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The Elephant to Hollywood
Биографии и мемуары

The Elephant to Hollywood

Автор: Кейн Майкл
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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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...
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
Биографии и мемуары

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

Автор: Brady Frank
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer.  Only Brady, who met Fischer when the prodigy was only 10 and shared with him some...
Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine's Orange Revolution
Биографии и мемуары, История

Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Автор: Viets Susan
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Picnic at the Iron Curtain won a 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist’s award. It is also a 2012 Foreword’s Book of the Year Award finalist and received an honorable mention at the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival. ...
Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Биографии и мемуары

Thoughts Without Cigarettes

Автор: Hijuelos Oscar
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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The beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist turns his pen to the real people and places that have influenced his life and, in turn, his literature. Growing up in 1950's working-class New York City to Cuban immigrants, Hijuelos journey to literary...
Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper
Биографии и мемуары, Военное дело, военная техника и вооружение

Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper

Автор: Pegler Martin
Язык: английский
Год: 2004
Статус: Закончена
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From the American Revolution to World War Two, the history of the military combat marksman is one of indifference, unpreparedness and cost cutting. Despite the proven effectiveness of the rifleman in battle, the sniper in the 20th century has been...