His chief books are Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998) The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (2003) Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005) The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (2008) Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Thinking the Twentieth Century ( with Tony Judt, 2012) Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015) On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017) and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018). He speaks five and reads ten European languages. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
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Gillian Bagwell grew up in Berkeley, California, and began her professional life as an actress, studying at the University of California Berkeley and the Drama Studio London at Berkeley before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Surrendering herself to Charles, Nell will be forced to maneuver the ruthless and shifting allegiances of the royal court-and discover a world of decadence and passion she never imagined possible. As one of the first actresses in the newly-opened playhouses, she catapults to fame, winning the affection of legions of fans-and the heart of the most powerful man in all of England, the King himself. Witty and beautiful, Nell was born into poverty but is drawn into the enthralling world of the theater, where her saucy humor and sensuous charm earn her a place in the King's Company. 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