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Adam Hochschild
A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes.
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The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
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National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York…
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A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Bury the Chains
Harold Hochschild was an influential businessman, chief of a multi-national corporation. In this book, his only child, Adam, who became an antiwar activist, tells of his lifelong struggle to understand…
History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime’s familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at…
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, more than 35,000 volunteers from dozens of countries arrived to help defend the Spanish Republic. But what motivates someone to fight for a…
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A collection of articles by American journalist Adam Hochschild. He revisits his time as a civil rights worker in Mississippi and as teenager seeing the apartheid firsthand in South Africa…
At the end of the 19th century, when the European powers divided Africa for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium carried out a brutal sacking of the territory surrounding the Congo…
The astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time
From acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War told through a dozen unforgettable characters: a tale of idealism, suffering, and a tragically doomed yet…
Like the author’s classic King Leopold’s Ghost, this new work abounds in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of epic antislavery crusaders, heroes, and villains in Britain.
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his…
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From the award-winning author of King Leopold’s Ghost, the dramatic story of the men who ignited the first great human rights movement
With a new foreword from best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver and a new afterword, King’s Leopold Ghost is riveting, eye-opening history from a master storyteller.
In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Hochschild brings World War I to life as never before, focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of its…
Mark Twain
The first of two hardcover volumes collecting the major nonfiction by the father of American literature : more than 150 letters, essays, and speeches selected to showcase the dazzling range…
Politics, religion, culture, travel, science and technology, family life: nothing escaped the eye and pen of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, nineteenth-century America’s most famous writer and…
Janusz Bardach,Kathleen Gleeson
A memoir that chronicles the atrocities committed during the Stalinist regime. It explores the darkest corners of the human condition and documents the tyranny of Stalin’s reign, equal only to…
Jules Marchal
The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild
Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation renders his books devastating…
