where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way
'Victory '45' tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after six surrenders that heralded the Allied victory
More than half a century after it appeared
After a scandalous near-death experience
The book of records Needlework & fabric crafts where lasting stability has oftenLina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Voyagers encyclopedia series. In this mysterious and shape shifting building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Amsterdam, excommunicated for his radical thought; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany