Written in history, Sebag Montefiore, Simon

Автор: Black, Ian
Название: Enemies and Neighbours
ISBN: 0141979143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141979144
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish "national home" in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral testimonies and his own decades of reporting - Enemies and Neighbours brings much-needed perspective and balance to the long and unresolved struggle between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land.Beginning in the final years of Ottoman ruleand the British Mandate period, when Zionist immigration transformed Palestine in the face of mounting Arab opposition, the book re-examines the origins of what was a doomed relationship from the start. It sheds fresh light on critical events such as the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; Israel's independence and the Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba in Arabic) of 1948; the watershed of the 1967 war; two Intifadas; the Oslo Accords and Israel's shift to the right. It traces how - after five decades of occupation, ever-expanding Jewish settlements and the construction of the West Bank "separation wall" - hopes for a two-state solution have all but disappeared, and explores what the future might hold.Yet Black also goes beyond the most newsworthy events - wars, violence and peace initiatives - to capture thereality of everyday life on the ground in Jerusalem and Hebron, Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Haifa and Gaza, for both sides of an unequal struggle. Lucid, timelyand gripping, Enemies and Neighbours illuminates a bitter conflict that shows no sign of ending - which is why it is so essential that we understand it.

Автор: Sebag Montefiore
Название: The Romanovs
ISBN: 1474600875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474600873
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: The internationally bestselling epic history of Russia`s imperial dynasty

Автор: Kotkin, Stephen
Название: Stalin, Vol. II
ISBN: 0141027959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141027951
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways.

Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation and death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism.

By 1934, when the situation had stabilized and socialism had been built in the countryside too, the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms. But Stalin never forgot and never forgave, with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military.

But the Soviet Union was effectively alone, with no allies and enemies perceived everywhere. The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as envisioned.

The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective countries, drew ever closer to collision. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin's desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art.

Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making.

Автор: Sebag Montefiore, Simon
Название: Red Sky at Noon
ISBN: 178475269X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784752699
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Gripping storytelling allied with intimate, unsqueamish knowledge of Russian history - a special combination.` - AD Miller, author of Snowdrops`The gripping final instalment of the Moscow Trilogy tells of a man wrongly imprisoned in the Gulags and his fight for redemption.

Автор: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Название: One Night in Winter
ISBN: 0099580330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099580331
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: `An epic adventure story set against the most awful war in history. Ridiculously good` Dan SnowIf your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal?Moscow 1945.

Автор: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Название: Catherine The Great & Potemkin: prince of princes
ISBN: 0753818345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753818343
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 13150.00 T
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Описание: The epic bestselling biography of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin, her outrageous lover and co-ruler - by a bestselling historian

Автор: Sebag-montefiore, Charlotte
Название: Who am i? a book of riddles
ISBN: 1848977441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848977440
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Sebag-Montefiore, Simon
Название: Stalin
ISBN: 1780221878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780221878
Издательство: Orion
Цена: 10110.00 T
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Автор: Sebag Montefiore Simon
Название: Stalin
ISBN: 178022835X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780228358
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: The thrilling biography of Stalin - an international bestseller

Автор: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Название: Potemkin: Catherine the Great Imperial Partner
ISBN: 1400077176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400077175
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 11030.00 T
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Описание: As a young guardsman, Grigory Potemkin caught the eye of Catherine the Great with a theatrical act of gallantry during the coup that placed her on the throne. Over the next thirty years he would become her lover, co-ruler, and husband in a secret marriage that left room for both to satisfy their sexual appetites. Potemkin proved to be one of the most brilliant statesmen of the eighteenth century, helping Catherine expand the Russian empire and deftly manipulating allies and adversaries from Constantinople to London.
This acclaimed biography vividly re-creates Potemkin s outsized character and accomplishments and restores him to his rightful place as a colossus of the eighteenth century. It chronicles the tempestuous relationship between Potemkin and Catherine, a remarkable love affair between two strong personalities that helped shape the course of history. As he brings these characters to life, Montefiore also tells the story of the creation of the Russian empire. This is biography as it is meant to be: both intimate and panoramic, and bursting with life."

Автор: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Название: Red Sky at Noon
ISBN: 1780894732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780894737
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines.

Автор: Sebag-Montefiore, Simon
Название: Jerusalem
ISBN: 1780220251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780220253
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.