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Inspector Pekkala volume 5
Language
English
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Description
When Soviet spy Inspector Pekkala goes missing in 1930s Russia, Joseph Stalin dispatches Kirov, Pakkala's trusted assistant, deep into the wild forests of Western Russia to follow a wilderness trail of clues, each one leading to a more tortured turn of fate.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on ambitious new research in European and U.S. archives, Stalin's War revolutionizes our understanding of World War II by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler's genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war that emerged in Europe in August 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, was the Pacific war of 1941-1945 the direct result of Stalin's maneuverings, which he orchestrated to unleash...
7) Archangel
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A British professor attending a conference in Russia discovers a secret surrounding the death of Josef Stalin that Russian authorities would like to keep buried.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It's 1939. Russia teeters on the verge of war with Germany. It is also on the brink of bankruptcy. To preserve his regime, Stalin orders a search for the legendary missing gold of Tsar Nicholas II. For this task, he chooses Pekkala, the former investigator for the Tsar. To accomplish his mission, Pekkala will go undercover, returning to Siberia and the nightmare of his own past, where he was once a prisoner in the notorious Gulag known as Borodok...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but...
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Language
English
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"With the fate of World War II in doubt and rumors of a Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin Roosevelt traveled in secret to Iran for a clandestine meeting that would change the course of history: the award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier reveals the gripping lost history of the Tehran Conference, where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin plotted D-Day and the Second World War's endgame."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This meeting of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of the Don't Know Much About books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritarianism, and the reigns of five of history's deadliest dictators. What makes a country fall to a dictator' How do authoritarian leaders'strongmen'capable of killing millions acquire their power' How are they able to defeat the ideal of democracy' And what can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again' By profiling...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and Stalin were, to a large extent,...
20) Bitter harvest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set against the explosive, war-torn backdrop of 1930s Ukraine, this action-filled epic follows a young artist as he battles famine, imprisonment, and torture to save his childhood love and free his country.
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