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Chernobyl 01:23:40 by Andrew Leatherbarrow
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-09 | Author:Andrew Leatherbarrow

Chapter 7 RADIATION My alarm interrupts an unbroken eight-hour sleep. Feels more like two. Staggering out of bed, I gather my discarded clothes from the floor, rub the sleep from ...
( Category: Russia September 9,2017 )
Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 by William C. Fuller
epub | | 2017-04-30 | Author:William C. Fuller

Military Strategy Under Alexander II The military and naval reforms of the 1860s and 1870s were impressive achievements, but in the end they would not have been worth much had ...
( Category: Russia September 9,2017 )
Panzer Destroyer by Vasiliy Krysov
epub |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Vasiliy Krysov

Breaking Through to Our Lines It grew dark and the self-propelled gun slowly headed north-east towards Fastov along back roads well known to Vasiliy Shimchenko. The wounded men lay behind ...
( Category: Historical September 9,2017 )
In Wartime by Tim Judah
epub |eng | 2016-10-11 | Author:Tim Judah

Donetsk is the epicenter of the conflict. It has always had a reputation as a rough and ready kind of place, though before the war, during the 2012 UEFA European ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 9,2017 )
The Crimean Nexus by Constantine Pleshakov
epub |eng | 2017-09-09 | Author:Constantine Pleshakov

“Good Life” The origins of the town of Yalta are modest and unclear. It may have started as a Greek fishing village or a tiny Genoese post, but it cannot ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 9,2017 )
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
epub |eng | 2017-01-04 | Author:Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Trying to Fit In Besides bookcases, Grandpa’s room contained a full bed, a huge mahogany desk, an armchair, a tall filing cabinet, and a square dinner table. My mother had ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 8,2017 )
My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Emma Goldman [Russia, My Disillusionment in]

. . Our visitors spoke of Makhno as a heroic popular figure, and related his daring exploits and the legends the peasants had woven about his personality. There was considerable ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People September 8,2017 )
Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror by Nechama Tec
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Nechama Tec

CHAPTER FOUR The Concentration Camps Bela Chazan Yaari was born in 1922 into a Jewish Orthodox family in the small Polish town of Rizyszczyce. Her father died when Bela was ...
( Category: World September 8,2017 )
Resistance by Tec Nechama
epub |eng | 2013-09-08 | Author:Tec, Nechama

CHAPTER FOUR The Concentration Camps Bela Chazan Yaari was born in 1922 into a Jewish Orthodox family in the small Polish town of Rizyszczyce. Her father died when Bela was ...
( Category: World September 8,2017 )
Gorbachev by William Taubman
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Taubman

Gorbachev and Reagan strolling in Red Square, Moscow, May 31, 1988. What Nancy Reagan wanted to say was “Thank you.” But it was hard to get a word in edgewise. ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Imperial Dancer by Coryne Hall
epub |eng | 2012-06-09 | Author:Coryne Hall

In the spring of 1915 the Russians captured Przemysl, ‘the strongest fortress in the Austro-Hungarian Empire’.10 The air of general rejoicing soon turned to despair. Przemysl and Lemberg were lost, ...
( Category: Historical September 7,2017 )
The Russian Revolution by McMeekin Sean;
epub |eng | | Author:McMeekin, Sean;

Dzerzhinsky’s Cheka was also tasked with containing the political fallout from the recent national parliamentary elections (conducted on November 12, it had taken until the end of the month for ...
( Category: Russia September 6,2017 )
The New Nobility of the KGB by Andrei Soldatov
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Andrei Soldatov [Soldatov, Andrei]

After almost three hours, local troops appeared to be hunting one another. We were surprised how disorganized and fluid the whole situation became. At about 5:00 P.M. we managed to ...
( Category: Russia September 5,2017 )
Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by Craig William
epub |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Craig, William [Craig, William]

By now Sixth Army headquarters was aware that Manstein was coming. Buoyed up, nervous, Paulus and Schmidt waited through the day for progress reports of Operation Winter Storm. They were ...
( Category: Military September 5,2017 )
The Romanov Sisters (Four Sisters) by Helen Rappaport
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport [Rappaport, Helen]

Chapter Fourteen SISTERS OF MERCY N When Russia went to war in the summer of 1914, it was faced with a desperate shortage of nurses. With massive losses of almost ...
( Category: Historical September 4,2017 )

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