Murder of a Gentle Land: The Untold Story of a Communist Genocide in Cambodia

John & Paul Anthony Barron

Reader`s Digest Press

What Is Man?

Politics & Social Sciences

KAUFMANN, Walter

Philosophy

Beautiful images accompany this thought-provoking book about the meaning of time, nature, art and what is being an artist.

Time is an Artist

Kaufmann, Walter Arnold

Fever: The hunt for a new killer virus

JOHN G. FULLER

This is a book to read if you want to get a sense of the scope, intensity and human drama of the incredible battle between German and Russian armies on the banks of Volga. It was one of the most important battles of the WWII (if not the most important). It demonstrated the incredible heroism of both the Germans and the Russians. It also showed that Hitler made a mistake of underestimating ability of Stalin to regain control and learn from mistakes of disastrous summer of 1941 and determination of Russians to fight for each building in Stalingrad.Written by the American author, the book for the most part describes events from the German point of view. I am Russian and admittedly it is not easy to stay totally objective about an account with slight pro-Axis slant, but I am interested in Stalingrad battle and have read some other books on the subject. I also been to Stalingrad (now city of Volgograd) myself, and my main criticism is this: Mr. Craig, despite the fact that he spent five years researching for this book, unfortunately didn't quite familiarize himself with some aspects of Russian life and culture. I don't know, may be he didn't have an opportunity...But that would have made his book more balanced and more readable for the Russian audience.

Enemy At The Gates, The Battle for Stalingrad

History

Craig, William

Military

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1993-05-03)

Reference

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English as a Second Language

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Literature & Fiction

Lew, Wallace

Classics

Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

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Enemy at the gates: The battle for Stalingrad

La Balsa;: The longest raft voyage in history,

Vital Alsar

Dust jacket notes: "Before he became pope, scarcely anyone outside the Vatican had heard of him. By the time he died, less than five years later, he was one of the best-loved men in the world. The son of simple peasants who worked a stony tenant farm in a northern Italian village, the man born Angelo Roncalli and destined for sainthood as Pope John XXIII never forgot his humble beginnings nor lost his innate love of humanity. He was a brother to all men, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, and was revered by men of every faith and philosophy. His climb up the hierarchical ladder was slow and often painful. Conservative forces within the church suspected him of modernist tendencies, and he was shunted off to the backwaters in the Balkans. Then, after two decades of obscurity, he was suddenly thrust into the mainstream of events as papal nuncio in Paris, the Vatican's most prestigious diplomatic post. Consecrated as cardinal at the age of seventy-two, he resigned himself to living out his days quietly as Patriarch of Venice - only to be called to the ultimate position of responsibility: Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, spiritual leader of 500 million Catholic souls. In preparing this exhaustive biography, Lawrence Elliott has traveled widely, talking in depth with the men and women who knew John best - cardinals and canons, friends and family-gathering stories never before told. And so we learn of the little quarrels, endless debts, and abiding love within the Roncalli clan. We see the peasant wit and humor that endeared him to all who met him, the simple faith and goodness that prevailed over adversity and inspired men to come together in search of peace. We come to know Pope John and his towering spirit; through him we see the church growing, sometimes painfully, and we see the world as a slightly less forbidding place."

I Will Be Called John: A Biography of Pope John XXIII

Lawrence, Elliott

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