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Cold Crematorium
Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
2024 || Hardcover || Jozsef Debreczeni || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni
'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'
JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans
'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'
KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle
'It should be required reading'
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated
When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...
Airborne to Arnhem Volume 3
Personal reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET, 17th-26th September 1944
2024 || Hardcover || Grant R. Newell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Airborne to Arnhem Volume 3 is the final volume of reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET, 17th- 26th September 1944 published by Helion and Company. The three volumes contain over 150 personal accounts received from veterans of the 1st Airborne Division alongside those from RAF aircrew and XXX Corps.
The study is the culmination of over forty years of research concentrating on the British 1st Airborne Division's role in the capture of the north end of the Arnhem bridge and t...
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Nuclear Folly
A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2022 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*
'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of Armageddon in October 1962' Martin Chilton, Independent
The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
For more than four weeks in the au...
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Lou
A New York Life
2023 || Hardcover || Will Hermes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured.
In Lou: A New York Life, the critic Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed's life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fellow artists from David Bowie to Andy Warhol. Will explore his craft as a singer and songwriter wit...
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
2023 || Hardcover || Martin Wolf || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone
We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy'...
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Shutdown
How Covid Shook the World's Economy
2021 || Paperback || Adam Tooze || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now
When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, ...
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Power of Regret
How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
2022 || Paperback || Daniel H. Pink || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Goodreads Members Most Anticipated Books of 2022
Forbes’s 10 Must-Read Career and Leadership Books for 2022
Inc’s 22 Books to Read in 2022
“I love that Daniel Pink is taking on one of the best (and toughest) teachers in my life—regret. …The world needs this book.” —Brené Brown, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potential...
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The Salt Path
The 85-Week Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author
2019 || Paperback || Raynor Winn || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The author and her husband lost their home as a terminal diagnosis took away their future, embarking on the 630 mile South West Coast Path - an experience reflected on in this memoir which emphasises the restorative powers of nature.
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
the bestselling South Korean therapy memoir
2023 || Paperback || Baek Sehee || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK
TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR
'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what ...
How to Be a Citizen
Six Ways to Live Well Together
2024 || Paperback || C.L. Skach || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Laws and rules are in place to protect us. They are what keeps our societies from descending into madness and chaos. Without them, how we would know our right from wrong, how would we improve our communities and how could we be better neighbours to one another without rules telling us what to do?
Cindy Skach feels differently. After years spent in some of the most complex corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions, trying to create order where it did not exist, she has come to re...