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Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka?s decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going ...Show more
My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
How does a daughter tell the story of her father? Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze on him. Teasing apart the many layers of m ...Show more
Spy in the Archives by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
In 1968 historian Sheila Fitzpatrick was 'outed' by the Russian newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya as all but a spy for Western intelligence. She was in Moscow at the time, working in Soviet archives for her doctoral thesis on AV Lunacharsky, the first Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment after the 1917 Bolshevi ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world's leading authorities on Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of t ...Show more
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
A gripping account of the paths that led postwar Russian migrants to Australia - and what they found when they arrived.More than 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after the Second World War - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in E ...Show more
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