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Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Baltic Coast
ISBN : 9781434370310
Author : Gunnar Åselius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135769604
This book, based on extensive work in Russian archives, investigates how strategy, organisational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval developments in the Soviet Union, up to the invasion of 1941. Focussing on the Baltic Fleet, the author shows how the perceived balance of power in northern Europe came to have a major influence on Soviet naval policy during the 1920s and 1930s. The operational environment of a narrow inland-sea like the Baltic would have required a joint approach to military planning, but the Soviet navy's weak position among the armed services made such an approach hard to attain. The Soviet regime also struggled against the cultural heritage of the tsarist navy and the book describes how this was overcome. In a special Appendix dedicated to the purges of 1937-38, surviving party records from the Baltic Fleet Intelligence Section are used to illustrate the mechanisms of the Great Terror at local level.
Author : Matt Coulee
Publisher : Matt Coulee
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780991017720
Traveling with no destination or pretense with no agenda or time schedule creates tremendous opportunities for exploration of both the world and the self. At any moment you can meet someone who can change the rest of your trip, maybe even the rest of your life. In the fall of 2011, I set out on such a journey and kept a journal along the way. The purpose was to capture my thoughts and feelings as they happened, unfiltered by time or concern for societal norms and judgment. In the end, it became less of a journal and more of a coming-of-age confessional.
Author : Robert Barr
Publisher : Litres
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041729721
Author : Griff Rhys Jones
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141928135
In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them, as he knew how to mend the engine. And this is their story. Over four long months of applied bickering in a vessel no bigger than a London taxi, they visited most of the geographically interesting restaurants on the Baltic seaboard. They sailed, over, and, even at one point, onto the mysterious heart of the Nordic world. They pushed themselves to the very limits of human endurance, before finally agreeing to wash their sleeping bags on a cool cycle at number six. To the Baltic with Bob is the full account of their stirring journey through the longest heat wave the frozen north has ever suffered; of three men in search of the answer to a troubling question: can you really outmanoeuvre a mid-life crisis by running away to sea?
Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199752729
Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.
Author : Agate Nesaule
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616956011
American Book Award Winner: A “stunning” memoir of surviving WWII Latvia—and the long journey to healing that followed (The New York Times Book Review). “A heartbreaking yet inspiring memoir of tragedy and healing,” A Woman in Amber tells the story of how the occupation of Latvia during World War II affected a woman’s relationship with her mother and husband for years to come (Tim O’Brien). Though Agate Nesaule eventually immigrated to the United States and became successful in her professional life, she found herself suffering from depression and unable to come to terms with its cause—until she found her voice and began to share what happened to her and her family at the hands of invading Russian soldiers. In a true story that “draws the reader forward with the suspense of a novel,” Nesaule reveals the effects of hunger, both physical and emotional, in stories about begging Russian soldiers for food, the abusive relationship with her first husband, and the redemption that came when she met her second (The New York Times Book Review).
Author : Janís Endzelíns
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110869750
Author : Sir John CARR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021725071
Author : lady Elizabeth Eastlake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600047498
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 5293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547390800
DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Tolstoy collection: Introduction Leo Tolstoy: A Short Biography "Tolstoy the Artist" and "Tolstoy the Preacher" by Ivan Panin "Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor" by Isabel Hapgood Novels Anna Karenina (Two Translations) War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich Childhood Boyhood Youth The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 Resurrection Family Happiness The Kreutzer Sonata The Forged Coupon Hadji Murad The Dekabrists: A Romance A Morning of a Landed Proprietor Reminiscences Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son by Graf Ilia LvovichTolstoi My Visit to Tolstoy by Joseph Krauskopf "My First Interview with Tolstoy" and "At one of the Tolstoy Receptions" by Lilian Bell Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) which are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 5282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547807544
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction Leo Tolstoy: A Short Biography "Tolstoy the Artist" and "Tolstoy the Preacher" by Ivan Panin "Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor" by Isabel Hapgood Novels Anna Karenina (Two Translations) War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich Childhood Boyhood Youth The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 Resurrection Family Happiness The Kreutzer Sonata The Forged Coupon Hadji Murad The Dekabrists: A Romance A Morning of a Landed Proprietor Reminiscences Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son by Graf Ilia LvovichTolstoi My Visit to Tolstoy by Joseph Krauskopf "My First Interview with Tolstoy" and "At one of the Tolstoy Receptions" by Lilian Bell Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) which are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
Author : Elizabeth Eastlake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Baltic Sea Region
ISBN : BSB:BSB10469372
Author : Peter I. Barta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135920418
The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new narratives about national, individual and European identities that have emerged in literature, theatre and other cultural media, investigates the impact of the re-unification of the continent on the mental landscape of Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe and Russia, and explores the new borders in the form of divisive nationalism that have reappeared since the disappearance of the Iron Curtain.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020414540