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Rachmaninov: Vespers
$8.97
There have been great performances of {$Rachmaninov}'s {&Vespers}, but the greatest one of all has always been the 1986 recording in Smolensk Cathedral of a performance by the {$USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir} under the direction of {$Valery Polya

White Blood
$15
An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution. The son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man -- big in stature and big in spirit. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting birds and insects for museums. In 1914 he is on a mission for the Academy of Sciences in Russian Turkestan when war breaks out. His pay is stopped and his companion goes off to enlist. Doig, however, has no intention of volunteering to be killed. He returns to the Pink House, his family's home near Smolensk, and to the woman he loves, his cousin Elizaveta.

To Russia With Love
$14.99
Track Listing: 1. Goodwill Games, The, 2. Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture, 3. Pieces (4) for Piano: no 3, M?lodie - (Y, Y), 4. Let's go home - (Russian, Russian), 5. Dancing Flames, 6. Lieutenant Kij? Suite, Op. 60: Troika, 7. Goose from Smolensk - (Russian, Russian), 8. Chakra III, 9. Smolny Fanfare, The, 10. Suite for Orchestra no 1 in D major, Op. 43: Marche miniature, 11. Fugue, 12. Bird in the garden, 13. Pictures at an exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev - (Y, Y), 14. Star-spangled Banner - (Y, Y), 15. Life for the Tsar: Glory, Glory to the Great Nation, A - (Y, Y)

The Hagiography of Kievan Rus
$44.93
pAmong the finest products of early Ukrainian literature were the Lives of the first Rus' saints, including Boris and Glĕb, Feodosij of the Caves Monastery, Avraamij of Smolensk, and Ol'ga and Volodimer.pDrawing on Byzantine, Church Slavonic, and Latin literary traditions, the Rus' hagiographers fashioned religious narratives that were at once traditional and tailored for a specifically Rus' audience. These hagiographical works, as well as a number of related texts, are now translated into English and collected in a single volume for the first time.pPaul Hollingsworth provides a lucid introduction that discusses each saint and his or her cult in the historical as well as social contexts and examines the literary and textual features of the Rus' vitae. The translations are accompanied by copious historical and philological notes, an extensive bibliography, a map, and several indexes.

The Hagiography of Kievan Rus
$42.95
pList of Abbreviationsbr /BrbIntroduction/bbr /br /I. The Cult of Boris and Glĕbbr /II. The iLife of Feodosij/ibr /III. The iLife/i of Avraamij of Smolenskbr /IV. iMemorial and Encomium for Prince Volodimer/ibr /br /Map/ppbLesson concerning the Life and Murder of the Blessed Passion-Sufferers Boris and Glĕbbr /br /Life of Feodosijbr /br /Tale and Passion and Encomium of the Holy Martyrs Boris and Glĕbbr /br /Tale of the Miracles of the Holy Passion-Sufferers of Christ Roman and Davidbr /br /Life of Avraamij of Smolenskbr /br /Memorial and Encomium for Prince Volodimer of Rus'/b/ppbAppendices/bbr /br /I. The iPVL/i's Entries for the Years 1015-1019br /II. The iPVL/i's Entry for the Year 1072br /III. The Hypatian Chronicle's Account of the Translation of the Relics of Boris and Glĕb in 1115br /IV. The iParemejnik/i Reading for Boris and Glĕbbr /V. A iProlog/i Reading for Boris and Glĕbbr /VI. A Twelfth-Century Sermon on the Cult of Boris and Glĕbbr /VII. A iProlog/i Account of the Translation of Relics of Boris and Glĕb to Smolensk in 1191br //ppBibliographybr /br /Index of Biblical Referencesbr /br /Index of Greek Termsbr /br /Index of Slavonic Termsbr /br /Index/pAmong the finest products of early Ukrainian literature were the iLives/i of the first Rus' saints, including Boris and Glĕb, Feodosij of the Caves Monastery, Avraamij of Smolensk, and Ol'ga and Volodimer. Drawing on Byzantine, Church Slavonic, and Latin literary traditions, the Rus' hagiographers fashioned religious narratives that were at once traditional and tailored for a specifically Rus' audience. These hagiographical works, as well as a number of related texts, are now translated into English and collected in a single volume for the first time. Paul Hollingsworth provides a lucid introduction that discusses each saint and @Ey™™™™šÿ¾Úx

Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: With a Preliminary View of the French Rev
$23.03
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [ 63 ] CHAPTER LVIII. Proceedings of the Army under Prince Bagration.?Napoleon's manoeuvres against kim.?King Jerome of West- pJialia is disgraced for alleged inactivity.?Bagration is defeated by Davoust, but succeeds in gaining the interior of Russia, and reestablishing his communication with the Grand Army?which retreats to Drissa?Barclay and Bagration meet at Smolensk on the 20//i July.? The French Generals become anxious that Napoleon should close the campaign at Witepskfor the season.?He persists in proceeding, ?Smolensk evacuated by l)e Tolly, after setting Jire to the place.?Reduced condition of the French, and growing strength of the Russian Armies. ? Peace effected between Russia, and England, Sweden, and Turkey.?Napoleon resolves to advance upon Moscow. Napoleon continued to occupy his headquarters at Wilna, from 28th June to 16th July, the space of eighteen days. It was not usual with him to make such long halts; but Wilna was his last point of communication with Europe, and he had probably much to arrange ere he could plunge into the forests and deserts of Russia, whence all external intercourse must be partial and precarious. He named Mafet Duke of Bassano, Governor of Lithuania, and placed under the management of that minister the whole charge gf correspondence withParis and with the armies; thus rendering him the centre of administrative, political, and even military communication between the Emperor and his dominions. It must not hj supposed, however, that these eighteen days passed without military movements of high importance. The reader must remember, that the grand army of Russia was divided into two unequal portions. That commanded under the Emperor by Barclay de Tolly, had occupied Wilna and the vicinity, until the French entered Lithuania, wh...

1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign
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The author, an editor of Campaigns Magazine for ten years, has written a groundbreaking new study of Napoleon's disasterous Russian campaign of 1812. In doing this, he has employed primary sources never before translated from the German and Russian. He points out the real reasons for Napoleon's defeat which had nothing to do with cold weather but rather were a complex combination of faulty logistics, bureaucratic mismanagement and Napoleon's own but uncharacteristic indecision and bad choices.PRELUDE.Napoleonic Europe: The Years of Ascendancy.Europe from 1810.The Gathering Storm.THE MILITARY BACKGROUND.The French Military Establishment.The Russian Army.The New Ways of War.Logistics.THE ADVANCE.Crossing the Niemen.The Road to Vilna.Drissa and Beyond.The Chase Resumes.The Battle of Smolensk.A Change in Command.Borodino.Only 70 Miles to Go.The Flanking Forces.THE FUTILE WAIT.Moscow.The Russians Regroup.The Flanks Begin to Waver.THE RETREAT.The Retreat Begins: Moscow to Malo-Jaroslavets.Back to Smolensk.Krasnoi.The Flanks Cave In.The Beresina.The Final Curtain.Epilogue.Glossary.Appendices.Bibliography.Index.

Prose Works (1835)
$29.3
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: C 63 CHAPTER LVIII. Proceedings of the Army under Prince Bagration.?Napoleons manceimres against him.?King Jerome of Westphalia is disgraced for alleged inactivity.?Bagration is defeated by Davoust, but succeeds in gaining the interior of Russia, and re-establishing his communication with the Grand Army?which retreats to Drissa.?Barclay and Bagration meet at Smolensk on the 20th July.? The French Generals become anxious that Napoleon should close the campaign at Witepslc for the season.?fie persists in proceeding.?Smolensk evacuated by I)e Tolly, after setting fire to the place.?Reduced condition of the French, and growing strength of the Russian Armies. ? Peace effected between Russia, and England, Sweden, and Turkey.?Napoleon resolves to advance upon Moscow. Napoleon continued to occupy his headquarters at Wilna, from 28th June to 16th July, the space of eighteen days. It was not usual with him to make such long halts; but Wilna was his last point of communication with Europe, and he had probably much to arrange ere he could plunge into the forests and deserts of Russia, whence all external intercourse must be partial and precarious. He named Maret Duke of Bassano, Governor of Lithuania, and placed under the management of that minister the whole charge of correspondence with.Paris and with the armies; thus rendering him the centre of administrative, political, and even military communication between the Emperor and his dominions. It must not be supposed, however, that these eighteen days passed without military movements of high importance. The reader must remember, that the grand army of Russia was divided into two unequal portions. That commanded under the Emperor by Barclay de Tolly, had occupied Wilna and the vicinity, until the French entered Lithuania, when, ...

Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
$33.14
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [ 63 ] CHAPTER LVIII. Proceedings of the Army under Prince Bagration.?Napoleon's manoeuvres against kim.?King Jerome of West- pJialia is disgraced for alleged inactivity.?Bagration is defeated by Davoust, but succeeds in gaining the interior of Russia, and reestablishing his communication with the Grand Army?which retreats to Drissa?Barclay and Bagration meet at Smolensk on the 20//i July.? The French Generals become anxious that Napoleon should close the campaign at Witepskfor the season.?He persists in proceeding, ?Smolensk evacuated by l)e Tolly, after setting Jire to the place.?Reduced condition of the French, and growing strength of the Russian Armies. ? Peace effected between Russia, and England, Sweden, and Turkey.?Napoleon resolves to advance upon Moscow. Napoleon continued to occupy his headquarters at Wilna, from 28th June to 16th July, the space of eighteen days. It was not usual with him to make such long halts; but Wilna was his last point of communication with Europe, and he had probably much to arrange ere he could plunge into the forests and deserts of Russia, whence all external intercourse must be partial and precarious. He named Mafet Duke of Bassano, Governor of Lithuania, and placed under the management of that minister the whole charge gf correspondence withParis and with the armies; thus rendering him the centre of administrative, political, and even military communication between the Emperor and his dominions. It must not hj supposed, however, that these eighteen days passed without military movements of high importance. The reader must remember, that the grand army of Russia was divided into two unequal portions. That commanded under the Emperor by Barclay de Tolly, had occupied Wilna and the vicinity, until the French entered Lithuania, wh...

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887
$39.48
From the rye field and the threshing barn to the local gentry and the village court, A.N. Engelgardt's Letters painted the most lively, entertaining, and insightful portrait of Imperial Russia's rural countryside. Now translated into English for the first time, judiciously abridged, and fully annotated for the modern reader, Engelgardt's account stands revealed both as a major primary source on nineteenth-century Russia and as an ever-more-timely analysis of a peasant culture in the wake of reform. A distinguished chemist at the St. Petersburg Agricultural Institute, Engelgardt was also an eloquent spokesman for liberty and reform, especially on behalf of Russia's peasant majority. Accused of conspiratorial activities by the Tsarist government, he was exiled in 1871 to his modest estate in impoverished Smolensk province, where, under police surveillance, he wrote his Letters for publication in St. Petersburg. With scientific precision, Engelgardt produced the first comprehensive eye-witness account of the peasant's daily affairs and environment, with detailed descriptions of land reform and collectivization, reflections on the role of peasant women and the effects of emancipation, discussions of local agriculture and the economy, and vivid accounts of peasant attitudes about everything from the Russo-Turkish War to anti-semitism. With an extensive introduction and copious notes, this translation is ideal for anyone interested in Russian history and peasant studies.

White Blood
$3.98
An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolutionThe son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man -- big in stature and big in spirit. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting birds and insects for museums. In 1914 he is on a mission for the Academy of Sciences in Russian Turkestan when war breaks out. His pay is stopped and his companion goes off to enlist. Doig, however, has no intention of volunteering to be killed. He returns to the Pink House, his family's home near Smolensk, and to the woman he loves, his cousin Elizaveta.At first the Pink House remains almost untouched by outside events, and the familiar ways continue as before. But imperial Russia is doomed and with it all the old certainties. Trapped by the snow with Doig and Elizaveta are a motley collection of old aristocrats, their servants and hangers-on -- and two soldiers who have sought refuge with them, one of whom, Doig fears, is a Bolshevik out to destroy them all. Beautifully written, richly imagined, by turns savage and tender, this exhilarating novel confirms James Fleming as one of the very best novelists at work today.

White Blood
$12.98
An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolutionThe son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man -- big in stature and big in spirit. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting birds and insects for museums. In 1914 he is on a mission for the Academy of Sciences in Russian Turkestan when war breaks out. His pay is stopped and his companion goes off to enlist. Doig, however, has no intention of volunteering to be killed. He returns to the Pink House, his family's home near Smolensk, and to the woman he loves, his cousin Elizaveta.At first the Pink House remains almost untouched by outside events, and the familiar ways continue as before. But imperial Russia is doomed and with it all the old certainties. Trapped by the snow with Doig and Elizaveta are a motley collection of old aristocrats, their servants and hangers-on -- and two soldiers who have sought refuge with them, one of whom, Doig fears, is a Bolshevik out to destroy them all. Beautifully written, richly imagined, by turns savage and tender, this exhilarating novel confirms James Fleming as one of the very best novelists at work today.

With Napoleon In Russia-Hardbound
$78.87
DIVThis handsome book is a unique record of Napoleon's invasion of Russia as rDIVThis handsome book is a unique record of Napoleon's invasion of Russia by Faber du Faur, a talented artist and front-line soldier. It combines his detailed, accurate and compelling illustrations of scenes recorded as they actually happened with his vivid and gripping memoirs of the campaign. The result is a superb and remarkably detailed evocation of 1812, from the sweeping battle scenes which capture the ordeal of Smolensk and Borodino, to the day-to-day struggle to keep campfires burning and famished men fed. Faber du Faur's plates - admired and highly-regarded primary source material - are here presented, for the first time, complete and in full color. His moving and frank memoirs, edited and translated by Jonathan North, are accompanied by a detailed campaign history and biography of the artist. Napoleon's invasion of Russia is a legendary campaign and a captivating story of endurance, survival and the rigors of total war. Few of the 500,000 men to cross the Niemen in July 1812 were to survive - the French army was decimated by the advance into the heart of Russia, and almost completely destroyed in the epic retreat from Moscow. With Napoleon in Russia is a unique presentation of this epic and an unforgettable depiction of the horrors of war./DIV

Katyn
$22.91
Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes the helm for this Oscar-nominated drama detailing the harrowing events surrounding the 1940 massacre of captured Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest. A unique blend of conventional narrative and documentary-style filmmaking, Katyn opens in the spring of 1940, just as the Soviet Secret police execute a group of Polish officers. On September 1, 1939, Germen forces had descended upon Poland, paving the way for the Red Army to occupy east Poland as part of the Hitler-Stalin pact. As the Red Army assumed control of east Poland, all officers in the Polish army were placed in Soviet custody. Determined to remain loyal to the army despite the growing danger, Polish officer Andrzej refuses to flee with his wife, Anna. It isn't long before invading forces begin arresting professors in Cracow, and as the detainees languish in prison camps, their families start to fear that they'll never see their loved ones again. Flash forward to April 1943, and the Germans announce the discovery of mass graves. While Anna is relieved not to hear her husband's name on the list of bodies discovered, countless others are left to grieve their losses with no explanation or consolation. January 18, 1945: Cracow is liberated by the Red Army, and propagandist newsreels from the Soviet Union blame German forces for the massacre at Katyn. It is at that point that the fine line between collaboration and resistance within the People's Republic of Poland becomes exceptionally blurred. As the details surrounding the massacre gradually begin to emerge, Wajda reveals precisely how this horrifying massacre unfolded by flashing back to the spring of 1940 for an extended sequence in which Polish officer internees are transported by railroad to Smolensk and methodically dispatched before being casually buried in a mass grave. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

KATYN
$24.26
Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes the helm for this Oscar-nominated drama detailing the harrowing events surrounding the 1940 massacre of captured Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest. A unique blend of conventional narrative and documentary-style filmmaking, Katyn opens in the spring of 1940, just as the Soviet Secret police execute a group of Polish officers. On September 1, 1939, Germen forces had descended upon Poland, paving the way for the Red Army to occupy east Poland as part of the Hitler-Stalin pact. As the Red Army assumed control of east Poland, all officers in the Polish army were placed in Soviet custody. Determined to remain loyal to the army despite the growing danger, Polish officer Andrzej refuses to flee with his wife, Anna. It isn't long before invading forces begin arresting professors in Cracow, and as the detainees languish in prison camps, their families start to fear that they'll never see their loved ones again. Flash forward to April 1943, and the Germans announce the discovery of mass graves. While Anna is relieved not to hear her husband's name on the list of bodies discovered, countless others are left to grieve their losses with no explanation or consolation. January 18, 1945: Cracow is liberated by the Red Army, and propagandist newsreels from the Soviet Union blame German forces for the massacre at Katyn. It is at that point that the fine line between collaboration and resistance within the People's Republic of Poland becomes exceptionally blurred. As the details surrounding the massacre gradually begin to emerge, Wajda reveals precisely how this horrifying massacre unfolded by flashing back to the spring of 1940 for an extended sequence in which Polish officer internees are transported by railroad to Smolensk and methodically dispatched before being casually buried in a mass grave. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Rachmaninov: Vespers
$9.33
There have been great performances of Rachmaninov's Vespers, but the greatest one of all has always been the 1986 recording in Smolensk Cathedral of a performance by the USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir under the direction of Valery Polyansky. Why? Because it's the most spiritual. It's as beautifully sung and as artfully interpreted and as wonderfully shaped as the best performances, but the 1986 Polyansky has one more thing going for it: it's the most spiritual performance yet recorded. Although members of the USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir were the self-proclaimed singing messengers of an avowedly atheist government, they were still Russians and the depth and profundity of their identification with the melodies, harmonies, and rhythms of Rachmaninov's Vespers was in their blood and bones. Perhaps because their musicality had been supported by the state, perhaps because their spirituality had been denied by the state, perhaps because their spirituality had been touched by the spirit, this performance is the most sublime and the most transcendent ever recorded. Unfortunately, Moscow Studio Archives' recording is a bit too deep and a lot too dim and the performance is way off in the far distance. ~ James Leonard, All Music GuidePerformers: Irina Arkhipova - Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal); Victor Rumantsev - Tenor (Vocal); USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir - Choir, Chorus

Goldeneye [Original Motion... [Remaster]
$9.99
Track Listing: 1. GoldenEye, song (for the film GoldenEye) - (featuring Marius de Vries/Tina Turner), 2. GoldenEye, film score: The Goldeneye Overture (includes Monty Norman's James Bond Theme) - (featuring Rupert Hine), 3. GoldenEye, film score: Ladies First - (featuring Rupert Hine), 4. GoldenEye, film score: We Share the Same Passions - (featuring Rupert Hine), 5. GoldenEye, film score: A Little Surprise for You - (featuring Rupert Hine), 6. GoldenEye, film score: The Severnaya Suite - (featuring Rupert Hine), 7. GoldenEye, film score: Our Lady of Smolensk - (featuring Rupert Hine), 8. GoldenEye, film score: Whispering Statues - (featuring Rupert Hine), 9. GoldenEye, film score: Run, Shoot and Jump - (featuring Rupert Hine), 10. GoldenEye, film score: A Pleasant Drive in St. Petersburg (includes Monty Norman's James Bond Theme) - (featuring Rupert Hine), 11. GoldenEye, film score: Fatal Weakness - (featuring Rupert Hine), 12. GoldenEye, film score: That's What Keeps You Alone - (featuring Rupert Hine), 13. GoldenEye, film score: Dish Out Of Water - (featuring Rupert Hine), 14. GoldenEye, film score: The Scale to Hell - (featuring Rupert Hine), 15. GoldenEye, film score: For Ever, James - (featuring Rupert Hine), 16. GoldenEye, film score: The Experience of Love - (featuring Rupert Hine)

Katyn - Subtitle AC3 Dolby
$24.99
Celebrated Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda takes the helm for this Oscar-nominated drama detailing the harrowing events surrounding the 1940 massacre of captured Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest. A unique blend of conventional narrative and documentary-style filmmaking, Katyn opens in the spring of 1940, just as the Soviet Secret police execute a group of Polish officers. On September 1, 1939, Germen forces had descended upon Poland, paving the way for the Red Army to occupy east Poland as part of the Hitler-Stalin pact. As the Red Army assumed control of east Poland, all officers in the Polish army were placed in Soviet custody. Determined to remain loyal to the army despite the growing danger, Polish officer Andrzej refuses to flee with his wife, Anna. It isn't long before invading forces begin arresting professors in Cracow, and as the detainees languish in prison camps, their families start to fear that they'll never see their loved ones again. Flash forward to April 1943, and the Germans announce the discovery of mass graves. While Anna is relieved not to hear her husband's name on the list of bodies discovered, countless others are left to grieve their losses with no explanation or consolation. January 18, 1945: Cracow is liberated by the Red Army, and propagandist newsreels from the Soviet Union blame German forces for the massacre at Katyn. It is at that point that the fine line between collaboration and resistance within the People's Republic of Poland becomes exceptionally blurred. As the details surrounding the massacre gradually begin to emerge, Wajda reveals precisely how this horrifying massacre unfolded by flashing back to the spring of 1940 for an extended sequence in which Polish officer internees are transported by railroad to Smolensk and methodically dispatched before being casually buried in a mass grave. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45
$22.48
On June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million Axis troops and 3,330 tanks smashed into the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler believed the campaign would be over in four months. Four years later, thirty-five million Soviets and five million Germans had been killed in a campaign that had ripped the heart out of the western USSR and Eastern Europe. It left the land gutted, the infrastructure destroyed, and millions of civilians homeless. The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941â??45 is a chronological approach to the fighting that decided the warâ??s outcome in Europe. It allows the reader to see at a glance key battles on land, at sea, and in the air, such as the great encirclement engagements of 1941â??Minsk, Smolensk, and Kievâ??the siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration. As well as describing the titanic battles, the book also includes sidebars on all the main commanders who led the German and Soviet armies on the Eastern Front, such as Guderian, Zhukov, von Manstein, Vatutin, Rokossovsky, Model, and von Rundstedt. In parallel to the military maneuvers in the war, the political events that occurred on both sides and influenced the war are included, for example, the activities of the SS and Einsatzgruppen murder squads.The Eastern Front Day by Day also covers the technology that had an impact on the conflict, such as the Ju-87 Stuka dive-bomber; the T-34, Tiger, and Panther tanks; and the â??Stalinâ??s organâ? rocket launcher. The major events of each month dominate the narrative, but lesser episodes are also included to present a comprehensive summary. These include anti-partisan activities behind German lines, the administration of conquered territories, and the propaganda war waged by both sides. It is a book that no student of the war on the Eastern Front can do without.

The Eastern Front Day by Day, 194145
$15.98
On June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million Axis troops and 3,330 tanks smashed into the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler believed the campaign would be over in four months. Four years later, thirty-five million Soviets and five million Germans had been killed in a campaign that had ripped the heart out of the western USSR and Eastern Europe. It left the land gutted, the infrastructure destroyed, and millions of civilians homeless. The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941–45 is a chronological approach to the fighting that decided the war’s outcome in Europe. It allows the reader to see at a glance key battles on land, at sea, and in the air, such as the great encirclement engagements of 1941—Minsk, Smolensk, and Kiev—the siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration. As well as describing the titanic battles, the book also includes sidebars on all the main commanders who led the German and Soviet armies on the Eastern Front, such as Guderian, Zhukov, von Manstein, Vatutin, Rokossovsky, Model, and von Rundstedt. In parallel to the military maneuvers in the war, the political events that occurred on both sides and influenced the war are included, for example, the activities of the SS and Einsatzgruppen murder squads.The Eastern Front Day by Day also covers the technology that had an impact on the conflict, such as the Ju-87 Stuka dive-bomber; the T-34, Tiger, and Panther tanks; and the “Stalin’s organ” rocket launcher. The major events of each month dominate the narrative, but lesser episodes are also included to present a comprehensive summary. These include anti-partisan activities behind German lines, the administration of conquered territories, and the propaganda war waged by both sides. It is a book that no student of the war on the Eastern Front can do without.

Monty Python Set 6-Flying Circus Boxed 2pk
$12.99
These brilliant DVDs also feature extra tidbits like Monty karaoke, a Pythonism glossary, Gillianimations gallery & more! Episode 33 Biggles dictates a letter, Climbing the north face of the Uxbridge Road, Lifeboat, Old Lady snoopers, Storage jars, The show so far, Cheese shop, Philip Jenkinson on Cheese Westerns, Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days, Apology, The news with Richard Baker, Seashore interlude film Episode 34 Mr Pither, Clodagh Rogers, Trotsky, Smolensk, Bingo-crazed Chinese, Jack in a Box Episode 35Bomb on plane, A naked man, Ten seconds of sex, Housing project built by characters from nineteenth-century English literature, MI interchange built by characters from Paradise Lost, Mystico and Janet -- flats built by hypnosis, Mortuary Hour, The Olympic hide-and-seek final, The Cheap-Laughs, Bull-fighting, The British Well-Basically Club, Prices on the planet Algon Episode 36 Tudor jobs agency, ornographic bookshop, Elizabethan pornography smugglers, Silly disturbances (the Rev. Arthur Belling), The free repetition of doubtful words sketch, by an underrated author, Is there? - life after death?, The man who says words in the wrong order, Thripshaw's disease, Silly noises, Sherry-drinking vicar Episode 37 Boxing Tonight -- Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark, Dennis Moore, Lupins, What the stars foretell, Doctor, TV4 or not TV4 discussion, Ideal Loon Exhibition, Off-License, Prejudice Episode 38Party Political Broadcast (choreographed), A Book at Bedtime, Redgauntlet, Kamikaze Scotsmen, No time to lose, Penguins, BBC programme planners, Unexploded Scotsman, Spot the Loony, Rival documentaries, Dad's Doctors (trail), Dad's Pooves (trail) Episode 39 Thames TV introduction, Light Entertainment Awards, Dickie Attenborough, Oscar Wilde sketch, David Niven's fridge, Pasolini's film The Third Test match, New brain from Curry's, Blood donor, International Wife-Swapping, Credits of the Year, The dirty vicar sketch

A Photographic Chronology
$11.49
The warriors, the weapons, and the furious battlesOn June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million Axis troops and 3,330 tanks smashed into the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler believed the campaign would be over in four months. Four years later, thirty-five million Soviets and five million Germans had been killed in a campaign that had ripped the heart out of the western USSR and Eastern Europe. It left the land gutted, the infrastructure destroyed, and millions of civilians homeless. The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45 is a chronological approach to the fighting that decided the war's outcome in Europe. It allows the reader to see at a glance key battles on land, at sea, and in the air, such as the great encirclement engagements of 1941-Minsk, Smolensk, and Kiev-the siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration. As well as describing the titanic battles, the book also includes sidebars on all the main commanders who led the German and Soviet armies on the Eastern Front, such as Guderian, Zhukov, von Manstein, Vatutin, Rokossovsky, Model, and von Rundstedt. In parallel to the military maneuvers in the war, the political events that occurred on both sides and influenced the war are included, for example, the activities of the SS and Einsatzgruppen murder squads.The Eastern Front Day by Day also covers the technology that had an impact on the conflict, such as the Ju-87 Stuka dive-bomber; the T-34, Tiger, and Panther tanks; and the Stalin's organ rocket launcher. The major events of each month dominate the narrative, but lesser episodes are also included to present a comprehensive summary. These include anti-partisan activities behind German lines, the administration of conquered territories, and the propaganda war waged by both sides. It is a book that no student of the war on the Eastern Front can do without.

Surviving the Storms: Memory of Stalin's Tyranny
$75.03
Surviving the Storms: Memory of Stalin's Tyranny is the story of courage and tenacity. Certainly, it is an account of punishment without crime - the first-person chronicle of life under Stalin in the 1930s and the Nazi invading army in the 1940s. Declared enemies of the people during the Stalinist purges, the eleven-year-old Helen Dmitriew and her family were forced from their home in the Smolensk district, stripped of their belongings, and transported in closed railroad cars to Siberia, where the family was separated. Dmitriew and her sick mother eventually found their way back from the Siberian wilderness, hiding in friendly homes or railroad cars, sleeping in dangerous forests, and concealing their social origins when interrogated by Soviet authorities. Although life in the general vicinity of Minsk returned to normal and Dmitriew earned her teacher's credentials and married, it was still characterized by deprivation, malnutrition, and sickness. She was reunited with her father in Leningrad only briefly, then never to see him (or ultimately any of her family members) again. During the Nazi invasion, when the Soviet armies fled in its path, her first husband was fatally shot by drunken German soldiers during target practice. The next month she gave birth to her only daughter, whose survival today is hardly short of a miracle. Yet Dmitriew never gave up, never stopped helping other innocent victims of Soviet barbarity and Nazi cruelty, and eventually found herself assigned to a labor farm in Bavaria, which was eventually liberated by the American army. Here she also met her second husband, the survivor of two death sentences at the hands of the Soviet government. Together thisfugitive family successfully escaped the certain death of Soviet repatriation, a program initially supported by the western allies, and managed to immigrate to Canada, where they began life again. Today Helen Dmitriew is a professor of Russian in Fresno, California, and her daughter @RÁë…¸Rÿ¾Úx

After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-43
$38.18
In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defenses in southern Russia.pExploiting newly released Russian archival materials, After Stalingrad reveals the unbounded ambitions that shaped the Stavka's winter offensive and the full scope and scale of the Red Army's many offensive operations. For example, it reflects on recently rediscovered Operation Mars, Marshal Zhukov's companion-piece to the more famous Operation Uranus at Stalingrad. It then reexamines the Red Army's dramatic offensive into the Donbas and Khar'kov region during February, clearly demonstrating that this offensive was indeed conducted by three rather than two Red Army fronts. Likewise, it describes how the Stavka expanded the scale of its offensive in mid-February 1943 by ordering major strategic efforts, hitherto ignored, by multiple Red Army fronts along the Western (Orel-Smolensk) axis and, in Zhukov's forgotten operation Polar Star, along the Northwestern (Demiansk-Leningrad) axis as well.pFinally, by restoring the full scope of these failed or partially failed Red Army offensives to history, this volume also reassesses the impact of Manstein's dramatic counterstrokes in the Donbas and Khar'kov regions, concluding that their impact was equivalent to that of a full-fledged strategic counteroffensive.pThis new study includes over 100 operational maps to highlight keyaspects of the offensives.

The Diving Bell
$9.75
Verse rich with aromas, colors, and sometimes bitter hints of what is unsaid.pIgnatova's verse is highly concentrated--rich with aromas and colors and the sometimes bitter hint of what is left unsaid. Particular words or motifs gain intensity as they repeat through varied contexts. Her verse is classical, with effective but traditional versification and frequent shades of Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam and of course Pushkin.pIgnatova's work is also unmistakably contemporary in its stylistic range, marked not only by current events but by the dissident angst, subversive linguistic play and conversational ease of the late Soviet period. She combines both Russian Orthodox and Biblical spiritual sensibility by setting her poems amid the famous beauties and chimeras of St. Petersburg, places where she has visited or has family ties (Crimea and Smolensk), and the new, ancient environs of Jerusalem, described as crystalline and distinct from St. Petersburg's granite.pElena Alekseyevna Ignatova was born in Leningrad in 1947 and began to publish her poetry abroad in 1975. Her book The Warm Earth appeared in Leningrad in 1989, not long before she immigrated to Israel in 1990. Ignatova also penned the substantial historical and cultural survey Notes on Saint Petersburg, in which she conveys her vision of the city on the occasion of its 300th anniversary.pSibelan Forrester has translated the work of numerous Russian poets, as well as stories from Serbian and Croatian, and has written scholarly works on Russian literature, especially Modernist poetry. She is an associate professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College.

Napoleon from the Tuileries to St. Helena
$24.34
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Retreat From Russia TURING the stay of the Emperor in the Kremlin - there had been some conferences to begin negotiations with the enemy; every day they had been waiting for a favorable reply. But when one reflects a little, what could be hoped from an enemy who had delivered such a city as Moscow to the flames? What had that enemy to lose now? The sequel proved that they only wished to beguile the Emperor and fill him with confidence until they should have reorganized and collected their army, to let us exhaust ours, to wear ourselves out in this city which was only a heap of ashes, or in cantonments where there was nothing to eat either for men or for horses, and finally to keep us in Russia as long as possible in order that winter, which was advancing with great strides, should surprise us during our retreat while still far from any help. This policy was, unfortunately, successful for the Russians, who made us pay very dearly for the glory which we had had in making the conquest of their holy city. Time passed rapidly and no satisfactory reply arrived at imperial headquarters. At Moscow everybody appeared to feel in the most perfect security, when we learned that the Russians had suddenly attacked the French advanced posts. This unexpected news created a little anxiety. The Emperor promptly set about replying to this aggression. The day for departure was set and orders were given to the army to march toward the south. We abandoned Moscow and its ruins on October 19th, I think., From that time the clear days disappeared and the nights began to grow longer. The sun was frequently hidden and the horizon grew blacker and blacker. Men's faces became serious; they seemed to have a presentiment of a disastrous future and to dread it. At Smolensk the c...

Russia, Ancient and Modern
$35.12
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE MUSCOVITE MONARCHY. Mongol Domination not an unmixed Evil ?Union of Races ? Alexander Nevsky? Livonian and Teutonic Knights ? Moscow ? Grand Princedom ? Ivan Kalita?Metropolitan See ?Daniel of Oalisch ? Lithuania and Poland? Kossacks? Demetrius Donskoi ? Hereditary Succession ? Paramount Sovereignty ? Decline of the Golden Horde Victory of Koulikoff? Burning of Moscow ? Vassily ? Tamerlane? Crisis ? Coronation of Vassily ? Vassily the Blind ? Singular Demonstration ? Ivan the Great ? Marriage with Sophia?Greek Empire ?Tartar Tyranny ? Ivan's Policy?Capture of Kasan ?Novgorod ?Destruction of the Golden Horde ? Liberation of Russia ? Consolidation of the Monarchy ? Recovery of Little Russia ? Title of Czar ? Royal State ? Remodelling of the Boyards ? Autocrasy ? Vassily Ivanovitch ?Ivan the Terrible ? Infancy and early Years ? Coronation ? Moscow in Flames ? Silvester ? Anastasia ? Council of the Hundred Chapters ? Estates of the Realm ? Three Orders?Trial by Jury ? Re-conquest of Kasan ?Conversion to Christianity ?Conquest of Astrakhan ? Annexation of Siberia Commerce?Intercourse with England?Death of Anastasia ? Change in Ivan ? Czar's Withdrawal from Moscow? His Return ? Peculiars ? Superstition and Cruelty- Death of St. Philip?Massacre at Novgorod?Hermit of Pskof?Executions at Moscow ? Seven Wives ? Correspondence with Queen Elizabeth ? Lady Anne Hastings ? Stephen of Poland ? Death of the Czarovitch and of the Czar ? His Character ? Comparison with Henry VIII. ? Feodore ? Boris Godunoff? Demetrius ? Reported Death ? Tartar Invasion? Erection of the Patriarchate ? Origin of Serfdom?Archangel built ? Smolensk ? Ural ? Tobolsk?Georgia ? Death of Feodore ? Election of Boris?Tyrannical Conduct ?Momentary Popularity ? Oppression ? Demetrius claims the...

A Photographic Chronology
$33.46
The warriors, the weapons, and the furious battlesOn June 22, 1941, preceded by a massive artillery and aerial bombardment along the entire 2,000-mile border, three million Axis troops and 3,330 tanks smashed into the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler believed the campaign would be over in four months. Four years later, thirty-five million Soviets and five million Germans had been killed in a campaign that had ripped the heart out of the western USSR and Eastern Europe. It left the land gutted, the infrastructure destroyed, and millions of civilians homeless. The Eastern Front Day by Day, 1941-45 is a chronological approach to the fighting that decided the war's outcome in Europe. It allows the reader to see at a glance key battles on land, at sea, and in the air, such as the great encirclement engagements of 1941-Minsk, Smolensk, and Kiev-the siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, and Operation Bagration. As well as describing the titanic battles, the book also includes sidebars on all the main commanders who led the German and Soviet armies on the Eastern Front, such as Guderian, Zhukov, von Manstein, Vatutin, Rokossovsky, Model, and von Rundstedt. In parallel to the military maneuvers in the war, the political events that occurred on both sides and influenced the war are included, for example, the activities of the SS and Einsatzgruppen murder squads.The Eastern Front Day by Day also covers the technology that had an impact on the conflict, such as the Ju-87 Stuka dive-bomber; the T-34, Tiger, and Panther tanks; and the Stalin's organ rocket launcher. The major events of each month dominate the narrative, but lesser episodes are also included to present a comprehensive summary. These include anti-partisan activities behind German lines, the administration of conquered territories, and the propaganda war waged by both sides. It is a book that no student of the war on the Eastern Front can do without.

The History of a Brain Wound
$19.78
Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could recall his childhood but not his recent past; half his field of vision had been destroyed; he had great difficulty speaking, reading, and writing. Woven throughout his first-person account are interpolations by Luria himself, which serve as excellent brief introductions to the topic of brain structure and function.These two books are compassionate and vivid portraits--he called the 'neurological novels'--though they are in fact case histories of two patients whom Luria observed for 30 years.This is an important and remarkable book--the product of the relationship between two remarkable men, one a world authority on the brain, the other his unfortunate brain-damaged patient...Luria has created a fascinating and valuable review of the strange but precise working of the brain for both the general reader and the scientist. This little book will become a classic.Zasetsky... in eloquent excerpts from a diary, comments on his struggle to recover the use of his brain... He could not even have written his journal--3,000 pages that he cannot read himself, composed with appalling effort over a quarter of a century-had he not learned to write automatically, without thinking of the process. It is a remarkable document, affecting in its simplicity, its pain, its inexorable determination.The book is equally as remarkable a document as Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist,..Writing is Zasetsky's laborious way of thinking. His achievement is that he has managed, after untold agonies and frustrations, to describe his unending confusions with terrible clarity. It would take a lobotomized Samuel Beckett to match it.A noted Russian neuropsychologist shares the remarkable story of his 25-year treatment of a young soldier who, in the af@3Ç®záHÿ¾Úx

Peter and Alexis
$44.18
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Book III THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF THE TSAREVITCH ALEXIS CHAPTER I THE DIARY OF FRAULEIN ARNHEIM, MAID OF HONOUR May 1, 1714. A CURSED country, a cursed people ! Brandy, blood, and dirt! It is difficult to say which is the ruling characteristic. Dirt, perhaps. The Danish King had good reason to say: The next time ambassadors from Muscovy come to me, I will have pig-sheds erected for them, for any place they occupy, even a short time, is rendered uninhabitable for at least six months by the stench. A Frenchman describes the Muscovite as a human being according to Plato; a featherless biped possessing all human qualities except cleanliness and common sense. And these stinking savages, these baptized bears, more pitiable still when changed into apes of Europeans, consider themselves the only human beings, the rest of mankind beasts. Especially for us Germans they feel an inborn and invincible hatred; our touch alone denies them. Lutherans are little better than Satan himself in their eyes. I would not remain another moment in Russia were it not for my duty of loyalty, and devotion to her Highness, my most gracious mistress and dear friend, the Crown Princess Sophia Charlotte. Whatever may happen, I will not forsake her! I will write this diary in the languages I usually speak, German and French. But some of the jokes, proverbs, songs, text of ukases and bits of conversation, I will give in Russian and afterwards translate them. My father, a pure German, belongs to an ancient family of Saxon Knights. My mother was a Pole. With her first husband, a Polish nobleman, she had lived for a long time in Russia, not far from Smolensk, and knew the Russian language well. I was brought up in Torgau, at the court of the Queen of Poland, which was frequented by many Musco...

In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures
$21.81
Helen Mirren has been an internationally ac-claimed actress -- and the recipient of many awards, transferring between stage, cinema and television -- for over 40 years.PKnown in her youth for a forthright style, a liberated attitude and a bohemian outlook, she has never ceased to be out of the public eye, with legions of admiring fans all over the world. This illustrated memoir is an account of an extraordinary talent, and a life well lived.PHelen's aristocratic Russian grandfather, Pyotr Vasilievich Mironov, a military man, was sent to London by the Czar and found himself stranded and penniless by the Bolshevik revolution, cut off from the family estate near Smolensk. He brought with him a trunk of papers and photographs. This delightful memoir starts with the contents of the trunk, with evocative pictures of Helen's Russian antecedents. She has kept a rich seam of photo-graphs and memorabilia from her life, and her parents, family life, childhood, teenage and early years as an actress living in insalubrious flats are vividly documented.PHelen's many distinguished roles in theatre, cinema and television and the illustrious men and women she has encountered are commemorated, as well as her forays into Hollywood and her sub-sequent life in the United States with her husband, film director Taylor Hackford. Golden Globe and Oscar ceremonies make their appearance, as do many stunning images of Helen by the world's leading photographers.PIIn the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures/iis a book to savour, created and written by one of the great personalities of our age.bbigp align=centerIntroduction/big/bPI must have started about twenty journals in my life. One, written at the age of fourteen and reproduced in this book, ambitiously calls itself 'Chapter 1 Volume 1'. It lasted for all of three pages. It is unbelievably boring. No natural writer then.PSome journals I started at the beginning of a job, a film or a play, others were inspired by f@5Ï\(õÂ?ÿ¾Úx

Muscovy and Sweden in the Thirty Years' War 1630}}}1635
$69.48
An edited translation of the great Soviet historian B. F. Porshnev}}}s exploration of the Thirty Years}}} War.This is the first English translation of important writings on the Thirty Years' War by the great Soviet historian B.F. Porshnev. Dukes has selected the most enlightening areas of Porshnev's unparalleled research to fill a crucial gap in our understanding of the conflict, and has set Porshnev's work firmly in context with a comprehensive introduction and evaluation. A significant reinterpretation of a fascinating period, the book will interest Russian specialists and those working generally around seventeenth century European history.This is the first English translation of important writings on the Thirty Years' War by the great Soviet historian B.F. Porshnev. Dukes has selected the most enlightening areas of Porshnev's unparalleled research to fill a crucial gap in our understanding of the conflict, and has set Porshnev's work firmly in context with a comprehensive introduction and evaluation. A significant reinterpretation of a fascinating period, the book will interest Russian specialists and those working generally around seventeenth century European history.This is the first English translation of important writings on the Thirty Years' War by the great Soviet historian B.F. Porshnev. Dukes has selected the most enlightening areas of Porshnev's unparalleled research to fill a crucial gap in our understanding of the conflict, and has set Porshnev's work firmly in context with a comprehensive introduction and evaluation. A significant reinterpretation of a fascinating period, the book will interest Russian specialists and those working generally around seventeenth century European history.1. Muscovy and the entry of Sweden into the Thirty Years' War; 2. Gustavus Adolphus and preparation for the Smolensk War; 3. The conflict concerning the Russo-Swedish alliance in 1631}}}1632; 4. The social and political situation in Germany at the time of Gustavus Adolp@Q^¸Që…ÿ¾Úx

Peter and Alexis (1905)
$46.05
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Private Journal Of The Tsaretjk: h Alexis CHAPTER I THE DIARY OF FRAULEIN ARNHEIM, MAID OF HONOUR May 1, 1714. A CURSED country, a cursed people ! Brandy, blood, and dirt! It is difficult to say which is the ruling characteristic. Dirt, perhaps. The Danish King had good reason to say: The next time ambassadors from Muscovy come to me, I will have pig-sheds erected for, them, for any place they occupy, even a short time, is ' rendered uninhabitable for at least six months by the stench. A Frenchman describes the Muscovite as a human being according to Plato; a featherless biped possessing all human qualities except cleanliness and common sense. And these stinking savages, these baptized bears, more pitiable still when changed into apes of Europeans, consider themselves the only human beings, the rest of mankind beasts. Especially for us Germans they feel an inborn and invincible hatred; our touch alone denles them. Lutherans are little better than Satan himself in their eyes. I would not remain another moment in Russia were it not for my duty of loyalty, and devotion to her Highness, my most gracious mistress and dear friend, the Crown Princess Sophia Charlotte. Whatever may happen, I will not forsake her ! I will write this diary in the languages I usually speak, German and French. But some of the jokes, proverbs, songs, text of ukases and bits of conversation, I will give in Russian and afterwards translate them. My father, a pure German, belongs to an ancient family of Saxon Knights. My mother was a Pole. With her first husband, a Polish nobleman, she had lived for a long time in Russia, not far from Smolensk, and knew the Russian language well. I was brought up in Torgau, at the court of the Queen of Poland, which was frequented by many Muscovi...

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