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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 …
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 …
The Mirror at Midnight
Bury the Chains
Eighteenth-century Britain was the world’s leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost, …
To End All Wars
In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed …
Man Is Wolf to Man
From the book: 'The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size with a stick, made lines on the …
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 …
The Dead Do Not Die
Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach—uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical …