The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova
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The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005-08-30
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova written by Antony Beevor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-30 with History categories.
In his latest work, Antony Beevor—bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II—brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev to become a Soviet spy—a career she spent her entire postwar life denying. The riveting story of how Olga and her family survived the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror, and the Second World War becomes, in Beevor’s hands, a breathtaking tale of survival in a merciless age.
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-05-05
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova written by Antony Beevor and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Antony Beevor's The Mystery of Olga Chekhova is the true story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev, to work for Soviet intelligence. In return, her family were allowed to join her. The extraordinary story of how the whole family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union becomes, in Antony Beevor's hands, a breathtaking tale of compromise and survival in a merciless age.
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 2005-08
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova written by Antony Beevor and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08 with History categories.
A noted historian sheds new light on the life and career of Olda Chekhova, the beautiful niece of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, who fled Russia for Berlin in 1920, achieved fame as an actress and a prominent position in Germany's Nazi party, and may have been a sleeper agent for the Soviet NKVD. Reprint.
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Mystery Of Olga Chekhova written by Antony Beevor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Germany categories.
Paris After The Liberation 1944 1949
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2004-08-31
Paris After The Liberation 1944 1949 written by Antony Beevor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-31 with History categories.
"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday Telegraph From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against this volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picassocontributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.
Reading Chekhov
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Author : Janet Malcolm
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Reading Chekhov written by Janet Malcolm and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of Chekhov's stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from his life and framed by an account of a recent journey she made to St Petersburg. Malcolm demonstrates how the shadow of death that hovered over most of Chekhov's literary career - he became consumptive in his twenties and died in his forties - is almost everywhere reflected in the work. She writes of his childhood, his relationship with his family, his marriage, his travels, his early success, his exile to Yalta - always with an eye to connecting them to his themes and characters.
The Fall Of Berlin 1945
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2003-04-29
The Fall Of Berlin 1945 written by Antony Beevor and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-29 with History categories.
"A tale drenched in drama and blood, heroism and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Third Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc—tanks crushing refugee columns, mass rape, pillage, and unimaginable destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred; more than seven million fled westward from the fury of the Red Army. It was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known. Antony Beevor, renowned author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem, has reconstructed the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. The Fall of Berlin is a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanaticism, revenge, and savagery, yet it is also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice, and survival against all odds.
The Second World War
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Author : Antony Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 2012-06-05
The Second World War written by Antony Beevor and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with History categories.
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
Coming Through Slaughter
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Author : Michael Ondaatje
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-12-08
Coming Through Slaughter written by Michael Ondaatje and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-08 with Fiction categories.
Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversations and monologues, Ondaatje builds a picture of a man who would work by day at a barber shop and by night unleash his talent to wild audiences who had never experienced such playing. But Buddy was also playing the field with two women, and inside his head was a ticking time-bomb which he was unable to stop.
A Tuscan Childhood
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Author : Kinta Beevor
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-04-09
A Tuscan Childhood written by Kinta Beevor and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara mountains. She and her brother ran barefoot, exploring an enchanted world. They searched for wild mushrooms in the hills with Fiore the stonemason, and learned how to tickle trout. The freedom and beauty of life at the castle attracted poets, writers and painters, including D.H. Lawrence and Rex Whistler. The other side to Kinta's childhood was very different, for it was spent with her formidable great aunt, Janet Ross, in a grand villa outside Florence. But soon the old way of life and Kinta's idyllic world were threatened by war. Nostalgic, yet unsentimental and funny, A Tuscan Childhood is a book which transports the reader to bohemian, aristocratic Italy and the sound of bells from a distant campanile.