A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic & acclaimed author of At Swim-Two-Birds'
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Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles books & films no conflict of the twentieth century has prompted such interest or such a body of literature Approaching the canon of World War II literature is a challenge for a general reader but the 100 objects approach is a novel & accessible presentation This is a compelling frequently shocking & revelatory guide to the Third Reich that has been collated & presented by two of the world's leading World War II historians The photographs gathered by Roger Moorhouse & Roger Moorhouse include Pervitin Hitler's Mercedes Wehrmach toilet paper Hitler's grooming kit the Nuremberg courtroom the Tiger Tank fragments of flak the Iron Cross & of course the Swastika & Mein Kampf ...

The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise & fall of Nazi Germany Richard J Evans' The Third Reich in Power How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts & Minds of a Nation explores how Hitler turned Germany from a vibrant democracy into a one-party state Before Hitler seized power in 1933 Germany had been famous for its sophistication & complexity So how was it possible for a group of ideological obsessives to re-mould it into a one-party state directed at war & race hate? How did the Nazis win over the hearts & minds of Germany's citizens twist science religion & culture & transform the country's politics to achieve total dominance so quickly? From the Nuremberg Laws to the Olympic Games Kristallnacht to the Hitler Youth this gripping account shows how a whole population became enmeshed in a dictatorship that was consumed by hatred & driven by war ' Impressive perceptive humane' Ian Kershaw ' Excellent powerful it makes an indelible impression' Robert Service Sunday Times ' Likely to be the standard work for some years to come' Spectator Books of the Year 'A rich & detailed description of just what the Third Reich did in every compartment of the state & every corner of society Evans's magisterial study should be on our shelves for a long time to come' Economist ' Written with great style & human sympathy' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year ' Evans brilliantly conveys how the Fuhrer reignited Germans' pride as he led them to catastrophe' Neal Ascherson Observer Sir Richard J Evans is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University His previous books include In Defence of History Telling Lies about Hitler & the companions to this title The Coming of the Third Reich & The Third Reich at War ...

A typically brilliant ironic & moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice on a journey overshadowed by the coming war & charged with intense personal nostalgia Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites & scenes had once exercised a strange & terrifying power over his imagination he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries reappraisals & inevitable self-revelations From Venice he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna to stand fulfilling a lifelong dream before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly & at times painfully up against an explosive present producing some memorable observations on the social wonders & existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman Imperium Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901 Best known in the West as a novelist & short story writer he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp in 1945 Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance wry humour & understated irony Pushkin Press's publications of Szerb's work include his novels Journey by Moonlight Oliver VII & The Pendragon Legend as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle & the history The Queen's Necklace ...

Love is in the air
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HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering Sunday Times number one bestseller!36 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDETHERE'S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETSA woman is found murdered after an internet date The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer & HE'S OUT FOR BLOODUnder pressure from the media to solve the crime the force know there's only one man for the job But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express Fast-moving Stunning' Sunday Times ...

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering new SUNDAY TIMES number one bestseller!THERE'S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS A woman is found murdered after an internet date The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer HE'S IN YOUR HOUSE HE'S IN YOUR ROOMUnder pressure from the media to find the murderer the force know there's only one man for the job But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case HE'S OUT FOR BLOODWhen another victim is found Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he's to finally catch the one who got away ' An expertly plotted compelling & gripping white-knuckle ride Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers' Sunday Express on THE SON' Nesbo deploys all the key ingredients of a cracking good thriller with expertise & verve The ticking clock the tension expertly ratcheted ever upwards the changing scenery the constantly shifting goalposts & the effortless triumphant outpacing of the reader's ability to guess what's going to happen will keep you gripped to the last page' Guardian on THE LEOPARD' The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction' The Times' Scandinavian crime thrillers don't come much darker or more tense than the best-selling Harry Hole series & this tenth outing for the Norwegian detective is the best yet' Sunday Mirror on POLICE ...

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering new NUMBER ONE bestseller!THERE&S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS A woman is found murdered after an internet date The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer HE&S IN YOUR HOUSE HE&S IN YOUR ROOM Under pressure from the media to find the murderer the force know there&s only one man for the job But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case HE&S OUT FOR BLOOD When another victim is found Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he&s to finally catch the one who got away & An expertly plotted compelling & gripping white-knuckle ride Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers& Sunday Express on THE SON& Nesbo deploys all the key ingredients of a cracking good thriller with expertise & verve The ticking clock the tension expertly ratcheted ever upwards the changing scenery the constantly shifting goalposts & the effortless triumphant outpacing of the reader&s ability to guess what&s going to happen will keep you gripped to the last page& Guardian on THE LEOPARD& The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction& The Times& Scandinavian crime thrillers don&t come much darker or more tense than the best-selling Harry Hole series & this tenth outing for the Norwegian detective is the best yet& Sunday Mirror on POLICE ...

While visiting her grandmother's house an old photograph leads Tanya to an unsolved mystery Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods nearby
- a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of Fabian the caretaker's son is tormented by the girl's disappearance His grandfather was the last person to see her alive & has lived under suspicion ever since Together Tanya & Fabian decide to find the truth But Tanya has her own secret the ability to see fairies & after disturbing an intruder in the night it emerges that someone else shares her ability The manor's sinister history is about to repeat itself
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A digital adaptation of John Buchan’s espionage thriller
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