In August 1941, the USSR and Great Britain launched their first joint military operation. Its goal was to liberate Iran from German influence and gain contro...

In the history of medieval France, King Philip II Augustus (1180-1223) is one of the most striking figures - the reformer king, with whom the growth of the p...

“August the Fourteenth” was conceived by the author in 1937 - not yet as the First Knot, but as an introduction to a great novel about the Russian revolution...

About the AuthorJOCHEN BLEICKEN who died in 2005, specialized in Roman history and held professorships at Hamburg, Frankfurt and Göttingen. A passionate t...

Charged by lyrical prose and vivid evocations of a more-than-human world, Meteors in August proves itself a magnificent debut, a tale of despair and salva...

The novel "August 31" brought the French writer Laurence Causset world fame. The mysterious white Fiat that apparently caused the car crash on August 31, 199...

The most significant American play staged on Broadway in recent years. Pulitzer Prize 2008. In Russian - on samizdat, translated by Roman Markholia.

Rubem Fonseca’s Crimes of August offers the first serious literary treatment of the cataclysmic events of August 1954, arguably the most turbulent month i...

Volume XCI, №21.New York: Condé Nast. — ISSN 0028-792X.

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This story tells about Astrid Lindgren's parents, about their difficult but beautiful life, full of love and tenderness for each other and their children. “T...

Volume XCI, №23.New York: Condé Nast. — ISSN 0028-792X.

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction...