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  • The Cinema of István Szabó

    Visions of Europe

    by John Cunningham ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    István Szabó is one of Hungary's most celebrated and best-known film directors, and the first Hungarian to have won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, for Mephisto (1981). In a career spanning over five decades Szabó has relentlessly examined the place of the individual in European history, particularly those caught up in the turbulent events of Central Europe and his own native ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • István Szabó

    Filmmaker of Existential Choices

    by Susan Rubin Suleiman ...
    Series series Philosophical Filmmakers
    István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. This thoughtful and original book is the first examination of Szabó's contribution to contemporary thought, engaging the troubled history of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries.István Szabó's importance as a filmmaker lies not only in his attention to film's formal ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

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    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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  • Denial

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    The American historian chronicles her lengthy legal battle with a British Holocaust denier—now a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz."Deborah Lipstadt's absorbing narrative of an event that has reverberated throughout the world will be read with interest and gratitude by future generations." —Elie WieselIn her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative World ... Read more

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  • The Great Escape

    Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

    by Kati Marton ...
    Extravagantly praised by critics and readers, this stunning story by bestselling author Kati Marton tells of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.This is the unknown chapter of World War II: the tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest's brief Golden Age, then ... Read more

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  • Lying About Hitler

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    A fascinating examination of a controversial case centering around holocaust denial, from a specialist in German history.In ruling against historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did ... Read more

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  • Koestler

    The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic

    by Michael Scammell ...
    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

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  • Dachau Concentration Camp

    A Guide to the former Concentration Camp and the Memorial Site

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    Hundreds of thousands of people from all continents visit Dachau Memorial Site each year. Any visitor to the Memorial Site will find that the Memorial Site bookshop stocks two publications worthy of particular mention, both deal at length with the history of the former concentration camp; Stanislav Zamecnik's ,outstanding, That Was Dachau and the superb Catalogue for the Exhibition: The Dachau ... Read more

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  • Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life

    by James Hawes ...
    Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely known in his own ... Read more

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  • The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of The World of Yesterday with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, the author’s autobiography and a masterful depiction of the changes wrought by the two world wars in Europe. Zweig grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna at a time when the city was at ... Read more

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  • Fracture

    Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

    by Philipp Blom ...
    When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The world hurtled forward on gears and crankshafts, and ... Read more

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  • Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame

    by Michael Munn ...
    In Nazi Germany, the cult of celebrity was the embodiment of Hitler’s style of cultural governance. Hitler’s rise to power owed much to the creation of his own celebrity, and the country’s greatest stars, whether they were actors, writers, or musicians, could be one of only two things. If they were compliant, they were lauded and awarded status symbols for the regime; but if they resisted—or were ... Read more

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