One of the biggest history releases of the year is finally in shops! 1️⃣8️⃣
@history_alice
book, “Eighteen”, which tells the story of 18 famous people at 18 years of age - individuals which changed the course of British history forever.
@panmacmillan
Hello All!
As some of you might know I am the buyer for the largest bookstore in the country and a Russia/Eastern Europe watcher. Sitting on the convergence of these two interests of mine, I feel it would be a good idea to share a few books about the situation in 🇺🇦 🇷🇺
@SamRamani2
This is from Herbert Block, a famous American Cartoonist, likely published in 1939-1940 and comments on the Winter War or specifically Stalin’s demands from Finland right before the beginning of hostilities.
@PolitlcsUK
@SkyNews
Elect them now.
For real though, it’s very unlikely but I do think our politicians should be arguing for some kind of reduction of the price we pay to watch all these games. It’s a huge part of national culture and the prices keep some people out.
@VALORANT
13 mins LOL
Summary:
Split and Breeze are rotating out - Haven is coming back.
Neon and Iso getting small buffs.
Outlaw is coming in a popular bundle soon.
They’re working on replays but don’t expect it any time soon.
Ukraine Books. FICTION 🇺🇦
Hello all!
With the popularity of my previous thread on Ukraine which was all non-fiction and history I have decided to write a thread on fiction. These are either written by Ukrainians, about Ukrainians or set on the territory of Ukraine.
@Mylovanov
I’m just saying the same. Crimea annexation got a lot of people on his side in Russia. He was styled by his propagandons as the “Tsar, collector of lands and re-establisher of Empire”.
Now he’s losing lands, that prestige clock will be ticking.
Mind you, don’t expect an
@StretfordPaddck
imo this is just Erik showing Sanch up: “look dawg you can stay on your ps5 with the ego - I’m even giving the forgotten guy some minutes”
@wartranslated
The idea of a sovereign nation deciding what it wants for itself instead of being told to act by a hegemon is so alien to him.
KGB kid through and through.
@maxseddon
Nuremberg Rally vibes. For now people are getting bussed in. After some time with western media black out more and more people will go willingly. Only darker times ahead.
@FIBAWC
@ltu_basketball
@basketbols
Cepelinai, Pelmeni, a little Borscht, lots of potatoes and some buckwheat.
Superfood to grow tall basketball players
🇱🇹 🤝🏼 🇱🇻
@historyinmemes
Lesson: between the man you are and the man you want to be is hard work, education, a little bit of luck and some very stupid enemies.
You have to make the first step and never stop waking forward.
@Tendar
“The main strike hasn't arrived, yet. It can arrive anywhere and anytime at the front”
Must be really scary to read when you’re sitting in a copemobile, drinking vodka and shitting pants
One of the best books I’ve read in the last few years is ‘Red Famine’ by the brilliant
@anneapplebaum
. It tells of Soviet-enforced collectivisation, famine and about the suppression of memory. Now more than ever, it shows how the present is shaped by the past. Will make you cry
Plugging a rather large gap in the market, “Austria: Behind the Mask. Politics of a Nation since 1945” by Paul Lendvai (released last week) is a welcome fresh biography of what was long considered a European post-war success story. Is it still? 🇦🇹
Publishers, we need more
@IAPonomarenko
Oh look people from Western countries telling Eastern Europeans to stand down again 🤡
Lithuania stands firm against an autocratic bully which has shown everyone it's not capable of conversation. West should support LTU not tell us to 'stand down'
Firstly, Ukraine. 🇺🇦
Probably the most commonly found book in British bookshops is ‘The Gates of Europe’ by
@SPlokhy
who is one of the most popular Ukraine scholars in the West, a professor at Harvard and director of Harvard Ukraine Inst. You’ll see his books come up again
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Coming to bookshops soon, “AUTOCRACY, INC” by historian and commentator
@anneapplebaum
.
It tells the story of the 21st century autocratic states, specifically how they oppose Democracies around the world via commercial, political, propagandist and kleptocratic means.
@IlvesToomas
Anyone who experienced Russian world wants nothing to do with it.
It’s not a coincidence.
Baltic States and Eastern Europe Stands with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
@maxseddon
@wwwagentsmedia
He’s basically stuck together by tape and plastic. Looks okay on outside, barely alive inside.
Imagine what all the stress is doing to the man. Would be a shame if there was a heart attack wouldn’t it 😬
@francis_scarr
Nah there still isn’t a proper translation for muzhik. A man is just not the one. For a non Russian speaker - yeah it makes sense but it just doesn’t do the meaning justice. There is a certain undertone to muzhik
Now in shops, a geopolitically leaning (how else 🤷🏼♂️) biography of Field Marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim who was one of the most acclaimed and hated Finns of the 20th century from one of Finland’s greatest living historians Henrik Meinander.
Published by the brilliant
I’d say the most impressive and essential (also very recent) book on current Russia is ‘Putin’s People’ by
@CatherineBelton
. In it you will learn about how the siloviki empire was built and consolidated and it’s a must of a manual to the current Russian state. 11/10
Excited to get my hands on “Memory Makers” from
@DrJadeMcGlynn
, a research fellow at
@warstudies
.
The book is a timely look at why the Russian state apparatus backs Putin’s senseless war on Ukraine and how the history is abused as a tool to legitimate Russia’s slide into
@uamemesforces
We’ve suffered under their occupation for long enough and nobody would help our fight for freedom in 1939. We know how that feels and we will fight for and with
#Ukraine
until they are free. 🇱🇹🇺🇦
All the 2023 reading!
Only 43 this year as I tried to be mindful with it and didn't set any targets. I normally try to get to 52 but it leads to frantic reading in December to catch up and I'm really not about chasing numbers anymore.
Anyway. BOTY 2024 selections 👇 let's go
Out in UK next week "Sky Above Kharkiv" by celebrated Ukrainian author, poet and activist
@serhiy_zhadan
.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his
@maxseddon
Putin taking on a TV actor was a bad idea lol here’s someone who knows how to capture audiences, make good impressions, take good camera shots and say the right lines.
Top work from Zelensky team again.
#SlavaUkraini
💙💛
One of my most awaited proofs is here!
“The Forest Brotherhood” by
@DanKaszeta
is untold and mostly unknown in the west story of heroic battles for freedom in the Baltic States.
Stuck between the crushing might of the totalitarian Soviet Union and the Hitler’s Nazi Germany the
@Maks_NAFO_FELLA
It could be that. Or it could be a counteroffensive. Or it could be a massive Crimea missile attack. Or maybe the bridge finally? Or maybe some combination of all of these?!?!
Oh dear. They’ll have to guess.
No panic whatsoever.
Going to be lots of
#Moldova
in the news soon because of the events in
#Transnistria
. You wonder if there are any books on it?
I gotchu…
Probably the highest profile history book we’ve got atm is
@UCLSSEES
own Rebecca Haynes’ history of the country.
Miller - the time that Congress is taking is being counted in bodies not days. Certainly the loss of support from the West means Ukrainians might not be able to defend themselves as effectively. But, they won’t stop fighting -will just have to fight with less.