Adam Hochschild

1. Adam Hochschild

Half the Way Home

1. Janusz Bardach
2. Kathleen Gleeson

Man is Wolf to Man

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 that of Hitler.

1. George , Orwell
2. Adam , Hochschild

Orwell on Truth

Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell's career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by World War II and the rise of totalitarian states. In a world that seems increasingly like one of Orwell's dystopias, a willingness to speak truth to power is more important than ever. With Orwell on Truth, readers get a collection of both powerful quotes and the context for them.

1. Bois , Sergievsky

Airplanes, Women, and Song

Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated infantry officer and then a fighter pilot, battling the Austro-Hungarians. During the Russian Civil War that followed, he fought on three fronts against the Bolsheviks. Coming to America in 1923, the first job he could find in New York was with a pick and shovel, digging the Holland Tunnel, but he soon joined Igor Sikorsky’s airplane company. Over the next decade as chief test pilot for the company, he tested the Sikorsky flying boats that Pan American Airways used to establish its world-wide routes, setting seventeen world aviation records along the way. Sergievsky also flew pioneering flights across unchartered African and Latin American jungles in the 1930s, flew with Charles Lindbergh, tested early helicopters and jets, and flew his own Grumman Mallard on charter flights until 1965. Through it all, his sense of humor remained intact, as did his passion for beautiful women.

1. Adam Hochschild

Rebel Cinderella

1. Adam Hochschild

Verzet en eendracht

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Van de Eerste Wereldoorlog zijn de begraafplaatsen en loopgraven in Noord-Frankrijk en België de trieste, stille getuigen. In Verzet en eendracht brengt Adam Hochschild de persoonlijke verhalen achter deze gruwelijke oorlog tot leven. Hij portretteert de oorlogshelden, maar vertelt ook de lang genegeerde drama’s van de tegenstanders, onder wie een toekomstige Nobelprijswinnaar en een redacteur die een krant op wc-papier uitgaf voor zijn medegevangenen die vanwege hun verzet achter de tralies zaten. Hochschild geeft een veelzijdig beeld van een oorlog die aan alle oorlogen een einde had moeten maken. Door de beschrijvingen van de levens van de historische personen leest Verzet en eendracht als een roman.