Russia
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 ...
( Category: Russia June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-02-23 | Author:Steve Coll

BY THE AUTUMN OF 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. ...
( Category: Asian June 11,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Russia June 4,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Russia May 30,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Massie, Robert K. [Massie, Robert K.]

Despite the huge losses of the previous autumn, the coming of spring 1915 found the Russian army again ready for battle. Its strength, down to 2,000,000 men in December 1914, ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:David Edmonds & John Eidinow [Edmonds, David & Eidinow, John]

Fischer off-stage continues to command almost all the attention. In the press, much of it makes for uncomfortable reading. The Washington Post agonizes that “Fischer has alienated millions of chess ...
( Category: Chess May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-26 | Author:Francis Gary Powers & Curt Gentry

FOUR USA One Reporters were watching all the major airports, but particularly Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington, D.C. Possibly this was because it was here that President Kennedy had ...
( Category: United States May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Neal Bascomb [Bascomb, Neal]

" Three Saints, what is keeping you?" Admiral Krieger telegraphed to Vishnevetsky at 10:10 A.M., spotting his second in command's squadron heading toward Tendra Harbor without the Potemkin at its ...
( Category: Naval May 25,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Russia May 25,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Russia May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Donald Crawford [Crawford, Donald]

A sealed copy of the abdication was handed over to Guchkov and another to Ruzsky for transmission to the army commands and to Petrograd and other key centres, including the ...
( Category: Europe April 9,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Niven, Jennifer [Niven, Jennifer]

* * * McMinnville, Oreg. Aug. 8, 1923 Mr. H. Galle Newbraunfels, Texas.; Dear Sir; You will note that the boys are supposed to be alive and I feel that ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
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 ...
( Category: Russia March 23,2015 )