This remarkable volume was published by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian civil rights group . It tells the stories of 16 men – mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects – who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and children.
My Father’s Letters: Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
£30.00
Edition:Hardback978178378528504/03/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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The Camondos, Rothschilds, Ephrussis and others amassed superb collections which in many cases they left to the state that betrayed them.
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Marvellously researched account of the Weimar Republic, Germany's first (and short-lived) democracy.
November 1918: The German Revolution
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A fascinating account of the gradual triumph of one method of sorting data, from the Great Library of Alexandria to the present decline in our digital age.
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Translated from the German, this is a substantial book on the man who led Europe out of the Napoleonic chaos; the father of realpolitik, according to Kissinger.
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
Hardback £32.00