Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
Данная книга посвящена истории борьбы венгерского народа с распространением коммунизма. Ход этой борьбы показан автором в разрезе автобиографий таких венгерских государственных деятелей, как адмирал М.Хорти, Ф.Салаши и И. Надя. Книга адресована лицам, интересующимся новейшей историей.
On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. After an agonising delay, a young lieutenant finally bobbed to the surface and struggled aboard a life raft. So begins one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. As a boy, he turned to petty crime until he discovered a remarkable talent for running, which took him …
Little Drifters can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 4 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 4 of 4 (Chapters 19-24 of 24).The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.“For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in this terrible…
Совершим увлекательное путешествие по нашей планете, поговорим с жителями далеких и близких стран на их языке. Взойдем на новую Вавилонскую башню, где можно легко и свободно говорить обо всем со всеми.
В этой книге рассказывается о них — людях, приносивших холод. Людях, раздвигавших пределы России. Они все по-разному жили и по-разному скончались. Сейчас они все мертвы. Но без них не было бы меня. Эти книги — просто попытка отдать долг. По крайней мере, я попытаюсь.
История народа воплощена в жизни отдельных семей. Россия – страна в основе своей крестьянская. Родословная семей с крестьянскими корнями не менее интересна, нежели дворянская. В этом убеждает книга «Мир и война в жизни нашей семьи», написанная Георгием Георгиевичем Зубковым, Верой Петровной Зубковой (урожд. Рыковой) и их дочерьми Ниной и Людмилой. В книге воссоздается противоречивая и сложная судь…
Совершим увлекательное путешествие по нашей планете, поговорим с жителями далеких и близких стран на их языке. Взойдем на новую Вавилонскую башню, где можно легко и свободно говорить обо всем со всеми.
Двадцать первый том представляет собой биографический справочник, основанный на списках генералов по старшинству, списках по Генеральному штабу, приказах по Военному ведомству Российской империи и других архивных документах. Многие биографии публикуются впервые.
Described by Pilot magazine in 2011 as ‘Inspirational … one of the best books ever written about flying’. Join the real Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines as they compete in the Round Britain race. Woodward’s warm, wry account of learning to fly will lift hearts everywhere. BBC2 documentary based on the book – 23 January 2012.Antony Woodward hated flying. It was, quite simply, not his thing.…
One of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, the acclaimed writer John Cornwell has finally written his own story, and the story of a choice he had to make between the Church and a life lived outside its confines.John Cornwell decided to become a priest at the age of thirteen, a strange choice perhaps for a boy who'd been sent to a 'convalescent home' for having whacked a nun about the h…
When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse’s training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later – one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.For Mary, raised in a strict convent in rural south Ireland, working in her first London hospital was a shocking and life-changing experience. Agai…
A tale of Catherine Cookson-esque tragedy and Northern grit, Pauline Prescott's life story will shock and amaze.A mother and a faithful friend, Pauline is not your typical politician's wife. She is immensely proud of her role as a housewife and over the near-forty years she has been in the public eye she has remained discreet, dignified and deeply loyal.The daughter of a bricklayer, who died when …
Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud is a beautifully written account of Sun Shuyun’s journey to retrace the steps of one of the most popular figures in Chinese history – the monk Xuanzang, who travelled to India searching for true Buddhism.Xuanzang should be known as one of the world's great heroes. His travels across Asia to bring true Buddhism back to China are legendary, and his own book provide…
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. ‘The Discomfort Zone’ is his intimate memoir of his growth from a ‘small and fundamentally ridiculous person’ through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a middle class family weathering the turbulence of the 19…
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship – and quarrel – between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.Wordsworth and Coleridge’s passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent estrangement contribute to a tragic tale. But Sisman’s biography of this most remarkable friendship – the first to devote itself wholly to exploring the impact…