Je file un coup de périscope hors de ma tire et j'avise une Aronde qui se pointe à ma hauteur. L'espace d'une seconde, je me dis qu'il s'agit peut-être d'un coup fourré organisé par des malfrats qui en voudraient à mes os préférés, mais je décide que des truands ne klaxonneraient pas pour se signaler à mon attention et que, d'autre part, ils ne rouleraient pas dans une Aronde. Alors je lève le pied…

1-я редакция рассказа (1835, из журнала Southern Literary Messenger). Включает изъятые при дальнейших публикациях фрагменты

On Three Wheels from Moscow to Paris Chasing Napoleon’s Epic Fail Lire Magazine Best Travel Book Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’ve got Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure. The retreat of Napoleon’s Grande Armée from Russia culminated, after a humiliating loss, with the crossing of the River Berezina, a word that henceforth became synonymous with unmitigated disaster for the French and national pride for the Russians. Two hundred years after this battle, Sylvain Tesson and his friends retrace Napoleon’s retreat, along the way reflecting on the lessons of history, the meaning of defeat, and the realities of contemporary Europe. A great read for history buffs and for anyone who has ever dreamed of an adventure that is out of the ordinary

An epic novel of love and revolution. Russia, 1907. The revolution has failed. Leon Trotsky is one of a group of political prisoners being escorted by armed police, in a convoy of horse-drawn sleighs, to a secret location in the icy north of the country. Here they will be exiled as political prisoners. If, that is, they survive the journey. Meanwhile, in the small Siberian town of Berezovo, the doctor’s assistant is terrified of mis-stepping as he attempts to manage his developing admiration of his boss’s wife. The police and the Town Council are now awaiting with interest and horror the arrival of the exiles, and in the dark passageways of the Jewish Quarter, whispered arguments are rife over how best to receive their once-admired leaders. As the convoy nears its destination, the lives of the prisoners and townsfolk are on a collision course that will make history. Berezovo contains the three previously published novels A Small Town in Siberia, The Rising Storm, and Journey’s End

The invasion of Britain by the Roman legionaries is the setting for this story. Beric, a boy-chief of a British tribe, takes a prominent part in the insurrection against Rome under Boadicea. These efforts are useless against the might Roman army. For a short time, Beric and his companions continue the fight but are ultimately defeated and taken prisoners to Rome. Through the eyes of Beric, the reader will learn of life in Rome, the gladitorial schools, the great fire and life in Nero's court. This classic work by the masterful hand of G. A. Henty will shed light upon an event much neglected in history today

Without warning, Russia starts a lightning operation to seize control of a vital arctic waterway off the Alaska coast. For America, it's a threat to national sovereignty. For Russia, it's a matter of life or death. For hot-wired naval aviator, Karen 'Bunny' O'Hare, it's about to be a bad day at the office. NOT everyone takes impending nuclear armageddon as calmly as O'Hare. Dug in deep behind enemy lines, half a mile under the arctic ice, US Navy Airboss Alicia Rodriguez suddenly finds herself in command of the wrong unit, in the wrong place, at just the right time. FROM a forward airfield at Lavrentiya in the Russian Far East, Major-General Yevgeny Bondarev, is leading a war he doesn't understand against a foe who fights with machines instead of men. IN labyrinthine tunnels under the New Annexe of the US Embassy in Moscow, Ambassador Devlin McCarthy discovers she can follow her conscience, or follow the orders of her Secretary of State, but not both. AND staggering through the rubble of cruise missile strikes on Saint Lawrence Island, Yu'pik teenager Perri Tungyan learns just how far his country is willing to go to protect its national interests, and how far he'll go himself

Nikolajs Čukovskis Berings Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve. Dānijā dzimušais un Pētera Pirmā Krievijas flotes dienestā uzaicinātais lieliskais jūrnieks, drosmīgs, nospraustā mērķa sasniegšanā neatlaidīgais cilvēks, iegājis vēsturē kā ievērojams krievu ceļotājs. Izdevniecība «Liesma» Rīga 1970 Tulkojusi A. Zviedre Mākslinieks I. Helmuts

A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.?Independent on Sunday The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a life there for themselves. They are not, however, in any natural wilderness, but in a world of refuse and useless junk?a place which denies any form of sustainable life. Here, the unemployed, the homeless, the old and the bereft struggle to build shelters out of old tin cans, scavenge for food and fight against insuperable odds. And yet somehow they survive: it seems that society thrives on the garbage hills because it has always been built on one. In this dark fairy tale full of scenes taken from what has increasingly become a way of life for many inhabitants on this planet, Latife Tekin has written a grim parable of human destiny. A major best seller in her native Turkey, Latife Tekin maintains a politically active presence and has written a number of literary works. Saliha Paker translates Turkish poetry and is a member of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. Ruth Christie is a translator of Turkish poetry and prose. "A provocative and enjoyable work."?Times Literary Supplement "A small masterpiece of beauty."?Women's Review of Books

Berkeley brings its own unique blend of Bay Area noir, complementing the grit and grime that preceded it in San Francisco Noir and Oakland Noir

A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War—and its lessons for today. “History at its best.” “Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today.” “Captures the drama [with] the ‘You are there’ storytelling skills of a journalist and the analytical skills of the political scientist.” In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it “the most dangerous place on earth.” He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War-and more perilous. For the first time in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. One mistake, one overzealous commander-and the trip wire would be sprung for a war that would go nuclear in a heartbeat. On one side was a young, untested U.S. president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster. On the other, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, the East Germans, and hard-liners in his own government. Neither really understood the other, both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, the dangers grew. Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh—sometimes startling—insights, written with immediacy and drama, Berlin 1961 is a masterly look at key events of the twentieth century, with powerful applications to these early years of the twenty-first

Population has doubled within the last twenty years, leading to a living hell where poverty, crime, and claustrophobia rule. Those who can afford it, have withdrawn to the well-protected gated communities, while the police have left entire neighborhoods to their own devices. In these lawless blank spots, the authorities use so-called pushers to maintain a level of constant unrest between Arab clans, Turkish gangs, and Chechen brotherhoods. They are mavericks, men and women outside the law, who only answer to their supervisors based in the LKA, which is short for Landeskriminalamt, the State Office of Criminal Investigation. This is the story of Hauke the Pusher and Detective Natasha…

One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third Reich April 1945, the last days of the Nazi regime. While bombs are falling on Berlin, the Gestapo still search for traitors, resistance fighters and deserters. People mistrust each other more than ever. In the midst of chaos, a disparate group – a disillusioned young soldier; a trade unionist and saboteur; a doctor helping refugees – continues to fight back. And in Oskar Klose’s pub, the resistance plan their next move, hunted at every step by the SS. Published in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Berlin Finale is an unforgettable portrait of life in a city devastated by war

The first novel of the trilogy introducing Bernard Samson and the rest of the bickering, in-fighting intelligence community in which he is a much put-upon member. After five years of desk work, Bernie finds himself ordered back into the field

An omnibus of novels These three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany – richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines

An airborne operation of German, American, and British paratroopers drop on Berlin in this exciting new episode in the WW2 zombie series, THE FRONT! While the Battle of the Bulge turns into a bloodbath due to the introduction of a serum designed to create super soldiers but creating flesh-eating zombies, a German paratrooper unit rests in Genoa, Italy after years of hard warfare. They celebrate an announced armistice hours before flying to England to learn the truth: Germany has collapsed due to the spread of these monsters, and they must work with their former enemies to drop on Berlin and recover a pure sample of the Overman serum. What follows is an inside look at how the elite German paratroopers fought and their bloody homeward mission to recover the Overman serum before all Europe falls

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity

Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been acclaimed as “ambitious. filled with brilliantly drawn characters, mesmerizingly readable, and disturbingly convincing” by the Sunday Telegraph. An electrifying thriller in the tradition of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst, Berlin is a page-turner and an intimate portrait of Germany before, during, and after the war. It is 1945 in the American sector of occupied Berlin, and a German boy has discovered the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blonde and blue-eyed, she has been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. When the bodies of other young women begin to pile up it becomes clear that this is no isolated act of violence, and German and American investigators will have to cooperate if they are to stop the slaughter. Author Pierre Frei has searched the wreckage of Berlin and emerged with a gripping whodunit in which the stories of the victims themselves provide an absorbing commentary. There is a powerful pulse buried deep in the rubble

The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known, with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs, refusing to face defeat, had forbidden the evacuation of civilians. Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army. Antony Beevor reconstructs the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse, telling a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanatacism, revenge and savagery, but also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice and survival against all odds

Vadims Sobko Berlīne - mana sāpe Stāsti par vēsturi. Romāns. Dokumentālā apcere par Padomju Savienības Varoni, Berlīnes pirmo komandantu ģenerālpulkvedi Nikolaju Bērzariņu. Berzarina senči cēlušies no Latvijas, pats dzimis Sanktpēterburgā 1904. gadā. Pateicoties Bērzariņa pūlēm, Berlīnē jau ceturtajā dienā pēc kara beigām pilsētniekiem pēc kartiņām izsniedza tādas pašas produktu normas, kādas bija paredzētas PSRS iedzīvotājiem. 14. maijā pilsētā jau strādāja skolas, metropolitēns. Nikolajs Berzarins apbraukāja Berlīni ar motociklu „Hārlejs” un strādāja 20 stundas diennaktī. 1945.gada 16.jūnijā gāja bojā autokatastrofā. Arī šodien Berlīnē ir laukums, kas nosaukts Berzarina vārdā, bet pats viņš ir iekļauts pilsētas goda pilsoņu sarakstā. No ukraiņu valodas tulkojusi Irēna Mataite Noskanējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Mākslinieks Arvīds Būmanis  Tulkojums latviešu valodā, © Izdevniecība «Liesma>, 1985 Veltīts mana komandiera piemiņai

Nina Borg – Raudonojo Kryžiaus slaugė. Ji dirba su pabėgėliais Danijoje – oficialiai, o kartais ir neoficialiai. Ji pratusi prie ekstremalių situacijų ir staigių iškvietimų. Didžiąją savo gyvenimo dalį leidžia pasaulyje, kurį kiti danai retai tepastebi, nors jis visai čia pat. Šantažas, prekyba žmonėmis, išnaudojimas ir ankstyva mirtis – to pasaulio kasdienybė; tame pasaulyje nuolat dingsta vaikai, bet niekas dėl to nesisieloja. Tačiau Nina į visa tai pro pirštus žiūrėti negali. Lagamine radusi berniuką, ji stengiasi išsiaiškinti, kas jis toks, kaip čia atsidūrė. Apsisprendžia nieku gyvu neleisti, kad šis mažylis dingtų kaip dingo daugybė kitų. Pasirodo, toks apsisprendimas gali kainuoti jai gyvybę...„Lagamine gulejo berniukas. Nuogas sviesiaplaukis berniukas - mazas ir laibas, vargu ar vyresnis negu treju. Apstulbusi ji atsoko ir trenkesi i siurkstu plastikini konteineri. Vaiko keliai remesi i krutine - mazylis buvo sulankstytas kaip kokie marskiniai, kitaip tikrai nebutu tilpes. Gulejo uzsimerkes, dienos sviesos lempu nutvieksta oda blyskiai svytejo. Staiga suvirpejo jo lupos, ir ji suvoke: berniukas gyvas." Ninos Borg biciule papraso paslaugos - is stoties bagazo skyriaus paimti ten padeta kazin koki daikta. Spinteleje Nina randa lagamina, o jame - maza nuoga berniuka. Kol moteris svarsto, ka daryti su vaiku, jos biciule ziauriai nuzudoma. Akivaizdu, kad su sia mirtim kazkaip susijes mazylis, kuris, kai pagaliau atsigauna, prabyla Ninai nesuprantama kalba. Netrukus paaiskeja, kad vaikas kalba lietuviskai, o i Danija nelegaliai atgabentas is Vilniaus.Nina nusprendzia gelbeti berniuka - ir isipainioja i itin painia ir pavojinga istorija

Uwe Klausner, der sich als Historiker seit Jahren mit der Geschichte des Dritten Reichs und der deutschen Nachkriegszeit beschäftigt, legt mit "Bernstein-Connection" erneut einen Kriminalroman vor.Berlin, im Juni 1953. In unmittelbarer Nähe von Schloss Bellevue wird eine männliche Wasserleiche entdeckt. Kurz darauf wird das Grab des unlängst bestatteten Geschäftsmannes Hans-Hinrich von Oertzen auf makabere Art und Weise geschändet. Alles nur Zufall? Keineswegs. Hauptkommissar Tom Sydow findet heraus, dass die beiden Männer Mitglieder einer streng geheimen Sondereinheit der SS waren, deren Aufgabe kurz vor Kriegsende darin bestand, das legendäre Bernsteinzimmer vor der heranrückenden Roten Armee in Sicherheit zu bringen