Search results for "Stalin"
epub |eng | 2016-08-13 | Author:Andrew Lownie

A journalist who saw him several times that spring remembered that Burgess ‘drank heavily but was able to “hold his whiskey”, in that he could drink six highballs, “without turning ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-30 | Author:Nik Cornish

Close artillery support for the German mountain troops was provided by the 75mm M18 mountain gun. It broke down into six mule loads. The German attack began when the thaw ...
( Category: other April 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Elidor Mëhilli

Tirana to Beijing to Havana Out of this mixture of top-down planning in the absence of urban plans; desire for mass production and constant improvisation with soil, composites, and other ...
( Category: Europe April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:John Birmingham [Birmingham, John]

They did not spend long underground this time, and they moved with much greater haste and almost no concern for stealth. The ground beneath them rumbled. Bursts of gunfire, shouts ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 3,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:50MINUTES.COM,

Industrial growth was impressive and there was a sharp increase in the production of raw materials (steel, coal and electricity). Large-scale projects were launched and used as examples of the ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Michael James Melnyk Melnyk [Melnyk, Michael James Melnyk]

Stradner Kögel Elsewhere, directly to the south, the heaviest fighting occurred around Stradner Kögel and the plateau which was 1,000 metres south of the elevation, where a series of attacks ...
( Category: Military April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Mark Edele [Edele, Mark]

Soldiers who had not eaten for three to four days often felt that going over to the enemy might save them from starvation,29 a causal relationship between hunger and defection ...
( Category: Military April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:Nik Cornish [Cornish, Nik]

German intelligencegathering was much more efficient during this period. Patrolling was an essential feature of German security precautions in some of the more isolated areas of AGC’s position. There was ...
( Category: Military April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-12 | Author:NEW YORK DAILY NEWS [NEWS, NEW YORK DAILY]

British See Signs of Rift. The first signs of a break in this Nazi-Soviet collaboration appeared a little more than two months ago, in the British view, when Russia, in ...
( Category: History April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Bill Yenne [Yenne, Bill]

Mike Reilly had sensed that Cairo was filled with Axis agents, but he found Tehran teeming with NKVD agents and Soviet troops. A thousand-man contingent of NKVD agents flooded into ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Watson [Watson, Ian]

Her room was richly furnished with rugs from Central Asia, silverware, onyx statuettes, ivory carvings. Was she some black marketeer in art treasures or the mistress of one? Had he ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-17 | Author:David E. Murphy [Murphy, David E.]

These points were followed by two conclusions: “1. On the basis of all of the opinions cited above and possible versions of actions in the spring of this year, I ...
( Category: Military March 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Solomon Volkov

In this innermost episode of the symphony, Shostakovich seems to be overcoming personal pain. Here is the parallel with Jesus and with Pushkin, when the poet was dying of the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-23 | Author:Heda Margolius Kovály

Liberating Russian soldiers shake the hands of residents after driving the Germans out of Prague, 1945. Courtesy Česká televize. In the morning the announcer called me and said: “You know, ...
( Category: World March 13,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:Timothy Synder

Home to much of the Polish educated classes and to Europe’s largest society of Jews, Warsaw was a metropolis that had no place in the Nazi worldview. As of spring ...
( Category: other March 12,2018 )

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