Knapp Samuel L., Life of Lord Timothy Dexter; with sketches of the eccentric characters that composed his associates, including his own writings, Dexter's Pickle for the knowing ones

Allen Lane, 2007 - 736 p. ISBN10: 0713999209 ISBN13: 9780713999204 (eng) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from the 1950s all the way up to the present day. He discusses his parents, his...

Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side. Welcome to Heroine City. Мемуары полицейского из Нью-Йорка, работавшего детективом в штатском в конце 1980-х годов в той части Нью-Йорка, где жили большей частью поляки и украинцы и которая считалась столицей героина. Все имена и даже географические названия изменены, но это не художественная литература, а аутентичные воспоминания. Майкл Коделла был полицей...

Imperial College Press, 2011 - 376 p. ISBN10: 1848166753 ISBN13: 9781848166752 (eng) Armin G Stromberg was arguably one of the founding fathers of the technique of stripping voltammetry frequently used in chemical analysis, yet he is virtually unheard of in Western scientific circles. He was a brilliant scientist, but due to his German ancestry he was interred in one of the NKVD GULAG camps at the outbreak of the Second World War. This semi-bi...

Indiana University Press, 2011 - 400 p. ISBN10: 0253356067 ISBN13: 9780253356062 When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler - wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys" - set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed h...

2001 (en) 239 р. Vietnam War: Biographies presents biographies of sixty men and women who participated in or were affected by the Vietnam War. These two volumes profile a diverse mix of personalities from both the United States and Vietnam, including politicians, military leaders, antiwar activists, journalists,authors, nurses, veterans, and civilians who got caught in the middle of the conflict. Detailed biographies of major Vietnam War figures...

2001 (en) 239 р. Vietnam War: Biographies presents biographies of sixty men and women who participated in or were affected by the Vietnam War. These two volumes profile a diverse mix of personalities from both the United States and Vietnam, including politicians, military leaders, antiwar activists, journalists,authors, nurses, veterans, and civilians who got caught in the middle of the conflict. Detailed biographies of major Vietnam War figures...

London, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. - 288 p. Воспоминая фельдмаршала Пауля фон Гинденбурга. Том 1. CONTENTS Days of Peace and War Before 1914. My Youth. In Battle for the Greatness of Prussia and Germany. Work in Peace Time. Retirement. The Campaign in The East. The Struggle for East Prussia The Campaign in Poland. 1915. The Campaign of 1916. Up to the End of August From Our Transfer to Main Headquarters to the Collapse of Ru...

London, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. - 314 p. Воспоминая фельдмаршала Пауля фон Гинденбурга. Том 2. CONTENTS From Our Transfer to Main Headquarters to the Collapse of Russia. My Attitude on Political Questions Preparations for the Coming Campaign The Hostile Offensive in the First Half Of 1917 Our Counterattack in the East The Attack on Italy Further Hostile Attacks in the Second Half Of 1917 A Glance at the Internal Situation...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migrati...

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 1999. 216 pages. Language: English. These letters to a beloved son and his family tell the poignant story of one woman's life in Nazi-occupied Prague and help explain why some Jews stayed behind. Henriette Pollatschek's letters provide a detailed picture of the lives of Jews in Prague during the war years: the evictions, the food shortages, the worries about livelihood, and the increasing prohibitions and reg...