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Russia at War, 1941–1945

A History

By: Alexander Werth

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In 1941, Russian-born British journalist Alexander Werth observed the unfolding of the Soviet-German conflict with his own eyes. What followed was the widely acclaimed book, Russia at War, first printed in 1964. At once a history of facts, a collection of interviews, and a document of the human condition, Russia at War is a stunning, modern classic that chronicles the savagery and struggles on Russian soil during the most incredible military conflict in modern history. As a behind-the-scenes eyewitness to the pivotal, shattering events as they occurred, Werth chronicles with vivid detail the hardships of everyday citizens, massive military operations, and the political movements toward diplomacy as the world tried to reckon with what they had created. Despite its sheer historical scope, Werth tells the story of a country at war in startlingly human terms, drawing from his daily interviews and conversations with generals, soldiers, peasants, and other working class civilians. The result is a unique and expansive work with immeasurable breadth and depth, built on lucid and engaging prose, that captures every aspect of a terrible moment in human history. Now newly updated with a foreword by Soviet historian Nicolas Werth, the son of Alexander Werth, this new edition of Russia at War continues to be indispensable World War II journalism and the definitive historical authority on the Soviet-German war.

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1510716270

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Leningrad 1943

Inside a City Under Siege

By: Alexander Werth

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Leningrad 1943

Inside a City Under Siege

By: Alexander Werth

The Siege of Leningrad is the most powerful testimony to the immeasurable cruelty and horror of World War II. From 1941-1945, the Eastern Front was the site of some of the bloodiest atrocities of the war and the city of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, proved to be a decisive point in the conflict. German policy was resolutely determined to redraw the map of Europe, annihilate the Soviet Union and give large areas of territory to Finland. Through Hitler's ambition to completely eradicate the city and its entire population, it was decided that the most efficient method of invasion was to encircle and bombard the city into submission. After 872 days of aggression, one and a half million people lost their lives, mostly from starvation. As the sole British correspondent to have been in Leningrad during the blockade, Alexander Werth's eyewitness account presents a harrowing perspective on the savagery and destruction wrought by the Nazis against the civilian population of the city. His writing evokes compelling images of terror - the oil bombing of children's hospitals, mass starvation and cannibalism - with rich and sophisticated commentary on the internal politics of Soviet party chiefs, soldiers and civilian resistance fighters. Both an authoritative historical document and a journalistic re-telling of the overwhelming sadness, grief and futility of 20th century warfare, this is an invaluable look at one of the greatest losses of human life in recorded history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857735020

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From Conception to Birth

A Life Unfolds

By: Alexander Tsiaras

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From Conception to Birth

A Life Unfolds

By: Alexander Tsiaras

Color photographs and computer imaging provide a portrait of the growth of a baby from conception to birth, tracing the development of individual body parts and systems and celebrating each milestone along the way.

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Doubleday

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0385503180

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On Early English Pronunciation with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer

Part I

By: Alexander J. Ellis

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On Early English Pronunciation with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer

Part I

By: Alexander J. Ellis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

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3846054852

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9783846054857

Ludwig van Beethovens Leben

Zweiter Band

By: Alexander Wheelock Deiters, Hermann Riemann, Hugo Thayer

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Ludwig van Beethovens Leben

Zweiter Band

By: Alexander Wheelock Deiters, Hermann Riemann, Hugo Thayer

Nachdruck des Originals von 1910.

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9925084776

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Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

By: Friedrich Schiller,Alexander Fraser Tytler

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Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

By: Friedrich Schiller,Alexander Fraser Tytler

“Die Räuber” war das erste Drama des deutschen Dichters Friedrich Schiller. Das Stück wurde 1781 veröffentlicht und am 13. Januar 1782 in Mannheim uraufgeführt. Es entstand gegen Ende der deutschen Sturm und Drang-Bewegung und wird von vielen Kritikern als sehr einflussreich für die Entwicklung des europäischen Melodrams angesehen. Die Handlung dreht sich um den Konflikt zwischen zwei adligen Brüdern, Karl und Franz Moor. Der charismatische, aber rebellische Student Karl wird von seinem Vater sehr geliebt. Der jüngere Bruder Franz, der als kalter, berechnender Bösewicht auftritt, plant, Karl das Erbe zu entreißen. Im Laufe des Stücks erweisen sich sowohl Franz’ Motive als auch die Unschuld und der Heldenmut von Karl als äußerst komplex. Diese Print-Ausgabe bietet auf gegenüberliegenden Seiten den deutschen Originaltext und die englische Übersetzung von Alexander Fraser Tytler, sodass ein Mitlesen in der jeweils anderen Sprache ohne Umblättern möglich ist. Die Räuber, which Schiller had been obliged to publish at his own expense, appeared in 1781 and made an impression on his contemporaries hardly less deep than Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen, eight years before. The strength of this remarkable tragedy lay, not in its inflated tone or exaggerated characterization — the restricted horizon of Schiller's school-life had given him little opportunity of knowing men and women — but in the sure dramatic instinct with which it is constructed and the directness with which it gives voice to the most pregnant ideas of the time. In this respect, Schiller's Räuber is one of the most vital German dramas of the 18th century. In January 1782 it was performed in the Court and National Theatre of Mannheim, Schiller himself having stolen secretly away from Stuttgart in order to be present. This blilingual edition offers both languages on opposited pages.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3988689637

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Russia at War, 1941–1945

A History

By: Alexander Werth

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A History

By: Alexander Werth

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1510716270

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Russia Under Khrushchev

By: Alexander Werth

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Russia Under Khrushchev

By: Alexander Werth

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894-1971) was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958-1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev’s party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. Originally published in 1961, “concerns what I call the Khrushchev phase, rather than the Khrushchev epoch. An “epoch” suggests something complete, with clearly-defined limits and contours, and sharply-marked characteristics. A “phase,” especially one still in progress, is something much more fluid. During these years, dominated by Khrushchev, the most changeable, most empirical and sometimes most unpredictable of Soviet leaders, Russia continues to be in a state of flux and transition.” (Author’s Note) The book is a political and cultural analysis of Khrushchev’s Russia and its relations with the West, and particularly with the United States. “From inside the Iron Curtain...a very human portrayal.”—The Times, London

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787205134

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Leningrad 1943

Inside a City Under Siege

By: Alexander Werth

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Inside a City Under Siege

By: Alexander Werth

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857724746

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9780857724748

Science as a Way of Knowing

The Foundations of Modern Biology

By: John Alexander Moore

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Science as a Way of Knowing

The Foundations of Modern Biology

By: John Alexander Moore

This book makes Moore's wisdom available to students in a lively, richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing rhetoric strategies including case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative, it provides both a cultural history of biology and an introduction to the procedures and values of science.

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Harvard University Press

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0674794826

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The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

A Documentary Reader

By: Alexander Hill

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The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

A Documentary Reader

By: Alexander Hill

This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides translations of a range of extracts from Soviet documents relating to the titanic struggle on the Eastern Front during World War II, with commentary. This is the only single-volume work in English to use documentary evidence to look at the Soviet war effort from military, political, economic and diplomatic perspectives. The book should not only facilitate a deeper study of the Soviet war effort, but also allow more balanced study of what is widely known in the West as the ‘Eastern Front’. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of military history, Soviet history, and World War II history.

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Routledge

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1135765251

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Democracies Against Hitler

Myth, Reality and Prologue

By: Alexander J. Groth

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Democracies Against Hitler

Myth, Reality and Prologue

By: Alexander J. Groth

First published in 1999, what the confrontation between democracies and Hitlerism tells us about democracy is the subject of this book. It examines the response of political democracies to the phenomenon of Hitlerism, beginning with democracy in Germany itself in the ’20’s and ’30’s, and ending up with Britain and the U.S. in the ’40’s. Contrary to mythology, this response was far more a failure than a success. An iconoclastic treatment, it anticipates the crises of the future..

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0429838271

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Integral Renewal

A Relational and Renewal Perspective

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

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Integral Renewal

A Relational and Renewal Perspective

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

In 2010 Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer published their seminal work on Integral Research and Innovation, whereby they identified the four R’s; relational and renewal, reason and realization based research paths that altogether encompass the major qualitative research methods and methodologies. Within each path they identified a trajectory from origination to transformation via foundation and emancipation. However these paths, underlying the research process, conventionally termed 'method', were disconnected from the integral economic and enterprise content, conventionally termed 'literature', with which they were concerned. In this book, Integral Renewal they seek to remedy such, in two major respects. As transformative masters and PhD programs are focused on the 'Global South', where the vast majority of the world’s population is based, as well as those developmental agencies focused on such, the great majority of the people with whom the authors deal select the relational research path, and the path of renewal, over and above the paths of reason and realization. The focus of this book will be on these two paths of integral research, now interconnected with integral enterprise and economics. Uniquely, the authors pursue research and innovation in a systematic way. In that respect, while their prior Integral Research book still provides the research foundation for the four southern and eastern, northern and western paths, this book will focus on the former two relational (southern) and renewal (eastern) from the combined perspectives of research process and economic and enterprise content.

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1317115414

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Fire on Earth

An Introduction

By: Andrew C. Scott,David M. J. S. Bowman,William J. Bond,Stephen J. Pyne,Martin E. Alexander

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Fire on Earth

An Introduction

By: Andrew C. Scott,David M. J. S. Bowman,William J. Bond,Stephen J. Pyne,Martin E. Alexander

Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life’s history. Few processes are as integral, unique, or ancient. Fire on Earth puts fire in its rightful place as an integral part of the study of geology, biology, human history, physics, and global chemistry. Fire is ubiquitous in various forms throughout Earth, and belongs as part of formal inquiries about our world. In recent years fire literature has multiplied exponentially; dedicated journals exist and half a dozen international conferences are held annually. A host of formal sciences, or programs announcing interdisciplinary intentions, are willing to consider fire. Wildfire also appears routinely in media reporting. This full-colour text, containing over 250 illustrations of fire in all contexts, is designed to provide a synthesis of contemporary thinking; bringing together the most powerful concepts and disciplinary voices to examine, in an international setting, why planetary fire exists, how it works, and why it looks the way it does today. Students, lecturers, researchers and professionals interested in the physical, ecological and historical characteristics of fire will find this book, and accompanying web-based material, essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in all related disciplines, for general interest and for providing an interdisciplinary foundation for further study. A comprehensive approach to the history, behaviour and ecological effects of fire on earth Timely introduction to this important subject, with relevance for global climate change, biodiversity loss and the evolution of human culture. Provides a foundation for the interdisciplinary field of Fire Research Authored by an international team of leading experts in the field Associated website provides additional resources

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118534093

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9781118534090

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

By: Alexander Statiev

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The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

By: Alexander Statiev

This book investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521768330

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The Republic in Danger

General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940

By: Martin S. Alexander

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The Republic in Danger

General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940

By: Martin S. Alexander

The first full-length study in English of 'the man who lost the Battle of France'.

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Russia at War, 1941–1945

Russia at War, 1941–1945

Leningrad 1943

Leningrad 1943

From Conception to Birth

From Conception to Birth

On Early English Pronunciation with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer

On Early English Pronunciation with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer

Ludwig van Beethovens Leben

Ludwig van Beethovens Leben

Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

Die Räuber / The Robbers (Bilingual Edition)

Russia at War, 1941–1945

Russia at War, 1941–1945

Russia Under Khrushchev

Russia Under Khrushchev

Leningrad 1943

Leningrad 1943

Science as a Way of Knowing

Science as a Way of Knowing

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

Democracies Against Hitler

Democracies Against Hitler

Integral Renewal

Integral Renewal

Fire on Earth

Fire on Earth

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

The Republic in Danger

The Republic in Danger

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