This book describes the equipment of the German army during 1933 - 1945 period. There are plenty of colourful illustrations in the publication. The book consists of three main chapters:
1. Emblems, insignia and badges;
2. Clothing;
3. Field...
Nicholson Baker, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years.
The Way the World Works, Baker’s second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine...
The book that defines a band that defined a generation. During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the Beatles at the peak of their powers as they defined a generation and rewrote popular music. As their only authorized...
Film legend and British icon Sir Michael Caine’s major new autobiography. When Maurice Micklewhite was born in poverty near Elephant and Castle, nobody would have guessed that he’d end up a Hollywood film star. Michael Caine looks back on the...
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries,...
Ayn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three...
Armenians are the perfect external enemy for Azerbaijani authorities who use the current situation to aim their propaganda machine in the necessary direction, falsify history and disseminate Armenophobia in their country. The question is,...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson said of Julia Ward Howe’s Reminiscences, published in 1899, that the work might have been “spread out into three or four interesting octavos; but in her hurried grasp it is squeezed into one volume, where groups of...
A collection of unpublished archive photographs portraying the development, testing and deployment of this invention, which served both military and civilian aviation...