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A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty - filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII. Near the turn of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy and civil war. Henry Tudor clambered to the top of the heap, a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s crown who managed to win the throne and stay on it for 24 years.

In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia'...

Als im Hungerwinter 1947 Gertrud und ihre Zwillingsschwester Else geboren werden, stehen die Eltern, das Schifferehepaar Anna und Philipp Vowinkel, am Wendepunkt ihres Lebens: Hinter ihnen liegen Schicksalsschläge, Armut, zwei Weltkriege. Die Ära des Wirtschaftswunders bricht an - ihre Kinder, mit denen sie an Bord eines Rheinschiffs leben, sollten es einmal besser haben. Stets begleitet von Philipps skurrilem Humor ist die Familie jedoch unerwarteten Strömungen und überraschenden Untiefen ausgesetzt.

In 1943, as the Nazi power swept across central Europe, Rosa, her husband Emanuel and their daughter, Judy, were forced into hiding. But after a year and a half of living a terrifying, day-by-day existence, they were betrayed. As they arrived in Auschwitz, Rosa was torn from her husband and her only daughter. Could she dare to hope she would see either of them again?