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In 1905 more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their officers aboard the battleship Potemkin, one of the most powerful battleships in the world. Led by the charismatic firebrand Matyushenko, they risked their lives to take control of their ship and fly the red flag of revolution. What followed was a violent port-to-port chase that spanned eleven harrowing days and came to symbolize the Russian Revolution itself.
Though the Black Sea mutiny failed to trigger an instant revolution, it exposed the rot within the country's bloated regime. Drawing on original Soviet archives and fresh information, Red Mutiny is a thrilling tale laced with adventure, epic naval battles, treachery, heroic sacrifice and the rallying cries of freedom.

"I can pay this superb book no greater compliment than to admit…I was genuinely gripped… brilliant". Daily Telegraph


"Vivid… a grand narrative in search of a modern Eisenstein". The Times


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Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) oli Saksa Riigi Julgeoleku Peaameti ametnik ja Riikliku Salapolitsei osakonna B IV ?lem, kes vastutas natsionaalsotsialistliku Saksamaa rassipoliitika ja inimsusevastaste kuritegude elluviimise eest. P?rast maailmas?ja kaotust p?genes Eichmann Saksamaalt ja asus valedokumentidega elama Argentinasse, kus ta v?ttis nimeks Ricardo Klement. Noore juudiriigi luureasutused n?itasid aga oma tipptaset, tehes kindlaks Euroopast pagenud Eichmanni elukoha, vangistasid ta seal ja toimetasid seej?rel salaja Iisraeli, kus ta kohtu alla anti. Eichmanni 1961. aasta kohtuprotsessi Jeruusalemmas j?lgis kogu maailm. Eichmann m?isteti s??di s?jakuritegudes ja inimsusevastastes kuritegudes ning poodi j?rgmisel aastal ?les. See on ainuke kord, kui Iisrael on surmanuhtluse t?ide viinud. Neal Bascomb kirjeldab neid s?ndmusi p?eva ja minuti t?psusega. Ta jutustab lugu nii, et lugejal tekib tunne, nagu loeks ta ?lip?nevat spiooniromaani. 1971. aastal s?ndinud Neal Bascomb on ajakirjanik, kes teeb kaast?id New York Timesile, Wall Street Journalile ja Los Angeles Timesile, ta on kirjutanud ka mitmeid raamatuid, mis on avaldatud rohkem kui 15 riigis. Neal Bascomb elab Ameerika ?hendriikides Seattle’is. 416 lk

From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile an epic adventure and spy story about what many consider the greatest act of sabotage of World War II, based on a trove of exciting new research

It’s 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists. They have the will. What they don’t have is enough “heavy water," an essential ingredient for their nuclear designs. For two years, the Nazis have occupied Norway, and with it the Vemork hydroelectric plant, a massive industrial complex nestled on a precipice of a gorge. Vemork is the world’s sole supplier of heavy water, and under the threat of death, its engineers pushed production into overtime.

For the Allies, Vemork must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress high in a mountainous valley? The answer became the most dramatic commando raid of the war. The British Special Operations Executive together a brilliant scientist and eleven refugee Norwegian commandos, who, with little more than parachutes, skis, and Tommy Guns, would destroy Hitler’s nuclear ambitions and help end the reign of the Third Reich.

Based on exhaustive research and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs, The Winter Fortress is a compulsively readable narrative about a group of young men who endured soul-crushing setbacks and Gestapo hunts and survived in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on earth to save the world from destruction.

This edition does not include illustrations.The inspirational story of three international runners attempting to achieve what no one had managed – to break the four-minute mile barrier. It was the ultimate test of endurance, and the human drama that unfolded is told here for the first time.In sport, running the four-minute mile was the elusive Holy Grail, considered by most to be beyond the limits of human endeavour.Then in late 1952, shortly after the Helsinki Olympics, three men set out to challenge the record books: Roger Bannister, the Oxford medical student, the great British hero who epitomised the ideal of the amateur athlete; John Landy, the tireless Australian, the romantic who trained night and day in search of perfection; and the American Wes Santee, son of a Kansas ranch hand, a natural runner and the quickest of the three ('I was just born to run fast').Three men, each of contrasting character, competing thousands of miles apart, but all with the same valedictory goal. The Perfect Mile is the stirring account of their quest for sporting martyrdom, charting their journey through triumph and failure, culminating in the moment when Bannister broke the record in a monumental run at the Iffley Road cinder track in Oxford in May 1954. It was a feat that became one of the most celebrated in the history of British sport.Far from bringing an end to the rivalry, this watershed moment turned out to be merely the prelude to a final climactic battle three months later – the ultimate head-to-head between Bannister and Landy in what was dubbed ‘the mile of the century’ at the Vancouver Empire Games.Bascomb provides a fascinating account of what happened and an invaluable insight into the motivations and characters of three amazing achievers.

The story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale!

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination.

This is the thrilling and fascinating story of what happened between these two events. Illustrated with powerful photos throughout, impeccably researched, and told with powerful precision, THE NAZI HUNTERS is a can't-miss work of narrative nonfiction for middle-grade and YA readers.

Аудиокнига будет интересна широкому кругу слушателем, любителям автоспорта и фанатам книг «Мальчики в лодке» Д. Д. Брауна, «В саду чудовищ. Любовь и террор в гитлеровском Берлине» Э. Ларсона! Нил Баскомб – лауреат национальной премии и автор многих книг-бестселлеров New York Times. Он широко известен своими публичными выступлениями на тему войны. Баскомб также снялся в ряде документальных фильмов. «Большая гонка» – победитель премии Motor Press Guild в номинации лучшая книга года и премии Дина Бэтчелора за выдающееся мастерство в сфере автомобильной журналистики. Она рассказывает о головокружительной истории победы команды бесстрашных спортсменов над устрашающими «Серебряными стрелами» Гитлера в золотой век автомобильных гонок. В то время как правительство нацистской Германии проводило политику расовой дискриминации и подталкивало мир к войне, три героя – водитель, которому было отказано в членстве в лучшей европейской команде из-за его еврейского происхождения, владелец «пошатнувшейся компании», производящей автомобили, и авантюрная дочь американского мультимиллионера – объединились для того, чтобы составить конкуренцию нацистским командам-фаворитам на Гран-При, вершине автоспорта. Читатели узнают об одном из самых впечатляющих и смертельных эпизодов автоспорта XX века – символической победе над нацистами в самый темный период мировой истории. © Оформление ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2022 © & ℗ ООО «Издательство АСТ», «Аудиокнига», 2022

Перед самым началом Второй мировой войны имя Delahaye 175 гремело на весь мир.
Обойдя всех в «Гонке на миллион франков», Delahaye завоевала титул «машины, бьющей Гитлера» и вошла в историю как одна из самых роскошных гоночных машин-участниц Гран-при.
Американский журналист и писатель Нил Баскомб не только вдоль и поперек исследовал архивы национальных библиотек, по кусочкам собирая фрагменты этой уникальной истории, но и побывал за рулём самого «сокровища» – Delahaye 175.
Его книга – это захватывающий рассказ о «Гонке на миллион франков», по остроте читательских эмоций сравнимый разве что с пилотированием гоночного болида.
Для настоящих фанатов истории автоспорта и автомобилестроения!