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Название: Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
Автор: David Fraser
Издательство: Fromm International
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 744
Размер: 112,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The military genius of his age, Frederick the Great has always aroused extreme opinions. Some saw him as "the greatest man who has ever lived", while others have accused him of creating the Prusso ultra-nationalism which culminated in Hitler. But this paternalistic ruler, who once said he wanted nothing more than to be remembered as "Le Rois des greux", the king of the beggars, was also a polymath whose artistic and intellectual abilities amazed 18th-century Europe. David Fraser's biography presents a rounded portrait of this extraordinary man.

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Название: UnRoman Britain: Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia
Автор: Miles Russell, Stuart Laycock
Издательство: The History Press
ISBN: 0752455664
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 288
Размер: 17,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

When we think of Roman Britain we tend to think of a land of togas and richly decorated palaces with Britons happily going about their much improved daily business under the benign gaze of Rome. This image is to a great extent a fiction. In fact, Britons were some of the least enthusiastic members of the Roman Empire. A few adopted Roman ways to curry favor with the invaders.

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Название: Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia
Автор: David M. Lampton, Selina Ho, Cheng-Chwee Kuik
Издательство: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520372999
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 336
Размер: 12,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

What China’s infamous railway initiative can teach us about global dominance. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.

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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.

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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."

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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.