Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father's devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwik's father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Engineering professor Deb Chachra takes readers on a fascinating tour of these essential utilities, revealing how they work, what it takes to keep them running, and just how much they shape our lives - but also the price they extract, who pays it and in what ways, as well as the threats to our infrastructure in a changing world. Format: Oversized PaperbackPublished: UK, 2023Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersLanguages: EnglishPages: 472ISBN 13: 9780008483852ISBN 10: 000848385X Mon: closedTue: 10am-6pmWed: 10am-6pmThu: 10am-9pmFri: 10am-9pmSat: 10am-6pm Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelstein's parents' experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. Infrastructure enables lives of astounding ease and freedom that would have been unimaginable just a century ago.