A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.

Timothy Snyder has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians.

His book On Tyranny has inspi...

De grote verkiezingswinst van Geert Wilders, de groei van extreemrechts in andere Europese landen, de mogelijke terugkeer van Donald Trump: personen en partijen die het niet zo nauw nemen met de rechtsstaat hebben de wind in de zeilen. Onze democratie wordt in toenemende mate bedreigd, wat herinneringen oproept aan de vorige eeuw. Want nog niet eens zo heel lang geleden zagen onze voorouders hun regeringen zwichten voor fascisme, nazisme en communisme. Ook zij vertrouwden erop dat de rechtsta...

Wat is vrijheid? Waarom is onze vrijheid in gevaar? En waarom is vrijheid onze enige kans om te overleven?

Vrijheid is de kern van onze westerse wereld, het hart van onze democratie, maar we zijn uit het oog verloren wat het betekent, met crisis als resultaat. Te veel mensen beschouwen vrijheid als de afwezigheid van staatsmacht. We denken dat we vrij zijn als we kunnen doen en zeggen wat we willen en zo min mogelijk worden gehinderd door de overheid. Maar echte vrijheid is niet zozeer vrijhe...

Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia.

'Brilliant and disturbing' Yuval Noah HarariA wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller On Tyranny.

#1 New York Times Bestseller • A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might lear...

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. This book deals with this topic.

A graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, the New York Times bestselling guide to protect democracy and resist modern-day authoritarianism. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism.