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Kung Leopolds vålnad : om girighet, terror och hjältemod i det koloniala Afrika
Det är slutet av 1800-talet, den tid då Europas stater styckar upp Afrika mellan sig. Kung Leopold II av Belgien lägger för sin privata del beslag på det väldiga området runt …
Spain in Our Hearts
From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing …
Aldrig mera krig : Lojalitet och uppror 1914-1918
Av författaren till Kung Leopolds vålnadEn iskall gryning i norra Frankrike, januari 1917. Trettiosex skott smattrar genom tystnaden och arkebuseringen av de brittiska …
King Leopold's Ghost
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by …
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As …
Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts
In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, …
Unquiet Ghost
An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold’s Ghost.Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s …
Airplanes, Women, and Song
Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four …
The Mirror at Midnight
Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind
"e;More than any other living scholar of medieval philosophy, Gyula Klima has influenced the way we read and understand philosophical texts by showing how the questions they …
Finding the Trapdoor
For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild's voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a …
Finding the Trapdoor
For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild's voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a …