Название: Frederick the Great - The Magnificent Enigma
Автор: Robert B. Asprey
Издательство: Ticknor & Fields
Год: 1986
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 752
Размер: 84,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Frederick the Great was not a particularly nice human being. He was a misanthrope and a misogynist, a cynic and a manipulator. He transcended his times neither as soldier, nor as statesman, nor as reformer. Nevertheless, by establishing Prussia as a great power, by presenting that power in military terms, and by establishing the state as a matrix with its ruler at the center, Frederick left an enduring legacy. Robert Asprey's biography reveals the taproots of the modern era.

Название: Frederick the Great - A Profile
Автор: Peter Paret
Издательство: Hill and Wang
Год: 1972
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 278
Размер: 41,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

To those contemporaries who knew him best and were not overawed by him, Frederick appeared as a man of almost inexplicable contradictions. His character, the British ambassador reported in a dispatch in 1776, was strongly marked by a "motley composition of barbarity and humanity." On a visit to Potsdam three years earlier, Count Guibert, the military oracle of the waning ancien regime, took note of the constant shift from flattery to menace in the king's facial expressions: "He is never the same; one never knows where one stands with him." Guibert carried away the impression of a profoundly ambiguous personality, which he found confirmed even in such details as the king's costly snuffboxes, "which contrast strangely with his general simplicity."

Название: The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts, UK Edition
Автор: Silvia Ferrara
Издательство: Picador
ISBN: 1529064759
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning – in fact, it has many beginnings, not only in Mesopotamia, 3,100 years before the birth of Christ, but also in China, Egypt and Central America – and it certainly has a middle, one that snakes through the painted petroglyphs of Easter Island, through the great machines of empires and across the desks of inspired, brilliant scholars, the end of the story remains to be written.

Название: The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols
Автор: Christoph Baumer
Издательство: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 1784534900
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 392
Размер: 211,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen.

Название: Frederick the Great - A Life in Deed and Letters
Автор: Giles MacDonogh
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 470
Размер: 45,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Free thinker, Misanthrope, poet, philosopher, lawmaker, and soldier, Frederick the Great was a contradictory, almost unfathomable, man. His conquests made him one of the most formidable and feared leaders of his era. But the king's other—often ignored— accomplishments rank him among the ablest statesmen in modern European history. A patron of artists and intellectuals, Frederick re-created Berlin as one of the continent's great capital cities, reformed Prussia's legal system, and strove to match his state's reputation for military ferocity with one for cultural achievement.

Название: Frederick the Great
Автор: Nancy Mitford
Издательство: Hamish Hamilton Ltd.
Год: 1970
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 312
Размер: 38,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

After her enormously successful biographical studies of The Sun King, Nancy Mitford now turns to a less familiar but no less fascinating figure,Frederick the Great. She says she has never liked a subject for biography so much, and her enthusiasm for the Prussian king and his world is evident throughout this lively, illuminating and often moving record of the life of a very remarkable man.

Название: The Book Smugglers. Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
Автор: David E Fishman
Издательство: Foreedge
Год: 2017
Формат: epub
Страниц: 306
Для сайта: litmy.ru
Размер: 17,19 МБ
Язык: english

The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts--first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets--by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders.

Название: Castles of Wales
Автор: John Davis
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399018876
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 252
Размер: 16,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1277, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, met with Edward I of England in Aberconwy to finalise a treaty that would change the fate of both nations. His hand forced by Edward’s invasion earlier that year, Llywelyn’s acceptance of the terms confirmed not only short-term peace but also that the rule of Wales would pass to Edward on his death.

Название: History of Denmark: A Captivating Guide to Danish History
Автор: Captivating History
Издательство: Captivating History
ISBN: 1637167431
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 112
Размер: 2,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Did you know that one of Europe’s greatest queens, the incredible (and unfortunately overlooked) Margaret I, united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway in the Kalmar Union in the mid-1300s? For centuries, Denmark “punched above its weight” and was a major player on the European stage. Many know about the Danish Vikings and their voyages of conquest and discovery, but Denmark is more than just those medieval raiders and traders, even though interest in their adventures is at an all-time high today.

Название: Античная археология и история
Автор: Блаватский В.Д.
Издательство: Наука
Год: 1985
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 283
Размер: 78,2 Mb
Язык: Русский

В книгу включены статьи, опубликованные автором в течение более 50 лет в зарубежных научных изданиях, ставших уже библиографической редкостью. Тематика этих статей разнообразна. Они посвящены и исследованию социальной и культурной истории античных государств, в особенности Северного Причерноморья, и археологии, и эпиграфике, и искусству античных Средиземноморья и Причерноморья.