Author : Barbara Davies
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : British
ISBN : 9780340910504
When Barbara Davies went to Russia on a newspaper assignment, she met Lieutenant Valinsky and her world was turned upside down. Fascinated by the simplicity of his existence in a freezing winter, she embarked on an affair with him, determined to turn her back on her old life forever. But she had to confront the differences between their worlds.
Author : Barbara Davies
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2007-01
Category : British
ISBN : 9780340910078
This is the story of a very modern love affair written down by a mother for her child. Barbara Davies, globe-trotting tabloid journalist, had a life many women would envy. But behind the successful, exciting career lay a tattered love-life which left her feeling empty and unfulfilled. Deep down, she was haunted by the fear that the things which really mattered -- enduring love and motherhood -- would lay forever out of reach. Then one day, she was sent to Russia on an assignment for the Daily Mirror. There, she met Lieutenant Dmitry Andreyevich Valinsky and her world was turned upside down. Overwhelmed by his physical beauty and the harsh simplicity of his day-to-day existence in a freezing Russian winter, she embarked on a whirlwind, passionate affair with him, determined to turn her back on her old life forever.Honest, poignant and often uplifting, this stunning book reflects on the complexities of love and how one chance meeting can change everything.
Author : JOHN FOWLES
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tatiana L. Dubinskaya
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164012196X
Tatiana L. Dubinskaya’s autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union. Often compared to All Quiet on the Western Front, Dubinskaya’s stark and unsparing story presents a rare look at women in combat and one of the few works of fiction set on the eastern front. Zinaida, a Russian schoolgirl, runs away from home to join the army. Sent to the front, she endures the horrors of trench warfare and the hardships of military life. Undercurrents of revolutionary thinking filter into the ranks as morale begins to crumble. Zinaida must come to grips with the havoc unleashed by the czar’s overthrow and the new socialist government’s attempts to impose revolutionary reforms on the army. Destabilization and desertion follow, and her regiment joins the chaotic mass retreat of the Russian army in the summer of 1917. In addition to Dubinskaya’s original novel, this edition includes selections from her 1936 autobiographical work, Machine Gunner, which she rewrote to satisfy Stalinist censors.
Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448135508
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers Soon to be a Showtime/Paramount+ series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the number one New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel 'A wonderful book' - Tana French 'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chris Cleave 'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year '[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year 'Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' - The Times, Books of the Year On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval. Can a life without luxury be the richest of all? A BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT) THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019 NOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD
Author : Margaret Vandercook
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army" by Margaret Vandercook is an engaging novel that continues the adventures of the Red Cross Girls, a group of young women dedicated to humanitarian service during World War I. In this installment, the Red Cross Girls find themselves embarking on a new and challenging mission as they travel to Russia to assist the Russian Army during a critical period of the war. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the tumultuous Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. The Red Cross Girls, with their unwavering commitment to aiding those in need, face a host of trials and dangers as they navigate the rapidly changing political landscape of Russia. As they work alongside the Russian Army, the Red Cross Girls witness the impact of the war on the Russian people, experience the chaos of the revolution, and become entangled in the conflicts of the time. Their determination to provide medical care, comfort, and support to soldiers and civilians alike is a testament to their resilience and dedication. Throughout the novel, themes of friendship, courage, and the power of volunteerism are prevalent. The Red Cross Girls form deep bonds with each other and the people they serve, and their selfless actions reflect the spirit of humanitarianism that defines the Red Cross. Margaret Vandercook's storytelling not only offers readers a compelling narrative but also provides historical insights into the turbulent events of early 20th-century Russia. "The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army" is a testament to the importance of compassion and service, even in the midst of war and revolution, and it pays tribute to the real-life heroes of the American Red Cross who served during this challenging period in history.
Author : Beatriz Williams
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0063020815
"A captivating Cold War page-turner." — Real Simple The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets? Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain. But the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties.
Author : Nadezhda Durova
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253205490
"In December 1807, Alexander I granted a commission ot Nadezhada Durova who, in male guise, served nearly ten years in the Russian light cavalry during the Napoleonic wars. The cavalry maiden, a selection of the edited journals of her military service, first published in 1836 with Pushkin's encouragement, is a lively narrative of Russian life on and off the battlefield in the Alexandrine era. Durova's story appeals in our own time as a unique and gripping contribution to the literature of female experience"--
Author : Marcial Gala
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374602026
Finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction “Dazzling." —Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." —Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn’t understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves to read, especially Greek myths, but in Cuba in the 1970s, novels and gods can be dangerous. Despite the signs that warn Rauli to repress and fear what he is, he knows three things to be true: First, that he was born in the wrong body. Second, that he will die, aged eighteen, as a soldier in the Cuban intervention in Angola. And third, that he is the reincarnation of the Trojan princess Cassandra. Moving between Rauli’s childhood and adolescence, between the Angolan battlefield, the Cuban city of Cienfuegos, and the shores of ancient Troy, Marcial Gala’s Call Me Cassandra tells of the search for identity amid the collapse of Cuba’s utopian dreams. Burdened with knowledge of tragedies yet to come, Rauli nonetheless strives to know himself. Lyrical and gritty, heartbreaking and luminous, Rauli’s is the story of the inexorable pull of destiny.
Author : Nadezhda Andreevna Durova
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
ISBN :
In December 1807 Tsar Alexander I personally granted a commission in the hussars to a young cavalryman who had shown exceptional valor in the summer's campaign against the French. The Tsar knew, and some fellow officers soon guessed, that this brave soldier was a woman.
