The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother’s love and a father’s fears, of a group of...
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By tracing the history of modern Russia from Mikhail Gorbachev to the rise of ex KGB agent Vladimir Putin, Arkady Ostrovsky reveals how the Soviet Union came to its end and how Russia has since reinvented itself.
Russia today bears little...
An expert contemporary history of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s resurgent role in world affairs.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the world was left wondering about its destiny. In spite of the losses incurred, Russia is still a power with vast...
The first high-level Red Army defector to tell us —
— How many fighting men the Soviet Union can actually mobilize into its army within days rather than official published figures.
— The ways in which Soviet weaponry is decisively...
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent...
Автор: Джентри Курт , Пауэрс Фрэнсис Гэри
Серия: Aviation Classics
Язык: английский
Год: 2004
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In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After surviving the shoot-down...
A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an...
ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВА В переживаемое нами время издание русских книг в эмиграции – чрезвычайно трудная задача. Но, несмотря на все...
Anton Chekhov. A...
Sidney Reilly influenced world history through acts of extraordinary courage and sheer audacity. He was a master spy, a brilliant con man, a charmer, and a cad who lived on his wits and thrived on danger, using women shamelessly and killing where...