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The Firm
Биографии и мемуары

The Firm

Автор: Junor Penny
Язык: английский
Год: 2005

The House of Windsor is a big business, though one with more ups and downs than the stock market. Prince Philip calls it “The Firm,” and all the royal executives and their powerful associates are supposed to make every effort to avoid even a...
The Elephant to Hollywood
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The Elephant to Hollywood

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...
The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal
Биографии и мемуары, История

The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal

Автор: Nightingale Adam
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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In the fierce winter of 1710, in a North American port, a boat ferried ten shipwreck survivors to the safety of shore. Fourteen Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Island, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter,...
Быстрее молнии. Моя автобиография
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Быстрее молнии. Моя автобиография

Язык: английский
Год: 2015

Усэйн Болт – величайший атлет в мире. Шестикратный олимпийский чемпион и восьмикратный чемпион мира, за время выступлений установил 8...
Tail of the Storm
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Tail of the Storm

Автор: Cockrell Alan
Язык: английский
Год: 1995
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Within days of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the far-reaching arm of American airpower sprang into action. Cockrell writes lyrically about flying, and about the emotional and intellectual satisfaction enjoyed by those who fly. His...
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Биографии и мемуары, Публицистика

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea

Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many...