Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more ...

Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread. The underlying premise of his book is that there are good and bad individuals, not good and bad nations, as he recreates the complexities of life under a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Chronicles the American West from 1860-1890. The book tells the stories of such famous Red Indian warriors and tribal chieftains as Sitting Bull, Cochise, Crazy Horse and Geronimo.
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A provocative critique of Western attitudes about the Orient, this history examines the ways in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control the East from the 1700s to the present. ...

It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.<P>In an attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ...

Paperback of this exhaustive and minutely researched biography of the city of London, which has been hailed by various critics as )the( book on the city. A vivid and anecdotal overview which takes from the time of the Druids to the turn of the millennium, and which looks at subjects such as childhood, suicide, Cockney sppech and drinking, in relation to London's history. "Nothing can quite match the huge strange echo chamber of life-stories, ...

Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust'> This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the ...

Davies' epic was a massive seller for OUP in hardback last year. To tell the story of Europe in one single volume is no mean achievement and the plaudits earned by the author are a testimony to this. "A brilliant achievement, written with intelligence, lucidity and a breathtaking width of knowledge" )Financial Times(.
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Paperback edition of this title that created a large amount of publicity when first published in hardback, especially in Germany where it has already sold over 100,000 copies. Between 1933 and the end of the war Victor Klemperer kept a diary. It describes his life in Dresden throughout the Nazi occupation where, married to a gentile, he escaped the camps and killings. "This extraordinary book describes in detail, and with an unparalleled ...

Trade paperback follow-up to the hugely successful )Europe: A History(, using the same clear, comprehensive but most of all readable approach. Coverage includes Ireland, and emphasises our long-standing connections with the continent. Davies broaches the subject of the potential break-up of the United Kingdom in what will become an agenda-setting work and undoubtedly a classic. 24 b/w, 8 colour photos.
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