The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of...
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Биографии и мемуары, История
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef...
Published in 1938, when Nazi power was approaching its zenith, this well-documented indictment reveals the systematic brainwashing of Germany’s youth. The Nazi program prepared for its future with a fanatical focus on national preeminence...
Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the...
Биографии и мемуары, История
Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America’s most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous, at times even moment by moment,...
The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist...
Автор: Брюно Жан-Луи
Серия: Гиды цивилизаций
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
Статус: Закончена
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Галлы для греков и римлян были варварами, европей¬ским романтикам они представлялись вдохновенными поэтами и мужественными воинами,...
История, Культурология
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse: From the Earliest Fragments to the End of the Vth Century A.D.
Latin poetry begins where almost all poetry begins—in the rude ceremonial of a primitive people placating an unknown and dreaded spiritual world. The earliest fragments are priestly incantations. In one of these fragments the Salii placate...
История
Смута в культуре Средневековой Руси: Эволюция древнерусских мифологем в книжности начала XVII века
Смута 1598-1613 гг. стала для древнерусской культуры сложным и глубинным кризисом, положившим начало «переходному» столетию. Идеи и...
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,...