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Cold Crematorium

Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

2024 || Hardcover || Jozsef Debreczeni || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni

'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'

JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans

'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle

'It should be required reading'

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated

When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...

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Nuclear Folly

A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

2022 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books

*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*

'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of Armageddon in October 1962' Martin Chilton, Independent

The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

For more than four weeks in the au...

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How to Stop Fascism

History, Ideology, Resistance

2021 || Hardcover || Paul Mason || Veltman Distributie Import Books

The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it.

In The Truth Is Not Enough, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomeno...

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Lou

A New York Life

2023 || Hardcover || Will Hermes || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured.

In Lou: A New York Life, the critic Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed's life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fellow artists from David Bowie to Andy Warhol. Will explore his craft as a singer and songwriter wit...

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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

2023 || Hardcover || Martin Wolf || Veltman Distributie Import Books

From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone

We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy'...

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Regenesis

Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

2022 || Hardcover || George Monbiot || Veltman Distributie Import Books

*Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*

A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year

'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate Raworth

From the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity

Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughe...

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Shutdown

How Covid Shook the World's Economy

2021 || Paperback || Adam Tooze || Veltman Distributie Import Books

From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now

When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, ...

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Power of Regret

How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

2022 || Paperback || Daniel H. Pink || Veltman Distributie Import Books

Goodreads Members Most Anticipated Books of 2022

Forbes’s 10 Must-Read Career and Leadership Books for 2022

Inc’s 22 Books to Read in 2022

“I love that Daniel Pink is taking on one of the best (and toughest) teachers in my life—regret. …The world needs this book.” —Brené Brown, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potential...

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The World's Biggest Cash Machine

Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul

1900 || Paperback || Chris Blackhurst || Veltman Distributie Import Books

&b>In &i>The World’s Biggest Cash Machine,&/i> award-winning journalist Chris Blackhurst weaves together iconic personalities, sporting drama and boardroom deals to deliver a must-read narrative on the world&/b>’&b>s most influential football club.&/b>

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Stay True

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir

2023 || Paperback || Hua Hsu || Veltman Distributie Import Books

The moving, Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age memoir of music, outsiders and the relationships that make us