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Conspiracies. Espionage. UFOs. Hidden History. Secret Societies. The Paranormal. "Beyond" brings you stories about the secret and suppressed, the stories "They" don't want you to know! Take the Red Pill and join your fearless host Virgil Hall as he takes you far, far down the Rabbit Hole...to "Beyond"! Read the stories of Edward Snowden, The Joker Complex, Charles Manson as well as Father Yod and the Source Brotherhood in this 94-page graphic novel. This comic book series has been featured in Time, People, Rolling Stone magazines as well as seen on FOX News, CNN and more

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Years ago I inherited several boxes of family documents and photographs that my grandfather Vassilij (William) Yakovyevich Ostrogorsky collected during the last century. These documents passed down through the hands of my aunt Vera Vassilyevna and father Vassilij Vassilyevich, my mother Jadvyga Ivanuaskas, and my sister Helen Vassilyenva. Once the boxes fell into my hands they sat mostly forgotten gathering dust in a store room.Over the years I always intended to pull the boxes out of storage to compile a family history. Or at the least investigate the contents. In the words of the great eighteenth century English writer Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Hell is paved with good intentions."The realization of one's own mortality has a way of focusing the mind. I am now in the last year of my sixth decade riding this blue ball called Earth sailing through the outer reaches of the Milky Way. My grandfather died in the second year of his seventh.I pulled out the boxes. The contents astonished me. Photographs dating to 1920. Letters. Orders. Official certificates. Nazi work permits. Reports. Post-World War II pleas for shelter and assistance to the International Refugee Organization and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Military passes. Job applications. Applications to countries around the world in search of a new home. Red Cross medical reports, and even x-rays of all things!But what astonished me even more than the contents of the boxes, was the realization my grandfather carried these documents with him halfway around the world by train, foot, and steamship to a new life in America in the 1950s. By my count, these documents survived two revolutions, a civil war, two world wars, the Great Depression, a couple of military coups, a military invasion or two, Nazi conscription, and the Allied aerial bombing campaigns of World War II.I am pleased to present to you the Ostrogorsky-Ivanuaskas family history as best I can distilled from the documents my grandfather saved from oblivion, as well as notes my mother compiled in her last years, and family lore. Surviving photos are presented with this history. I am photographing the documents to be published in their entirety in a subsequent volume. I am pleased to report the entire archive will be curated with the Pacific Northwest Collection of the Special Collections Department of the University of Washington's Suzzallo Library.

"De Roeck's life experiences have been intertwined with some of the most fascinating - and also the most horrifying - historical events of the twentieth century...She has seen it all, first hand. Dr. De Roeck's memoir makes for absorbing reading." - David N. Gibbs, Professor of History, University of Arizona "De Roeck is a refugee from that great world that Americans are taught not to understand... her life is full of lessons worth sharing... Americans who never budge to put an end to their leaders' endless verbal hostility against Russia and preparations for more and more war should take the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of a woman who has truly been there." - Diana Johnstone, author of Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher Galina De Roeck was born in Bihä, Yugoslavia in 1938 to Russian émigré parents and grew up in Belgrade, Germany, Morocco, and Australia. She received her BA at Sydney University and her PhD in Comparative Literature at City University of New York. She has taught at St. Peter's College, Rutgers University, Michigan State University, and the University of Arizona. In addition to her work in the field of literary criticism, Galina De Roeck has lectured on international affairs in the United States and participated in and led peace delegations to Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The Door in the Nightmare: From the Russian Revolution to Pax Americana is her tell-all of a life lived through war and peace.

They don't make them like Frederick Burnaby anymore. With Russia and Turkey preparing for war and the implications are global. Captain Burnaby of the elite "Blues" regiment heads into the Anatolian interior to assess the Russian threat, the Turkish resistance and the looming clash of the Muslim and Christian worlds. More than a century later, Burnaby's thousand-mile trek into the twilight of the Ottoman Empire still reads like tale told at end of an epic dinner party. Part witty travelogue, cultural insights, and charming intelligence report, On Horseback Through Asia Minor is a classic of the Great Game that is still as entertaining as the day it was written.

With the Balkans being a small tourist destination, not many know of the horrors that plagued the people living there. The traumas of the Bosnian War (1991-1995) can be seen surfacing through the war letters written by brother and sister, Denis and Amela, who were only fifteen and eleven years old at the time. Trees without Roots provides a historical account of their journey as refugees coming from a dual-religious background. As this trauma transcends through generations, these letters give a glimpse into the reality of war, war-torn families, and the struggle for survival.The hidden war letters have resurfaced over 20 years later to tell you their story. Brother and sister, Denis and Amela, were forced to abandon their youth after the Bosnian War struck their hometown, Tesli¿. Diving deep into the complexities of their life, this book will give you the opportunity to analyze the political, psychological, and philosophical impact of war on dual-religious refugees.

I Insläppt på VIP-läktaren - Betraktelser från den diplomatiska sidlinjen berätta Mats Åberg om sina 42 år som diplomat. Från antagningsintervjuerna på UD, då han fick oväntad hjälp av Mumintrollet, till det märkliga avsked han bestods av Rumäniens president Basescu när han lämnade sin ambassadörspost i Bukarest.Han beskriver politiska skeenden ur sitt eget perspektiv: Hur han i Kairo fick klart för sig att den egyptiska armén oväntat gått över Suezkanalen och därmed inlett Oktoberkriget. Hur hans lägenhet i Östberlin och hans gitarr råkade få en roll i upptakten till en av de första viktiga händelserna i utvecklingen mot DDR:s fall. Och hur Sveriges ambassad i Moskva kom att spela en avgörande roll i avslöjandet av Tjernobylhaveriet - och av det sovjetiska mörkandet av katastrofens omfattningSamtidigt har han med ett historiskt perspektiv strävat efter att öka och fördjupa förståelsen av gårdagens och dagens politik i Ryssland, Öst- och Centraleuropa, Västeuropa och USA liksom av svensk säkerhets-, miljöoch biståndspolitik. Om man oroas av den samhällsutveckling som idag riskerar att hota demokrati, mänskliga rättigheter och respekt för rättsstaten finns det mycket att lära av det som ledde fram till 1900-talets katastrofer.

"Inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining." -The New York Times<BR><BR>"Frank, funny . . . a brilliant and barbed memoir of the Iraq War." -Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air<BR><BR>Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Military Times and Writer's Bone<BR><BR>"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner)--a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. <BR><BR>Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq, where the testosterone, danger, and stakes for him and his fellow grunts were dialed up a dozen decibels. <BR><BR>With its kaleidoscopic array of literary forms, from interior dialogues to infographics to prose passages that read like poetry, Young's narrative powerfully mirrors the multifaceted nature of his experience. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front lines, and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war. <BR><BR>Searing in its honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a modern war classic in the making and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the insane geography of our times.

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MIKE PENCE: THE ULTIMATE POLITICAL SHAPE-SHIFTER“I’m a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican . . . in that order.” —Mike PenceAs the impeachment of President Donald Trump remains a constant topic of discussion in political circles, the questions around our current vice president also continue to swirl, and in some ways, the puzzlement over his true nature has never truly been clear. Tom LoBianco, a longtime Pence reporter, cuts to the core of the nation’s most enigmatic politician in this intimate yet expansive account of the vice president’s journey to the White House. In Piety & Power, LoBianco follows Pence from his evangelical conversion in college to his failed career as a young lawyer, to his thwarted attempts at politics until he hitched his wagon to far-right extremism, becoming the Congressional poster boy for faith-based policy and Tea Party rhetoric. Giving readers a minute-by-minute account of the selection process that made him Donald Trump’s unlikely running mate in 2016, Piety & Power traces Pence’s personal and political life, painting a picture of a man driven by faith and conviction, yes, but also a hunger for power. LoBianco crafts a revealing portrait of the real Mike Pence—a politician whose understated style masks a drive for power, but also a surprising political acumen—by drawing on years of research, over one hundred exclusive interviews with those closest to the vice president, and deep ties both within the Beltway and Indiana state politics. Highlighting Pence’s strained, at times obsequious, relationship with Trump; his marriage to Karen; his deeply repressed personality; his presidential aspirations and plans for America’s future; and his deep-rooted faith in his country, in God, and ultimately himself; Piety & Power provides insights and answers as it sheds light on this ambitious Midwestern politician, his past, and his possible future.

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Grace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. Daughter of one of the most influential diplomats of the twentieth century, wife of the scion of a newspaper dynasty and mother of the youngest owner of a major league baseball team, Grace eventually found her way out from under the shadows of others to forge a dynamic career of her own. Born in Latvia, Grace lived in seven countries and spoke five languages before the age of eleven. As a child, she witnessed Hitler's march into Prague, attended a Soviet school during World War II, and sailed the seas with her father. In a multi-faceted career, she worked as a professional photographer, television producer, and book editor and critic. Eventually, like her father, she became a Russian specialist, but of a very different kind. She accompanied Ted Kennedy and his family to Russia, escorted Joan Baez to Moscow to meet with dissident Andrei Sakharov, and hosted Josef Stalin's daughter on the family farm after Svetlana defected to the United States. While running her own consulting company in Russia, she witnessed the breakup of the Soviet Union, and later became director of a women's economic empowerment project in a newly independent Ukraine. Daughter of the Cold War is a tale of all these adventures and so much more. This compelling and evocative memoir allows readers to follow Grace's amazing path through life - a whirlwind journey of survival, risk, and self-discovery through a kaleidoscope of many countries, historic events, and fascinating people.

This is an English translation of "The Private Life of the Romanoffs", originally published in German and written by Bernhard Stern. Within this volume, Stern explores the idea of the Romanoffs as tyrants, focusing on the various influences upon the rulers by their 'mistresses and favourites'. A fascinating insight into the lives and loves of the Romanoffs, this volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in Russian history and the events that led to the revolution of 1917. Contents include: "Manners, Customs and Domestic Life Under the First Romanoffs", "Marriage and Amours of Peter the great", "Catherine the First and Her Lovers", "The Marriage of the Love Affair of the Tzarevitch Alexis", "The Children of Peter the Great and Catherine the First", "The Brides of Peter II", "Empress Anna and Biron", "the Empress Elizabeth and Her Lovers", "Marriage and Amours of Peter the Foolish", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

A Nurse's Story is the memoir of a woman who left her small town in Ohio to train as a nurse in New York City and then travel to the other side of the world. She found fulfillment in her work as a medical missionary in Korea, training native nurses at the mission hospital in another small town, Haeju. Her life of service there was interrupted by World War I, when she was called to be part of a Red Cross unit on the Eastern Front. At the end of the war, she returned to Korea to work in a hospital in Seoul, just in time to witness the first stirrings of the Korean Independence movement.