Автор: Mckay, Sinclair Название: Mile end murder ISBN: 1781318042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781318041 Издательство: Aurum Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation, a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle.
Автор: Sinclair McKay Название: Secret Life of Bletchely Park ISBN: 1845136330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845136338 Издательство: Quarto Рейтинг: Цена: 10640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war effort.
Автор: Sinclair McKay Название: Berlin ISBN: 1250277507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250277503 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 18390.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond.
Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity-in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He traces the city's history through the rise of Hitler and the Battle for Berlin which ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, but beyond the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony.
From the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands, McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins.
Amid the destruction, a collective instinct was also at work-a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life, but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today, there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying-and for some, initially exhilarating-transformation should be heard.
Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sinclair McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait of life in this city that lay at the center of the world.
Автор: Mckay, Sinclair Название: Secret britain ISBN: 1472284550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472284556 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around the top secret and hidden WWII bases and battlegrounds in the UK, and tells the story of the brave men and women who fought and trained in them.
Автор: McKay, Sinclair Название: Berlin ISBN: 0241503175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241503171 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 17600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Sunday Times bestselling author of Dresden on the most important city of the 20th century
Автор: Mckay, Sinclair Название: Secret britain ISBN: 1472284534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472284532 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 17190.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around the top secret and hidden WWII bases and battlegrounds in the UK, and tells the story of the brave men and women who fought and trained in them.
Автор: Mckay, Sinclair Название: 100 people you never knew were at bletchley park ISBN: 1838405127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838405120 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A hundred short biographies of people who worked at the secret wartime codebreaking base of Bletchley Park, and went on in their postwar lives to all manner of remarkable achievements, from government office to composing the score for Dracula films, by the author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park.
Автор: Mckay, Sinclair Название: Dresden ISBN: 024198601X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241986011 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year'Powerful . . .
there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city.
I have never seen it better described' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesIn February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won?From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail.
Along the way we encounter, among many others across the city, a Jewish woman who thought the English bombs had been sent from heaven, novelist Kurt Vonnegut who wrote that the smouldering landscape was like walking on the surface of the moon, and 15-year-old Winfried Bielss, who, having spent the evening ushering refugees, wanted to get home to his stamp collection. He was not to know that there was not enough time. Impeccably researched and deeply moving, McKay uses never-before-seen sources to relate the untold stories of civilians and vividly conveys the texture of contemporary life.
Dresden is invoked as a byword for the illimitable cruelties of war, but with the distance of time, it is now possible to approach this subject with a much clearer gaze, and with a keener interest in the sorts of lives that ordinary people lived and lost, or tried to rebuild. Writing with warmth and colour about morality in war, the instinct for survival, the gravity of mass destruction and the manipulation of memory, this is a master historian at work. 'Churchill said that if bombing cities was justified, it was always repugnant.
Sinclair McKay has written a shrewd, humane and balanced account of this most controversial target of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign, the ferocious consequence of the scourge of Nazism' Allan Mallinson, author of Fight to the Finish'Beautifully-crafted, elegiac, compelling - Dresden delivers with a dark intensity and incisive compassion rarely equalled. Authentic and authoritative, a masterpiece of its genre' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo'Compelling . .
. Sinclair McKay brings a dark subject vividly to life' Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent'This is a brilliantly clear, and fair, account of one of the most notorious and destructive raids in the history aerial warfare. From planning to execution, the story is told by crucial participants - and the victims who suffered so cruelly on the ground from the attack itself and its aftermath' Robert Fox, author of We Were There
Автор: McKay Sinclair Название: The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury ISBN: 0711255830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780711255838 Издательство: Quarto Рейтинг: Цена: 9670.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bestselling author Sinclair McKay gives a gripping account of a murder in the heart of Victorian London, which intrigued and scandalised Bloomsbury society.
Автор: McKay Sinclair Название: The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 ISBN: 1250258014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250258014 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 19930.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II.
On February 13th, 1945 at 9:45 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death.
Early the next day, American bombers finished off what was left. Sinclair McKay's The Fire and the Darkness is a pulse-pounding work of history that looks at the life of the city in the days before the attack, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. The Fire and the Darkness is powered by McKay's reconstruction of this unthinkable terror from the points of view of the ordinary civilians: Margot Hille, an apprentice brewery worker; Gisela Reichelt, a ten-year-old schoolgirl; boys conscripted into the Hitler Youth; choristers of the Kreuzkirche choir; artists, factory floor managers, shop assistants, and classical musicians, as well as the Nazi officials stationed there.
What happened that night in Dresden was calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over. Sinclair McKay's brilliant work takes a complex, human, view of this terrible night and its aftermath in a gripping book that will be remembered long after the last page is turned.
Автор: McKay Sinclair Название: Scotland Yard Puzzle Book ISBN: 1472258339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472258335 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 16180.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Pit your wits against the brilliant minds of Scotland Yard, from the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers.
Автор: McKay, Sinclair Название: Bletchley Park Brainteasers ISBN: 1472261097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472261090 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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