Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 14 August 2008
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This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II.
Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad
as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In
August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore
Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians
fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost, then caught their Nazi enemy in
an astonishing reversal. As never before, Stalingrad conveys
the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman
conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony
Beevor has interviewed survivors and discovered completely new material
in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including reports of
prisoner interrogations, desertions, and executions. The battle of
Stalingrad was the psychological turning point of World War II; as
Beevor makes clear, it also changed the face of modern warfare. As a
story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is
unprecedented and unforgettable.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two bizarre narratives - the 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland' and 'The End of the World' parts. Все тени умирают в Городе. Иначе от них останется нежить, которая уходит в Лес. Именно там живут люди, которые не смогли до конца убить свою тень... ...Череп пропал еще в 42-м, во время блокады Ленинграда, когда немцы разбомбили университет.
NINE PRINCES IN AMBER is the first in the classic CHRONICLES OF AMBER, a series that exemplifies the Zelazny style, in which the first-person narrator, a tough-talking, ruthless (but essentially good-hearted) man must confront a menace from his mysterious past. A man with unearthly physical strength awakens as an amnesiac after an automobile accident. Gradually, he remembers that he is Prince Corwin, one of the many magical, long-lived members of the royal family of Amber. Amber is actually the real world, and all of the parallel worlds that flow from it are merely imperfect copies, or Shadows…including our own world.
By focusing on the human side as well as the intellectual dimensions of how economists work and think, this collection of interviews with top economists of the 20th century becomes a startling and lively introduction to the modern world of macroeconomics. A fun read!
