A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system in
this vividly empathetic account of the worst nuclear accident in history (The Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the ...
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives
of the women killed by Jack the Ripper Polly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. ...