Биографии и Мемуары
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Третім за хронологією написання твором у циклі «Будівники світу» класика австрійської літератури Стефана Цвейга (1881—1942) є «Три співці свого життя. Казанова, Стендаль, Толстой» (1928). Зіставлення цих імен звучить несподівано. Насправді ж ці три імені символізують три сходинки в межах однієї й тієї ж творчої функції: самозображення. Найважливішим завданням свого мистецтва вони мимоволі вважають не відображення макрокосму, тобто повноти існування, а показ мікрокосму власного «я»: для них...
| Автор | Стефан Цвейг |
Впервые Джо Байден, недавно избранный 46-й президент США, откровенно рассказывает историю своей необыкновенной жизни и карьеры. С присущей ему прямотой и остроумием Джо Байден делится личными трагедиями, болью и радостью. С детства он страдал от заикания, но поборол недуг и в возрасте 29 лет стал одним из самых молодых сенаторов в американской истории. Потерял жену и годовалую дочь в автокатастрофе, был на грани смерти из-за аневризмы в мозге, но сумел найти в себе силы жить и бороться дальше,...
| Автор | Джо Байден |
Личность Наполеона Бонапарта широко известна, а вот имя Камбасе-реса – человека, находившегося в тени императора, но фактически управлявшего страной, – знакомо, пожалуй, разве что специалистам-историкам. А между тем этот государственный деятель являлся ближайшим советником Наполеона и оказывал на него значительное влияние. Камбасереса прозвали серым кардиналом императора, что вполне соответствовало его манере действий. Именно благодаря Камбасересу Наполеон смог взобраться на высшую ступень...
| Автор | Сергей Нечаев |
Безнравственна ли проповедь полной свободы – без «тормозов» религиозных и этических правил, выработанных тысячелетиями? Сейчас кому-то покажется, что такие ограничения нарушают «права человека». Но именно к этому призывал своей жизнью и книгами Донасьен де Сад два века назад – к тому, что сегодня, увы, превратилось в стереотипы массовой культуры, которых мы уже и не замечаем, хотя имя этого человека породило термин «садизм», обозначающий недопустимую немотивированную жестокость. Так чему,...
| Автор | Сергей Нечаев |
Впервые Джо Байден, недавно избранный 46-й президент США, откровенно рассказывает историю своей необыкновенной жизни и карьеры. С присущей ему прямотой и остроумием Джо Байден делится личными трагедиями, болью и радостью. С детства он страдал от заикания, но поборол недуг и в возрасте 29 лет стал одним из самых молодых сенаторов в американской истории. Потерял жену и годовалую дочь в автокатастрофе, был на грани смерти из-за аневризмы в мозге, но сумел найти в себе силы жить и бороться дальше,...
| Автор | Джо Байден |
Среди многочисленных публикаций, посвященных адмиралу Вильгельму Канарису, книга немецкого историка К. Х. Абсхагена выделяется попыткой понять и объективно воспроизвести личность и образ жизни руководителя военной разведки вермахта и одновременно видного участника немецкого Сопротивления.
Книга вводит в обширный круг общения руководителя абвера, приоткрывает малоизвестные страницы истории Европы 30—40-х годов двадцатого века.
| Автор | Карл Хайнц Абсхаген |
Противника нельзя недооценивать: были свои асы разведки, профессионалы в сфере диверсионной и агентурной работы и в Третьем рейхе. Отто Скорцени называли «личным диверсантом фюрера», что в целом соответствовало реальности, поскольку «диверсант рейха № 1» нередко получал задания от самого Гитлера. Именно его фюрер лично отобрал для освобождения итальянского диктатора Бенито Муссолини, находившегося в заключении после свержения. Но если операция «Дуб» увенчалась успехом, то «Длинный прыжок»...
| Автор | Александр Север |
Будучи юным, Геринг получил отличное военное образование. Он стал кадетом училища Карлсруэ и престижной школы в Гросс-Лихтенфельде. В дни учебы он был одним из способных учащихся, и благодаря этому в 1912 году ему дали чин лейтенанта, после чего стал пехотинцем 112-го подразделения. Перед самым началом 1-й мировой войны он воевал на Западном фронте. Осенью 1914 года этого целеустремленного человека перевели в 25-й отряд воздушного флота и он стал летчиком-наблюдателем.
| Автор | Максим Клим |
Chris Evans is one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. For the first time, readers can follow Chris’s journey in this single volume – from a young paperboy living in a council estate in It’s Not What You Think to battling his demons whilst hosting his radio show in the Sunday Times bestseller Memoirs of a Fruitcake.It’s Not What You Think tells the story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale. In this witty...
| Автор | Chris Evans |
Previously published as Our Vinnie.The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the ’70s. So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it.The first title in a series of gritty family sagas, In Cold Blood accounts the dramatic true story of a brother’s determination to avenge his younger sister’s rape. Josie was just 11 when her Vinnie, then 14, was taken away to a detention...
| Автор | Julie Shaw |
The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he...
| Автор | Jane Smith |
‘I loved Jon’s book. It’s even better than the real thing because you can’t hear his voice.’ Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such a small thing but it’s one of a thousand things I miss about having someone around to take care of me. I have spent my entire adult life getting things the way I want them and all I want now is someone to give it...
| Автор | Jon Richardson |
Previously published as My Mam Shirley.Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley.The third instalment of this gritty series recounts the incredible stories of the unflinching women behind the legendary Hudson family.The Canterbury Estate in Bradford during the ’50s and ’60s was a tight-knit community reared on poverty, crime and violence, and at the top of the heap were the infamous Hudson family. But it wasn’t just...
| Автор | Julie Shaw |
Will You Love Me can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3 (Chapters 17-27 of 27).You can read Part 3 on release of the full-length eBook and paperback.The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy’s adopted daughter Lucy.Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
The Times for over 150 years has been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of outstanding individuals. The Times Great Military Lives is an authoritative and fascinating collection of obituaries depicting the great military commanders of the 19th and 20th centuries.The obituaries collected in this volume are of outstanding military commanders all of whom were remarkable men. Sometimes complex and difficult, often intellectually brilliant and physically brave, always...
| Автор | Ian Brunskill |
Girl Alone can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 10-17 of 26).You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Aged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father's suicide. She's never gotten over it.This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out of control. At the age of nine, Joss finds her father’s dead body. He has committed suicide. Then her mother remarries and Joss...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons.Maria's dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves and street-walkers. Her mother, tiring of turning tricks for her husband, walked out, leaving the children in his chaotic, violent and sometimes cruel care. By the age of nine, Maria's father was abusing her and getting a prostitute friend to dress her up in...
| Автор | Maria Landon |
Will You Love Me can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 10-16 of 27).You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy’s adopted daughter Lucy.Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood....
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
First published in 1983, Heroes and Contemporaries reveals a new aspect of David Gower’s personality – that of an astute and intelligent observer of the game and of his fellow players.In this book he has chosen a collection of the people in cricket he most admires and has written about them in conversational style, with immediacy and critical appreciation.Gower’s encounters with these people behind the scenes – some of the most important players of our time – give us insight into their...
| Автор | David Gower |
A heartbreaking and shocking short story from foster carer Rosie Lewis.Toddler Charlie falls from the second floor window of his tower block home while his mother is busy shooting up in their dirty council flat.Laying alone on a pile of rubbish until concerned neighbours hear him whimpering, Charlie is taken to hospital by police officers who are unable to rouse his mother.With a gash to his head, a terrified Charlie is delivered to foster carer Rosie Lewis’s home. As Charlie opens up about his...
| Автор | Rosie Lewis |
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s youngest President, was assassinated barely one thousand days into his Presidency. In the fiftieth anniversary of his death, this is the story of the man who brought an aspirational new approach to American politics.Born into the glamorous cast of Kennedys, JFK was propelled to political success despite family tragedy, disappointment and pressure. He engaged in a Space Race, averted the Cuban missile crisis...
| Автор | Sinead Fitzgibbon |
A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and broke a world record along the way.Janette, Frances, Helen and Niki, though all from Yorkshire, were four very different women, all juggling full time jobs alongside being mothers to each of their 2 children. They could never be described as athletes,...
| Автор | Janette Benaddi |
Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the heartbreaking true story of a teenage mother and baby in need of a safe and loving home.At fourteen, Emma is just a child herself – and one who’s never been properly mothered. She has been in foster care several times already and when she discovered she was pregnant, and refused to have an abortion, her mother threw her out of the house.Casey and her family instantly form a strong bond with Emma’s baby Roman, but dealing with Emma’s...
| Автор | Casey Watson |
The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he...
| Автор | Jane Smith |