This book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh approach, making novel links with conflict and coercion, and moving away from teleological emphases. Naval developments and warfare are included, as are social and cultural dimensions of military activity. Leading military historian Jeremy Black offers the reader a twent…
Пьеса «Последний канцлер» посвящена великому русскому дипломату и общественному деятелю, однокашнику и другу Пушкина, последнему канцлеру Российской империи, денонсировавшему унизительный Парижский договор и вернувшему России Крым, черноморский флот и влияние в южных регионах. Родин И. О. – писатель, драматург, переводчик, автор более сотни книг, выпущенных массовыми тиражами ведущими издательства…
This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.
This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.
This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.
This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.
Призрак ядерной войны давно навис над человеческой цивилизацией. Пожалуй, ещё со времён первой атомной бомбардировки. Впоследствии мир несколько раз становился перед страшным выбором: пойти путём дипломатии в разрешении нового международного кризиса или встать на рельсы самого кровопролитного в истории современного человечества конфликта. К счастью, пока возобладал здравый смысл. В этой книге чит…
Что «роднит» гороскоп Иисуса Христа с гороскопами Гаутамы Будды, Основания Ватикана, как государства, и Иоанна Павла II, как его последнего правителя, занимавшего свой пост продолжительное время? Какие гороскопические ключевые «реперы» «как бы намекают» и заставляют задуматься о наличии мощнейшей взаимосвязи между этими генитурами? Как с гороскопом Иисуса Христа соотносятся гороскопы Его пренаталь…
The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.Two women, centuries apart. Linked in a place haunted by its history . . .Separated by more than six hundred years of history, two women are drawn together by Sleeper’s Castle, a house steeped in memory and magic. This is an epic tale of forbidden love, cruel revenge and a war that time can’t forget.Grieving and lost, Miranda has moved to Hay to escape, and slow…
Эта книга приглашает читателя в удивительный мир казачьей духовности и святости. Разрушит советский стереотип о казаках поголовных разбойниках.Она представляет собой уникальную коллекцию биографий и житий почитаемых казаками святых - от древних святых до современных подвижников. На страницах этого "Казачьего патерика". Узнает особенности казачьей культуры.описываются почитаемые казаками чудотворны…
A Companion to the Vietnam War contains twenty-four definitive essays on America's longest and most divisive foreign conflict. It represents the best current scholarship on this controversial and influential episode in modern American history. Highlights issues of nationalism, culture, gender, and race. Covers the breadth of Vietnam War history, including American war policies, the Vietnamese pers…
In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis. A forthright examination of America's unprecedented military commitment and actions abroad, America and th…
More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance o…
More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance o…
More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance o…