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Lenin
Биографии и мемуары, История

Lenin

Автор: Lih Lars T.
Серия: Critical Lives
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influence and reach around the world. Lenin was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party during the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and he...
Lorca - a Dream of Life
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Lorca - a Dream of Life

Автор: Stainton Leslie
Язык: английский
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Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was not yet 40 when he was executed by Falangists during the Spanish Civil War, yet he already towered over literature in Spain. He was arguably his generation's greatest poet and playwright. Although Lorca...
Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Публицистика

Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

Автор: Wilcox Fred A.
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer,...
Augustus
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Augustus

Автор: Everitt Anthony
Язык: английский
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British author Everitt begins his biography of Augustus (63 B.C.– A.D. 14) with a novelistic reconstruction of the Roman emperor's last days, offering a new spin on his murder at the hands of his wife, Livia. Everitt presents the death as an...