Alma Rosae: Vienna to Auschwitz (Newman Richard)(Paperback)

Alma Rosae: Vienna to Auschwitz (Newman Richard)(Paperback)

Alma Ros 's tragic story, from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, her uncle was Gustav Mahler) to her death at Auschwitz, first came to public attention through the 1980 film Playing for Time. As leader of the only women's

Irish Buses in the Mid-1960s: A Return Journey (Newman Richard)(Paperback)

In this, his second album on Irish buses, Richard Newman, not a local but a native of Portsmouth, takes us on a journey through the interesting bus scene of an Ireland very different to today, the Ireland of the mid-1960s. In 1964, Richard had acquired an Ilford Sportsman 35mm camera so he had the

Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction (Newman Richard S.)(Paperback)

From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and

Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 (Bassett Richard)(Paperback)

Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and SpectatorIn 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime,

Auschwitz and Birkenau (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separated from each other by about a 45-minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of

Newman: The Heart of Holiness (Strange Roderick)(Paperback)

A new assessment of John Henry Newman by one of the world's leading Newman scholars. Published to mark the occasion of Newman's canonisation by Pope Francis in October

The Child of Auschwitz (Graham Lily)(Paperback)

Auschwitz and After (Delbo Charlotte)(Paperback)

The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government 'Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time.'--Sara R. Horowitz, York

Auschwitz (Rees Laurence)(Paperback / softback)

We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were

MKVH - The Screenplay (Newman Hayley)(Paperback / softback)

Before Mars (Newman Emma)(Paperback / softback)

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale of a woman stationed on Mars who slowly starts to doubt her own memories and

After Atlas (Newman Emma)(Paperback / softback)

Shortlisted for Arthur C. Clarke Award Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it

Atlas Alone (Newman Emma)(Paperback / softback)

Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of

Auschwitz Testimonies: 1945-1986 (De Benedetti Leonardo)(Paperback)

Auschwitz Violin (Anglada Maria Angels)(Paperback / softback)

An international sensation The Auschwitz Violin is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest

RYA Inland Waterways Handbook (Newman Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Music in Vienna: 1700, 1800, 1900 (Jones David Wyn)(Paperback)

The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family, Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehr, Schoenberg and Webern. Today,

Auschwitz Death Camp (Baxter Ian)(Paperback)

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation. 'Auschwitz Death Camp' is a chilling

Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land (Nomberg-Przytyk Sara)(Paperback)

From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness.' With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju (Newman Kim)(Paperback)

The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman.'Compulsory reading... glorious' Neil Gaiman on Anno Dracula It is the eve of the new millennium, and the vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Daikaiju Plaza - a building in the shape of a giant

Newman's Birds of Southern Africa (Newman Kenneth)(Paperback)

This commemorative tenth edition celebrates the contribution of the late author, Kenneth Newman, fully revised and updated by his daughter, Vanessa Newman, to reflect the latest research, taxonomy and common names. Newman's Birds of Southern Africa, a leading field guide in the region, illustrates

Death in Vienna (Silva Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

Art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend - a Nazi hunter. While there he encounters something that turns his whole life upside down. Each fact he uncovers only leads to more questions until finally a picture emerges which

Maximilian Kolbe: A Saint in Auschwitz (Vivier Jean- Francois)(Paperback)

It's July 1941 in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe steps forward. 'Let me take this man's place,' he says, thereby volunteering to die in the place of a stranger who had just been condemned to death by his Nazi captors. By means of this

Auschwitz: A History (Steinbacher Sybille)(Paperback)

At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the