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| Author: | Marek Krajewski |
| Publisher: | Quercus |
| Catalogue number: | 168850 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Marek Krajewski’s Death in Breslau is a powerful thriller set in a World War Two city under the control of the Gestapo on the Czechoslovakian border. It is 1933 and the mutilated bodies of a young woman...
| Author: | Thomas Keneally |
| Publisher: | Sceptre |
| Catalogue number: | 171415 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Schindler's Ark tells the now-famous story of the Oskar Schindler, who for a brief period in an otherwise undistinguished life became a hero and a saviour. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German...
| Author: | Jeremy Leigh |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 138073 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock |
Drawing on travel chronicles, biographies, modern literary reflections and Biblical sources, “Jewish Journeys” explains why the ‘journey’, from Abraham journeying from one land and culture in search...
| Author: | Riccardo Orizio |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 119187 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
| Catalogue number: | 117666 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
David Crowley reveals Warsaw's visual and urban cultural history through narrative and anecdote, examining how Warsaw has been shaped by Communist ideology since the late 1940s and then transformed...
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For anyone passionate about the music of Frederic Chopin Warsaw is an absolute must! But be well prepared - there are few hotels around the city centre and in October they were all fully booked.
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I don’t like Warsaw, the city where I was born just three months before the most calamitous event in its history, the Warsaw Uprising, and where I lived until I came to London in 1965. To me Warsaw is ugly and characterless, but then what else can you expect from a city with such a horrendous past.
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Here’s a story which you won’t find in many guidebooks, and not even in the highly acclaimed history of Wrocław, Microcosm by Norman Davies. I found it in a little guide available in the city’s numerous bookshops and pass it on, if in a somewhat enlarged format from the original brief comment!
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It’s no wonder Michael Palin has been named as a national treasure – he is equally loved for his comedy acting, and for his fascinating travelogues from all over the globe. The great man came to Stanfords to tell us more about his thrilling travels...
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