Comment "penser" Auschwitz quand on en réchappa ? Que faire du ressentiment ? L’esprit peut-il sortir indemne de la confrontation avec l’univers concentrationnaire ? La foi est-elle indispensable à l
Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful The Times London 1877 A petite young woman stands before an all male jury about to risk everything She takes a breath and opens her defence Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet Remarkably Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England At a time when women were expected to be obedient Annie s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex censorship and morality A Dirty Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her and chose instead to resist
THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I ve read for years DOMINIC SANDBROOK Highly original and insightful PD SMITH GUARDIAN Thrillingly unique knowledgeable perceptive and profound IAN DUNT The history of Europe told through twenty nine key borders that define the past present and future of our continent Europe s internal borders have rarely been natural they have more often been created by accident or force In Borderlines political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty nine key borders from west to east Europe examining how the map of our continent has been redrawn over the last century with varying degrees of success The fingerprints of Napoleon Alexander I Castlereagh Napoleon III and Bismarck are all there but today s map of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in 1919 and Stalin in 1945 To journey to the centre of the story of Europe Baston takes us to its edges bringing to life the fascinating and often bizarre histories of these border zones We visit Baarle the town broken into thirty fragments by the Netherland Belgium border and stop in Ostritz the eastern German town where Nazis held a rock festival We meander the back lanes of rural Ireland
