Konstantin pleshakov (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

First US Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 326 pages; Physical desc. : 326 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. , maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-311) and index. Subject: Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) --World War, 1939-1945 --Campaigns --Eastern Front --Soviet Union --History --German occupation, 1941-1944. Summary: On June 22, 1941, Hitler launched a massive three-pronged attack on the Soviet Union, and in days his troops were within reach of Moscow. The attack was stunning, but Stalin's response was even more astonishing. During the invasion, the mighty Soviet military stood in place while its soldiers were slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands. Drawing on a wealth of newly available documents, from classified Politburo papers and diaries of key generals to diplomatic cables and secret police memos, the Russian historian Constantine Pleshakov paints a startling portrait of Stalin, one of history's most feared despots, as a vulnerable and paralyzed leader. Refusing to believe that the Germans would strike first, despite repeated warnings, he continued to supply them with war materials in the days before the attack, then tied his generals' hands in the crucial first hours of the invasion. For more than a week, while Hitler rolled over Soviet territory, Stalin cowered in his dacha, leaving the country rudderless and -- as Pleshakov reveals here -- nearly losing power. The Red Army's effort to regain the territory lost in those first ten days cost more than 10 million Soviet lives. Stalin's Folly is a dramatic hour-by-hour account that sheds light on an enigmatic and ruthless figure while providing a new and far deeper understanding of Russian history 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xx, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Tsushima, Battle of, 1905. Genre: History. Language: English. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. First edition, first printing. Black hardcover, color illustrated dustjacket. The book and dustjacket are in fine condition, no names or other markings, dustjacket in mylar protector. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 200 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Crimea (Ukraine) Annexation to Russia (Federation). Ukraine Foreign relations Russia (Federation). Russia (Federation) Foreign relations Ukraine. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xx, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Tsushima, Battle of, 1905; history. Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 Campaigns Japan. Tsushima, Battle of, 1905. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: good, very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 346, illus., slightly cocked, pencil erasure on half-title. Inscribed by the author (Zubok).

Zustand: Very Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator).

Hardcover/Hardback. Zustand: Good. Krasnyj Kamen - eto svyashchennyj persten drevnego boga Dionisa, nesushchij to li nezemnoe blazhenstvo, ot li vechno proklyate, kotoryj geroyam romana Konstantina Pleshakova predstoit otyskat v segodnyashnem Krymu. Nekotorye aspekty tvorchestva 42-letnego prozaika, nyne zhivushchego v SShA, otkryto skandalny, no virtuoznyj stil, kompozitsiya, filosofskaya i psikhologicheskaya glubina vydayut nesomnennuyu prinadlezhnost ego proizvedenij k vysokoj literature. Krome romana, v knigu vklyucheny vosem izbrannykh rasskazov raznykh let. …

Hardcover/Hardback. Zustand: Good. Krasnyj Kamen - eto svyashchennyj persten drevnego boga Dionisa, nesushchij to li nezemnoe blazhenstvo, ot li vechno proklyate, kotoryj geroyam romana Konstantina Pleshakova predstoit otyskat v segodnyashnem Krymu. Nekotorye aspekty tvorchestva 42-letnego prozaika, nyne zhivushchego v SShA, otkryto skandalny, no virtuoznyj stil, kompozitsiya, filosofskaya i psikhologicheskaya glubina vydayut nesomnennuyu prinadlezhnost ego proizvedenij k vysokoj literature. Krome romana, v knigu vklyucheny vosem izbrannykh rasskazov raznykh let. …