Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is...
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It may come as a surprise that the creator of Sherlock Holmes wrote a history of the Boer War. The then 40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having popular author wielding a pen in...
The final installment of Churchill's ambitious four-volume history
The fourth and last volume in Churchill's famous account spans from 1815 to 1901. It closes when the British Empire is at its peak, with a staggering one-fifth of the human race...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Военное дело
The Great Tank Scandal - British Armour in the Second World War
Виктор Суворов: «Каждому, кто интересуется этой темой, настоятельно рекомендую потрясающую книгу Д. Флетчера «Великий танковый...
In his own words, the heavyweight champion of the world pulls no punches as he chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring in this fascinating memoir edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison.
Growing up in the South,...
Прекрасная книга по гренадерским шапкам Германской императорской армии. Качество...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The GULag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Автор: Солженицын Александр Исаевич
Серия: GULag Archipelago #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society
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Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization: a distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature, he was one of the first Westerners to expose the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Leys’s interests and expertise...
Автобиографичная книга рассказывает об одном годе из жизни музыканта, когда в 1987 Сиккс пережил клиническую смерть после передозировки,...