From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters; Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October; Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil – felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There; the foreign visitors who filled hotels; clubs; offices and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows.Among this disparate group were journalists; diplomats; businessmen; bankers; governesses; volunteer nurses and expatriate socialites. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador; far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst; who had come to Petrograd to inspect the indomitable Women’s Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva.Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material; much of it previously unpublished; to carry us right up to the action – to see; feel and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt themselves trapped in a "red madhouse."
SLOANE WILLIAM MILL Sloane William Milligan 2010-07-27Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.69 x 1.01 x 7.44l; 1.96 #File Name: 1176157353502 pagesLife of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 2
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