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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin and, later, public archives and private synagogues in France and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs Szajkowski's story in all its ambiguity. Born into poverty in Russian Poland, Szajkowski first made his name in Paris as a communist journalist.

1982 was a historic year, a year in which the battle for a small group of islands in the South Atlantic dominated the news. From the initial broadcasts of the growing Argentine threat and Mrs Thatcher's speech to the Commons informing them that a Task Force will sail, to the battles for Goose Green and Port Stanley, the Argentine surrender and the controversial sinking of the Belgrano—all these historic moments, together with all the other important events of the Falklands War, are recorded here, in live BBC Radio News coverage.

‘Haunting.’ Jonathan Freedland ‘Powerful.’ Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha...

Die Geschichte Afghanistans scheint aus einer langen Zeit voller Kriege und Konflikte zu bestehen. Das Hörbuch erinnert an den ersten anglo-afghanischen Krieg und die sowjetische Besetzung, beschreibt die Situation unter den Taliban und beleuchtet kritisch den Einsatz der Bundeswehr am Hindukusch. "Die Afghanen sind ein tapferes, zähes und freiheitsliebendes Volk", so beschreibt Friedrich Engels 1857 das afghanische Volk.