La tragica storia di Robert Johnson , grande musicista Blues degli anni '30 Americani, la risoluzione al giallo della sua tragica fine, i retroscena e la discografia completa.
Un giallo emozionante e una ricerca storica sulla breve vita di Robert Johnson, considerato dai piu come il nonno del rock ma amatissimo dai patiti del blues.
Una narrazione avvincente e forse la soluzione di un intrico oscuro, denso di esoterismo e fanatismo religioso ...
Воспоминания Ф. И. Голикова «Красные орлы» представляют собой дневниковые заметки за 1918–1920 гг. о событиях Гражданской войны в России, когда их автор, будущий Маршал Советского Союза, служил в составе 1-го крестьянского коммунистического стрелкового полка «Красные орлы». Из книги читатель узнает о суровых днях Гражданской войны в Сибири, об отношении к врагу и жизни простых крестьянских семей.
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Першае ў айчыннай гістарыяграфіі комплекснае даследаванне радыкальных змен у сямейна-шлюбных адносінах і сэксуальным жыцці беларускага грамадства пасля бальшавіцкага перавароту 1917 г. Першае дзесяцігоддзе савецкай улады характарызавалася неверагоднай нават па сённяшніх мерках свабодай нораваў. «Сэксуальная рэвалюцыя» (менавіта такі тэрмін выкарыстоўваецца ў навуцы) прывяла да дэзарганізацыі традыцыйнага сямейна-шлюбнага ладу і нарматыўнай няпэў ...
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time of peace had such an impact.TITANIC: HISTORY IN AN HOUR is an entertaining and well researched account of the events leading up to the sinking of this ‘unsinkable’ ship, providing an fascinating comment ...
Told for the first time in English, Paul Preston’s new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.This is the story of an avoidable humanitarian tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more.On 5 March 1939, the eternally malcontent Colonel Segismundo Casado launched a military coup against the government of Ju ...
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led the country to unite ‘for the freedom of us all’ as the country’s first black President.SOUTH AFRICA: HISTORY IN AN HOUR gi ...
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The ‘Great War’, from July 1914 to November 1918, was without parallel. It brought to an end four dynasties, ignited revolution, and forged new nations. It introduced killing on an unprecedented scale, costing an estimated nine million lives. It was the war that destroyed any notion of romance or chivalry in battle; it pulled in combatants from nations across the globe and shattered them, bod ...