Of the 50,000 Jews who were sent to concentration camps from Salonika, only 2,000 returned. The author is one of them. This manuscript from 1948 is presented by his grandson.
The story of London's notorious drinking den, the realm of the great and foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher. Constructed from interviews with many of its principal players.
How Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia, controlling the economy through a fiefdom of oligarchs, and have used that wealth to extend their own influence.
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The author of 'East West Street' examines the life of Otto von Wachter, the SS Governor of Galicia, who was indicted for mass murder in 1945 and went to ground in the Austrian Alps.
An exuberant account of the importance to Modernism of what Truman Capote called "the all-time ultimate gallery of famous dykes" in Paris between the wars.