Author: Marat Grinberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783207077
Category : Film adaptations
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Commissar
Author: Marat Grinberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783207077
Category : Film adaptations
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783207077
Category : Film adaptations
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Commissar Vanishes
Author: David King
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805052954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume."
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780805052954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume."
The Commissar's Report
Author: Martyn Burke
Publisher: Martyn Burke
ISBN: 9780395354902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher: Martyn Burke
ISBN: 9780395354902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Commissar
Author: Sven Hassel
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297864238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival. Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight. The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war. They fight only to stay alive. But then they uncover the Soviet Army's biggest secret. A Russian commissar has hidden 30 million dollars of gold somewhere behind enemy lines. In a madcap scheme, Porta brokers a deal with the commissar: free passage for the Russians in return for a share of the gold. To find it, Sven and his comrades must be prepared to lie, steal and go behind the lines of the deadly Russian army...
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297864238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival. Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight. The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war. They fight only to stay alive. But then they uncover the Soviet Army's biggest secret. A Russian commissar has hidden 30 million dollars of gold somewhere behind enemy lines. In a madcap scheme, Porta brokers a deal with the commissar: free passage for the Russians in return for a share of the gold. To find it, Sven and his comrades must be prepared to lie, steal and go behind the lines of the deadly Russian army...
Sphinx and Commissar
Author: Muḥammad Ḥasanayn Haykal
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : da
Pages : 320
Book Description
Forfatteren forklarer udviklingen af den sovjetrussiske dominans i Mellemøsten lige fra Ægyptens "tjekkiske våbenhandel" i 1955, som åbnede vejen for at Sovjet trådte i stedet for Storbritannien og USA som den toneangivende magt i området og til at russerne i 1972 beordredes til at forlade Ægypten.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : da
Pages : 320
Book Description
Forfatteren forklarer udviklingen af den sovjetrussiske dominans i Mellemøsten lige fra Ægyptens "tjekkiske våbenhandel" i 1955, som åbnede vejen for at Sovjet trådte i stedet for Storbritannien og USA som den toneangivende magt i området og til at russerne i 1972 beordredes til at forlade Ægypten.
Commissar
Author: Andy Hoare
Publisher: Black Library
ISBN: 9781849706094
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Deployed to the prison planet of Furia Penitens to quell a violent uprising, the 77th Vostroyan Firstborn regiment of the Imperial Guard find themselves in a precarious position. The rebels are in a fortified prison-hive, all but impenetrable. A disgrace suffered by their forebears haunts them. And they hate their new commissar. Can Commissar Flint bring them to victory and restore their reputation, or with the 77th fail again?
Publisher: Black Library
ISBN: 9781849706094
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Deployed to the prison planet of Furia Penitens to quell a violent uprising, the 77th Vostroyan Firstborn regiment of the Imperial Guard find themselves in a precarious position. The rebels are in a fortified prison-hive, all but impenetrable. A disgrace suffered by their forebears haunts them. And they hate their new commissar. Can Commissar Flint bring them to victory and restore their reputation, or with the 77th fail again?
Commissar
Author: D.V. Chernov
Publisher: Heathen Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
After the 1917 revolution, Russia is teetering on the brink of civil war. When the Soviet head of state Lenin is shot by an assassin, CHEKA agent Anna Sokolova is tasked with hunting down British spy Sidney Reilly who set in motion an audacious plot to alter the course of Russian history. Meanwhile, in New York, an American WWI veteran William Arden sets sail on a mission to Russia that is not what it appears to be, and the true purpose of which even he may not yet fully comprehend. Their paths cross in Petrograd, and they become unlikely allies. As a bloody conflict ignites throughout Russia, Anna’s loyalties are tested. Can she save her country and not lose herself in the process? Based on historical events, Commissar is a gripping spy thriller about the little-known period of US and British intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918-22).
Publisher: Heathen Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
After the 1917 revolution, Russia is teetering on the brink of civil war. When the Soviet head of state Lenin is shot by an assassin, CHEKA agent Anna Sokolova is tasked with hunting down British spy Sidney Reilly who set in motion an audacious plot to alter the course of Russian history. Meanwhile, in New York, an American WWI veteran William Arden sets sail on a mission to Russia that is not what it appears to be, and the true purpose of which even he may not yet fully comprehend. Their paths cross in Petrograd, and they become unlikely allies. As a bloody conflict ignites throughout Russia, Anna’s loyalties are tested. Can she save her country and not lose herself in the process? Based on historical events, Commissar is a gripping spy thriller about the little-known period of US and British intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918-22).
The Yogi and the Commissar
Author: Arthur Koestler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
Author: Scotland. Privy Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
1545-1569
Author: Scotland. Privy Council
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description