Thomas Harding Libri

Alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale, viene creato un pool investigativo per scovare e assicurare alla giustizia internazionale i gerarchi nazisti responsabili delle atrocità dell'Olocausto. Uno dei migliori investigatori del gruppo è Hanns Alexander, ebreo tedesco arruolatosi nell'esercito britannico per sfuggire alle persecuzioni delle SS. il suo nemico numero uno si chiama Rudolph Höss, il terribile comandante di Auschwitz, responsabile del massacro di due milioni di persone e grande sostenitore della "soluzione finale" voluta da Hitler. Höss, che vive sotto falsa identità, è una preda difficile da stanare e Hanns dovrà inseguirlo per tutta l'Europa per riuscire a portarlo davanti alla corte di Norimberga dove la sua testimonianza lascerà i presenti senza fiato. Questo libro scritto dal pronipote di Alexander racconta una sconvolgente pagina di storia: le vite parallele di due tedeschi, un ebreo e un cattolico, divisi dal nazismo ma destinati a incrociarsi di nuovo in circostanze incredibili, fino alla resa dei conti finale.

Set in Amsterdam, a house with a green door serves as a silent witness to four centuries of human experience, encompassing themes of love, despair, and resilience. It has hosted vibrant lives and endured periods of emptiness and sorrow, notably during wartime persecution. The last resident, Anne Frank, documented her experiences in a diary, transforming the house into a symbol of hope. Lyrical text and beautifully crafted mixed-media illustrations bring the house's history to life, reflecting its profound impact on those who have lived and visited there.

In the early 1800s Lehmann Gluckstein and his family escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe and made their way to Whitechapel in the East End of London. There, starting with nothing, they worked tirelessly to pull themselves out of poverty, creating a small tobacco factory that quickly grew to become the largest catering company in the world: J. Lyons. For over a century, Lyons was everywhere. Its restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, its coffee and tea in every cup, its products in every home. By bringing the world to the British people, the company transformed the way we eat, drink and are entertained - democratising luxury and globalising our tastes. But it was a victory that was not easily won - a story of the virtue of hard work, perseverance and an indomitable spirit in the face of repeated obstacles: poverty, hatred and injustice. It is a tale that is rarely told, of an immigrant family's journey from rags to riches: the story of the British Dream. Legacy charts the rise and fall of one of the most influential dynasties in British history through the lives of five astonishing generations, bound together by an unbreakable code. This is a sweeping yet intimate work of history, filled with stories of sacrifice and selflessness, betrayal and personal tragedy, Empire and its cost, and success on an unimaginable scale

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.' JOHN LE CARR Hanns Alexander was the son of a prosperous German family who fled Berlin for London in the 1930s. Rudolf H ss was a farmer and soldier who became the Kommandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and oversaw the deaths of over a million men, women and children. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. Lieutenant Hanns Alexander is one of the lead investigators, Rudolf H ss his most elusive target. In this book Thomas Harding reveals for the very first time the full account of H ss' capture. Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s, to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, Hanns and Rudolf tells the story of two German men whose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way.

The captivating story of the famed publisher who transformed not only publishing but the culture of ideas, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure

The story of the slave uprising that took place in the British colony of Demerara - now Guyana - in the Caribbean in 1823, and its momentous consequences

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregorA superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in, and lost, by five different families.

Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous century, this poignant narrative follows a small house that, after being seized by the Nazis, becomes a refuge for various families. Through their stories, the house bears silent witness to the trials and tribulations of its inhabitants, illustrating the profound impact of history on personal lives. The exquisite illustrations enhance the emotional depth of this moving tale, offering a unique perspective on resilience and the passage of time.