Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justiceIn the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos.After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing.In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis.

Дальнейшее развитие истребителей типа Fw 190 — высотные истребители.

Продолжение выпуска № 80. Различные модификации A/F/G. Боевое применение.

Истребитель «Фокке-Вулъф Fw 190» был одним из лучших самолетов Второй Мировой войны. Сконструированный и усовершенствованный под руководством проф. Курта Танка – некоронованного короля авиаконструкторов – он с момента своего появления и до конца войны раздвигал возможности традиционного истребителя с поршневым двигателем, заставляя конкурентов тянуться за ним изо всех сил. Выпущенный серией около 20000 штук, Fw 190 во многом определил силу и эффективность люфтваффе.

Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War – allegations of Russian interference in the US presidential election are only the most recent in a long series of conspiracy allegations that mark the history of the twentieth century. But Russian politics is rife with conspiracies about the West too. Everything bad that happens in Russia is traced back by some to an anti-Russian plot that is hatched in the West. Even the collapse of the Soviet Union – this crucial turning point in world politics that left the USA as the only remaining superpower – was, according to some Russian conspiracy theorists, planned and executed by Russia’s enemies in the West.

This book is the first-ever study of Russian conspiracy theories in the post-Soviet period. It examines why these conspiracy theories have emerged and gained currency in Russia and what role intellectuals have played in this process. The book shows how, in the new millennium, the image of the ‘dangerous, conspiring West’ provides national unity and has helped legitimize Russia’s rapid turn to authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin.

Alois Dwenger, writing from the front in May of 1942, complained that people forgot “the actions of simple soldiers…. I believe that true heroism lies in bearing this dreadful everyday life.”In exploring the reality of the Landser, the average German soldier in World War II, through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, Stephen G. Fritz provides the definitive account of the everyday war of the German front soldier. The personal documents of these soldiers, most from the Russian front, where the majority of German infantrymen saw service, paint a richly textured portrait of the Landser that illustrates the complexity and paradox of his daily life.Although clinging to a self-image as a decent fellow, the German soldier nonetheless committed terrible crimes in the name of National Socialism. When the war was finally over, and his country lay in ruins, the Landser faced a bitter truth: all his exertions and sacrifices had been in the name of a deplorable regime that had committed unprecedented crimes. With chapters on training, images of combat, living conditions, combat stress, the personal sensations of war, the bonds of comradeship, and ideology and motivation, Fritz offers a sense of immediacy and intimacy, revealing war through the eyes of these self-styled “little men.”A fascinating look at the day-to-day life of German soldiers, this is a book not about war but about men. It will be vitally important for anyone interested in World War II, German history, or the experiences of common soldiers throughout the world.

The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. Indeed, both Back (1837) and Ross (1849) suffered early onset of unaccountable “debility” aboard ship and Ross suffered greater fatalities during his single winter in the Arctic than did Franklin during his first. Both expeditions were forced to retreat because of the rapacious illness that stalked their ships.

Frozen in Time makes the case that this illness (starting with the Back expedition) was due to the crews’ overwhelming reliance on a new technology, namely tinned foods. This not only exposed the seamen to lead, an insidious poison—as has been demonstrated in Franklin’s case by Dr. Beattie’s research—but it also left them vulnerable to scurvy, the ancient scourge of seafarers which had been thought to have been largely cured in the early years of the nineteenth century.

Fully revised, Frozen in Time will update the research outlined in the original edition, and will introduce independent confirmation of Dr. Beattie’s lead hypothesis, along with corroboration of his discovery of physical evidence for both scurvy and cannibalism. In addition, the book includes a new introduction written by Margaret Atwood, who has long been fascinated by the role of the Franklin Expedition in Canada’s literary conscience, and has made a pilgrimage to the site of the Franklin Expedition graves on Beechey Island.

If you disliked learning about history in school, it’s because you didn’t have a teacher like this. Intelligent, brutally honest, and crude — learning about history doesn’t suck when you’re learning from The Captain. Each of his 52 lessons bridges the gap between history and everyday life with relatable topics and an outlook that can only be described as “slightly fucked up.”

Цельнометаллический разведчик Fw-189 считается одним из самых технически совершенных самолетов в своем классе. Удачным настолько, что послужил предметом для подражания со стороны противника. Примерно в начале 1943 г. конструкторское бюро П.О. Сухого получило задание спроектировать советский аналог Fw-189. Сначала проект Сухого отличался or самолета Курта Танка только двигателями вдвое большей, чем у «немца», мощности. После войны проект значительно изменили — в результате появился самолет Су-12. значительно больший, чем Fw-189. по размерам. Экипаж Су-12 состоял из четырех человек, самолет предназначался для ведения визуальной разведки и корректировки артиллерийского огня. Прототип весил в два раза больше Fw-189 и оснащался двумя звездообразными двигателями воздушного охлаждения АШ-82М (в процессе испытаний моторы заменили на АШ-82ФН). Испытания Су-12 начались в августе 1947 г… разведчик показал на них заявленные летные характеристики, узким местом являлась только недостаточная пассивная защита экипажа и слабость оборонительного вооружения. В серийное производство Су-12. однако, не передавался — в конце 40-х годов концепция двухбалочного разведчика с поршневыми двигателями считалась устаревшей, у такой машины не имелось шансов выжить над насыщенном средствами ПВО полем боя.Прим.: Полный комплект иллюстраций, расположенных как в печатном издании, подписи к иллюстрациям текстом.

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardSelected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the “Long Telegram” and the “X Article,” which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan’s long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today’s most important Cold War scholars.Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan’s death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep.We see Kennan’s insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.

**"As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with this book to give the secret six the credit they didn't get in life. The Culper spies represent all the patriotic Americans who give so much for their country but, because of the nature of their work, will not or cannot** **take a bow or even talk about their missions."**

**-- Brian Kilmeade**

When General George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied--thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring.

Washington realized that he couldn't beat the British with military might, so he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York. So carefully guarded were the members' identities that one spy's name was not uncovered until the twentieth century, and...

In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignment, was unlike any other reporting at the time. While most Allied and foreign journalists spun their writing on the widely held belief that the German people deserved their fate, Dagerman disagreed and reported on the humanness of the men and women ruined by the war — their guilt and suffering. Dagerman was already a prominent writer in Sweden, but the publication and broad reception of German Autumn throughout Europe established him as a compassionate journalist and led to the long-standing international influence of the book.Presented here in its first American edition with a compelling new foreword by Mark Kurlansky, Dagerman’s essays on the tragic aftermath of war, suffering, and guilt are as hauntingly relevant today amid current global conflict as they were sixty years ago.

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery, or commands respect and fear, like Israel’s Mossad. Formed in 1951 to ensure an embattled Israel’s future, the Mossad has been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism, and assassination ever ventured.Gideon’s Spies draws from classified documents, confidential sources, and closed-door interviews with Mossad agents, informants, and spymasters to reveal the organization’s deepest secrets. This fifth edition is completely updated with new information, including the Mossad hospital raid that eventually uncovered sleeper cells in Britain, the assassination of the world’s second most-wanted terrorist, the discovery of an unknown nuclear facility in Iran, the intricate relationship between Israeli intelligence and the Bush administration’s war on terror, and why one former Mossad chief says, “We are looking down the barrel of World War III unless the world wakes up.”

Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, is summoned by the Emperor, Augustus Caesar. Given three legions and sent to the Roman frontier east of the Rhine, his mission is to subdue the barbarous German tribes where others have failed, and bring their land fully under Rome’s control. Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly game. He serves in the Roman army, gaining Roman citizenship and officer’s rank, and learning the arts of war and policy as practiced by the Romans. What he learns is essential for the survival of Germany, for he must unite his people against Rome before they become enslaved by the Empire and lose their way of life forever. An epic battle is brewing, and these two men stand on opposite sides of what will forever be known as The Battle of the Teutoberg Forest—a ferocious, bloody clash that will change the course of history.

Создатель «Гладиатора» Г.П. Фолленд в годы Первой Мировой войны работал в Королевском авиационном бюро и участвовал в создании таких самолетов как RE 9, SE 4, SE 5 и FE 2. В 1917 году он стал сотрудником «Бритиш Ньюпорт энд Дженерал Эйркрафт Ко, лтд». Руководство фирмы дало возможность Фолленду проявить конструкторскую инициативу. Его первым самолетом стал «Найтхоук BN 1» и Лондон «Триплейн». Кроме того, Фолленд участвовал в создании спортивных самолетов «Беймел», а также Глостер I, И, III, IV и IV.

Идея оснастить самолет реактивной силовой установкой начала витать в воздухе после Первой Мировой войны. В течение 1920-х годов предпринимались попытки разработать новые типы двигателей для авиации – ракетные или газотурбинные, но последние всё ещё требовали использования обычных пропеллеров. В начале 1930-х годов молодой английский инженер Френк Уиттл, служивший тогда в Королевских ВВС Великобритании (RAF), в частном порядке приступил к работам над новым двигателем. Отношение к идеям Уиттла у военных было неоднозначным. Большую поддержку оказала RAF, а Министерство авиации отвергло предложения изобретателя, позволив ему взять патент на своё имя. Суть патента состояла в том, что газовая турбина вращала вместо обычного винта ряд импеллеров в закрытом канале. В марте 1936 года Уиттл основал фирму «Пауэр джетс» (Power Jets Ltd.), чтобы воплотить свой проект в металле. Параллельно с разработкой двигателя он пытался найти подходящий самолёт для его установки. В 1939 году Уиттл познакомился с Джорджем Картером, главным конструктором фирмы Глостер Эйркрафт, и их последующие встречи показали, что появление реактивных боевых самолётов не за горами. К этому времени Министерство авиации резко изменило свои взгляды и проявило крайнюю заинтересованность в работах Уиттла.. В результате Глостер получила заказ на разработку новой машины, которая являлась летающим стендом для отработки реактивного двигателя и, кроме того, при незначительных доработках могла превратиться в полноценный боевой самолёт для RAF.

Продолжение выпуска № 98. Боевое применение.Самолет TBM/TBF Эвенджер широко использовался в ходе Второй мировой войны не только вооруженными силами США, но также Великобритании и Новой Зеландии. В США самолет использовался как флотом (US Navy), так и Корпусом Морской пехоты (US Marine Corp.).

What are the roots of today’s militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers—the Wahhabi—who sought the restoration of Islamic purity and declared violent jihad on all who opposed them. The Wahhabi teaching spread rapidly—first throughout the Arabian Peninsula, then to the Indian subcontinent, where a more militant expression of Wahhabism flourished. The ranks of today’s Taliban and al-Qaeda are filled with young men trained in Wahhabi theology.God’s Terrorists sheds much-needed light on the origins of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous ideology lives on today.