Caught In The Revolution: Petrograd 1917 Helen Rappaport Windmill Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Selected As A Book Of The Year In Telegraph And Evening Standard\ [The] Centenary Will Prompt Raft Books On Russian Revolution They Be Hard Pushed To Better This Highly Original Exhaustively Researched Superbly Constructed Account \ Saul David Daily Gripping Vivid Deeply Chronicle Told Through Eyes Surprising Flamboyant Cast Foreigners Petrograd Narrated By Helen Rappaport Simon Sebag Montefiore Author Romanovsbetween First February 1917 Lenin’s Bolshevik Coup October (The Former St Petersburg) Was Turmoil Foreign Visitors Who Filled Hotels Bars Embassies Were Acutely Aware Chaos Breaking Out Their Doorsteps Among Them Journalists Diplomats Businessmen Governesses Volunteer Nurses Many Kept Diaries Wrote Letters Home: From An English Nurse Had Already Survived Sinking Titanic Black Valet Us Ambassador Far His Native Deep South Suffragette Leader Emmeline Pankhurst Come Inspect Indomitable Women’s Death Battalion Led Maria Bochkareava Drawing Upon Rich Trove Material Eye-Witness Accounts Left Nationals Saw Drama Unfold Takes Right Up Action – See Feel Hear It Happened Σελίδες: 480 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm