never ceases to shock me how 'human beings' can develop an insidious culture against others just because they are different be it religion, race or whatever. What I didn't realise was how, even after the Russians liberated the death and labour camps created by the Nazi regime, the persecution of Jews continued for those living behind the 'Iron Curtain'.
This book has opened my eyes to the continued injustice and oppression that was inflicted upon the Jewish people by the Stalin regime despite the horrors they had been subjected to by the Nazis but what it also did was show the resilience, bravery and hope the Seiler family demonstrated despite the tragedies and hardships they encountered and experienced.
This is a must-read for people who are interested in European history and to ensure that the voices of those who went through one of the darkest periods of the twentieth century are not forgotten and I must thank Pen & Sword and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of this book.
The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers
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What do you know about taxi drivers? Here it is. Discover what the The Ten Commandments of St...
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Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
Andrew N. Weintraub, Bart Barendregt, Christine Reiko Yano and Yifen Tsau Beus
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The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and...
Steve Fearon (84 KP) rated A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left in Books
Sep 11, 2018
This book is very much a left-wing view of Labour's history, and does a good job of describing the main flag bearers and saboteurs of the worker focused socialist movements.
It helps trace the current Labour makeup back through the ages, via Benn, Bevan etc and gives a very good account of the many internal battles and compromises that took place through the 20th Century as the various power plays and world events echo Game Of Thrones at times.
Its also an important indicator of where power has corrupted idealogues of the past, and how it is often the working people that are the ones that pay the price for hubris (I am looking at you Kinnock!).
One for politico's only, not a casual read, but if you have an interest, do please check it out, there is a lot here to gain!