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Books by michael scammell

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  • Koestler

    The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic

    From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Over a decade in the making, and based on new research and full access to its subject’s papers, Koestler is the definitive account of this fascinating and polarizing figure. Though best ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD $10.99 CAD

  • Solzhenitsyn

    A Biography

    Series Book 15 - Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature
    This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society: ambitious and idealistic in the twenties and thirties, preoccupied with the struggle for survival in the forties, hopeful in the ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Nothing is Lost

    Selected Poems

    by Edvard Kocbek ...
    Translated by Michael Scammell, Veno Taufer ...
    Series Book 52 - The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981).The selections introduce the reader to the full spectrum of Kocbek's long and distinguished career, starting with the pantheist and expressionist nature poems of his early period and continuing through ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Holocaust: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were ... Read more

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  • Gulag

    A History

    PULITZER PRIZE **WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.“A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times**The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • How to Swear Around the World

    by Jason Sacher ...
    With this helpful guide, learn to tell people off like a native no matter where you are in the world.An essential phrasebook for the world traveler, How to Swear Around the World features dozens of favorite curses, insults, and sayings from all over the globe. Get rid of a pesky hanger-on in Brazil by telling him to dig for potatoes—vai ceifar batatas. To express disgust toward your brown-nosing ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Denial

    Holocaust History on Trial

    Now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson.“A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. ” -- Jewish WeekDeborah Lipstadt, author of the groundbreaking Denying the Holocaust, chronicles her six-year legal battle with controversial British World War II historian David Irving that culminated in a sensational 2000 trial ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Croatian Phrasebook

    Series series Eton Institute - Language Phrasebooks
    Speak Croatian Instantly! Easy to follow; perfect for beginners. Over 1000 essential words and phrases. Perfect your pronunciation with transliteration. Practical and conversational. Easy reference dictionary included. No complex jargon or grammar. Over 1000 essential words and phrases in one handy guide. Transliteration and pronunciation guide to help you get started immediately. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Josef Mengele: A Life

    Studying under world-renowned scientists, Josef Mengele rose from being a medical student to becoming the commanding doctor at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.His experiments on twins and others included purposely infecting his victims with diseases, injecting them with drugs, live vivisections, and even sowing twins together by their blood vessels.After the war he fled Europe and ... Read more

    $4.77 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stalin: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his death in 1953, Stalin was deeply mourned. He had ‘received the country with a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Bosnian Phrasebook

    Series series Eton Institute - Language Phrasebooks
    Speak Bosnian Instantly! Easy to follow; perfect for beginners. Over 1000 essential words and phrases. Perfect your pronunciation with transliteration. Practical and conversational. Easy reference dictionary included. No complex jargon or grammar. Over 1000 essential words and phrases in one handy guide. Transliteration and pronunciation guide to help you get started immediately. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler

    by Thomas Fuchs ...
    "Four Stars." --West Coast Review of Books"Fascinating reading." --Booklist"An engrossing book...excellent." --Oahu Sun Press ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD