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The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
Критика, Публицистика

The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language

Автор: Manea Norman
Серия: Margellos World Republic of Letters
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of essays, he explores the language and psyche of the...
Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia
Биографии и мемуары, Путешествия и география

Sunbathing in Siberia: A Marriage of East and West in Post-Soviet Russia

Автор: Oliver-Semenov Michael A.
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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Without aiming to be a survival guide, romance or autobiography, Sunbathing in Siberia manages to be all of them and none. Told completely from the Trans-Siberian and a series of Russian jets, this is the story of a young British poet, who, after...
Men We Reaped
Биографии и мемуары

Men We Reaped

Автор: Ward Jesmyn
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.”...
Time at War
Биографии и мемуары

Time at War

Автор: Mosley Nicholas
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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Although Nicholas Mosley has written two volumes of family biography and a volume of memoirs, he has, until now, avoided writing about his World War Two experiences. The son of Sir Oswald Mosley who, as the leader of the British Union of...
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging...
Bell P-39 Airacobra
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Транспорт и авиация

Bell P-39 Airacobra

Автор: Juszczak Artur
Язык: английский
Год: 2003
Статус: Закончена
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Designed as an interceptor, when the Bell P-39 Airacobra appeared in 1941 it was acclaimed as one of the most advanced combat planes of all time. Elegantly designed and innovatively engineered (it featured the engine mid-aircraft like a racing car),...
Deutsche Panzer 1917-1945
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Военное дело, военная техника и вооружение

Deutsche Panzer 1917-1945

Автор: Feist Uwe
Язык: английский
Год: 1978
Статус: Закончена
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German tanks entered the anals of armoured warfare for the first time in March 1918 in the form of the cumbersome "STURMKAMPFWAGEN A7V" of which only about twenty were built, compared to the 2,850 tanks built by the British alone. This book depicts...
Heinkel He 111
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Транспорт и авиация

Heinkel He 111

Автор: Mackay Ron
Серия: Crowood Aviation Series
Язык: английский
Год: 2003
Статус: Закончена
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The Heinkel He 111 is perhaps the best known of all the Luftwaffe's World War Two bombers. Designed originally as a civil airliner, it made its mark in the bomber role in the Spanish Civil War. Active from the beginning of WWII, the He 111 played a...