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Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya
Биографии и мемуары, Военная история

Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya

Автор: Goltz Thomas
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Chechnya Diary is a story about “the story” of the war in Chechnya, the “rogue republic” that attempted to secede from the Russian Federation at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Specifically, it is the story of the...
A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
Публицистика, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven

Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe’s exceptional authors. Called “a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail” by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulić—a native of...
The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War
Биографии и мемуары, Публицистика

The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War

Язык: английский
Год: 1993
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One of Eastern Europe’s most important writers, Croatian journalist and novelist Drakulic takes readers into the violent and bitter maelstrom that is the Yugoslavian conflict. In a series of brilliant and poignant personal essays, she describes...
Raw Material
Биографии и мемуары

Raw Material

Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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This fusion of novel and memoir from a bestselling British author chronicles the destructive effects of WWI on two working-class families in Nottingham. An advocate for ordinary people, Alan Sillitoe combines family memoir with exhaustive...
How to Be a Carioca
География, путевые заметки, Юмористическая проза

How to Be a Carioca

Язык: английский
Год: 2008
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An international bestseller since 1992, this is a humorous look at what makes up one of the world’s most colorful characters: the Carioca-those charming inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, written by a U.S. native who has made Rio her home for more...