Rogoyska previously wrote a gripping novel about Katyń, Kozlowski. Read expert recommendations Buy now Listen now River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman That many of the things we thought we knew about the Vikings is wrong was revealed...
ThatBBC Newsreport also reminds us “It was the US and the Soviet Union which, in the first days of the Cold War, found themselves in a race against time to uncover Hitler’s scientific secrets”. Allied occupation zones in post WW2 Germany with the US, Russia and UK competing for the...
And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing...
It’s actually one of the most autobiographical works that Bellow wrote. Not only in the sense of being based on the facts of his life, but in that he really draws on his own childhood, on his own use of Yiddish. Bellow was one of the best Yiddish speakers I ever met in my life...
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BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history....
in an easy to follow manner the existence of infinite sets that can’t be put into one-to-one correspondence with the countable set of infinite natural numbers (the mathematician David Hilbert wrote “No one will expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created’; how is that for praise...
In March 1923 the bestselling novelist Arnold Bennett wrote a review of Woolf’s avant-garde novel ‘Jacob’s Room’ (1922) in which he claimed her characters would never survive in ‘the real world’. This triggered Woolf to write 1) a rebuttal of Bennett’s criticisms that was published...
The Bulgarian scientist wrote two papers on his formula in 1994. “However,” Dr. Musha claims, these “papers were rejected by two well-known science journals.” The strong implication is there was a cover-up. Either that or mainstream science was just not prepared to consider such theories...
He wrote most of it on toilet paper and would kept it hidden on himself at all times. Here is one of his observations: "It's funny that being here, deprived of what we used to consider the necessities of life and forced to conserve and save everything, seems to have made everyone ...