"War and Peace" von Leo Tolstoy, in der Ausgabe "Penguin Clothbound Classics" mit einem Vorwort von Orlando Figes, ist ein epischer Roman, der das Schicksal mehrerer aristokratischer Familien im Russland des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts...

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more'...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A People's Tragedy, Natasha's Dance and The Whisperers. He lives in Cambridge and London. His books have been...

"The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia" von Orlando Figes ist ein eindringliches historisches Werk, das das Leben gewöhnlicher Menschen in der Sowjetunion unter Stalins Herrschaft beleuchtet. Figes nutzt eine Vielzahl von...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance. von Figes, Orlando

"Schick einen Gruß, zuweilen durch die Sterne: Eine Geschichte von Liebe und Überleben in Zeiten des Terrors" von Orlando Figes ist ein beeindruckendes Werk, das auf wahren Begebenheiten basiert. Das Buch erzählt die ergreifende...

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale-these are the enduring icons...

"The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture" von Orlando Figes ist ein historisches Sachbuch, das die Entstehung einer gemeinsamen europäischen Kultur im 19. Jahrhundert beleuchtet. Im Mittelpunkt stehen drei...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His last book, A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY (Cape 1996), won the NCR Book Award, the Wolfson History Prize, the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award and the...

History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizationsA People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other...

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'A magnificent, magisterial...

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A People¿s Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the...