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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor memoirs, in many cases written decades later. For obvious reasons there is very little authentic, contemporary material. "Just Send Me Word" is a uniquely powerful and moving experience. It is the story of th ...Show more
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of "A People's Tragedy", "Just Send Me Word" is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchan ...Show more
The Europeans - Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
$26.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work--the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture.The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural global ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$34.99 NZD
Category: History
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian sch ...Show more
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