Penguin Battle Cry of Freedom. The Civil War Era McPherson James M

A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa. Where Caesar's own account leaves off in 48 BC, his lieutenants take up the history, describing the vital battles of Munda, Spain and Thapsus, and the installation of Cleopatra, later Caesar's mistress, as Queen of Egypt. Together these narratives paint a full picture of the events that brought Caesar supreme power - and paved the way for his assassination only months later

The book by Nikolay Starikov, the author of bestselling "Rouble Nationalization - the Way to Russia's Freedom", "Who set Hitler against Stalin?" and many others, follows the events of the Civil War. The Russian statesmanship, its territorial integrity, and the economy of the country perished in the vortex of the Civil War. The Romanovs, the Russian Navy, the Russian Army, and millions of Russians were destroyed. The consequences of this horrible civil strife have not been overcome until today. In this book, you will find a lot of little-known facts, as well as answers to many questions • - Who staged and directed the liquidation of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century? • - Who needed the Russian strife and who could gain from it? • - Who forced Lenin to liquidate the Tsar's family? • - Who is guilty of the murder of Nicholas II's children? • - Why did the leaders of the revolution repeatedly try to drown their own navy? • - Why did Vladimir Lenin order to execute the Tsar's family and at the same time ensured safety of other members of the Tsar dynasty? • - Why didn't the Entente help the White movement? • - Why was Admiral Kolchak murdered and why did the White Guard soldiers have to fight? • - Who made the soldiers of General Yudenich die in Estonian extermination camps? • - Who needed to have the troops of Denikin, Kolchak, Yudenich, and Wrangel liquidated? • The burnt Russian villages and mass graves tell us the truth about the Russian strife, the truth about the outcome of the Civil War

Серьёзная болезнь заставляет задуматься о ценности здоровья, настоящая опасность даёт шанс проверить себя на прочность, а самопожертвование облагораживает характер • Эта серия писем, написанных Луизой Мэй Олкотт, когда она служила медсестрой в армии Севера, рассказывает пронзительную и правдивую историю медицины времён Гражданской войны в Америке • Вниманию читателя предлагается хроника тягот жизни военного госпиталя и усиления роли женщин в медицине и вооружённых силах, приправленная душевными портретами американских солдат • Публикация писем дала толчок литературной карьере Олкотт и проложила путь к выходу в свет "Маленьких женщин" - жемчужины творческого пути автора • Книга на английском языке • A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-sacrifice sweetens character

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions

The second volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades • 'There was magic about. Saladin himself was troubled by terrible dreams...' • Steven Runciman's unrivalled history of the Crusades is a classic of learning and vivid, compelling storytelling, which brilliantly brings to life the personalities, battles, massacres, triumphs and follies of these epochal events. In this second volume of his trilogy Runciman tells the story of the foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the disastrous, bloody Second Crusade and the inexorable rise of the crusaders' nemesis, Saladin

The Irish do death differently • Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. Despite having the same basic end-of-life infrastructure as other Western countries, Irish culture handles death with a unique blend of dignified ritual and warm sociability • In Sorry for Your Trouble, Ann Marie Hourihane holds up a mirror to the Irish way of death: the funny bits, the sad bits, and the hard-to-explain bits that tell us so much about who we are. She follows the last weeks of a woman's life in hospice; she witnesses an embalming; she attends inquests; she talks to people working to prevent suicide; she follows the team of specialists working to locate the remains of people 'disappeared' by the IRA; and she visits some of Ireland's most contested graves

The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female staff and seducing his lady customers with luxurious displays of shimmering silks, satins, velvets and lace. Then Denise Baudu, a naive provincial girl, becomes an assistant at the store - and Mouret discovers that he in turn can also be enchanted. With its greedy customers, gossiping staff and vibrant sense of theatre, The Ladies' Delight (Au Bonheur des Dames in the original French) is one of the most richly exciting novels in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart cycle • This edition also contains a bibliography, introduction, chronology and explanatory notes

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie • Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. Imprisoned and almost executed by his own side, he eventually joined the International Brigade. This is the story of his experiences as a Republican soldier, fighting for the losing side in a doomed war

'Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?' • On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific, the soldiers of C Company are about to enter the war. The men know they face their baptism of fire. But none know if they will be one of 'the lucky ones' to make it safely off the island. From Captain Stein, who feels like a father to his troops, and 'Mad' Sergeant Welsh, condemning all nations while swigging gin from his canteen, to Private Bell, who just wants to get home to his wife, they will discover the line that divides sanity from madness, and life from death • A scathing critique of heroism, The Thin Red Line is among the greatest masterpieces of war writing