In this riveting account of one of the most notorious spy cases in Cold War history, Rodney Barker, the author of The Broken Circle and The Hiroshima Maidens, uncovers startling new facts about the head-line-making sex-for-secrets marine spy scandal at the American embassy in Moscow. This is a nonfiction book that reads with all the excitement of an espionage novel.

Although national security issues made the case an instant sensation—at one point government officials were calling it “the most serious espionage case of the century”—the human element gave it an unusual pathos, for it was not just secret documents that were at issue, but love, sex, marine pride, and race It began when a Native American marine sergeant named Clayton Lonetree, who was serving as a marine security guard at the American embassy in Moscow, fell in love with a Russian woman, who then recruited him as a spy for the KGB. Soon the story expanded to involve the CIA, diplomats on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and the United States Navy’s own investigative service, and before it was over a witch hunt would implicate more marines and ruin many reputations and careers.

In the end, charges were dropped against everyone except Lonetree, who after a long and dramatic court-martial was sentenced to thirty years in prison. But so many questions were left unanswered that the scandal would be thought of as one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War.

Not any longer. In the process of researching his book, investigative writer Rodney Barker gained access to all the principal characters in this story. He interviewed key U.S. military and intelligence personnel, many of whom were unhappy with the public records and trial, and spoke out with astonishing candor. He traveled to Russia to track down and interview KGB officers involved in the operation, including the beautiful and enigmatic Violetta Seina, who lured Lonetree into the “honey-trap”—only to fall in love with him. And he succeeded in penetrating the wall of silence that has surrounded Clayton Lonetree since his arrest and reports the sergeant’s innermost thoughts.

A provocative aspect of this story that Barker explores in depth is whether justice was served in Lonetree’s court-martial—or whether he was used as a face-saving scapegoat after a majority security failure, or doomed by conflicts within his defense team, between his military attorney and his civilian lawyer William Kunstler, or victimized by an elaborate and devious KGB attempt to cover the traces of a far more significant spy: Aldrich Ames, the “mole” at the very heart of the CIA.

Above all, this is a book about Clayton Lonetree, one man trapped by his own impulses and his upbringing, in the final spasms of the Cold War, a curiously touching, complex, and ultimately sympathetic figure who did, in fact, sacrifice everything for love.

KurzbeschreibungVandenberg erzählt die Geschichte zweier Männer, die verschiedener nicht sein konnten: Der eine Franzose, wagemutig, ein Draufgänger; der andere Deutscher, feinsinnig und schüchtern ═ Auguste Mariette und Heinrich Brugsch. Ihr Ziel war dasselbe: die Wiederentdeckung des Alten Ägypten und seiner verschollenen Kultur. Sie begegneten sich im legendären Tal der Könige, der größten archäologischen Schatzkammer der Welt.Nach den persönlichen Aufzeichnungen der beiden Forscher schrieb Vandenberg einen spannungsgeladenen Hintergrundbericht zur Ägyptologie. Über den AutorPhilipp Vandenberg, 1941 in Breslau geboren, landete gleich mit seinem ersten Buch einen Erfolg: "Der Fluch der Pharaonen" (1973) wurde ein Weltbestseller. Es folgten zahlreiche spannende Sachbücher und Thriller, die oft einen archäologischen Hintergrund haben. Vandenbergs Bücher wurden bisher in 31 Sprachen übersetzt, darunter, neben allen Weltsprachen, ins Türkische, Bulgarische, Mazedonische und Rumänische. Der Autor lebt abwechselnd in Baiernrain und im Folterturm von Deutschlands längster Burganlage in Burghausen.

Сборник научных трудов является логическим продолжением сборника «De Conspiratione / О Заговоре» (М., 2014). В работах, представленных в сборнике, анализируется ряд таинственных и загадочных проблем древности, средневековья и современного мира; при этом выясняется, что современные проблемы уходят вглубь веков, а древность неожиданно прорастает в наши дни.

В монографиях сборника анализируются скрытые механизмы мировой истории политики и экономики, деятельность закрытых (тайных) обществ мирового согласования и управления («закулисы»), спецслужб и криминальных синдикатах. (сост. А. И. Фурсов; 2-е изд.)

Сборник научных трудов является логическим продолжением трёх первых сборников «чёрной серии» ИСАИ: «De Conspiratione / О Заговоре» (М., 2013), «De Aenigmate / О Тайне» (М., 2015) и «De Secreto / О Секрете» (М., 2016). Настоящий сборник посвящён личностям и семьям, сыгравшим большую, нередко решающую роль в истории. При этом, однако, объектом пристального изучения они становились нечасто.

Сборник научных трудов является логическим продолжением трёх первых сборников «чёрной серии» ИСАИ: «De Conspiratione / О Заговоре» (М., 2013), «De Aenigmate / О Тайне» (М., 2015) и «De Secreto / О Секрете» (М., 2016). Настоящий сборник посвящён личностям и семьям, сыгравшим большую, нередко решающую роль в истории. При этом, однако, объектом пристального изучения они становились нечасто.

Сборник научных трудов логически продолжает сборники «De Conspiratione/О Заговоре» (М., 2013) и «De Aenigmate/О Тайне» (М., 2015). В представленных работах исследуется ряд скрывающихся за завесой секретности событий XIX–XX вв. Речь идёт о событиях мировой борьбы за власть, информацию и ресурсы.

The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are those who insist that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. Sixty years ago, such notions were the province of pseudohistorians who argued that Hitler never meant to kill the Jews, and that only a few hundred thousand died in the camps from disease; they also argued that the Allied bombings of Dresden and other cities were worse than any Nazi offense, and that the Germans were the “true victims” of World War II.For years, those who made such claims were dismissed as harmless cranks operating on the lunatic fringe. But as time goes on, they have begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas, and now, in the first full-scale history of Holocaust denial, Deborah Lipstadt shows how—despite tens of thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence—this irrational idea not only has continued to gain adherents but has become an international movement, with organized chapters, “independent” research centers, and official publications that promote a “revisionist” view of recent history.Lipstadt shows how Holocaust denial thrives in the current atmosphere of value-relativism, and argues that this chilling attack on the factual record not only threatens Jews but undermines the very tenets of objective scholarship that support our faith in historical knowledge. Thus the movement has an unsuspected power to dramatically alter the way that truth and meaning are transmitted from one generation to another.[Best viewed with CoolReader.]

The Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius is one of the masterpieces by Machiavelli. This work narrates the writer’s comments as to how a democratic government should be established. Through the comparison of Venice and Rome a detailed analysis of different kinds of governments is given. Machiavelli has ingeniously presented different aspects of his own contentions. Thought-provoking!

In this brilliant exploration of the post-9/11 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand how we have arrived at such disorder. He explores three different but related aspects of disorder: intellectual (manifested in an unleashing of statements on identity that allow no possibility of peaceful co-existence or debate), economic and financial (that is exhausting the earth’s resources), and climatic (the result of turning a blind eye to the consequences of rampant industrialization). Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-9/11 world as ‘a clash of civilisations’ Maalouf sees it as the ‘exhaustion of two civilisations’, a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of ‘moral incompetence’. Islam and the West have theoretical coherence, he says, but in practice each betrays its true ideals: the West is unfaithful to its own enlightenment values, which has discredited it in the eyes of the people to whom it has introduced democracy by force; while Islam finds itself condemned to a headlong rush into radicalism. These symmetrical disorders are only some of the elements in a global disorder that requires humanity as a whole to take responsibility for its future and face up to the urgent tasks such as climate change and the global financial crisis that threaten us all.Disordered World is a plea by one of the major writers of the last twenty years for intelligence, tolerance and a sense of urgency in order that we develop an adult vision of our patrimony, our beliefs, our differences and the future of the planet which is our common home.

Продолжение выпуска №50. Прототипы и серия.

Если бы проводился конкурс на са­мый необычный самолет, созданный в годы 2-й Мировой войны, Dormer Do 335 «Pfeil» имел бы все шансы занять одно из призовых мест. В отличие от своих конкурентов, которые, несмотря на пе­редовую конструкцию, не имели замет­ной боевой ценности, «Pfeil» представ­лял собой удачную боевую машину. Это был один из самых быстрых истребите­лей с поршневым двигателем в истории авиации. Если бы немцам удалось ре­шить технические проблемы, преследо­вавшие самолет на всех этапах его со­здания, и организовать его серийный вы­пуск, то в их руках оказался бы исключи­тельный по своим качествам истреби­тель, способный эффективно бороться с любым самолетом противника.Поэтому нет ничего удивительно­го в том, что после войны союзники ак­тивно испытывали попавшие им в руки Do 335. Однако стремительное разви­тие реактивной авиации вскоре сделала Do 335 неактуальным.

It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction.This is the untold story of the Cold War’s most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity’s nightmare vision of a superweapon, showing how popular culture – from the stories of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to films such as Planet of the Apes, Mad Max and Dr Strangelove itself – has both shaped and reflected our darkest dreams.

“One of the great stories of our time… a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewAs Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led to the unraveling of the Bolshevik Revolution. From Tito’s funeral to the birth of Solidarity in the Gdańsk shipyard, from the tragedy of Tiananmen Square to Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank in the center of Moscow, Dobbs saw it all.The fall of communism was one of the great human dramas of our century, as great a drama as the original Bolshevik revolution. Dobbs met almost all of the principal actors, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Václav Havel, and Andrei Sakharov. With a sweeping command of the subject and the passion and verve of an eyewitness, he paints an unforgettable portrait of the decade in which the familiar and seemingly petrified Cold War world—the world of Checkpoint Charlie and Dr. Strangelove—vanished forever.“Down with Big Brother ranks very high among the plethora of books about the fall of the Soviet Union and the death throes of Communism. It is possibly the most vividly written of the lot.”— Adam B. Ulam, Washington Post Book World

В очередной книге Н. Лузана «Drang nach Osten. Натиск на Восток» на основе обширного документального материала, полученного из различных источников, в том числе архивов отечественных спецслужб, представлена яркая и многоплановая картина эпохальных событий, относящихся как к недавнему прошлому — Второй мировой войне, так и к полной невероятного напряжения исторической драме, что сегодня разворачивается в Европе и в центре которой находится Россия.Внимание специалистов и широкого круга читателей привлечет та ее часть, где отражены современная действительность и события, вызвавшие к жизни «скелет в шкафу» — неонацизм в Германии и необандеровщину в Украине. Особый интерес представляют те разделы книги, где автор вскрывает скрытые пружины, двигающие событиями в Украине. В те полные драматизма и невероятного напряжения дни «крымской весны» 2014 года для России наступил момент истины. Тот раунд схватки за «непотопляемый авианосец» — Крым — остался за ней. Что ждет страну в будущем, на этот вопрос читатель вместе с автором будет искать ответы в книге и в жизни — такой непростой.

The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from the role of concubine to become the only queen in Ottoman history

In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at age twelve from her Ruthenian homeland, and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Constantinople. Suleiman became besotted with her, and forsook all other mistresses. Then, in an unprecedented step, he made her the first and only queen in the Ottoman court. Although shrouded in scandal, the canny and sophisticated Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and administrator, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - from Queen Elizabeth to Catherine de Medici - increasingly held the reins of power.

In Empress of the East, Pierce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who pushed the Ottoman Empire towards modernity.