From a former CIA officer comes a riveting account of a royal Middle Eastern family exiled to the American suburbs THERE: In an unnamed country, fifteen-year-old Laila has always lived like royalty. Her father is a dictator of sorts,...
Dictators
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Author:Carleson, J.C.Summary: - Author:Piatigorsky, AntonSummary:
Shortlisted, Danuta Gleed Literary AwardIn a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of the 20th century’s most notorious tyrants....
- Author:Kotkin, StephenSummary:
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a...
- Author:Kotkin, StephenSummary:
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history...
- Author:MacLaren, RoySummary:
Until the outbreak of hostilities in 1939, Mackenzie King prided himself on never publicly saying anything derogatory about Hitler or Mussolini, unequivocally supporting the appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville...
- Author:Scurati, AntonioSummary:
Antonio Scurati tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder, the man known to his followers as Il Duce. Steeped in historical detail and interspersed with period documents and sources, this novel explores the...
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Author:Block, LawrenceSummary:There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission: find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the...
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Author:Lewis, SinclairSummary:A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this classic work by the author of Babbit, Arrowsmith, and Main Street that prophesizes the coming of...
- Author:Szablowski, WitoldSummary:
Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuscinski in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears. What was Pol Pot eating while...
- Author:Wilson, A. N.Summary:
A ruthless dictator who saved his country from economic ruin only to nearly destroy it in his quest for world domination, Adolf Hitler forever changed the course of history. Here, A. N. Wilson pulls back the curtain to reveal the man...
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Author:Harkaway, NickSummary:Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe's client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady...
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Author:Range, Peter RossSummary:Adolf Hitler spent 1924 in a prison near Munich. He passed the year working feverishly on his book Mein Kampf. Until now, no one has devoted an entire book to the single, dark year of Hitler's incarceration following his attempted coup...
