hilsum lindsey in extremis the life of war correspondent marie colvin
Hilsum Lindsey In Extremis. The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. She reported from the most dangerous places in the world and her anecdotes about encounters with figures like Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat were incomparable. She was much admired, and as famous for her wild parties as for the extraordinary lengths to which she went to tell the story. Fellow foreign correspondent Lindsey Hilsum draws on unpublished diaries and interviews with friends, family and colleagues to produce a story of one of the most daring and inspirational women of our times.
2662 Руб.
Waugh Evelyn Waugh in Abyssinia
A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the crisis is coupled with amusing descriptions of the often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent rubbing shoulders with less-than-honest officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled journalists. Witty, lucid and penetrating, Evelyn Waugh captures the dilemmas and complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.
2625 Руб.
Hemingway Ernest The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
Inspired by Hemingway's adventures as a newspaper correspondent in Spain in the 1930s, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War magnificently evokes life in a besieged city over a tumultuous decade. Featuring the author's only full-length play, the works recount decadent parties and doomed love affairs amid the rubble, and effortlessly capture the devastating effects of the war on the inhabitants of the city.
2177 Руб.
Barber Noel A Farewell to France
Sonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their passion is the most important part of his life. Until war places in jeopardy all they held dear - love, family and country. From the Left Bank of the 1930s to Nazi-occupied Paris, A Farewell to France is a magnificent epic, played out against the tumultuous background of the time: a decadent French government, the life of a foreign correspondent, the grandeur of the champagne regions and the glory of the French Resistance.
2412 Руб.
Hemingway Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls
'There is nothing to writing. Ail you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.' Ernest Hemingway Set in 1937, just after the bombing of Guernica, this novel is Hemingway's response to the Spanish Civil War. His protagonist, Robert Jordan, is an American explosives expert who joins a Republican guerrilla unit in the mountains and is ordered to blow up a bridge near the city of Segovia. As he prepares for the task, he falls in love with Maria, whose life has been shattered by the conflict. Hemingway worked as a war correspondent in Spain and, informed by his experiences on the battlefront, this suspenseful, action-packed novel is laid out in his usual spare journalistic prose. One of the great novels about war.
1186 Руб.
Уэллс Герберт Джордж The Land Ironclads
The story opens with an unnamed war correspondent and a young lieutenant surveying the calm of the battlefield. They reflect philosophically on the war between two unidentified armies. The time appears to be 1903 and the opponents are dug into trenches, each waiting for the other to attack, of the sort then common and being reported on daily from the Boer War. The men on the war correspondents side are confident they will prevail, because they are all strong outdoor-types – men who know how to use a rifle and fight – while their enemies are townspeople, "a crowd of devitalised townsmen . . . Theyre clerks, theyre factory hands, theyre students, theyre civilised men. They can write, they can talk, they can make and do all sorts of things, but theyre poor amateurs at war." The men agree that their "open air life" produces men better suited to war than their opponents "decent civilization." In the end, however, the "decent civilization," with its men of science and engineers, triumphs over the "better soldiers" who, instead of developing land ironclads of their own, had been practising shooting their rifles from horseback, a tactic rendered obsolete by the land ironclads. Wells foreshadows this eventual outcome in the conversation of the two men in the first part, when the correspondent tells the lieutenant "Civilization has science, you know, it invented and it made the rifles and guns and things you use." The story ends with the entire contemporary army captured by thirteen land ironclads, with the defenders managing to disable only one. In the last scene, the correspondent compares his countrymens "sturdy proportions with those of their lightly built captors", and thinks of the press story he is going to write about the experience. He notes that that the captured officers are thinking of ways they will defeat tanks with their already-existing weaponry, rather than developing their own land ironclads to counter the new threat. He further notes that the "half-dozen comparatively slender young men in blue pajamas who were standing about their victorious land ironclad, drinking coffee and eating biscuits, had also in their eyes and carriage something not altogether degraded below the level of a man."
330 Руб.
Уэллс Герберт Джордж The Land Ironclads
The story opens with an unnamed war correspondent and a young lieutenant surveying the calm of the battlefield. They reflect philosophically on the war between two unidentified armies. The time appears to be 1903 and the opponents are dug into trenches, each waiting for the other to attack, of the sort then common and being reported on daily from the Boer War. The men on the war correspondents side are confident they will prevail, because they are all strong outdoor-types – men who know how to use a rifle and fight – while their enemies are townspeople, "a crowd of devitalised townsmen . . . Theyre clerks, theyre factory hands, theyre students, theyre civilised men. They can write, they can talk, they can make and do all sorts of things, but theyre poor amateurs at war." The men agree that their "open air life" produces men better suited to war than their opponents "decent civilization." In the end, however, the "decent civilization," with its men of science and engineers, triumphs over the "better soldiers" who, instead of developing land ironclads of their own, had been practising shooting their rifles from horseback, a tactic rendered obsolete by the land ironclads. Wells foreshadows this eventual outcome in the conversation of the two men in the first part, when the correspondent tells the lieutenant "Civilization has science, you know, it invented and it made the rifles and guns and things you use." The story ends with the entire contemporary army captured by thirteen land ironclads, with the defenders managing to disable only one. In the last scene, the correspondent compares his countrymens "sturdy proportions with those of their lightly built captors", and thinks of the press story he is going to write about the experience. He notes that that the captured officers are thinking of ways they will defeat tanks with their already-existing weaponry, rather than developing their own land ironclads to counter the new threat. He further notes that the "half-dozen comparatively slender young men in blue pajamas who were standing about their victorious land ironclad, drinking coffee and eating biscuits, had also in their eyes and carriage something not altogether degraded below the level of a man."
330 Руб.
Marinetti Filippo Tommaso The Futurist Cookbook
Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for abolishing pasta as ill-suited to modernity, and advocates a style of cuisine that will increase creativity. Although at times betraying its author's nationalistic sympathies, The Futurist Cookbook is funny, provocative, whimsical, disdainful of sluggish traditions and delighted by the velocity and promise of modernity. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was born in 1876 to Italian parents and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied in Paris and obtained a law degree in Italy before turning to literature. In 1909 he wrote the infamous Futurist Manifesto, which championed violence, speed and war, and proclaimed the unity of art and life. Marinetti's life was fraught with controversy: he fought a duel with a hostile critic, was subject to an obscenity trial, and was a staunch supporter of Italian Fascism. Alongside his literary activities, he was a war correspondent during the Italo-Turkish War and served on the Eastern Front in World War II, despite being in his sixties. He died in 1944.
2384 Руб.
Babchenko Arkady, Senchin Roman, Butov Denis War and Peace. Contemporary Russian Prose
WAR&PEACE: a compelling portrait of post-post-perestroika Russia. WAR&PEACE brings together 12 stories by new generation of Russian writers. These 'state of the nation' stories imaginatively explore current Russian definitions of war and peace. WAR: controversial stories about life in the modern Russian army where the continuing war in the Caucasus has bred discontent and corruption. PEACE: stories from the frontline of contemporary life for women in Russia - from relationships and violence to aging and the generation gap.
253 Руб.
Klay P. Missionaries
Expansive, Explosive and Epic" Marlon James"Bold Book" New York Times Book Review" THE BOOK OF BARACK OBAMA 2020Neither Mason, a US special forces medic, nor Lizet, a foreign correspondent, emerged unscathed from America's long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nevertheless, for them, the war still has a terrible impact - a noble vocation, a spirit of camaraderie, life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go?All roads lead to Colombia, where the United States is working with the local government to end the brutal civil war and keep the predatory drug gangs at bay. Mason is ready for a good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it.
695 Руб.
Klay P. Missionaries
Expansive, Explosive and Epic" Marlon James"Bold Book" New York Times Book Review" THE BOOK OF BARACK OBAMA 2020Neither Mason, a US special forces medic, nor Lizet, a foreign correspondent, emerged unscathed from America's long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nevertheless, for them, the war still has a terrible impact - a noble vocation, a spirit of camaraderie, life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go?All roads lead to Colombia, where the United States is working with the local government to end the brutal civil war and keep the predatory drug gangs at bay. Mason is ready for a good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it.
695 Руб.
Mitchell David The Bone Clocks
The dazzling new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman's life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival. The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of Cloud Atlas. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict. Over six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. And as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival . . . In 1984, teenager Holly Sykes runs away from home - a Gravesend pub. Sixty years later, she is to be found in the far west of Ireland, raising a granddaughter as the world's climate collapses. In between, Holly is encountered as a barmaid in a Swiss resort by an undergraduate sociopath in 1991; has a child with a foreign correspondent covering the Iraq War in 2003; and, widowed, becomes the confidante of a self-obsessed author of fading powers and reputation during the present decade. Yet these changing personae are only part of the story, as Holly's life is repeatedly intersected by a slow-motion war between a cult of predatory soul-decanters and a band of vigilantes led by one Doctor Marinus. Holly begins as an unwitting pawn in this war - but may prove to be its decisive weapon. The arc of a life, a social seismograph, a fantasy of shadows and an inquiry into aging, mortality and survival, The Bone Clocks could only have been written by David Mitchell.
1833 Руб.
Kelly Julia The Whispers of War
August, 1939, Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany and three women must choose between friendship or country. Socialite Nora is determined to find her place in the Home Office's Air Raid Precautions Department, while matchmaker, Hazel, tries to mask two closely guarded secrets with irrepressible optimism, and German ex-pat Marie worries that she and her family might face imprisonment in an internment camp if war is declared. When Germany invades Poland and tensions on the home front rise, Marie is labelled an enemy alien, and the three friends find themselves fighting together to keep her free at any cost. The Whispers of War is a moving and unforgettable tale of the power and strength of friendship in a time of conflict. Perfect for fans of Lilac Girls, A Woman of War and The Secret Orphan.
1973 Руб.
Haggard Henry Rider Marie. An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
The youthful Allan Ouatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life - for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.
835 Руб.
Хаггард Генри Райдер Marie = Мари: на англ.яз
The youthful Allan Ouatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life - for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.
849 Руб.
Marie. An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
The youthful Allan Ouatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life - for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.
199 Руб.