Relates the story of the German development of missile technology, a new kind of warfare that was extremely valuable to Allied powers during the Cold War but of little value to the Germans during World War...
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The Russian challenge and the year...
The Russian Empire...
Richard Pipes’s
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
“Masterful and timely … [Pipes’s] history blends uncannily with today’s … headlines.… A brilliantly focused portrait.”
—Newsweek
“Pipes’s compellingly written account … is … a...
Альтернативная история, История
The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone, Book Three of the Vergil Magus Series
The Last Manuscript of a Master
It began with an accident, as if Fate had a plan for Vergil Magus…
After his trials in the Very Rich City of Averno but before his crowning achievement of a certain magic mirror, the great...
After Genghis Khan’s death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law; what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. At the...
They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history—or what we come to know as history—has all along been written by the wrong people? What if everything we’ve been told is only part of the story? What if...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal
In the fierce winter of 1710, in a North American port, a boat ferried ten shipwreck survivors to the safety of shore. Fourteen Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Island, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter,...
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th...