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Andersonville; a story of rebel military prisons
"McElroy, with a detachment of his regiment, was guarding a supply route to Cumberland Gap when his entire company was captured in a surprise attack one morning during the winter of 1862-63. He and his comrades were taken to Lippy Prison, and from there they were sent to Andersonville. McElroy spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. His story of attempts at escape, of comrades tracked through…
Общие темы: Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir
The Library of American Biography
Общие темы: Biography & Memoir
Досье ОДЕССА
The life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal unfolds against a background of international arms deals. As the story leads to its final dramatic confrontation on a bleak winter's hill-top, the question every reader asked at the end of The Day of the Jackal will inevitably be asked again: Can this be fiction?
Общие темы: Concentration Camps, Holocaust
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of…
Общие темы: Concentration Camps, Biography & Memoir
The Rough Riders
«Всадники» (1899) — история Первого добровольческого кавалерийского полка США, того самого полка, который привёл Теодора Рузвельта к неувядающей славе на Кубе в годы Испано-американской войны. Рузвельт рассказывает, как полк набирали из необычного сплава закалённых юго-западных фронтирсменов и изнеженных выпускников северо-восточных колледжей, как проходили учения в Техасе, а затем корабли взяли…
Общие темы: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir
Meḿoires de guerre
Originally published in three separate volumes covering three distinct periods, this single edition encompasses all the personal writings by one of this century's most prominent generals and statesmen from the fall of France in 1940 to the aftermath of World War II in 1946. The first section, "The Call to Honor," recounts the confusion and despair triggered by Hitler's blitzkrieg invasion of…
Общие темы: Personal narratives, World War II, Biography & Memoir
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