//IN CHILLY WEATHER, THERE’S NOTHING BETTER! – OUR WINTER READING LIST
OUR RECOMMENDED WINTER READING LIST
For book lovers, reading knows no season. However, we have to admit that colder weather does make snuggling in bed with a book and a steaming pot of tea all that much more fun. So here is our selection of some of the best books to add to your reading list this winter.
WORKING BACKWARDS By Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. Their time at Amazon covered a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Echo and Alexa to life.Through the story of these innovations, they reveal the principles and practices that have driven the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known, from the famous 14-leadership principles, the bar raiser hiring process, and Amazon’s founding characteristics: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. Working Backwards shows how success is not achieved by the genius of any single leader but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously executed principles and practices that you can apply at your own company, no matter the size.
THE AUSCHWITZ PHOTOGRAPHER: BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF PRISONER 3444 WILHELM BRASSE By Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis
When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse’s native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler. He refused and was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered to record the camp’s inner workings by taking ID photos of the prisoners, capturing the criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele, and recording executions. Between 1940 and 1945, Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the horror around him. But he also risked his life by joining the camp’s Resistance movement, faking documents for prisoners, and trying to smuggle images to the outside world. Then, when Soviet troops finally advanced on the camp to liberate it, Brasse refused SS orders to destroy his photographs.This is the extraordinary true story of the Auschwitz prisoner whose photographs exposed the atrocities of the Holocaust and then helped to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials.