Biographies and memoirs

The book “Under the Mask of an Englishman” is not formally the work of Sebastian Haffner himself. This is a recording of an interview with him and an article...

“...I received unexpectedly, from a very serious source, an extremely important and highly secret message that a Galician revolutionary is coming to me in Tu...

“...There was a newspaper on the table. I didn’t like newspapers and didn’t read them; but this time it happened differently. I was talking to a young girl a...

“I arrived in Tulcea in early autumn. The weather was great; the city is lively and cheerful. It was very pleasant for me to look at it from the Danube steam...

“...The French in the East were still impudent, impolite, arrogant and irritable. Very few of them at that time were pleasant or even tolerable to deal with....

“It was a long time ago... I asked my late mother to write down for me her memories of life at the Catherine Institute and of her later relations with Empres...

“...We soon had to meet the French. I don’t remember how long we drove; They just stopped in the evening on a meadow, near some grove, to feed the horses and...

“Our troops retreated from Kerch and surrendered it to the allies without a fight on May 12, 1955. I am writing from memory, without inquiring about anything...

I have loved one girl since childhood. Her name was Nadezhda. We still didn’t think about any love or future. We tried many times to be together. And we lost...

A tyrant, overwhelmed by the ideas of communism. What motivated Pol Pot when he carried out genocide in his own country? The book examines the hidden springs...