Leaders of Valor gathers four classic studies of notable military commanders into a compact panorama of leadership under pressure. Moving between biography, campaign history, commemorative record, and reflective war writing, the volume examines courage not as a simple personal virtue but as a strategic, ethical, and public responsibility. Its accounts of decisive command, battlefield uncertainty, and institutional memory illuminate the ways military figures become subjects of history and l...

In Thirty Canadian V.Cs., 23d April 1915 to 30th March 1918, the anthology offers a poignant exploration into the heroism and valor exhibited by Canadians during pivotal moments of World War I. The collection is marked by a tapestry of narratives that vividly reconstructs the bravery of the thirty Canadian soldiers awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honor for valor. With a blend of personal accounts, military records, and emotive narratives, the anthology immerses readers in ...

ГОЛОСА: A Basic Course in Russian (Sixth Edition), strikes a true balance between communication and structure. It takes a contemporary approach to language learning by focusing on the development of functional competence in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), as well as the expansion of cultural knowledge. It also provides comprehensive explanations of Russian grammar along with the structural practice students need to build accuracy.The s...

ГОЛОСА: A Basic Course in Russian (Sixth Edition), strikes a true balance between communication and structure. It takes a contemporary approach to language learning by focusing on the development of functional competence in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), as well as the expansion of cultural knowledge. It also provides comprehensive explanations of Russian grammar along with the structural practice students need to build accuracy.The sixth edit...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The First SurvivorsPlunged Over Tahquamenon Falls. And Somehow—They Survived.No one had ever survived the falls. Until they did.In 1957, two siblings were pulled into the heart of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness—and into the violent grip of the Tahquamenon River. Swept over a 50-foot waterfall that had claimed every life before them, they should have died. ...

An entire generation of Russian writers have been living in exile from their homeland. Although today's glasnost has special meaning for many of these banished writers, it does not dissolve their experience of forced separation from their country of origin. In Conversations in Exile, John Glad brings together interviews with fourteen prominent Russian writers in exile, all of whom currently live in the United States, France, or Germany. Conducted between 1978 and 1989, th...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The First SurvivorsPlunged Over Tahquamenon Falls. And Somehow—They Survived.No one had ever survived the falls. Until they did.In 1957, two siblings were pulled into the heart of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness—and into the violent grip of the Tahquamenon River. Swept over a 50-foot waterfall that had claimed every life before them, they should have died. ...

Notes from the Underground is a novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Cher...

To illuminate the mysterious greatness of Anton Chekhov’s writings, Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer, and journalist. Her close readings of the stories and plays are interwoven with episodes from Chekhov’s life and framed by an account of Malcolm’s journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yalta. She writes of Chekhov’s childhood, his relationships, his travels, his early success, and his self-imposed “exile”—always with an eye to connecting them to themes and c...

Now available for the first time in English, Oleg Lekmanovs critically acclaimed Mandelstam presents the maverick Russian poets life and work to a wider audience and includes the most reliable details of the poets life, which were recently found and released from the KGB archives. Through his engaging narrative, Lekmanov carries the reader through Mandelstams early life and education in pre-revolutionary Petersburg, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in Heidelberg and his return to revolutionar...

Winner of the 1994 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic StudiesA manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. It depicts a society that prized religious orthodoxy, reliance on tradition, and absolute subordination of the individual to the family and the state. Specific instructions tell how to arrange hay, visit mona...

The prose writings of Vladimir Nabokov form one of the most intriguing oeuvres of the twentieth century. His novels, which include Despair, Lolita and Pale Fire, have been celebrated for their stylistic artistry, their formal complexity, and their unique treatment of themes of memory, exile, loss, and desire.This collection of essays offers readings of several novels as well as discussions of Nabokov's exchange of views about literature with Edmund Wilson, and his ...