Resultaten voor 'antony beevor'
-
Raspoetin en de ondergang van de Romanovs
In Raspoetin en de ondergang van de Romanovs vertelt Antony Beevor het schokkende levensverhaal van de meest beruchte raadsman van het tsaristische hof. Op basis van nieuw ontdekt bronnenmateriaal toont hij dat Raspoetin niet enkel een mystiek icoon was maar ook een gewetenloze manipulator. Achter deze heilige ziener ging een man schuil die zijn macht misbruikte, vrouwen onder druk zette en het hof meesleurde in een draaikolk van corruptie en schandalen. Beevor laat zien hoe roddel, intrige en moreel verval de reputatie van Raspoetin én die van de tsaar verwoestten – en hoe juist dat de weg vrijmaakte voor de revolutie van 1917. Met de scherpte en vertelkunst waarmee hij wereldwijd bestsellerauteur werd, vertelt Beevor een meeslepend verhaal over macht, mythe en ondergang.
€ 29,99 -
Rasputin
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'THE GOLD STANDARD OF NARRATIVE HISTORY' - DAN SNOWHow could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle, one that casts an intriguing light on the controversial 'great man' theory of history.Rasputin was a devoted monarchist, not a revolutionary. He had no official position, no forces at his command. Nevertheless, he contributed more to the fall of the Romanov dynasty than any other individual. So demoralised was the Tsarist officer corps by stories of corruption, to say nothing of the rumours of his debauchery with the Empress - and even her daughters - that when the February Revolution broke out, not a sword was raised in defence of the regime. Just as Rasputin cast a spell over the Romanovs, his legend has bewitched historians. More than a century later, we still fail to comprehend fully the collapse of the greatest autocracy on Earth. Was there any truth to the wild tales that brought down the empire? Or was his true legacy an unsettling lesson on the potency of myth?
€ 21,50 -
The Battle for Spain
The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.
€ 20,95 -
D-Day
Van de landing in Normandië tot de bevrijding van ParijsNooit eerder in de oorlogsgeschiedenis,' schreef Stalin aan Churchill, 'heeft zo'n onderneming plaatsgevonden.' Het was inderdaad verreweg de grootste vlootinvasie ooit vertoond. De deelnemers aan de invasie over Het Kanaal - soldaten, zeelieden, piloten - zullen het beeld nooit vergeten, net zo min als de verraste Duitse verdedigers aan de Normandische kust. De schaal van de onderneming en de nauwgezette planning waren zonder precedent, maar hoewel de bruggenhoofden relatief snel waren aangelegd, was de volgende fase van de strijd veel moeilijker dan verwacht. Het Normandische heggenlandschap was ideaal voor de verdediging, en de Duitsers, in het bijzonder de divisies van de Waffen-SS, vochten meedogenloos voor hun laatste kans. Aan de hand van nooit eerder gebruikt materiaal uit meer dan dertig archieven in zes landen, laat Athony Beevor zien hoe de Britse, Canadese en Amerikaanse troepen verstikt raakten in gevechten waarvan de heftigheid die aan het Oostfront evenaarde. Het aantal slachtoffers groeide, evenals de spanning tussen de leiders aan beide zijden. Franse burgers raakten ongewild verwikkeld in de gevechten en kregen groot leed te verduren. De vreugde om de bevrijding had daardoor een keerzijde. De oorlog in Noord-Frankrijk drukte niet alleen een stempel op een generatie, maar op een de hele naoorlogse wereld en had een beslissende invloed op de verhouding tussen Amerika en Europa.
€ 29,99 -
Rasputin e la fine dei Romanov
Chi fu davvero Grigorij Rasputin? L''uomo di Dio' inviato per salvare l'erede - lo zarevic Aleksej - o un abile manipolatore capace di soggiogare il cuore stesso dell'impero russo? Antony Beevor, punto di riferimento della storiografia narrativa, fa luce sull'ascesa vertiginosa del folle mistico, il contadino giunto dalla Siberia, a malapena in grado di leggere e scrivere, che riuscì a stregare lo zar Nicola II e la zarina Alessandra. Rasputin non rivestiva incarichi ufficiali, non aveva forze al suo comando ed era un convinto monarchico, non certo un rivoluzionario. Tuttavia, al di là delle sue intenzioni, contribuì più di ogni altro individuo al collasso della più grande autocrazia del mondo. Il 'diavolo in vesti d'angelo', capace di fermare il sangue del figlio dello zar emofiliaco, scatenò infatti un'emorragia di consensi senza precedenti. Basandosi su fonti autorevoli e testimonianze, Antony Beevor si interroga sul significato storico della figura di Rasputin mettendo in luce un fenomeno troppo spesso trascurato: come l'impatto delle fake news dell'epoca - dalle storie ingigantite che circolavano sulla corruzione politica e finanziaria del regime zarista alle voci del tutto infondate riguardo alle dissolutezze di Rasputin con l'imperatrice e persino con le sue figlie - abbia minato alle fondamenta la legittimità dello zar, ben prima della rivoluzione di febbraio. Il poeta Aleksandr Blok scrisse che 'la pallottola che mise fine alla sua vita andò dritta al cuore della dinastia regnante'. Grigorij Rasputin fu dunque un profeta, un imbroglione o una vittima della storia? C'era un fondo di verità in quei racconti, oppure il vero lascito di Rasputin è un'inquietante lezione sulla potenza del mito? Un racconto incalzante, capace di prefigurare le insidie del nostro tempo, in cui il confine tra ciò che è reale e ciò che è artefatto è sempre più labile. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
€ 46,50 -
Russland
Russische Revolution und Bürgerkrieg als 'ein gigantisches Panorama aus Leidenschaft und Unmenschlichkeit'. (Süddeutsche Zeitung)Beklemmend aktuell mutet die Geschichte Russlands von 1917 bis 1921 an - vom Zusammenbruch des Zarenreichs über die Oktoberrevolution bis zum Bürgerkrieg zwischen 'Roten' und 'Weißen' -, als sich auch auf dem Boden der Ukraine im Kampf um Vorherrschaft und Einflusssphären brutalste Gewalt entlädt. Gestützt auf eine Fülle neuester Archivfunde, zeichnet Antony Beevor ein ebenso dichtes wie weitgefasstes Panorama dieser welthistorischen Epoche mit einer kaum überschaubaren Zahl an Kombattanten, die sich auf einem Terrain von Warschau bis Wladiwostok, vom Polarkreis bis zu den Grenzen des Osmanischen Reiches gegenüberstanden. Beevor ordnet die komplexen und monströs blutigen Ereignisse mit großer epischer Kraft und lässt sie aus einer Vielzahl von Perspektiven lebendig werden.
€ 22,00 -
Der letzte Akt. Rasputin und das Ende des Russischen Reiches
Wie ein sibirischer Bauer das Russische Reich zu Fall brachteAntony Beevor, weltweit anerkannter Militärhistoriker und Bestsellerautor, widmet sich einer der rätselhaftesten Figuren der Geschichte: Grigori Rasputin. Basierend auf neu entdeckten Archivquellen der Provisorischen Regierung von 1917 zeichnet Beevor ein scharfes, entmythologisierendes Porträt des sibirischen Wanderpredigers. War er ein heiliger Mystiker oder ein manipulativer Scharlatan?Dieses Buch deckt auf, wie Rasputins Einfluss am Hof von Zar Nikolaus II. und der Zarin Alexandra die russische Monarchie von innen aushöhlte. Beevor zeigt eindrücklich, wie Gerüchte und Fake News mächtiger wurden als die Realität und so den Boden für die Russische Revolution bereiteten.Eine fesselnde historische Biografie, die erschreckende Parallelen zur heutigen Zeit aufzeigt, in der Desinformation wieder als politische Waffe dient.'Eine der großartigsten Geschichten der Geschichte, erzählt von einem unserer größten Historiker.'Simon Sebag Montefiore- Antony Beevor ist einer der weltweit erfolgsreichsten Historiker- Mit exklusiven Archivfunden, die den Mythos Rasputin neu bewerten- Zeigt eindrücklich, wie Desinformation und Verschwörungsmythen politische Systeme destabilisieren können
€ 28,00 -
Russia
"Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works."--The Wall Street Journal An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century. Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin. In the savage civil war that followed, terror begat terror, which in turn led to ever greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while contingents from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the doctor in an improvised hospital.
€ 21,00 -
Rasputin
Rasputin: visionary, fraud or victim of history? THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'THE GOLD STANDARD OF NARRATIVE HISTORY' DAN SNOW'ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES OF HISTORY, TOLD BY ONE OF OUR GREATEST HISTORIANS' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'THIS EXTRAORDINARY STORY HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER TOLD' ANTHONY HOROWITZ'A STUNNING BANQUET OF A BOOK' ROSE TREMAINHow could a barely literate peasant from Siberia determine the fate of the world? Undoubtedly, the so-called 'mad monk' Rasputin bewitched Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. Yet their strange and scandalous relationship conceals a riddle, one that casts an intriguing light on the controversial 'great man' theory of history.Rasputin was a devoted monarchist, not a revolutionary. He had no official position, no forces at his command. Nevertheless, he contributed more to the fall of the Romanov dynasty than any other individual. So demoralised was the Tsarist officer corps by stories of corruption, to say nothing of the rumours of his debauchery with the Empress - and even her daughters - that when the February Revolution broke out, not a sword was raised in defence of the regime.Just as Rasputin cast a spell over the Romanovs, his legend has bewitched historians. More than a century later, we still fail to comprehend fully the collapse of the greatest autocracy on Earth. Was there any truth to the wild tales that brought down the empire? Or was his true legacy an unsettling lesson on the potency of myth? From the bestselling author of Stalingrad comes a fascinating and deeply insightful historical post-mortem
€ 31,50 -
Berlinin Düsüsü 1945
Yirminci yüzyilin en önemli savaslarindan bazilarini ele aldigi eserleriyle begeni toplayan Antony Beevor, günümüzün en iyi bilinen ve saygin askeri tarihcilerden biridir. Eski Sovyet dosyalarindan yeni elde edilen belgelerin yani sira Alman, Amerikan, Ingiliz, Fransiz ve Isvec arsivlerinden de yararlanan Beevor, Berlinin Düsüsü 1945te Ücüncü Reichin can cekistigi bir dönemde sikisip kalan milyonlarca insanin farkli deneyimlerini yeniden insa eder. Intikamci Kizil Ordu ile kusatilmis Nazi güclerinin son kez carpistigi 1945 Ocakinda yasanan sarsici olaylarin sokak düzeyinde ve sürükleyici bir portresini sunar. Vahset ve kusatma altindaki bir sehrin umutsuzlugunu bütün sahiciligiyle ortaya koyarken, az rastlanan olaganüstü insanlik ve kahramanlik anlarini da sergilemeyi ihmal etmez. Antony Beevor, Stalingrad kitabinin ardindan Berlinin Düsüsü 1945te de ayni soruyu bir kez daha sormamiza neden oluyor. Savasta kazanan taraf var mi gercektenModern tarihyaziminda bir basyapit Michael Burleigh, GuardianBeevor, Stalingradda bize Hitlerin gücleriyle Ruslarin carpistigi önemli ve korkumc savasin sürükleyici bir anlatimini sunmustu. Berlinin Düsüsü 1945te de ayni basariyla bu teknigi kullaniyor. Bir askerin savasin gerceklerine yönelik anlayisiyla, bir romancinin sembolik ve duygusal ayrintilara bakisi birlesiyor. Beevor dehset verici bir resim ciziyor... Orlando Figes, Sunday TimesBeevorin tarzi, gercekler dogrultusundaki incelikli anlatinin ve titizligin ustaca karisimina katkida bulunuyor. Her iki kategoride de sanatinin dorugundaki bir yazara sahit oluyoruz. Thomas Kielinger, Die Welt
€ 24,99 -
Rasputin
"This story of credulous, out-of-touch monarchs steering their country into disaster never loses its sinister appeal."--The New York Times"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy."--The Sunday Times From one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history's most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and for the rest of her days she 'lived under the pressure of the prophecy'. Did the prophecy come true with the arrival at court of a mysterious, barely literate moujhik from Siberia, Grigori Rasputin? In this extraordinary portrait of an enigmatic character, Antony Beevor brings readers closer than ever before to Rasputin's scandalous life and death. Though he had no official position at court, Rasputin's hold over the Romanovs became the stuff of legend. Exaggerated accounts of political and financial corruption swirled around him, to say nothing of the stories of his debauchery with the Empress and even her daughters. The consequences of the rumor and conspiracy theories were devastating--when the February revolution broke out in 1917, hardly a sword was raised in the Tsar's defense. Through extensive use of previously unpublished reports, interviews, and interrogations, Beevor shows the truth of Rasputin's rampant lust and opportunism, victimization of poor and vulnerable women, and deep hypocrisy and corruption. Part political thriller, part gothic mystery, Rasputin is a fascinating story of human perversity.
€ 33,00 -
D-Day. La battaglia che salvò l'Europa
€ 31,50