Kherdian David. The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

Все подробности своего детства, юности и отрочества Мэнсон без купюр описал в автобиографичной книге The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Долгий Трудный Путь Из Ада). Это шокирующее чтиво написано явно не для слабонервных. И если вы себя к таковым не относите, то можете узнать, как Брайан Уорнер, благодаря своей школе, возненавидел христианство, как посылал в литературный журнал свои жестокие рассказы, и как превратился в Мерилина Мэнсона – короля стр...

Allen Lane, 2007 - 736 p. ISBN10: 0713999209 ISBN13: 9780713999204 (eng) For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde Diplomatique", has succeeded. For the first time, in a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from the 1950s all the way up to the present day. He discusses his parents, his...

Indiana University Press, 2011 - 400 p. ISBN10: 0253356067 ISBN13: 9780253356062 When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler - wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys" - set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed h...

2001 (en) 239 р. Vietnam War: Biographies presents biographies of sixty men and women who participated in or were affected by the Vietnam War. These two volumes profile a diverse mix of personalities from both the United States and Vietnam, including politicians, military leaders, antiwar activists, journalists,authors, nurses, veterans, and civilians who got caught in the middle of the conflict. Detailed biographies of major Vietnam War figures...

2001 (en) 239 р. Vietnam War: Biographies presents biographies of sixty men and women who participated in or were affected by the Vietnam War. These two volumes profile a diverse mix of personalities from both the United States and Vietnam, including politicians, military leaders, antiwar activists, journalists,authors, nurses, veterans, and civilians who got caught in the middle of the conflict. Detailed biographies of major Vietnam War figures...

University of Missouri Press, 2008 - 176 p. ISBN10: 0826217818 ISBN13: 9780826217813 (eng) When the U.S. entered World War II, eighteen-year-old enlistees were routinely assigned temporary duties and not sent into battle until they turned nineteen, but America was eventually forced to draft younger men into combat to replace wounded troops. Kingsbury was drafted six weeks after D-Day and rushed to the Siegfried Line to bolster Patton's 94th Infa...

Stackpole books, 2005 - 450 p. Генерал-майор ваффен СС Курт Мейер описывает сражения, в которых участвовал во время Второй мировой войны. Он командовал мотоциклетной ротой, разведывательным батальоном, гренадерским полком и танковой дивизией СС «Гитлерюгенд». Боевые подразделения Бронированного Мейера, как его прозвали в войсках, были участниками жарких боев в Европе: вторжения в Польшу в 1939-м и Францию в 1940 году, оккупации Балкан и Греции,...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migrati...

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 1999. 216 pages. Language: English. These letters to a beloved son and his family tell the poignant story of one woman's life in Nazi-occupied Prague and help explain why some Jews stayed behind. Henriette Pollatschek's letters provide a detailed picture of the lives of Jews in Prague during the war years: the evictions, the food shortages, the worries about livelihood, and the increasing prohibitions and reg...

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000 (hard cover) 2010 (e-book). 256 pages. Language: English. Author's Note: From 1975 to 1979—through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor—the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country’s population. This is a story of survival: my own and my family’s. Though these events constitute my experience, my story mirrors that of millions of Cambodians. I...