Timothy Snyder

In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, "Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience."

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

On Tyranny

Describes how fourteen million people were murdered by Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in the area between Germany and Russia during the time when both men were in power and examines the motives and methods behind the mass murders.

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Presents a history of the Holocaust that offers insights into Hitler's genocidal views and the partisan groups who supported Jewish targets, arguing that wrong conclusions about the Holocaust are compromising the world's future.

The Holocaust as History and Warning

Black Earth

A wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller On Tyranny. ‘One of the best...brisk, conceptually convincing account of democracy’s retreat in the early years of 21st century’ Guardian The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West; by supporting the far right in Europe, invading Ukraine in 2014, and waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the creation of Donald Trump, an American failure deployed as a Russian weapon. But this threat presents an opportunity to better understand the pillars of our freedoms and face the choices that will determine the future: equality or oligarchy, individualism or totalitarianism, truth or lies. ‘A brilliant and disturbing analysis, which should be read by anyone wishing to understand the political crisis currently engulfing the world’ Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Russia, Europe, America

The Road to Unfreedom

Tony Judt

Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Both travellers are professional historians still tormented by their own unanswered questions. They needed to talk to one another, and the time was short. This is a book about the past, but it is also an argument for the kind of future we should strive for. Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the life of the mind - and the mindful life.

Thinking the Twentieth Century

Yirminci Yüzyildan Yirmi Ders

Tiranlik Üzerine

Yet he begins with the principles of toleration that prevailed in much of early modern eastern Europe and concludes with the peaceful resolution of national tensions in the region since 1989.".

Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999

The Reconstruction of Nations

A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug. Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow ("4: Take responsibility for the face of the world"), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent ("11: Investigate"), a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than cliched phrases for the sake of mass appeal ("9: Be kind to our language"), and more. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging--at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories--to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder's riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.

On Tyranny Graphic Edition

On Freedom

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's coronavirus response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of coronavirus patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died. In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children's future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.

Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

Our Malady

tjugo lärdomar från tjugonde århundradet

Om tyranni

A portrait of Wilhelm Von Habsburg sheds new light on an aristocrat whose life parallels the upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century and the violent birth of modern Europe, as it describes a man who played a seminal role in a world in which the old order was giving way to the future. 25,000 first printing.

The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke

The Red Prince

Rozwazania o wieku XX

در برابر استبداد

On Tyranny and On Ukraine

20 lekcí z 20. století

Tyranie

Om Ukraina

De Holocaust staat gelijk aan de verschrikkelijke dood van miljoenen joden in de gaskamers. Maar nog voordat die gaskamers werden gebouwd, was het grootste deel van de Europese joodse bevolking al door de nazi’s gedood in de landen ten oosten van Duitsland. In Zwarte aarde geeft Timothy Snyder antwoord op de vraag wat Hitler beoogde met de bezetting van Polen, de Baltische staten en delen van de Sovjet-Unie. Hitler meende dat het Duitse volk op den duur zou verhongeren als er geen andere hulpbronnen werden aangesproken. Midden-Europa moest de graanschuur van Duitsland worden en het Duitse volk de Lebensraum bieden waarop het recht had. In Hitlers paranoïde filosofie was dat een vrijbrief om de joodse bevolking op grote schaal uit te roeien. Zwarte aarde is een briljante en controversiële geschiedenis van de Holocaust. Snyder laat zien dat bepaalde ideeën en overtuigingen die in onze tijd leven dicht in de buurt komen bij de ecologische paniek die Hitler in de jaren dertig ertoe dreef zijn buurlanden binnen te vallen.

Timothy Snyder

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