Towers of Stone (eBook)

Wojciech Jagielski (Autor)

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2011
336 Seiten
Seven Stories Press (Verlag)
978-1-60980-039-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Towers of Stone, award-winning Polish reporter Wojciech Jagielski brings into focus the tragedy of Chechnya, its inhabitants, and the war being waged there by a handful of desperate warriors against a powerful and much more numerous army. Jagielski's narrative is told through the lens of two men: Shamil Basaev, a hero to some, a dangerous warlord to others; and Aslan Maskhadov, a calculating and sober politician, who is viewed as a providential savior by some of his compatriots and a cowardly opportunist by the rest. Caught up in a war to which they owe everything and without which they could not live, the two fighters face enemy forcesand one anotherin protean conflicts that prove hard to quell. Viewing the two mens personal story as a microcosm of the conflict threatening to devour a land and its peoples, Jagielski distills the bitter history of the region with forceful clarity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2011
• Übersetzer: Soren A. Gauger
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-60980-039-7 / 1609800397
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-039-0 / 9781609800390