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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 …
Kong Leopolds arv
I 1880-årene, da de europeiske "supermakter" delte opp Afrika, bemektiget Kong Leopold II av Belgia seg det enorme og for det meste uoppdagede territoriet rundt elven Kongo. Han …
American Midnight
National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York …
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal …
Homage to Catalonia
A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."--The New Yorker …
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
In this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before...World War I was supposed to be the "war to end all wars." …
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 …
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all …
Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
The author, an activist in the anti-war movement and co-founder of "Mother Jones," America's largest progressive magazine, recounts his relationship with his father, chief of a …
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 …
Schatten über dem Kongo
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 …