mobi |eng | 2008-06-17 | Author:Volkogonov, Dmitri [Volkogonov, Dmitri]

We are writing to your honour and we ask you to believe our letter, which was groaned out in the northern tundra, not in bitter tears but black blood. We ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Khlevniuk, Oleg V. [Khlevniuk, Oleg V.]

THE STATE DEFENSE COMMITTEE Stalin’s actions during the war’s first days were frenetic, confused, and reactive. Even though he did not grasp the situation and was not qualified to manage ...

epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

The hay in the little barn was sweet. Rabbits in a cage against the wall rustled and nibbled in the dark. On the other side of the mud wall a ...

epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Cathy Porter

26th March. It’s a great pity I haven’t kept an accurate account of the various events and conversations that have taken place. What interested me most were all the letters, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-05-24 | Author:Karl Tobien [Tobien, Karl]

Fourteen BUREPOLOM Our introduction to this transitional camp was rough indeed. We were put to work immediately and left to fend for ourselves among the camp’s most violent members. Because ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:Anne Applebaum

8. HAVA VOLOVICH Hava Volovich was born in 1916. She worked as a typesetter, then as a newspaper subeditor, in a small Ukrainian town, where she watched friends and family ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Helen Rappaport

In the summer of 1918, the road out to the Koptyaki Forest – a dense area of ancient birch and pine forest nine miles north-west of Ekaterinburg – would take ...

epub |eng | 1980-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Two days later, Peter wrote again: I beg you to do everything that can possibly be done without me. When I was well, I let nothing pass, but now God ...

epub |eng | 1995-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Close, Frank [Close, Frank]

DAMAGE CONTROL Whereas for Gil’s friends in Abingdon this was a spy story come true, for others the implications of Pontecorvo’s defection were more serious. When news of Pontecorvo’s disappearance ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Lev Golinkin [Golinkin, Lev]

Now, at Binder’s, I was forced to concede that those lessons may have been useful after all. Over and over, I muttered the alphabet, chewing on the acrid feeling of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Stephen Kotkin [Kotkin, Stephen]

EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES Persistent war rumors incited runs on shops, hoarding, and boasts of refusals to fight or sabotage in the event of conflict that were fixed in the ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Rappaport, Helen [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Azar, Helen [Azar, Helen]

— Saturday. 31st December. We 2 to Znamenie and to the infirmary. Rita was helping to replace Val.[lentina] Iv.[anovna]30 in the operating room, and I was [helping] a little on ...