Актуальний «Луганський щоденник»!

Десять років тому герої «Anarchy in the Ukr» здійснили ідейну подорож Східною Україною, місцями бойової слави Нестора Махна. Мандруючи Донбасом, вони шукали відповіді на питання – що ж таке воля-свобода-анархія? Чи є межа між ними та де вона пролягає? Сьогодні автор знову відвідав територію, що колись була територією анархізму. Але цього разу – в дуже наелектризованій атмосфері, коли саме повітря просякнуте війною… Вже не давнішньою, часів Нестора Івановича, а більш ніж сучасною…

Berniuko tėvas ant kairės rankos buvo išsitatuiravęs žodį MEILĖ, bet tai jam netrukdė nuolat mušti žmonos ir vaikų. Augdamas namuose, kuriuose smurtas buvo kasdienybė, Markas dar vaikystėje įgijo blogų įpročių. Mokykloje nuolat patekdavo į bėdą, pradėjo vogti šešerių, alkoholį gerti aštuonerių, o heroiną išbandė būdamas vienuolikos. Jautriam ir protingam berniukui nepavyko pasirinkti tinkamo kelio ir, nors viliojo meno koledžas, jis atsidūrė Portlendo kalėjime. Knygoje „Apkvaitę“ atskleidžiamas Marko smukimas į narkomanijos ir nusikalstamo pasaulio dugną. Jis vartojo narkotikus, gyveno Londono gatvėse, už jo galvą nusikaltėliai buvo paskyrę premiją… Niekas netikėjo, o pats Markas mažiausiai, kad jis ne tik išgyvens, bet ir sugrįš į normalų gyvenimą. Tačiau jam pavyko. Jis įkūrė medžių priežiūros firmą, kurioje dirba sveikstantys narkomanai ir buvę kaliniai. Už savo veiklą Markas Džonsonas yra pelnęs apdovanojimų. Tai jaudinantis bei įtikinantis pasakojimas apie žmogaus kovą, kad išsigelbėtų ir padėtų kitiems tokioje pat kovoje.

Ričards PļavnieksApsūdzības pret Viktoru Arāju un Latvijas drošības palīgpoliciju  [holokausts un tā konteksts]Nacistu kolaboracionistu tiesas prāvas aukstā kara laikāTas ir detektīvam līdzīgs stāsts par slepkavām un taisnīgumu. Latviešu izcelsmes ASV vēsturnieks Ričards Pļavnieks sniedz ieskatu latviešu kolabora-cionistu darbībā nacistu okupācijas gados - autors analizē viņu sadarbību ar nacistiem un piedalīšanos holokaustā. Arī to, kā dažādu valstu un politisko iekārtu tiesu sistēma centās vērsties pret latviešu izcelsmes kara noziedzniekiem - piemēram, Viktoru Arāju un mazāk zināmo Staņislavu Šteinu.Kāds ir Viktora Arāja un citu latviešu kolaboracionistu biogrāfiskais un psiholoģiskais tipāžs? Vai to vietā varēja būt kāds cits latvietis? Kas mudināja iestāties Arāja komandā? Kādas bija kara noziedznieku apsūdzības un aizstāvības stratēģijas pēckara gados?Meklējot atbildes, autors izmanto gan Rietumu, gan padomju kriminālizmek-lēšanas materiālus no Dzelzs priekškara abām pusēm.Grāmatā izmantotas fotogrāfijas un materiāli no Hamburgas Valsts arhīva un Latvijas Kara muzeja, kā arī no autora privātās kolekcijas.Grāmatas izdošanu atbalstījis Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds.No angļu valodas tulkojusi Lilija BerzinskaLatvijas Mediji-First published in English under the titleNazi Collaborators on Trial during the Cold War;Viktors Arajs and the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police by Richards Plavnieks, edition: 1Copyright © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), 2018 This edition has been translated and published under licence from Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Springer Nature Switzerland AG takes no responsibility and shall not be made liable for the accuracy of the translation.No angļu valodas tulkojusi Lilija BerzinskaMāksliniece Aija AndžāneZinātniskie konsultanti Rudīte Vīksne un Uldis Neiburgs Atbildīgā redaktore Jūlija Dibovska Literārā redaktore Zigrīda Krauze Korektori Renāte Kārkliņa un Edžus Zakss Maketētājs Oskars Stalidzāns© AS “Latvijas Mediji”, izdevums latviešu valodā, 2020 ©Lilija Berzinska, tulkojums, 2019 ©Didzis Bērziņš, priekšvārds, 2020 ©Aija Andžāne, vāka grafiskais noformējums, 2020

Belaščenko Toms Kirila dēlsASV: 200 gadu — 200 karu."Jūs esat nācija, kas kūda citas tautas.Jums ir nepārredzama vēlēšanās kaitēt cik vien iespējams katram, kas ļaujas, ka viņu izlieto jūsu labā.Nāks stunda, kad uz Zemes novietos divas tāfeles. Uz vienas būs rakstīts: „Cilvēki“, uz otras: "Angļi“."(Viktors Igo.)«Mēs esam radījuši sabiedrību,» rakstīja pazīstamais amerikāņu politiskais darbinieks V. Fulbraits, «kuras galvenā nodarbošanās ir vardarbība. Visnopietnākos draudus mūsu valstij rada nevis ārējs spēks, bet gan mūsu iekšējais militārisms. Veidojas nomācošs iespaids, ka mēs Amerikā esam pieraduši pie kariem. Nu jau daudzus gadus mēs vai nu karojam, vai esam gatavi nekavējoties sākt karu jebkurā pasaules reģionā. Karš un karavīri ir k|uvuši par mūsu dzīves neatņemamu sastāvdaju, bet vardarbība — par vissvarīgāko produktu mūsu valstī.»Autors, izmantojot ārzemju dokumentālos un preses materiālus atklāj ASV imperiālisma asiņaino dabu, parāda, ka visa tās vēsture visciešākām saitēm ir saistīta ar kariem, ar demokrātijas un nacionālās atbrīvošanās kustības apspiešanu, ar brīvību mīlošo tautu paverdzināšanu.Grāmata paredzēta masu lasītājam.Imperiālisms - Notikumi Fakti DokumentiAvots 1984. — 187 lpp. — (Imperiālisms: notikumi, fakti, dokumenti).RĪGA «AVOTS» 1984T. К- Белащенко США: 200 ЛЕТ - 200 ВОЙН Воениздат Москва 1982No krievu valodas tulkojušiDz. Bagāta, R. Inķis, F. StepanovsSēriju noformējis A. GrīnbergsG. Granta fotomontāža© Воениздат, 1982 © Tulkojums latviešu valodā «Avots», 1984

Камин, редактору глянцевого журнала из Лондона, в буквальном смысле достался счастливый билет. Билет во Флоренцию. И ей потребовалось совсем немного времени, чтобы понять, насколько итальянская жизнь отличается от английской. Итальянцы любят себя, наслаждаются вкусной едой и никуда не спешат.

Каждый месяц Камин отмечала для себя одно слово, место и рецепт, которые в Италии стали для нее особенными.

Это манифест красивой и яркой жизни, которую итальянцы ведут поколениями, гид по спокойствию для вечно суетящихся людей, история о том, как найти любовь (к мужчине и к себе) в самом неожиданном месте и научиться немного быть итальянкой.

A non fiction bookElif Shafak is the most popular woman writer in Turkey today. In her lyrical and deeply-personal book, Black Milk, she writes of the struggle between art and motherhood.Shafak tells of an imaginary “harem of small finger women” or tiny “Thumbelinas” who live within her and vie for dominance. All of her “finger women” are manifestations of different aspects of Shafak’s own personality struggling for control, as she wrestles with her decision to become a mother.The book was written after the birth of Shafak’s first child and long bout of post-partum depression. In the book, Shafak examines her own feelings and career against those of Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ayn Rand, Simone de Beauvoir, and other female writers of note. Black Milk is original, humorous, and insightful – a must-read for all women who have ever felt the pull of more than one path.

A non fiction bookElif Shafak is the most popular woman writer in Turkey today. In her lyrical and deeply-personal book, Black Milk, she writes of the struggle between art and motherhood.Shafak tells of an imaginary “harem of small finger women” or tiny “Thumbelinas” who live within her and vie for dominance. All of her “finger women” are manifestations of different aspects of Shafak’s own personality struggling for control, as she wrestles with her decision to become a mother.The book was written after the birth of Shafak’s first child and long bout of post-partum depression. In the book, Shafak examines her own feelings and career against those of Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Ayn Rand, Simone de Beauvoir, and other female writers of note. Black Milk is original, humorous, and insightful – a must-read for all women who have ever felt the pull of more than one path.

Mark Easton’s Britain Etc. looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects — one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain. With each lettered chapter, the reader is invited to look at the United Kingdom in a new way: standing back to see our small islands in a global or historical context, and then diving down to scrutinise vital details that may be overlooked. Taken together, the essays reveal a Britain that cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar and a carrot all take on new significance once you have read Britain Etc. As the UK welcomes millions of visitors to its shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the psyche of Britain; a nation's obsessions, prejudices, values and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, what are the natives like, and how did we get to where we are?

From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart-her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for a better life in America. Listening to his sermons, sharing coconut-flavored ices on their walks through town, roaming through the house that held together many members of a colorful extended family, Edwidge grew profoundly attached to Joseph. He was the man who “knew all the verses for love.”And so she experiences a jumble of emotions when, at twelve, she joins her parents in New York City. She is at last reunited with her two youngest brothers, and with her mother and father, whom she has struggled to remember. But she must also leave behind Joseph and the only home she's ever known.Edwidge tells of making a new life in a new country while fearing for the safety of those still in Haiti as the political situation deteriorates. But Brother I'm Dying soon becomes a terrifying tale of good people caught up in events beyond their control. Late in 2004, his life threatened by an angry mob, forced to flee his church, the frail, eighty-one-year-old Joseph makes his way to Miami, where he thinks he will be safe. Instead, he is detained by U.S. Customs, held by the Department of Homeland Security, brutally imprisoned, and dead within days. It was a story that made headlines around the world. His brother, Mira, will soon join him in death, but not before he holds hope in his arms: Edwidge's firstborn, who will bear his name-and the family's stories, both joyous and tragic-into the next generation.Told with tremendous feeling, this is a true-life epic on an intimate scale: a deeply affecting story of home and family-of two men's lives and deaths, and of a daughter's great love for them both.

Новая книга известного историка и культуролога Наталии Лебиной посвящена формированию советской повседневности. Автор, используя дихотомию «норма/аномалия», демонстрирует на материалах 1920—1950-х годов трансформацию политики большевиков в сфере питания и жилья, моды и досуга, религиозности и сексуальности, а также смену отношения к традиционным девиациям – пьянству, самоубийствам, проституции. Основной предмет интереса исследователя – эпоха сталинского большого стиля, когда обыденная жизнь не только утрачивает черты «чрезвычайности» военного коммунизма и первых пятилеток, но и лишается достижений демократических преобразований 1920-х годов, превращаясь в повседневность тоталитарного типа с жесткой системой предписаний и запретов.

Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth, and a host of other films and creative endeavors. Now, for the first time, del Toro reveals the inspirations behind his signature artistic motifs, sharing the contents of his personal notebooks, collections, and other obsessions. The result is a startling, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of one of the world’s most creative visionaries. Complete with running commentary, interview text, and annotations that contextualize the ample visual material, this deluxe compendium is every bit as inspired as del Toro is himself.Contains a foreword by James Cameron, an afterword by Tom Cruise, and contributions from other luminaries, including Neil Gaiman and John Landis, among others.

«Campo santo», посмертный сборник В.Г. Зебальда, объединяет все, что не вошло в другие книги писателя, – фрагменты прозы о Корсике, газетные заметки, тексты выступлений, ранние редакции знаменитых эссе. Их общие темы – устройство памяти и забвения, наши личные отношения с прошлым поверх «больших» исторических нарративов и способы сопротивления небытию, которые предоставляет человеку культура.

Cassidy’s Run is the riveting story of one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War—an espionage operation mounted by Washington against the Soviet Union that ran for twenty-three years. At the highest levels of the government, its code name was Operation shocker.Lured by a double agent working for the United States, ten Russian spies, including a professor at the University of Minnesota, his wife, and a classic “sleeper” spy in New York City, were sent by Moscow to penetrate America’s secrets. Two FBI agents were killed, and secret formulas were passed to the Russians in a dangerous ploy that could have spurred Moscow to create the world’s most powerful nerve gas.Cassidy’s Run tells this extraordinary true story for the first time, following a trail that leads from Washington to Moscow, with detours to Florida, Minnesota, and Mexico. Based on documents secret until now and scores of interviews in the United States and Russia, the book reveals that: • more than 4,500 pages of classified documents, including U.S. nerve gas formulas, were passed to the Soviet Union in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars• an “Armageddon code,” a telephone call to a number in New York City, was to alert the sleeper spy to an impending nuclear attack—a warning he would transmit to the Soviets by radio signal from atop a rock in Central Park• two FBI agents were killed when their plane crashed during surveillance of one of the Soviet spies as he headed for the Canadian border• secret “drops” for microdots were set up by Moscow from New York to Florida to WashingtonMore than a cloak-and-dagger tale, Cassidy’s Run is the spellbinding story of one ordinary man, Sergeant Joe Cassidy, not trained as a spy, who suddenly found himself the FBI’s secret weapon in a dangerous clandestine war.ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CASSIDY’S RUN“Cassidy’s Run shows, once again, that few writers know the ins and outs of the spy game like David Wise… his research is meticulous in this true story of espionage that reads like a thriller.”—Dan Rather“The Master has done it again. David Wise, the best observer and chronicler of spies there is, has told another gripping story. This one comes from the cold war combat over nerve gas and is spookier than ever because it’s all true.”—Jim Lehrer

В книге Гвидо Кноппа, известного немецкого писателя и историка, повествуется об истории и деятельности СС — отрядов охраны фюрера, ставших государством в государстве. Автор приводит более 1000 свидетельств тех, кто пострадал от рук эсэсовцев или был причастен к деятельности Черного ордена, а также рассказов «охотников» за скрывающимися от правосудия членами СС. На основе собственных исследований, личных дневников представителей правящей верхушки фашистской Германии и откровений жертв нацистского террора воссоздается всесторонняя картина общественной и политической жизни Европы времен германского Третьего рейха.

В книге Гвидо Кноппа, известного немецкого писателя и историка, повествуется об истории и деятельности СС — отрядов охраны фюрера, ставших государством в государстве. Автор приводит более 1000 свидетельств тех, кто пострадал от рук эсэсовцев или был причастен к деятельности Черного ордена, а также рассказов «охотников» за скрывающимися от правосудия членами СС. На основе собственных исследований, личных дневников представителей правящей верхушки фашистской Германии и откровений жертв нацистского террора воссоздается всесторонняя картина общественной и политической жизни Европы времен германского Третьего рейха.

Bahrevskis Vladislavs AnatoļjevičsCeļojums pretim sauleiStāsti par vēsturiVēsturisks stāstsŠī grāmata vēstī par pirmo ceļotāju krievu kazaku Semjonu Dežņevu, kurš, izkļuvis no Ledus okeāna Klusajā okeānā, pirmais pierādīja, ka Āzija un Amerika ir divi patstāvīgi kontinenti. Viņa vārds liekams līdzās Kolumba un Magelāna vārdiem.Ar pirmajām lappusēm nokļūstam XVII gadsimtā, laikmetā, kad dzīve ritēja gausi un noslēgti. Vladislavs Bahrevskis to parāda ar valodas līdzekļiem. Taču pē­cāk stāstījums kļūst raitāks, darbība sāk risināties strau­jāk.Sis stāsts ir kā senatnīgs šķirstiņš, kurā atrodam nostāstus par Krievijas tautu pagātni, spilgtas sadzīves ainas, Ziemeļu tautu un cilšu teiksmas un leģendas; ar šim tautām un ciltīm bija ticies Semjons Dežņevs — drosmīgais un vīrišķīgais kazaks.Tulkojis Oskars Kalnciems Vāku zīmējis A. Stankevičs Vinjetes Zīmējis N. VorobjovsNoskanējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

During the late 1970s and early 80s tension in Europe, between east and west, had grown until it appeared that war was virtually unavoidable. Soviet armies massed behind the 'Iron Curtain' that stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea.In the west, Allied forces, British, American, and armies from virtually all the western countries, raised the levels of their training and readiness. A senior British army officer, General Sir John Hackett, had written a book of the likely strategies of the Allied forces if a war actually took place and, shortly after its publication, he suggested to his publisher Futura that it might be interesting to produce a novel based on the Third World War but from the point of view of the soldier on the ground.Bob Forrest-Webb, an author and ex-serviceman who had written several best-selling novels, was commissioned to write the book. As modern warfare tends to be extremely mobile, and as a worldwide event would surely include the threat of atomic weapons, it was decided that the book would mainly feature the armoured divisions already stationed in Germany facing the growing number of Soviet tanks and armoured artillery.With the assistance of the Ministry of Defence, Forrest-Webb undertook extensive research that included visits to various armoured regiments in the UK and Germany, and a large number of interviews with veteran members of the Armoured Corps, men who had experienced actual battle conditions in their vehicles from mined D-Day beaches under heavy fire, to warfare in more recent conflicts.It helped that Forrest-Webb's father-in-law, Bill Waterson, was an ex-Armoured Corps man with thirty years of service; including six years of war combat experience. He's still remembered at Bovington, Dorset, still an Armoured Corps base, and also home to the best tank museum in the world.Forrest-Webb believes in realism; realism in speech, and in action. The characters in his book behave as the men in actual tanks and in actual combat behave. You can smell the oil fumes and the sweat and gun-smoke in his writing. Armour is the spearhead of the army; it has to be hard, and sharp. The book is reputed to be the best novel ever written about tank warfare and is being re-published because that's what the guys in the tanks today have requested. When first published, the colonel of one of the armoured regiments stationed in Germany gave a copy to Princess Anne when she visited their base. When read by General Sir John Hackett, he stated: "A dramatic and authentic account", and that's what 'Chieftains' is.

This hugely important and ground-breaking book – an unprecedented oral history – gives voice to a silent generation and tells the secret history of 20th century China.In 1912, five thousand years of feudal rule ended in China. Warlords, Western businessmen, soldiers, missionaries and Japanese all ruled China, exploited and fought one another and the Chinese. In 1949, Mao Zedong came to power.China Witness is both a journey through time and through the author's own country, and a memorial to an extraordinary generation of men and women who have survived war, invasion, revolution, famine and modernization – to tell the story of their times. It is an extraordinary personal testimony from a normally silent generation who, in their lifetimes have seen China transformed from a largely peasant, agricultural country of more than 1.3 billion people into a modern state. These are ordinary people – a herb woman at a market, retired teachers, a legendary 'bandit' woman, Red Guards, oil pioneers, an acrobat, a naval general, a shoe mender, a lantern maker, taxi drivers, and others – from west to east, across the vast country, now in their seventies, eighties and nineties, and whose memories will soon die with them.Here, for the first time many of them speak out about their lives and private thoughts about what they witnessed. Together their intimate stories are perhaps the only accurate record of modern Chinese history.

C'est le besoin d'argent qui, très tôt, pousse le jeune Maupassant, alors employé de ministère, à donner des articles de critique littéraire. Mais il rechigne un peu à se lier à un journal comme à se livrer à une écriture trop hâtive : « Jamais mon nom au bas d'une chronique écrite en moins de deux heures. » Et cependant, après la publication de « Boule de suif » au printemps de 1880 - il a trente ans tout juste -, sa réputation de conteur change la donne : c'est une rémunération d'écrivain reconnu qu'on lui offre et, l'année suivante, une soixantaine de chroniques paraissent dans Le Gaulois. D'autres journaux accueilleront aussi sa signature jusqu'à ce que, en 1887, il décide de pleinement se consacrer à ses derniers livres. Mais il aura écrit près de deux cent cinquante chroniques, dont le présent volume offre une anthologie ordonnée selon quatre grands thèmes : société et politique, mœurs du jour, flâneries et voyages, lettres et arts. Ainsi se dessine un témoignage capital sur son époque, mais ainsi se construit aussi une part de son œuvre qu'on ne saurait négliger : dans les journaux, les chroniques alternent avec les contes ou les nouvelles, et des parentés de structure ou de thèmes ne manquent pas d'apparaître au point que l'on hésite à faire de tel texte une nouvelle plutôt qu'une chronique. Assurément, l'unité est ici celle d'un monde et d'une époque : mais c'est aussi bien celle que leur imposent le regard et la plume d'un homme qui a pu se dire « acteur et spectateur de lui-même et des autres ».

Svetlana AleksijevičaCinka zēniSvetlanas Aleksijevičas grāmata “Cinka zēni" stāsta par 10 gadus ilgajām Padomju armijas cīņām Afganistānā. Autore jau ilgus ga­dus raksta savā, pašas izveidotajā žanrā, kuru viņa sauc par balsu romānu. Grāmatā apkopotos stāstus pavēstījuši vairāk nekā 100 cil­vēki: oficieri un karavīri, kas karoja šajā neizprotamajā karā, kritušo atraitnes un mātes.No krievu valodas tulkojusi Lāse VilkaNoskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lvСветлана Алексиевич Цинковые Мальчики© 2007 by Svetlana Alexievich Translation copyright © 2014Natajjas Kugajevskas vāka mākslinieciskais noformējumsAtbildīgā redaktore Kristīne Kirkila Literārā redaktore Marita Freija Tehniskā redaktore Irēna Soide Korektore Ruta Šterna Maketētājs Ingus Feldmanis© Lāse Vilka, tulkojums latviešu valodā © Nataļja Kugajevska, vāka mākslinieciskais noformējumsISBN 978-9934-11-470-0Jumava 2014