Download or read book The Petrov Affair written by Robert Manne and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Petrov Affair: Politics and Espionage is a memoir of the Petrov Affair, a historical event that involves the defection of Vladimir Petrov, a colonel in the Soviet intelligence service in Sydney, and the announcement of his defection ten days later by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies. With information gathered from different reliable sources, the book details in chronological order the Petrov's defection - the events that occurred before and the factors that led to it; its announcement; and the implications of this event for politics and espionage. The text also explains how the affair affected the Australian people and the world; the conclusion of this event; and the events that happened after it. The book is recommended for historians and history enthusiasts who would want to know more about this particular event. The text is also recommended for experts who delve in the Cold War and the Soviet Union.

Download or read book Little Golden America written by Илья Ильф and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Одноэтажная Америка» – произведение в жанре путевого очерка, написанное Ильей Ильфом и Евгением Петровым. Это добрая и умная книга, рассказывающая о жизни и быте американцев, о встречах авторов с самыми разными людьми, полная интересных историй и наблюдений. Читателям предлагается неадаптированный перевод произведения на английский язык, выполненный Чарльзом Маламутом. Пособие рассчитано на широкий круг читателей, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся творчеством И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

Download or read book Ilf and Petrov s American Road Trip written by Илья Ильф and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation. From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: "The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image." A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press

Download or read book The Little Golden Calf written by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1961 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The satirical novel's main character, Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible; another possible rendering of it in English, less literal but better tuned to the air of the novel, would be "The Gilded Calf". It continues the theme of the denunciation of money-grubbing, philistine stupidity, and bureaucracy, which began in “The Twelve Chairs”.

Download or read book You Can Call Me Stan written by Mark Guidi and published by Mainstream Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since signing for Celtic in the summer of 1999, Stiliyan Petrov has established himself as one of the best footballers in Europe. The 25-year-old Bulgarian is now one of the Glasgow giant's longest-serving and most popular players. With a massive following, Petrov is a superstar in his homeland, has regularly captained his country at major tournaments, and is regarded as Bulgaria's finest player since Hristo Stoitchkov. Now, for the first time, one of Celtic's most gifted players tells his life story so far in this revealing autobiography, co-written with acclaimed soccer writer Mark Guidi.

Download or read book Ivan Petrov written by C. S. Walton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Petrov grew up in a Russian town in the middle years of this century. It made no difference which side of the fence you lived on: prisoners in camps, collective farmers, and, factory workers. Some people accepted things as they were and carved out careers for themselves while others sought a way out. Ivan chose to become a drunk.

Download or read book Wolf Hunt written by Ivailo Pretov and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to abandon their land and traditional way of life. Darkly comic and tragic, the novel centers on an ill-fated winter hunting expedition of six neighbors whose history together is long and interwoven. The ensuing story takes the reader on a voyage of shifting perspectives that places the calamitous history of twentieth-century Bulgaria into a human context of helplessness and desperation.

Download or read book The Petrov Poems written by Lesley Lebkowicz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping verse novel by Canberra poet Lesley Lebkowicz explores the story of Australia's most famous espionage episode.

Download or read book The Dead Hand written by David Hoffman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, David E. Hoffman examines the inner motives and secret decisions of each side and details the deadly stockpiles that remained unsecured as the Soviet Union collapsed. This is the fascinating story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and a previously unheralded collection of scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and spies changed the course of history.

Download or read book The War of Nerves written by Martin Sixsmith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it. More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures—not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears. Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the tensions and paranoia of the Cold War, framing it for the first time from a psychological perspective. Revisiting towering, unique personalities like Khrushchev, Kennedy, and Nixon, as well as the lives of the unknown millions who were caught up in the conflict, this is a gripping narrative of the paranoia of the Cold War—and in today's uncertain times, this story is more resonant than ever.

Download or read book The Petrov Brothers written by C Hallman and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two complete stories, with their own happily ever afters. Over 500 pages of reading!!Meet Ivan and Roman Petrov, the ruthless, gorgeous, manipulative, mafia brothers in this exclusive boxed set available for a limited time. Find out how they went from made men, to men that would do anything to protect those they love."Page after page I was begging for more! Warning: You will want to read entire book in one sitting." -Amazon Review Guard MeWanting her is forbidden, and keeping her unthinkable. If they find out what I'm doing, they'll kill both of us.And still...I want to save her. I want to love her. I want to cherish her. When the time comes, will I be able to let her go? Or will I risk both our lives for a love that I may not deserve?Tame MeLove comes at a cost, and in our world, you pay with your life. With all the danger surrounding us, I don't know if I can protect her. Not only from myself, but also from a past that refuses to let go."This is an intense emotionally chaotic roller coaster ride into darkness, fear, terror, brutality & love.Of all the males in this series, I think Roman (anti-H) is the most intense & frightening." -Amazon Review Books In The Rossi Crime Family1. Protect Me2. Keep Me3. Guard Me4. Tame Me5. Remember Me**Each book is a complete standalone and contains no cheating, and a happily ever after. Contains adult themes, and situations not suitable for all readers.**

Download or read book Sex and the Short Story written by Cumes Dr James and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sense Of Place Publishing is proud to include Dr James Cumes amongst its authors. The publication of his sweeping essay on the evolution of Sex and the Short Story represents the first of what we hope will be many further contributions from this esteemed writer. The book examines the evolution of the language, such as when specific words first appeared in English dictionaries, associated with sexual descriptions in novels and short stories; pans across obscenity trials and looks with some amazement at the rapid evolution from prudishness to a point where almost anything goes. It serves as a stand alone piece on the changing social mores; and also serves as an introduction to subsequent volumes of Dr James Cumes' short stories, to be published by A Sense of Place Publishing. These include Dirty Weekend and Life Is A Belly Dance. He worked his way up the Australian Foreign Affairs Department and subsequently became a distinguished Australian Ambassador to the European Union after holding diplomatic posts including Ambassador and Head of Mission in Paris, Geneva, London, Bonn and Berlin. His career has also included acting as Australian representative to the United Nations and Governor on the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Cumes is now working on two books of memoirs derived from his period as High Commissioner to Nigeria. While his pursuit into erotica and the short story seems at odds with the official nature of much of James Cumes' career and other writings, his diversity of interests make him one of Australia's few truly Renaissance characters.

Download or read book Stalin s Loyal Executioner written by Marc Jansen and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.

Download or read book Smashed in the USSR written by C. S. Walton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Petrov was born in 1934 in the industrial town of Chapaevsk. His father was shot by Stalin as an 'enemy of the people', and Ivan was brought up by his mother and violent stepfather - both alcoholics, along with most of the rest of the town. By his early 20s, Ivan had also succumbed to the lure of the bottle. 'Smashed in the USSR' is his eye-opening, frequently eye-watering story.

Download or read book The Berkut written by Joseph Heywood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parachutes silently through the sulphuric haze in the smoldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops that encircle the skeleton that the city has become in April 1945. With the precision and skill that has marked his brilliant military career, Brumm has completed the first stage of a simple yet seemingly impossible mission: to evade the Allied forces swarming over Europe and to smuggle "Herr Wolf," the greatest war criminal of the twentieth century, to safety. Less than twenty-four hours later a special Russian team snakes its way into Berlin's city limits, headed for the Reich Chancellery. It is led by Vasily Petrov, "the Berkut"—named after the Russian eagles trained to hunt wolves, a man handpicked by Stalin himself for his ability to track down his quarry and driven by the knowledge that failure means certain death. THE BERKUT is a classic story of pursuit, of hunters and the hunted, that pits two elite teams against each other—both of them brave, resourceful, of great physical prowess and so fully motivated that only the winners will survive. Scores of other characters populate this engrossing thriller: priests, deserters, partisans, Nazis on the run, Swiss guides, Austrian refugees—as well as a larger-than-life OSS operative who is the only person among the hundreds of thousands of Allied troops in Europe who realizes that Herr Wolf is not only alive but on the verge of escaping justice. Joseph Heywood's novel is a story of enormous conviction and urgency, made even more compelling for being based on facts that have yet to be proven fiction.

Download or read book Empire of Fear written by Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich Petrov and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of ... [the authors'] lives in the Soviet Union, and especially ... as permanent career officers of the most secret organ of the Soviet State, at various times known as the O. G. P. U., N. K. V. D., M. G. B., and M. V. D."--Foreword.

Download or read book The Red Shoe written by Ursula Dubosarsky and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking place next door. Punctuated by the headlines of the times, The Red Shoe depicts how the large events of the world can impinge on ordinary lives. This is a novel to savor by one of Australia's most gifted writers for young people. "Dubosarsky proves masterful in conjuring and connecting images." - Publishers Weekly