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From the description of the English edition: In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man, the historian David P. Chandler casts light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his...

A biography of the two boxing brothers Vitalii and Vladimir Klichko.

Stefan Zweig was enchanted with Mary Stuart, whose life he perceived as immensely paradoxical and from whom he perceived a ‘inexhaustible attraction of mystery.’ Thus, he investigated the queen of Scotland and Elizabeth I's fierce rival through the lens of a novelistic biography. Zweig is the undisputed master of this genre: he meticulously details the tumultuous life of this amazing woman, who...

Officials of Pre-revolutionary Russia: Biographies (19 - beginning of 20th century). Reference list of literature on their life and work. This volume covers period from 1801-1855.

The first collected works of Academician Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) include 'Memories' (in three volumes), a collection of articles, letters, speeches and interviews 'Anxiety and Hope' (in two volumes), as well as the first published novel-document ' Diaries of Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner (in three volumes). The first volume publishes the beginning of the documentary novel by...

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...

Since his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Obama has captured attention as reporters, politicos, and ordinary citizens have wondered if he might be the nation's first black president. Chicago Tribune reporter Mendell argues that although Obama's rise to the national stage might seem unplanned, it is the outcome of a carefully calculated strategy by an ambitious man. Mendell...