History Of A Tragedy
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Author | : Serhii Plokhy |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541617088 |
Download Chernobyl Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world. A moving and definitive account, Chernobyl is also an urgent call to action.
Author | : Peter Hamish Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1048 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Europe's Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618 - 48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from England were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder. The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had been created but at a terrible price. Peter Wilson's book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events. Wilson's great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries' future with such horrifying results. The principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus Adolphus, Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstances. The extraordinary narrative of the war haunted Europe's leaders into the twentieth century (comparisons with 1939 - 45 were entirely appropriate) and modern Europe cannot be understood without reference to this dreadful conflict.
Author | : Ramón Eduardo Ruiz |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393310665 |
Download Triumphs and Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An epic history of Mexico from its Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan heritage to the present day.
Author | : Joseph Pérez |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Civilisation médiévale |
ISBN | : 0252031415 |
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A concise retelling of the Sephardic Jews' grim story
Author | : Gabriel Piterberg |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520238362 |
Download An Ottoman Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Combines a reinterpretation of the history of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century with an analysis of the ways history is constructed by its participants.
Author | : David E. Kaiser |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674006720 |
Download American Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A re-creation of the deliberations, actions, and deceptions that brought two decades of post-World War II confidence to an end, this book offers an insight into the Vietnam War at home and abroad - and into American foreign policy in the 1960s.
Author | : Hal Brands |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300244924 |
Download The Lessons of Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A “brilliant” examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation’s—and the world’s—security at risk (The Wall Street Journal). The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur citizens and their leaders to take the difficult actions necessary to avert such a fate. Today, after more than seventy years of great-power peace and a quarter-century of unrivaled global leadership, Americans have lost their sense of tragedy. They have forgotten that the descent into violence and war has been all too common throughout human history. This amnesia has become most pronounced just as Americans and the global order they created are coming under graver threat than at any time in decades. In a forceful argument that brims with historical sensibility and policy insights, two distinguished historians argue that a tragic sensibility is necessary if America and its allies are to address the dangers that menace the international order today. Tragedy may be commonplace, Brands and Edel argue, but it is not inevitable—so long as we regain an appreciation of the world’s tragic nature before it is too late. “Literate and lucid—sure to interest to readers of Fukuyama, Huntington, and similar authors as well as students of modern realpolitik.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Orlando Figes |
Publisher | : Bodley Head Childrens |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Russia |
ISBN | : 9781847922915 |
Download A People's Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympathy, this book offers an account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation.
Author | : Rebecca Bushnell |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2009-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405192461 |
Download A Companion to Tragedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades
Author | : David Porter Chandler |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300057522 |
Download The Tragedy of Cambodian History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The political history of Cambodia between 1945 and 1979, which culminated in the devastating revolutionary excesses of the Pol Pot regime, is one of unrest and misery. This book by David P. Chandler is the first to give a full account of this tumultuous period. Drawing on his experience as a foreign service officer in Phnom Penh, on interviews, and on archival material. Chandler considers why the revolution happened and how it was related to Cambodia's earlier history and to other events in Southeast Asia. He describes Cambodia's brief spell of independence from Japan after the end of World War II; the long and complicated rule of Norodom Sihanouk, during which the Vietnam War gradually spilled over Cambodia's borders; the bloodless coup of 1970 that deposed Sihanouk and put in power the feeble, pro-American government of Lon Nol; and the revolution in 1975 that ushered in the radical changes and horrors of Pol Pot's Communist regime. Chandler discusses how Pol Pot and his colleagues evacuated Cambodia's cities and towns, transformed its seven million people into an unpaid labor force, tortured and killed party members when agricultural quotas were unmet, and were finally overthrown in the course of a Vietnamese military invasion in 1979. His book is a penetrating and poignant analysis of this fierce revolutionary period and the events of the previous quarter-century that made it possible.