Catherine Merridale (4 knihy)
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Catherine Merridale Ivan's War ENIvan's War is the first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front, displacing the dictators and their generals who have dominated books on the subject for the past sixty years. Ivan, the archetypal Russian infantryman, emerges at last as a human figure in Catherine Merridale's magnificent and widely acclaimed new work.
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Catherine Merridale Lenin on the Train ENA gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the worldBy 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why…
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Catherine Merridale Lenin ve vlakuKniha Lenin ve vlaku sleduje průběh Leninovy cesty z curyšského exilu přes válkou rozvrácené Německo na sever k hranicím Laponska až po závěrečné nadšené uvítání revolučními davy na Finském nádraží v Petrohradu. Autorka v ní propojuje příběh...
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Catherine Merridale Red Fortress ENThe extraordinary story of the Kremlin, from prize-winning author and historian Catherine Merridale Both beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries. Behind its great red walls and towers many of the most startling events in Russia's history have been acted out. It is both a real place and an imaginative idea; a shorthand for a certain kind of secretive power, but also the…
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