Stalin`s nose, Maclean, Rory

Автор: MacLean Rory
Название: Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries
ISBN: 1250074908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250074904
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 14710.00 T
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Автор: MacLean Rory
Название: Pictures of You
ISBN: 0995185514 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780995185517
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 14860.00 T
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The 20th century in 10 extraordinary moments: a photographic journey by bestselling historian Rory Maclean

In the 20th century, amateur photography took history--and collective memory--out of the hands of historians and gave it to individuals. In Pictures of You, bestselling British-Canadian historian and travel writer Rory MacLean narrates a journey through 10 photographs, across the globe and into the lives of 10 ordinary men and women who lived through extraordinary times.

Each photograph (or group of photographs) comes from a different decade of the 20th century: the first killing of the Cold War; the dying hopes of a doomed aviator; the ghosts of Native America at Alcatraz; Chairman Mao's most timid lover; Nature's final battle with humankind. Through these images, MacLean ventures from Siberia to Rangoon, China to Shepperton Studios, hearing forgotten voices that echo from the depths of time, picturing lives that mirror our own, and saving the stories behind these pictures of you.

All of these images belong to the Archive of Modern Conflict in London. Over the last 25 years the Archive's small collection of amateur photographs has grown into one of the world's most moving image treasuries, its shelves now holding pictures of some four million lost lives.

"A delicately beautiful book, haunting in its effect. Superb." -Alexander McCall Smith

"Stunning A unique virtuoso exercise in empathy, narrative and imagination." -Jan Morris

Автор: MacLean Rory
Название: Pravda Ha Ha: True Travels to the End of Europe
ISBN: 1408896524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408896525
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 19800.00 T
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'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carr

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were - for most Brits and Americans - part of the forgotten half of Europe. Thirty years on, MacLean traces his original journey backwards, across countries confronting old ghosts and new fears: from revanchist Russia, through Ukraine's bloodlands, into illiberal Hungary, and then Poland, Germany and the UK. Along the way he shoulders an AK-47 to go hunting with Moscow's chicken Tsar, plays video games in St Petersburg with a cyber-hacker who cracked the US election, drops by the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership in a non-existent nowhereland and meets the Warsaw doctor who tried to stop a march of 70,000 nationalists. Finally, on the shores of Lake Geneva, he waits patiently to chat with Mikhail Gorbachev.

As Europe sleepwalks into a perilous new age, MacLean explores how opportunists - both within and outside of Russia, from Putin to Home Counties populists - have made a joke of truth, exploiting refugees and the dispossessed, and examines the veracity of historical narrative from reportage to fiction and fake news. He asks what happened to the optimism of 1989 and, in the shadow of Brexit, chronicles the collapse of the European dream.