Book of the Week: ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Graphic Edition) by Timothy Snyder & Nora Krug

Unfortunately, this book is urgently relevant in many parts of the world at the moment, and increasingly relevant elsewhere. Timothy Snyder's ON TYRANNY: Twenty lessons from the Twentieth Century alerts us to the tell-tale signs of a society shifting away from democracy and towards authoritarianism, and gives us some simple but effective ideas on combatting this. His book, first published in 2017, is a bestseller, has been translated into numerous langages, and continues to be a model guide for thinking and discussion. This graphic edition of this important book is given even greater depth and resonance by the illustrations by Nora Krug. In a year of elections across the world and here, the democractic process is ever more at the forefront of our minds and actions. And at VOLUME, we are doing our bit by offering you a special price on this excellent book. Use the code: DEMOS and recieve a 25% discount. Only while stocks last.

Find out more:

• Why History Matters

• The First Lesson

• A Conversation with Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug

• Some pages

• How a page comes to life with Nora Krug

• "It turns out that people really like democracy."

What others say:

• ‘On Tyranny is a must read, a clear-eyed guidebook... a manual for how to protect and preserve democracy’ – Ken Burns, filmmaker

• ‘Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the 20th century’ – Shepard Fairey, artist and activist

• ‘Her colorful images here - some drawn and some collaged, including many historical photos and artifacts - add a new layer of complexity, and make the search for understanding in images of the past part of the story’ – New York Times

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