"An interesting, well-documented overview of Cold War espionage in Berlin" including photographs ( Studies in Intelligence).For almost half a century, the hottest front in the Cold War ran through Berlin. From summer 1945 until 1990, the secret services of NATO and the Warsaw Pact fought an ongoing duel in the dark. Throughout the Cold War, espionage was part of everyday life in both East and West Berlin, with German spies playing a crucial part of operatio...

A suicide attempt, staged to attract as much attention as possible, from the top of St. Peter’s Church, quickly evolves into an outlandish and absurd, televised spectacle...When a PA is invited into her boss’s office one day to observe a protest unfold, just as he predicts, in the streets below, she begins to suspect his powers of foresight might extend beyond mere business matters...Finally moving into the house of her dreams, on the island of Kīpsala, a single mother disc...

**A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year*"*A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come." — Marcus Rediker, The New York Times“Epic… Read this book and you will learn innumerable things you did not previously know culled from places you have...

The end of the world is so over...It's been three centuries since the bombs went off. Mankind has long since forgiven, forgotten and moved on. Over the years, one mighty city-state has risen from the ashes to become the undisputed center of the civilized world – Selegna. Built from ancient concrete, scrap metal and mangled home appliances, Selegna is a wonder to behold – the world's mightiest empire, King Canoga its mightiest ruler. Feared and loved, Canog...

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making a remaking and of global capitalism.Sven Beckert's rich, fascination book tells how the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginnin...

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not wheth...

Daughters of Isais: Maria Orsic and the VrilerinnenBy Sven PetricStep into a hidden chapter of history with "Daughters of Isais: Maria Orsic and the Vrilerinnen" Set in 1919 Munich, this riveting tale follows Maria Orsic and Traute Amon, founders of the "Alldeutsche Gesellschaft für Metaphysik," also known as Vri-IL. Guided by telepathic messages from the enigmatic entity ISAIS from a planet orbiting Aldebaran, they embark on a quest to usher in a New Age o...

On a freezing November night in Antwerp, Tom Andiers is waiting for one last chance to clear his name. Once a respected journalist, his career and family now lie in ruins following a devastating scandal.A mysterious email from ‘The Phantom’, an elusive contract killer who has evaded Belgian and international justice for twenty years, promises an exclusive interview. It is a story that could either save Tom’s life or destroy it forever.Inside a luxury suite at the Radisson B...

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 excavation—renders his books devastating and unforgettable.Now, for the first time, Lindqvist's most beloved works are available in one beautiful and affordable volume with a new introduction by Adam Hochschild. The Dead Do Not Die includes the full unabridged text of "Exterminate All the Brutes", ca...

We hear the crawlers closing in. A T-34. They must have seen us, Tiny whispers. - Stay low until it is right here, then we run! The horrible clattering of the crawler comes closer and closer. I know this fear, creeping up the spine. It will mean certain death if they run just one second too soon. How we get up, I don't know, the legs move automatically. The tank wiggles over the hole and crushes everything in it. Then it rumbles on...

At least one battalion of flame-throwers is swinging around like a pack of crazy wild boars. Long, flaming red tongues of fire are hissing from the towers, charring every living thing. From the GPU-prison stream shoals of red prisoners. A barrage of incredible dimensions is hammering down behind the Germans. It seems like the Russians have guessed that they are pondering an escape and want to stop it with an impenetrable wall of fire, spreading as far as the eye can see.

In a secluded chalet at Het Lusthof holiday park, fallen writer Steve Thijsen is searching for a way out of his shattered life. Once a literary star, he now struggles with a blank Word document and the ghosts of his past.Then, at a jumble sale, he discovers an old manuscript.A chance to reclaim his fame seems within reach. But as his success returns, so do the shadows surrounding the story he has claimed as his own.How far will a man go to protect his name?T...