More than fifty years after what has been called "the most notorious unsolved murder of the 20th century," the case has finally been solved.
On January 15, 1947, the body of beautiful 22-year-old Elizabeth Short—dubbed the Black Dahlia...
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A young woman’s heady encounter with the new Russia, as she and the country thrill to their first taste of freedom
It is September 1991 and the dismantling of the Soviet Union is under way. In Voronezh, a provincial town famous for its loamy...
Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready,...
Военная документалистика и аналитика, История
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent...
From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan...
Биографии и мемуары, Морские приключения
Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic
Here is a refreshingly different sort of yachting book — not the memoirs of some super-tough global adventurer or seawise master mariner, but an account of how one of the most demanding of all sea voyages, the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic...
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Политика, Публицистика
Bobby Fischer Goes to War [How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time]
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men—the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer—met in the most notorious chess...
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form...
One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk,” and her medical records—chronicling a...
Критика
Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series
Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC’s original series Breaking Bad. The book’s first section...