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'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover...
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions. Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski, ISBN:9780141186788
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Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great...
Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At every encounter with a new culture, Kapuscinski plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting to understand its history, its thought, its people. And he reads Herodotus so much that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys – the first his assignment as a reporter, the second following Herodotus’ expeditions. Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski ISBN:9780141021140
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With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in an...
With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. Facing Mount Kenya is not only a formal study of life and death, work and play, sex and the family in one of the greatest tribes of contemporary Africa, but a work of considerable literary merit. The very sight and sound of Kikuyu tribal life presented here are at once comprehensive and intimate, and as precise as they are compassionate. Author: Jomo Kenyatta ISBN: 9780394702100
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“A harrowing masterpiece of modern history.” Sunday Express “David Stafford weaves an often majestic tapestry of testimo...
“A harrowing masterpiece of modern history.” Sunday Express “David Stafford weaves an often majestic tapestry of testimony… Time and again, you sit up and take notice in ways that more conventional history lets slip…” The Observer “A vivid reminder of the misery that persisted across Europe long after the shooting stopped in 1945.” Daily Mail “Stafford skillfully provides a connecting framework for a narrative of almost Tolstoyan proportions…. which only a writer of the first caliber, strongest nerve and monumental intellectual stamina could tackle.” The Spectator “A fine book… a page turner…compelling.” Len Deighton In this compelling narrative about the end of the Second World War in Europe, acclaimed historian David Stafford delves behind the dramatic headlines proclaiming victory to reveal the horrors and hardships of its final days and aftermath. Drawing upon diaries, letters, and personal testimonies, he brilliantly interweaves the lives of ordinary people with the actions of military and political leaders to paint a vivid panorama of a continent scarred and traumatized by a war whose effects continue long after the fighting has stopped. Author: David Stafford ISBN:9780349119120
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