The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag & Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority & detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, & what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events. The book draws on a mass of archival material & first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It

Includes:: accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly `anti-revolutionary` elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine`s cultural & political leadership
- & then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified & memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, & were undermined & harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country`s true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship & human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories & that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia & Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past.


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Map No. 111, Red Feather Lakes
- Glendevey, CO, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured hiking maps of USA’s national
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A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China`s continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large & confident power both at home & abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China`s future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps that China must confront & overcome in order to thrive: debt, middle income, the Renminbi, & an aging population. Looking at the political direction President Xi Jinping is taking, Magnus argues that Xi`s authoritarian & repressive philosophy is ultimately not compatible with the country`s economic aspirations. Thorough & well researched, the book also investigates the potential for conflicts over trade, China`s evolving relationship with Trump, & the country`s attempt to win influence & control in Eurasia through the Belt & Road initiative. ...

This is the extraordinary story of the Kremlin
- from prize-winning author & historian Catherine Merridale. Both beautiful & profoundly
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America`s secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations & blunders of superpowers, & the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy & Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States & the USSR acted out the world`s rising tensions in its island nations. Meanwhile the leaders of these nations
- the charismatic Fidel Castro, & his mysterious brother Raul; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; & Francois ` Papa Doc` Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement & torture
- had ambitions of their own. Alex von Tunzelmann`s brilliant narrative follows these five rivals & accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, & then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been. Red Heatis an authoritative & eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic & dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.

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Communism & its fall had a worldwide impact, but none felt the changes more than the previously Soviet states. In 2007 & 2008, photographer Nick Hannes travelled across the 15 former Soviet republics & took pictures of the different consequences of the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991. This publication

Includes:: intense photography of a developing region full of contrasts: extreme wealth amidst poverty; & golden statues of new dictators in cities of concrete. It shows how much change has already occured & how much is still to come, with experienced photographer Nick Hannes` poignant images.

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Cambodia! not a subject normally expected to cause congestion around the travel shelves. Why then a third edition? Perhaps because it is different. Two elderly, some would say naive, doctors from middle England throw caution to the winds & head off with VSO, an organisation more usually associated with adventurous youngsters. They face not just humid heat, cockroaches & cultural somersaults but something incomparably more challenging, the harsh realities of a country still reeling from the prolonged terrors of Pol Pot`s Khmer Rouge. With generosity of spirit & an unquenchable sense of humour they plunge into a maelstrom of lawlessness where life is cheap & guns & greed prevail. Surrounded on all sides by medical, financial & ethical dilemmas, the author gradually gropes her way towards the climax of her work, the launch of a clinic for prostitutes actually inside the brothel where they work. She tells the stories of these young girls, many of them under sentence of death from AIDS, stories that shock, horrifies & form the pivotal point of the whole story. It is a thoughtful book, written with great artistry & turn of phrase. It is written with an eye & an ear to the history, new & old, of an extraordinary & little-known country. This third edition contains a postscript considering events since 2003 bringing the reader up-to-date with the situation in Cambodia as it is today. ...

` The East isn`t far away at all. It clings to me, it goes with me everywhere. It`s like a big family that you can`t shake off
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Winner of the European Book Prize ” The East isn`t far away at all. It clings to me, it goes with me everywhere. It`s like a big family that you can`t shake off.. .” ” Tender, acute & utterly absorbing” Anna Funder, author of Stasiland ”A wry & unheroic witness...an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists” Julian Barnes Growing up in East Berlin, Maxim Leo knew not to ask questions. All he knew was that his rebellious parents, Wolf & Anne, with their dyed hair, leather jackets & insistence he call them by their first names, were a bit embarrassing. That there were some places you couldn`t play; certain things you didn`t say. Now, married with two children & the Wall a distant memory, Maxim decides to find the answers to the questions he couldn`t ask. Why did his parents, once passionately in love, grow apart? Why did his father become so angry, & his mother quit her career in journalism? & why did his grandfather Gerhard, the Socialist war hero, turn into a stranger? The story he unearths is, like his country`s past, one of hopes, lies, cruelties, betrayals but also love. In Red Love he captures, with warmth & unflinching honesty, why so many dreamed the GDR would be a new world & why, in the end, it fell apart. ” Tender, acute & utterly absorbing. In fine portraits of his family members Leo takes us through three generations of his family, showing how they adopt, reject & survive the fierce, uplifting & ultimately catastrophic ideologies of 20th-century Europe. We are taken on an intimate journey from the exhilaration & extreme courage of the French Resistance to the uncomfortable moral accommodations of passive resistance in the GDR. ” He describes these `ordinary lies` & contradictions, & the way human beings have to negotiate their way through them, with great clarity, humour & truthfulness, for which the jury of the European Book Prize is delighted to honour Red Love. His personal memoir serves as an unofficial history of a country that no longer exists... He is a wry & unheroic witness to the distorting impact
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- that ideology has upon the daily life of the individual: citizens only allowed to dance in couples, journalists unable to mention car tyres or washing machines for reasons of state.” Julian Barnes, European Book Prize With wonderful insight Leo shows how the human need to believe & to belong to a cause greater than ourselves can inspire a person to acts of heroism, but can then ossify into loyalty to a cause that long ago betrayed its people.” Anna Funder, author of Stasiland ” Heartbreaking... This very personal account allows us to better understand the reality of a kafkaesque regime, & the blindness of its elite that allowed it to survive for so long.” La Tribune ” The great charm of this book, about the gradual disintegration of the GDR, lies in the level-headed but loving attitude with which it investigates the interweaving of the private & political [in Communist East Germany], revisiting a child`s-eye view of the era.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ”A crucial book.. .poignant.. .a tragedy reminiscent of the great narrative poets, Dostoevsky or Koestler. Maxim Leo has earned his place alongside them.” Sud Ouest ”A lyrical story about a family in a divided city” Hamburger Abendblatt Maxim Leo was born in 1970 in East Berlin. He studied Political Science at the Free University in Berlin & at the Institut d` Etudes Politiques de Paris. Since 1997 he is Editor of the Berliner Zeitung. In 2002 he was nominated for the Egon-Erwin-Kisch Prize, & in the same year won the German-French Journalism Prize. He won the Theodor Wolff Prize in 2006. He lives in Berlin.

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Political corruption, capitalist greed & past injustices are all revealed when Inspector Chen investigates a serial killer in Shanghai. An early morning jogger found her. Clad in nothing but a red mandarin dress, she had been dumped, barely concealed, on a traffic isl&. The death of a dancing girl was unpleasant but this was particularly unusual in that she had been left openly in the centre of town. She had probably angered one of the Mr Big Bucks that were taking over & transforming Shanghai. Inspector Chen is an intuitive investigator, a talented poet & an honourable man on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Desperate to find a way to release himself from the perilous police career that had been chosen for him, he takes time off to begin an MA in Literature. Then another girl is found dead. With a serial killer on the loose. Chen is pulled back to work & into his most dangerous assignment yet. ...