Biografieën/waargebeurd

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Auteur : Prof. Mr. N.E.H. van Esveld
Artikelnummer : BF7538
Categorie(ën) : Biografieën/waargebeurd
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The various life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne.

Among the papers of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was a manuscript to which he had repeatedly turned for more than thirty years. Exploring an array of English and European…

From ethnic borderland to Soviet Heartland.

This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians and Russians lived side by side. Over the…

Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and Pipes went on to earn a college degree, join the U.S. Air Corps,…

n the 1960s and early 70s rock and rebellion went arm in arm. This was the generation that angrily refused to grow up, to settle down. The Who captured the zeitgeist with precision: 'I hope I die before I get old.'
Yet, thirty…

An unauthorized autibiography.

This is an examination of the life of Ray Davies, leader of The Kinks. From 1964 he has been one of the brightest, sharpest, wittiest and most popular of British musicians. Instead of a conventional…

The daughter of a minister and a former beauty queen, Darcey Steinke recalls accompanying her father on sick calls, stopping by the scene of accidents, and holding her own pretend wedding and funeral services. Her father's first…

Drawing on his own diary as well as secret documents and transcripts of high-level meetings, Anatoly Chernyaev recounts the drama that swept the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991. As Gorbachev's chief foreign policy aide for most…

Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the rise and fall of the late Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Drawing on newly available archival materials and a wealth of recently published Russian and Ukrainian sources, this standard…

The private lives of a broad section of Russians who lived during Stalin's purge are revealed in this book. The nine diaries here capture the day-to-day thoughts of these people, and represent a vast selection of opinions, from…

From the secret archive.

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Auteur : Richard Pipes
Artikelnummer : BF7328
Categorie : Biografieën/waargebeurd…

A portrait of one of Stalin's most feared and despised henchmen examines the Stalinist justice system and reign of terror.

Auteur : Arkady Vaksberg
Artikelnummer : BF7268
Categorie : Biografieën/waargebeurd / Engelstalige…

Welch ein Leben: Vom jüdischen Außenseiter aus Ostgalizien zum Wiener Studenten und Weltkriegssoldaten, vom Starjournalisten der Weimarer Republik und Reisereporter zum österreichischen Literaten mit Weltruhm, der als…

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Auteur : Archie Brown
Artikelnummer : BF7187
Categorie : Geschiedenis / biografieën/waargebeurd / sociologie / Engelstalige…

Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the decline of the Communist party and the withdrawal of Soviet control…

Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography - with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments of high farce. Clever, witty and sophisticated, Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until…

Writer Charles Nicholl undertakes a nervy quest into the dangerous underworld of Colombia's billion-dollar cocaine smuggling enterprise where he encounters the toughest backstreet bars in Bogota, hidden valleys in the Sierra…