Triumph and Disaster: Five Historical Miniatures - Hardcover

Zweig, Stefan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782272747 ISBN 13: 9781782272748

Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2016

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Gems of literary perfection. I felt I had seldom read such lucid, liquid prose -- Simon Winchester Telegraph The perfect stocking-filler for the Europhile in your life Philosophy Football Zweig writes lucidly and thrillingly Country Life

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A single Yes, a single No, a Too Soon or a Too Late makes that hour irrevocable for hundreds of generations while deciding the life of a single man or woman, of a nation, even the destiny of all humanity. Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Fall of Constantinople to Scott's doomed attempt to reach the South Pole, bringing the past to life in brilliant technicolor. Contents: Foreword The Field of Waterloo The Race to Reach the South Pole The Conquest of Byzantium The Sealed Train (Lenin's journey across Europe before the Russian Revolution) Wilson's Failure (Woodrow Wilson and Versailles)

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• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782272747
• ISBN 13: 9781782272748
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160