Новый роман от автора бестселлеров «Командир штрафной роты», «Штрафник, танкист, смертник» и «“Зверобои” против “Тигров”»! Военный боевик о подвигах пограничников Берии в 1941 году. «Зеленоголовых расстреливать на месте!» – этот негласный приказ Вермахт получил в первые же дни войны. План «Барбаросса» дал сбой уже на рассвете 22 июня – 435 советских погранзастав оказали гитлеровцам ожесточенное сопротивление, которого те не ожидали и не учли. В ...
This is an English translation of “The Private Life of the Romanoffs”, originally published in German and written by Bernhard Stern. Within this volume, Stern explores the idea of the Romanoffs as tyrants, focusing on the various influences upon the rulers by their 'mistresses and favourites'. A fascinating insight into the lives and loves of the Romanoffs, this volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in Russian history an ...
First published in 1921, this book contains the memoirs of Pierre Gilliard. Pierre Gilliard (1879 – 1962) was a Swiss author and academic famous for being the French language tutor of Russian Emperor Nicholas II's children between 1905 and 1918. Within these pages, Gilliard describes Tsarina Alexandra's sadness relating to her son's haemophilia and her belief in Grigori Rasputin's ability to help the boy. This volume constitu ...
When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine. He demonstrates tha ...
Эта книга о самых обычных людях, в чьих судьбах история отражена не менее ярко, чем в жизни выдающихся личностей. Собственно, наши предки и не стремились занять место в звездной плеяде творцов истории. Они просто делали то, к чему обязывали любовь к Родине, совесть, долг и честь. Они воевали, с каждым шагом приближая победу в самой страшной и кровопролитной войне. Эта книга – дань памяти и низкий поклон нашим предкам за их мужество, самоотвержен ...
The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Mi ...
A Duke In Disguise. . . The day was as hot as the pond was inviting. It's not as if anyone in Little Huffington was going to happen upon a secluded vale on the Duke of Greycliffe's lands. And Venus Collingswood didn't want to get her shift all wet. It was the perfect setting in which to plan her lovely bookworm of a sister's betrothal to the mysterious new duke arriving seven days hence. If only she had a suitable accomplice ...
