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Stalin's Wine Cellar

Author : John Baker
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1761043668
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Wine Cellar written by John Baker and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. He was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was different to anything John, or his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across. The list was discovered to be a comprehensive catalogue of the wine collection of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. The wine had become the property of the state after the Russian Revolution of 1918, during which Nicholas and his entire family were executed. Now owned by Stalin, the wine was discreetly removed to a remote Georgian winery when Stalin was concerned the advancing Nazi army might overrun Russia. Half a century later, the wine was rumoured to be hidden underground and off any known map. John and Kevin embarked on an audacious, colourful and potentially dangerous journey to Georgia to discover if the wines actually existed; if the bottles were authentic and whether the entire collection could be bought and transported to a major London auction house for sale. Stalin's Wine Cellar is a wild, sometimes rough ride through the glamorous world of high-end wine.

Young Stalin

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307498921
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Young Stalin written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs—and one of our pre-eminent historians—comes “a meticulously researched, authoritative biography” (The New York Times), the companion volume to the prize-winning Stalin, and essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history. This revelatory account unveils how Stalin became Stalin, examining his shadowy journey from obscurity to power—from master historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. Based on ten years of research, Young Stalin is a brilliant prehistory of the USSR, a chronicle of the Revolution, and an intimate biography. Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, darkly turbulent boy born into poverty, scarred by his upbringing but possessed of unusual talents. Admired as a romantic poet and trained as a priest, he found his true mission as a murderous revolutionary. Here is the dramatic story of his friendships and hatreds, his many love affairs, his complicated relationship with the Tsarist secret police, and how he became the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image.

Stalin's Library

Author : Geoffrey Roberts
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179049
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Library written by Geoffrey Roberts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin's tumultuous life and politics, told through his personal library. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs

Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine 2022

Author : Hugh Johnson
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 1784727865
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Hugh Johnson Pocket Wine 2022 written by Hugh Johnson and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's best-selling annual wine guide. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 45th year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide. It provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. It reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both. This latest edition of Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book includes a colour supplement: The Ten Best Things About Wine Right Now.

White King and Red Queen

Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 9781843546108
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book White King and Red Queen written by Daniel Johnson and published by Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War transformed the cloistered world of chess. As Daniel Johnson explains in this gripping account, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. Under the Bolsheviks, the game had become the national sport, taught in schools as a form of intellectual and military training. Those with talent were moulded into champions from a young age and Soviet players, such as Mikhail Botvinnik and Tigran Petrosian, dominated international competitions throughout the Cold War years. White King and Red Queen illuminates the lives and times of the players and matches at the forefront of this confrontation, from the famous 1972 encounter between American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and Soviet champion Boris Spassky; to the struggle between anti-Communist Viktor Korchnoi and loyal Kremlin supporter Anatoly Karpov; to the emergence of Garry Kasparov, the last Soviet world champion. Daniel Johnson's book offers a dramatic new perspective on the post-war struggle for supremacy between the superpowers.

The Space Between the Stars

Author : Indira Naidoo
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761064150
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Space Between the Stars written by Indira Naidoo and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply moving and uplifting exploration of the power of nature - even urban nature - to heal the deepest hurts. For fans of Julia Baird's Phosphorescence, Sarah Wilson's This One Wild and Precious Life or Leigh Sales' Any Ordinary Day comes an unforgettable and poignant exploration of the healing power of nature. 'A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live.' David Wenham 'For as long as I can remember, there has always been just the three of us. Three sisters. Only a year between each. Inseparable. It's been like that for almost 50 years ... Until my youngest sister walked out into her suburban backyard and took her life. Is it possible to ever heal a tear in your universe?' After her younger sister died suddenly, broadcaster Indira Naidoo's world was shattered. Turning to her urban landscape for solace, Indira found herself drawn to a fig tree overlooking Sydney harbour. A connection began to build between the two - one with a fractured heart, the other a centurion offering quiet companionship while asking nothing in return. As Indira grappled with her heartbreak, an unnoticed universe of infinite beauty revealed itself: pale vanilla clouds pirouetting across the sky, resilient weeds pushing through cracks in the footpath, the magical biodiversity of tiny puddles. With the help of a posse of urban guides, she began to explore how nature - whatever bits of nature are within reach - can heal us during life's darker chapters, whether nursing a broken heart or an anxious mind. The Space Between the Stars is a heart-rending, at times funny, and uplifting tribute to love and our innate need to connect to the natural world, a celebration of the reassuring cycle of renewal that sustains and nourishes us all. 'As long as you can see the stars, you can never truly be lost.'

The Makers of Rome

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141920459
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Makers of Rome written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as soldierly Marcellus, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius. Here too are vivid portraits of ambitious, hot-tempered Coriolanus; objective, principled Brutus and open-hearted Mark Anthony, who would later be brought to life by Shakespeare. In recounting the lives of these great leaders, Plutarch also explores the problems of statecraft and power and illustrates the Roman people's genius for political compromise, which led to their mastery of the ancient world.

Love Is Forever, If It's True.

Author : Shahjad Khan
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Is Forever, If It's True. written by Shahjad Khan and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story is just a story till when put a deep insight of thoughts in it. I wouldn’t say I wrote this story keeping my subconscious at forefront but I would say a lot of real life events occurred to me as in shaping it in a way that I can vouch we all in tiny frames are a part of this story. We can relate with the characters not just the way they act, but we can relate with them as we all have a fascinated inner self that imagines impossible possibilities in our lives. When I had that profoundness to shape thoughts into words, this story became a vision for my eyes and I lived it along with the characters throughout the story. Their pain, pleasures, emotions, love, hatred all emotions I felt within and I would love to see the same expressions resonating with your souls. It was started when Trisha was hopeless, lonely and not happy with the life’s ways of treating her, she met her soul mate during the journey but as cosmos and destiny plays a unpredictable role in our lives, how these two encountered with each other on the journey, how they evolved each other and how they penetrated each other’s Aura seeking out space in their darker corners illuminating each other’s lives. This is all about that all. I hope and am very optimist about your love for this book and it might give you a ray of hope in your withered life somewhere.

The Course of History

Author : Struan Stevenson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1948924250
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The Course of History written by Struan Stevenson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining seat at the table of ten power meals that shaped history—including the menus and recreated recipes! Some of the most consequential decisions in history were decided at the dinner table, accompanied—and perhaps influenced—by copious amounts of food and drink. This fascinating book explores ten of those pivotal meals, presenting the contexts, key participants, table talk, and outcomes of each. It offers unique insight into the minds and appetites of some of history’s most famous and notorious characters, including Bonnie Prince Charlie, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Richard Nixon. Feasting on leg of lamb, Bonnie Prince Charlie doomed the Jacobite Army at Culloden. A uniquely American menu served with French wine lubricated the conversation between rivals Jefferson and Hamilton that led to the founding of the US financial system and the location of the nation’s capital in Washington. After schweinwürst and sauerkraut with Adolf Hitler at his Berghof residence, Austrian chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg agreed to the complete integration of Austria into the Third Reich. Celebrity chef Tony Singh has researched the menus and recipes for all ten dinners down to the last detail and recreates them here. The book contains fifty-five recipes from soup to desert and lists the spirits as well.

Cold Front

Author : David Fairhall
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020580
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Cold Front written by David Fairhall and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic. Land of ice and the six–month day, irresistible goal for explorers and adventurers, enduring source of romance and mystery, and now also a poignant and unavoidable indicator of the impact of climate change. As the ice cap shrinks, the geography of the entire Arctic region changes—clear shipping channels replace immovable ice and inaccessible oil resources become available. What will be the long–term consequences of these cataclysmic changes, not only environmentally but also socially and politically? How will the lives of the many individuals who depend upon the natural resources of the Arctic be changed? And how will the global powers that wish to exploit the region's many assets respond? Cold Front is not just another attempt to predict the outcome of global warming. It offers a clear–sighted and penetrating investigation of the Arctic's pivotal role in international relations, placing the polar region in its historical, political, and legal context. The thawing of the ice cap creates huge opportunities for trade and transport—and therefore also for conflict between Arctic nations. This beautifully written investigation provides insight, answers, and hope for the future of the region.

The Billionaire's Vinegar

Author : Benjamin Wallace
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307338789
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Billionaire's Vinegar written by Benjamin Wallace and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist? As Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery, we meet a gallery of intriguing players—from the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women to the obsessive wine collector who discovered the bottle. Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries. “Part detective story, part wine history, this is one juicy tale, even for those with no interest in the fruit of the vine. . . . As delicious as a true vintage Lafite.” —BusinessWeek

Italian Wines 2022

Author : Gambero Rosso
Publisher : Gambero Rosso GRH
ISBN 13 : 9788866412366
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Italian Wines 2022 written by Gambero Rosso and published by Gambero Rosso GRH. This book was released on 2022-01-22 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The most authoritative annual guide to the very best Italian wines; more than 2,500 producers have been selected, and more than and 22,000 wines - The awards honor ecologically aware wine producers who are working with the environment, bestowing 'Green' awards on those who create sustainable yields - Each entry gathers useful information about the winery Italian Wines is the English-language version of Gambero Rosso's Vini d'Italia, the world's best-selling guide to Italian wine. It is the result of a year's work by over 60 tasters, coordinated by three curators. They travel around the entire country to taste 45,000 wines, only half of which make it into the guide. More than 2,500 producers have been selected. Each entry brings together useful information about the winery, including a description of its most important labels and price levels in Italian wine shops. Each wine is evaluated according to the Gambero Rosso bicchieri rating, with Tre Bicchieri awarded to the top labels. The guide is an essential tool for both wine professionals and passionate amateurs around the globe: it provides the instruments for finding one's way in the complex panorama of Italy's wine world.

The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666757X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. written by George Steiner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle. He is Adolph Hitler. The narrative that follows is a profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt, vengeance, language, and the power of evil—each undiminished over time. George Steiner's stunning novel, now with a new afterword, will continue to provoke our thinking about Nazi Germany's unforgettable past. "Two readings have convinced me that this is a fiction of extraordinary power and thoughtfulness. . . . [A] remarkable novel."—Bernard Bergonzi, Times Literary Supplement "In this tour de force Mr. Steiner makes his reader re-examine, to whatever conclusions each may choose, a history from which we would prefer to avert our eyes."—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal "Portage largely avoids both the satisfactions of the traditional novel and the horrifying details of Holocaust literature. Instead, Steiner has taken as his model the political imaginings of an Orwell or Koestler. . . . He has produced a philosophic fantasy of remarkable intensity."—Otto Friedrich, Time

The Bolshevik Myth (diary 1920-1922)

Author : Alexander Berkman
Publisher : London, Hutchinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Bolshevik Myth (diary 1920-1922) written by Alexander Berkman and published by London, Hutchinson. This book was released on 1925 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Count of Wine

Author : John Salvi MW
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359045154
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Count of Wine written by John Salvi MW and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Salvi traces his life history, linked to the profound changes that have taken place over 60 years in the world of wine. Many of these years have been spent in Bordeaux, where he was closely linked to Chateau Palmer and the companies that own it. This is followed by humorous anecdotes and stories about wine, food and personalities that weave the rich tapestry of wine. A lively irreverent, amusing and highly readable tale by a gourmand and gourmet imbued with a lifetime passion for wine and food.

The Fisherman's Son

Author : Chris Malloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938340420
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Fisherman's Son written by Chris Malloy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramon Navarro, a third-generation subsistence fisherman and farmer who lives on the coast of Chile at Punta Lobos, learned to surf on a busted surfboard left by a visiting surfer. Since then he has become one of the top-ten big wave riders. He has used his surfing accomplishments to protect his home break, and he is admired around the world as an environmental activist: he fights resort development on the point, the building of pulp mills along on the coast, and sewage pipes that pollute the ocean off Pichilemu. Editor Chris Malloy created the film and book The Fisherman's Son, which focuses on Ramon's rise to big wave fame and how Ramon is using that notoriety to make his voice heard on activism issues. Contributors to the book include Gerry Lopez, Josh Berry, and Jack Johnson. Part of the proceeds to the book and film will be used to support Ramon's environmental efforts.

When Sonia Met Boris

Author : Anna Shternshis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019022312X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book When Sonia Met Boris written by Anna Shternshis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like millions of other Soviet citizens, they married, raised children, and built careers, pursuing life as best as they could in a profoundly hostile environment. One of the first scholars to record and analyze oral testimonies of Soviet Jews, Anna Shternshis unearths their everyday life and the difficult choices that they were forced to make as a repressed minority living in a totalitarian regime. Drawing on nearly 500 interviews with Soviet citizens who were adults by the 1940s, When Sonia Met Boris describes both indirect Soviet control mechanisms?such as housing policies and unwritten quotas in educational institutions?and personal strategies to overcome, ignore, or even take advantage of those limitations. The interviews reveal how ethnicity was rapidly transformed into a negative characteristic, almost a disability, for Soviet Jewry in the postwar period. Ultimately, Shternshis shows, after decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a complex sense of Jewish identity, but one that fully disassociates Jewishness from Judaism and instead associates it with secular society, prioritizing chess over Talmud, classical music over Hasidic tunes. Gracefully weaving together poignant stories, intimate reflections, and witty anecdotes, When Sonia Met Boris traces the unusual contours of contemporary Russian Jewish identity back to its roots.