Discusses the struggle for power that lead to the rise of Mikhail Gorbachov and examines Gorbachov's policies

The Sixth Continent: Russia and the Making of Mikhail Gorbachov

Biographies & Memoirs

FRANKLAND, Mark

Leaders & Notable People

Harper&Row

The sixth continent: Russia and the making of Mikhail Gorbachov

Discusses the struggle for power that lead to the rise of Mikhail Gorbachov and examines Gorbachov's policies

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Harpercollins

Radio Man tells the story of C.O. Stanley, the unconventional Irishman who acquired Pye Radio at the beginning of the broadcasting age. Although he started with little experience and even less money, he was to make Pye a major player in the British electronics industry - only to crash it spectacularly forty years later. From the romance of early radio to the birth of the mobile, Stanley and Pye were players in some of the key moments of twentieth century Britain. His obsession with the infant medium of television allowed Pye to provide the equipment that put radar into planes in time for the Battle of Britain. His energy also drove Pye's pioneering work on the proximity fuse - work that would revolutionise antiaircraft warfare - and the company's manufacture of the war's most successful army radios. In the 1950s Stanley led the offensive against the BBC's monopoly of television in a battle that split the British establishment. When his son, John, took Pye into mobile radio Stanley fought and defeated the bureaucrats who then controlled Britain's airwaves. Stanley's loss of Pye in 1966 illustrated British industry's inability to withstand foreign competition. It also brought tragedy. Stanley himself escaped with honour more or less intact, but left his son to face public humiliation on his own. This revealing and meticulously researched text is written within the broad context of the political, technological and business changes of the time, and shows how a very ambitious businessman was brought down by the qualities that made him so successful.

Radio Man: The remarkable rise and fall of C.O. Stanley (History and Management of Technology)

Arts & Literature

The Institution of Engineering and Technology

How Eastern Europe toppled communism and won its freedom, reported and analyzed by the London Observer's chief correspondent. A superlative exposition, thorough and honest. —Kirkus Reviews. Exemplary...both as journalism and contemporary history. —Times Literary Supplement.

The Patriots' Revolution: How Eastern Europe Toppled Communism and Won its Freedom

History

Europe

Ivan R. Dee

Terrible Beauty

Glenmill

Red Zone

Glenmill Publishing

Threads

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Beginning in apparently controlled fashion in Hungary in 1989, the retreat of communism picked up speed that summer when Poles won an overwhelming victory over their pro-Soviet rulers in free elections. East Germany and Czechoslovakia achieved freedom in the fall, with less violence than anyone believed possible. Only Romania, at the end of the year, witnessed a savage battle and the hurried execution of the worst of the eastern European dictators, Nicolae Ceausescu. In The Patriots' Revolution Mark Frankland, who reported on these dramatic events for the London Observer, describes how the once powerful communist system crumbled with little or no resistance in the face of demonstrators armed only with candles and slogans of protest. Drawing on more than thirty years' experience in Eastern Europe, Mr. Frankland re-creates what communism meant for Eastern Europeans and thus reveals the reasons for its breathtakingly rapid disappearance. Evoking the mood and preoccupations of these countries in the year of revolution, his colorful book allows the reader to relive one of the most extraordinary episodes in the history of the 20th century and provides the background for a better understanding of the new Eastern Europe.

The Patriots' Revolution: How Eastern Europe Toppled Communism and Won Its Freedom

Americas

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