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A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II
История

A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich: The Extraordinary Story of Fritz Kolbe, America's Most Important Spy in World War II

Автор: Delattre Lucas
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency. That man was Fritz Kolbe, who had decided to betray his country after years of...
The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal
Биографии и мемуары, История

The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal

Автор: Nightingale Adam
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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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,...
History of Russia
История

History of Russia

Автор: Dole Nathan Haskell
Язык: английский
Год: 1899
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This is a detailed and richly illustrated history of the Russian people from the founding of the Rurick Dynasty, near Novgorod, to the early reign of Nicholas II, several decades before the Bolshevik Revolution. The book gives an especially detailed...
Lost in the Cosmos
История, Критика

Lost in the Cosmos

Автор: Percy Walker
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom,...
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
История

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

Автор: Уэтерфорд Джек
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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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...
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
Астрономия, История

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

Автор: Салиба Джордж
Серия: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology #16
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks...