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August 1991. Ich heiße Luca und schulde meiner Kollegin Cindy einen Besuch drüben im Osten, in ihrer alten Heimat. Cindy ist ein guter Kumpel, aber leider auch wahnsinnig anstrengend. Zum Glück sind ihre Nachbarn Ursula und Detlef vorbeigekommen, um mit uns ein paar Flaschen Wein zu köpfen. Während wir fröhlich Rosenthaler Kadarka in uns hineinschütten, verstärkt sich das ungute Gefühl, dass ich den Satz über Cindy und ihre Bekannten hinter dem Wort "wahnsinnig" beenden sollte. Und als der Sowjetsoldat Semjon auftaucht, nimmt meine Ost-Reise für alle Anwesenden eine "urst" ungesunde Wendung...

Probablement n'avez vous pas eu vent des évènements surréalistes qui se déroulent depuis deux siècles sous le gros chêne près du Village d'Enfants de Grasi en Lettonie ?Une nuit de novembre sans lune, de nouveau la meute de loups et les chiens des environs se mirent à hurler et les cloches à sonner. Etonnant...Cette histoire fantastique nous entraine dans l'ambiance du sovkhoze (ferme d'Etat) de Grasi durant la période soviétique.50% du solde revenant à l'auteur ayant vécut plusieurs années en ces lieux, sera versé au Village 'Enfants.4 langues sur le même ouvrage: Français, Letton, Anglais, Russe. Français, Latviski, English, Russkiy

СОДЕРЖАНИЕПоездка в Соловецкий монастырь Печорский князь Берестяная книга БиографияСергей Васильевич Макси́мов (25 сентября (7 октября) 1831 - 3 (16) июня 1901) - русский этнограф-беллетрист. Брат писателя Николая и хирурга Василия Максимовых. Публиковался с 1853 г., преимущественно в Библиотеке для чтения. Начинал с очерков из народного быта. Ободрённый Тургеневым, Максимов в 1855 году предпринимает литературно-этнографическую экскурсию - пешеходное странствование по Владимирской губернии, посещает затем Нижний Новгород, Вятскую губернию. Этот опыт изучения народного быта отразился в очерках Крестьянские посиделки Костромской губернии, Извощики, Швецы (то есть портные), Сергач (вожак медведя), Вотяки, Нижегородская ярмарка, Соцкой, Булыня (скупщик льна), Маляр, Кулачок, Повитуха, Колдун и др., впоследствии вошедших в книгу Лесная глушь (СПб., т. 1-2, 1871).Когда по мысли великого князя Константина Николаевича морским ведомством был организован целый ряд этнографических экспедиций в различные края России (1855), Максимову достался Север он отправился к Белому морю, добрался до Ледовитого океана и Печоры и напечатал ряд статей в Морском сборнике, Библиотеке для чтения и Сыне Отечества, составивших затем книгу Год на Севере (1859, СПб.; 3 изд., 1871). Это произведение отмечено малой золотой медалью Императорского русского географического общества....(ru.wikipedia.org)

Con algunos de los nombres más memorables de la historia, la dinastía Romanov es una de esas familias reales cuyo legado solo puede ser rivalizado por unos pocos. Gobernando Rusia durante algo más de trescientos años, desde el siglo XVII hasta principios del XX, los zares Romanov y, en raros pero inolvidables casos, las emperatrices dominaron los paisajes políticos de su época y forjaron una de las dinastías más legendarias de todos los tiempos. De hecho, Rusia, el gran y poderoso Estado nación que conocemos hoy, se creó en gran parte gracias a los esfuerzos de gobernantes Romanov como Pedro el Grande o Catalina la Grande. La familia Romanov tiene garantizado para siempre un lugar en los libros de historia rusa, europea e incluso mundial. Sumergirse en la historia de una dinastía tan conocida es un placer para cualquiera que sienta pasión por aprender más sobre Rusia. Este es un anticipo de lo que encontrará en este libro: Una detallada historia del surgimiento de la dinastía Romanov, que tuvo lugar durante el periodo quizá más turbulento de la existencia de Rusia.La evolución social y política a lo largo de la dinastía Romanov, desde Mijaíl Romanov hasta Nicolás II.Una inmersión profunda en los conflictos externos e internos que dieron forma a Rusia bajo los Romanov.Un apasionante recorrido por la transformación cultural de Rusia, que pasó de ser un país atrasado a una superpotencia mundial empeñada en lograr una clara identidad europea.El papel de los Romanov en varios acontecimientos mundiales, como la Primera Guerra Mundial y la Revolución rusa de 1917.El legado de la dinastía Romanov.¡Y mucho más!Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón Añadir a la cesta para comenzar hoy mismo su viaje al pasado.

Anna Nasilowska's A History of Polish Literature is a one-volume guide that immerses readers in the rich tapestry of Polish literature and reveals its enduring impact on European identity from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. By exploring key themes, writers, and works and grounding her discussion in crucial biographical context, she weaves together the lives of a carefully curated list of Polish writers to paint a vivid literary portrait, elucidating the epochs that these writers shaped. Offering indispensable insights for readers who may be unfamiliar with the world of Polish literature, it is an excellent jumping-off-point for further study and learning.

The Rise of the Russian Empire, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

A dissident's deeply personal and unflinching view of Soviet oppression in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the 1968 invasion. Seven Days to the Funeral is the fictionalized memoir of Ján Rozner, a leading Slovak journalist, critic, dramaturg, and translator. Rozner and his wife Zora Jesenská were champions of the Prague Spring and were blacklisted after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. When Jesenská died in 1972, her funeral became a political event and attendees faced recriminations. A painstaking account of the week after his wife's death, Seven Days to the Funeral is a historical record of the devastating impact of the period after the invasion. Through ruthless portraits of key figures in Slovak culture, the book provides a fascinating cultural history of Slovakia from 1945 to 1972. It is also a moving love story of an unlikely couple. Although Rozner began the book in 1976, it was left unfinished upon his death. The book was published posthumously in 2009 by his second wife Sláva Roznerová.

New Infinity is an experimental novella that follows a woman as she lives and dreams her way through the philosophical implications of autoimmune disease. Met by a labyrinth of closing doors, she searches for meaning and connection among fragmented realities and failed relationships, finding infinitude in the healing process of bibliomancy. Bára Hladík's New Infinity is a glittering cross-genre debut. Weaving surrealist stories with meditative poetics, Hladík invites you into a dream world of degenerative illness, left disordered by the failures of ableism, medical professionals, and late-stage capitalism. Here, everything runs on crip time. Where physical health and financial resources grow scarce, the restorative possibilities of queer love, divination, and self-reclamation grant a defiant, yet often tenuous, abundance. Alive with Hladík's boundless insight and wit, New Infinity is a powerful addition to the collective body of disability literature.

This report explores how machine learning can be leveraged to enable military decisionmaking at the operational level of competition and conflict as a collaboration between machine learning tools and human analysts.

This report evaluates the potential for further escalation in the war in Ukraine, including possible escalation to Russian nuclear use, to better inform U.S. and allied decisions and the public debate.

"A mother and son's fictional journey to escape the Armenian Genocide and start anew. Like any other fifteen-year-old boy, Aram might never have written the events of his still young life, except that he found himself suddenly plunged into exile, fleeing certain death. In 1915, the Ottoman authorities undertook the wholesale extermination of the Armenian people; hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children like Aram suffered one of the twentieth century's most savage persecutions. Inspired by the plight of the murdered modernist poet Daniel Varoujan (1884-1915), this novel follows Aram and his widowed mother on their flight toward a new life on - and under - the sea. From recollections of his father's meditations on Homer to a life-changing apprenticeship as a coral fisherman off the coasts of Cataluäna and Marseille, Aram's tale dives into a future that might help redeem a harrowing past. Aram's Notebook examines the Armenian Genocide through a narrative in which poets and poetry loom large. Aram's tale evokes a struggle not simply for physical survival, but for saving memory from the clutches of destruction"--

June 1941: German troops occupy Bialystok, abruptly overwhelming the city, terrorizing its largely Jewish population and threatening them with annihilation. A young man, Srolke Kot reads a note taped to the outside of the Judenrat door - "RESIST!" With the courage of desperation, 25-year-old Srolke joins the Jewish underground and fights, alongside Jewish partisans and the Red Army, against the Nazis and their collaborators.Khurbn Bialystok - The Destruction of Bialystok is the inspiring story of Jewish defiance and survival in the face of incredible odds.

Winterberg's Last Journey follows its two main characters on an eclectic, tragicomic train journey through Central Europe - 'the beautiful landscape of battlefields, cemeteries and ruins'. When Czech nurse Jan Kraus is charged with the care of 99-year-old Wenzel Winterberg, a Sudetenland German expelled from his Bohemian homeland after the Second World War, he believes that their time together is limited. But a casual remark from Kraus one night - 'it's interesting; your name is Winterberg, and I came from Winterberg, from Vimperk in Bohemia, which used to be called Winterberg' - sparks a new life in the old man, who becomes obsessed with uncovering the fate of his lost love, Lenka Morgenstern. Kraus is then dragged along by Winterberg on a winding train journey from Berlin to Sarajevo, all the while dealing with Winterberg's regular 'historical fits'. Their only guide is Winterberg's Baedeker for Austria-Hungary from 1913 - the last edition ever issued.

"Verily, you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will her leader be, and a wonderful army will that army be!"For eight centuries, Muslims made countless attempts to fulfill this prophecy made by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). In 1453, Sultan Mehmed II's conquest of Constantinople is believed to have realised and embodied this prophecy. At the age of twenty-one, Mehmed toppled one of the greatest empires, the Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantine. His military genius and his disciplined army were unmatched. For the next thirty years, he ruled and conquered much of Asia Minor and stretched Ottoman power into Europe reaching the borders of Hungary and Italy. Mehmed was the most admired and feared leader of the 15th century. His people called him Al-Fatih, the Conqueror, but he was also known as the prince of the Renaissance as his rule gave birth to the golden age of the Ottoman Empire. This biography of Sultan Mehmed II will immerse the reader into the legendary life of one of the most influential and brilliant leaders of all time.

An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers.The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'. Though millions of men would fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name recognition of Leningrad or Moscow. It has been largely ignored by Western historians - until now. In this book, Prit Buttar, a leading expert on the Eastern Front during World War II, reveals the depth and depravity of the bitter fighting for Rzhev. He details how the region held the promise of a renewed drive on the Soviet capital for the German Army - a chance to turn the tide of war. Using both German and Russian first-hand accounts, Buttar examines the major offensives launched by the Red Army against the salient, all of which were defeated with losses exceeding two million killed, wounded or missing, until eventually, the Germans were forced to evacuate the salient in March 1943.Drawing on the latest research, Meat Grinder provides a new study of these horrific battles but also examines how the Red Army did ultimately learn from its colossal failures and how its analysis of these failures at the time helped pave the way for the eventual Soviet victory against Army Group Centre in the summer of 1944, leaving the road to Berlin clear.

Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with "The First Splendor" by Leopold Buczkowski and ending with "The Suspected Dybbuk" by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich relationships with selected foreign-language prose, which intensified especially at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culmination of the entire trend is a discussion around two novels: "Tworki" by Marek Bienczyk and "Fly Trap Factory" by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish postmodernization and its advantage over the historiosophical trend. This monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern novels, but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the Holocaust, which, thanks to comparative analysis, tries to analyze and explain the circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape of the world and Poland.

Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol.Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege and running out of supplies, Aiden was part of the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops, in April 2022. Then his real ordeal began.Singled out for his British passport, Aiden was interrogated, tortured, stabbed, turned into a propaganda zombie, tried by a kangaroo court and then sentenced to death. A victim of a catalogue of abuses of international law, Aiden struggled to cling on to any hope of survival. Certain that he was going to be executed, he was eventually freed in a prisoner exchange and permitted to return home.In Putin's Prisoner, Aiden will tell the full, harrowing story of his time fighting in Putin's war, of his six months in Russian captivity, and of his hardened resolve to defend the freedoms of the people of Ukraine.(c)2023 Aiden Aslin & John Sweeney (P)2023 Penguin Audio

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING***'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you'll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.'- Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Chernobyl PrayerIn the darkest of times, in the midst of it all, a journalist has one single task: to document everything that is happening. It is time to slow down and listen to the voice of a human being.On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled to refugee centres across Europe to record the human voice and cost of war. Take My Grief Away reveals twenty-four raw, heartbreaking first-person accounts from people united in grief and their first-hand experiences of the brutality and senselessness of war. These twenty-four voices will transform what you think you know about war, grief and human nature.