1997, ISBN: 9780857891594

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HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. A tight clean first edition (as stated)protected in a new brodart wrapper. In Jong's newest work, four g… Mehr…

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. A tight clean first edition (as stated)protected in a new brodart wrapper. In Jong's newest work, four generations of talented, beautiful Jewish women?Sarah, Salome, Sally, and Sara?fill ten decades with tragic, action-packed lives shaped by the challenges of Jewish history and the misery created by the deeply flawed men they choose. In the early 1900s, Sarah flees a deadly pogrom in Russia and paints her way to fame and fortune in America. Sarah's daughter, Salome, sleeps and writes her way through literary Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Salome's daughter, Sally, a tormented product of the Sixties, drowns her soul in a numbing mess of drugs, men, and alcohol while skyrocketing to the top of the music charts., HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 1997, 3, UK: Cassell, 1988. Revised Ediiton 1. Hardcover. Very Good+/New. B&W illustrations. CONDITION: Gently pre-read 1988 Cassell hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, revised edition, first printing. Loaded with B&W illustrations and art reproductions. No problems: just pre-read. CONTENT: The Mongols formed one of the finest armies ever known--and when they swept across the Danube on Christmas Day 1241, the west lay at the mercy of these "horsemen from hell." From a wealth of contemporary sources comes the story of these soldiers, and especially of Subedei Bahadur, the illiterate military genius who brought 20th-century warfare to Medieval Europe. A fascinating examination of their tactics and training--good enough to invent strategies that Rommel and Patton would later use to such devastating effect--proves the Mongols were more than mere barbarians: they were martial masterminds of the highest order. "A rare combination. An informative, yet highly readable book about the greatest Army in history, and the greatest general that led it, Sabotai, in the ONLY successful attack on Russia in history. And that's just the opening of the greatest campaign, the Mongol invasion of Eastern Europe." "The world was poised to be Asian dominated in 1240. It all turned on a dime. The power of the Mongol horde was awesome and no one in Europe was able to stop it. Chambers goes into great detail in explaining the chaos that was Europe in the 13th Century and how they were unable to deal with the inevitable doom soon to be visited upon them. Only a fluke event saved Europe from total destruction at the hands of the Mongols., Cassell, 1988, 4.5, New York: Belmont Books, 1964. 174 pp. Belmont Book L92-581. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Victor Kalin. The story of young Catherine the Great, who kept her officers in bondage and ruled an empire from her bouroir. Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not approve of this use of his name.. First Paperback Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Victor Kalin;., Belmont Books, 1964, 3, Atlantic Books. Used - Very Good., Atlantic Books, 3<

2015, ISBN: 9780857891594

383 Seiten, Sprache: Englisch Taschenbuch Gut WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and gave hi… Mehr…

383 Seiten, Sprache: Englisch Taschenbuch Gut WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and gave his people freedom. The demise of the Soviet Union offered hope that Russia would become a 'normal', 'civilized' country, embracing Western values of democracy and the free market. Thirty years later, Russia emerged as a corporate state, overcome by imperial nationalism, fanned by its authoritarian president Vladimir Putin, who smashed the post-Cold War order and ignited a war on the borders of Europe. How did a country that liberated itself from seventy years of Soviet rule end up as one of the biggest threats to the West and, above all, to its own future? Why did the people who rejected Communist ideology come to accept state propaganda? In this bold and important book, Arkady Ostrovsky takes the reader on an enthralling journey from Gorbachev's freedom to Putin's war, illuminating the key turning points that often took the world by surprise. The main characters are not politicians, however, but those who took charge of the media and the message and invented Russia's dominant narrative. From the suddenly wealthy men who came to command the airwaves to the newspaper editors and TV directors, and from the Russian intelligentsia to the Kremlin spin doctors and ideologists, The Invention of Russia shows just how these figures shaped the country during the tumultuous post-Soviet transformation. As a foreign correspondent in his own country, Ostrovsky has experienced Russia's modern history first-hand, and through original research and interviews he reveals the ideological conflicts, compromises and temptations that have left Russia on a knife-edge. Versand D: 4,95 EUR , [PU:London, Atlantic Books]<

2015, ISBN: 9780857891594

Penguin Books, [, 2015-01-01. Paperback. Like New., Penguin Books, [, 2015-01-01, 5

ISBN: 9780857891594

Paperback. Very Good., 3