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  • KING LEOPOLD'S GHOSTWRITER
    KING LEOPOLD'S GHOSTWRITER
    ANDREW FITZMAURICE
    A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Co...
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    37,50 €

  • THE WOMAN WHO COULD NOT FORGET
    THE WOMAN WHO COULD NOT FORGET
    YING-YING CHANG
    A devastatingly powerful book about the loss to madness not only of a daughter, a wife and a mother, but of a promising young historian and author. You must read this. -Recommended by Jeff, City Lights BooksIris Chang's best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies ...
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    14,75 €

  • TAMERLANE
    TAMERLANE
    JUSTIN MAROZZI
    A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe's famous play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of the great Mogul Emperor of Samarkland to write this wonderful combination of history and travelogue. The name of the last great warlord conjures up images of mys...
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    13,75 €