To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a balanced and penetrating pe…
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knows the harsh street life. He overcame a barely unusual start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history—Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm—but history hitherto known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happ…
Bangsa Indonesia beruntung memiliki seorang pelopor ilmu pengetahuan nuklir yang saleh dan berkepribadian teguh seperti Prof. Dr. Achmad Baiquni. Kesalehan dan ketakwaan beliau kepada Allah membuat beliau tidak sembarangan mengembangkan teknologi nuklir di tanah air kita. Karena itu meskipun sesungguhnya mampu, Indonesia tidak pernah terdengar memiliki niat membuat tenaga nuklir sebagai alat pe…
R. Soekardi merupakan seorang tokoh masyarakat yang dikenal secara luas. Sebagai perwira militer ia telah berhasil mengemban tugas utama sejak awal karir militer, yakni sebagai seorang perwira bagian teknik. Catatan perjalanannya menunjukkan bahwa ia pun telah berhasil duduk sebagai anggota DPR-GR sejak pertengahan tahun 1968.
Buku ini menyampaikan kepada khalayak fakta tindakan, karya, pemikiran dan pengalaman Pak Harto yang direkam pers, dan masyarakat dapat membuat penilaian terhadap fakta tersebut.
Herawati Diah's journey began in 1917, when she was born into an upper-class priyayi family. While most intellectuals of the time were drawn to the Netherlands and Western Europe for their studies, Herawati was the first Indonesian woman to obtain a degree from an American university. This later aroused the ire and the suspicion of the Dutch East Indies colonial authorities and she was imprison…
This work is an English translation of a book which was published in July 1978 by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun under the title Watashi no Rirekisho (My Personal History). It consists of two parts. The first is a brief sketch tracing in chronological order the events of rather ordinary life. The second contains some of random thoughts, jotted down as the occasion arose. "Moments from my life", is by…
Sebuah narasi hidup tentang pribadi Ahmadinejad & revolusi nuklir-nya untuk perdamaian dunia. Keberatan AS atas pengembangan nuklir Iran hanya untuk kepentingan Negeri Adidaya itu sendiri. Bush tidak ingin ada negara lain menguasai teknologi nuklir, selain AS. Padahal, Ahmadinejad kembali menegaskan bahwa semua negara di dunia berhak memanfaatkan teknologi tinggi, termasuk teknologi nuklir. …
A biography of Vietnamese military leader Vo Nguyen Giap, one of the great military commanders of the 20th century victorious in battles against, successively, the Japanese, the French & the Americans, Giap became North Vietnam's Minister for Defense & Commander in Chief. He worked with Ho Chi Minh to create the armies & the support for the under-equipped Vietnamese forces that would eventually…
For the past 50 years, the truth has been repressed about one of the most enduring mysteries of our time: how exactly Adolf Hitler died on April 30, 1945, and what happened to his remains. Now, the authors have tapped into the Russians' hitherto unseen Hitler Archive to reveal what when on in Berlin in May 1945 after the Russians captured the bunker in which Hitler and his entourage spend their…