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Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Биографии и мемуары, История

Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Автор: Viets Susan
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Picnic at the Iron Curtain won a 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist’s award. It is also a 2012 Foreword’s Book of the Year Award finalist and received an honorable mention at the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival. ...
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
История

Plutarch's Lives: Volume I

Автор: Плутарх
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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Written at the beginning of the second century A.D., Plutarch’s Lives is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch...
Poland [calibre 4.99.5]
История

Poland [calibre 4.99.5]

Язык: английский
Год: 2009

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable...
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
История

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Автор: Beard Mary
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; and the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one,...
Postwar [A History of Europe Since 1945]
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Postwar [A History of Europe Since 1945]

Автор: Judt Tony
Язык: английский
Год: 2006
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Tony Judt’s Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word “groundbreaking.” It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages,...