Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44
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On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal...
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall
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Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political...
Svetik: A Family Portrait of Sviatoslav Richter
Anthony Phillips, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Walter Moskalew
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For well over half a century, since the Soviet regime first allowed Sviatoslav Richter to travel to...
The Real Tales of Hoffmann: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
Placido Domingo, Michael Kaye and Vincent Giroud
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Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history...
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
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On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an...
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the...
The RAF Air Sea Rescue Service 1918-1986
Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell
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Between 1918 and 1986 the marine branch of the Royal Air Force provided rescue facilities, support...
Berlin: Portrait of a City
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The brave city: A photographic portrait of Berlin, 1860 to today Berlin has survived two world wars,...
In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Karl Schlogel and Gerrit Jackson
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History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular...