Author: Sarah ArmstrongPublisher: Moscow Wolves series
ISBN: 9781912240715
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt
Author: Sarah ArmstrongPublisher: Moscow Wolves series
ISBN: 9781912240715
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Starlings of Bucharest
Author: Sarah ArmstrongPublisher: Moscow Wolves
ISBN: 9781913207007
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Ted wants to be a proper journalist rather than a film critic, but at least the travel is good. He arrives in Bucharest to interview a renowned film director, but suspects the man he sees is an imposter. His guide, Vasile, has involved him in a more interesting story about a missing girl, a puzzle Ted aims to solve while he's in Moscow at the 1975 International Film Festival. In Moscow, though, the mystery deepens, and Ted finds himself asked to do more than a few dubious favours."--Provided by publisher.
The Wolves of Islam
Author: Paul J. MurphyPublisher: Potomac Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Fighting for God and greed
The Devil in the Snow
Author: Sarah ArmstrongPublisher: Sandstone Press Limited
ISBN: 9781910985540
Category : Blessing and cursing
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
All Shona wants is a simple life with her children, but her teenage daughter goes missing, and she starts hearing stories of a family curse...
Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration
Author: Brian HarveyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387739769
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth’s orbit. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well they were tested. He concludes that political mismanagement rather than technology prevented the Soviet Union from landing cosmonauts on the moon. The book is well timed for the return to the moon by the United States and the first missions there by China and India.
Room39 and the Lisbon Connection
Author: Anthony WellsPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664178856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The introduction and the prologue detail quite explicitly what my novel is about. My book is based on a true story and lead characters, several of whom I knew personally in the late 1960s and early 1970s before they passed away. I never did meet Ian Fleming, the creator of the James Bond novels, as he left the UK for the West Indies after the end of World War II. My book is therefore a historical novel with hitherto largely untold aspects based on my own personal knowledge, research, and professional experience. It’s a great novel because as several reviewers have pointed out no one has ever told the story of how Room 39, Ian Fleming, and his boss and colleagues worked to undermine the Nazis in Portugal, and Lisbon specifically, and the ending with the meeting in NYC with Wild Bill Donovan. My novel shows how Fleming used his experiences in Room 39 as the basis for his postwar Bond novels.
Resistance
Author: Mara TimonPublisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 183877467X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
'RESISTANCE WOULD BE FUTILE' THE TIMES 'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!' CLAIRE GRADIDGE Perfect for fans of Code Name Hélène and The Alice Network. THREE WOMEN. ONE MISSION. ENEMIES EVERYWHERE. May 1944. When spy Elisabeth de Mornay, code name Cécile, notices a coded transmission from an agent in the field does not bear his usual signature, she suspects his cover has been blown - something that is happening with increasing frequency. With the situation in Occupied France worsening and growing fears that the Resistance has been compromised, Cécile is ordered behind enemy lines. Having rendezvoused with her fellow agents, Léonie and Dominique, together they have one mission: help the Resistance destabilise German operations to pave the way for the Normandy landings. But the life of a spy is never straightforward, and the in-fighting within the Resistance makes knowing who to trust ever more difficult. With their lives on the line, all three women will have to make decisions that could cost them everything - for not all their enemies are German. 'HEART-STOPPING...RESISTANCE IS A GIFT TO ALL FANS OF ESPIONAGE THRILLERS' IMOGEN ROBERTSON 'TENSE, VIVID AND UTTERLY ADDICTIVE' LOUISE BEECH
Darkness at Dawn
Author: David SatterPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129092
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
“The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state” (Newsweek). Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: A country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia’s age-old ways of thinking. “With a reporter’s eye for vivid detail and a novelist’s ability to capture emotion, he conveys the drama of Russia’s rocky road for the average victimized Russian . . . This is only half the story of what is happening in Russia these days, but it is the shattering half, and Satter renders it all the more poignant by making it so human.” —Foreign Affairs “[Satter] tells engrossing tales of brazen chicanery, official greed and unbearable suffering . . . Satter manages to bring the events to life with excruciating accounts of real Russians whose lives were shattered.” —The Baltimore Sun “Satter must be commended for saying what a great many people only dare to think.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “Humane and articulate.” —The Spectator “Vivid, impeccably researched and truly frightening . . . Western policy-makers would do well to study these pages.” —National Post
The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks
Author: Umberto CavallaroPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319921533
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath these surface similarities, the two competing nations employed very different core tactics. It provides a new perspective of the history of the space race by analyzing that history through philately - that is, from the images on postage stamps, post cards, and letters in circulation at that time. Through this fascinating historical visual record, the author shows how the propaganda-heavy approach of the USSR eventually lost out to the more pragmatic approach of the United States.
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