In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much...
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Anton Chekhov. A...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from the past thirty years—including Mel...
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Биографии и мемуары, Военная документалистика и аналитика
19 with a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola
A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the ‘standard’...
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in...
A HANDFUL OF
DUST is Evelyn Waugh's
scathing commentary on the well-mannered death struggles of
the upper classes--an irrepressibly amusing picture of society
politely blowing its own brains out, with a defiant smile.It tells of...
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil...
In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a...
Спогади видатного мовознавця і літературознавця, знаного у світі культурного діяча, лауреата Шевченківської премії Юрія Шереха...