A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday...
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Биографии и мемуары, Политика
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Polonium; a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies...
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. Spare, unpredictable, minutely observed, and utterly free of self-pity (The Plain Dealer,...
A. Bowie, P. Carr - Проходки за кулисы Бурная жизнь с Дэвидом Боуи -...
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...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission: to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, the...
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
Adventures in My Youth: A German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-45
The author could be described as a ‘veteran’ in every sense of the word, even though he was only aged 21 when the war ended. Armin Scheiderbauer served as an infantry officer with the 252nd Infantry Division, German Army, and saw four years of...
Stanislaw Martin Ulam. Adventures of a Mathematician. Preface to the 1991 Edition by William G. Mathews and Daniel O. Hirsch. Note on S. M. Ulam's Mathematics by Jan Mycielski. Postscript by Françoise Ulam.
University of California Press....
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, 'like a jigsaw dismantled into a heap of broken-edged pieces'. 'Aftermath' chronicles this perilous...
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Биографии и мемуары, Военная история
Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-1945 [2nd Edition]
John Stieber was twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents for seven years.
In due course, he was called to...