In this study of WWII, the author examines the decisive European campaigns from the point of view of German generals who exercised the greatest influence on their planning, direction & outcome. This portrait of a select group of highly skilled & disciplined officers--from Guderian, Manstein & Rommel to von Kluge, Model, von Rundstedt & von Bock--demonstrates that ultimately the generals' strengths became the very weaknesses that doomed the German effort.
A profile of the rugged, taciturn actor follows his struggle to raise himself from the abject poverty of his childhood, his long career in minor roles, and his final breakthrough to stardom
Follows the movie career of the enigmatic actor and reveals the reasons for Nicholson's success, in a career marked by a tendency to take risks
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Traces the development of the acting career of Robert Redford, analyzes his performances in motion pictures, and discusses his debut as a film director
Neil Young is arguably the only rock performer and songwriter whose work has retained the respect of a large following while gaining the allegiance of new generations. He has demonstrated a unique ability to combine commercial success with a willful experimentation. His music has encompassed almost every American popular style, from folk to metal, from rockabilly to punk, from rhythm and blues to country; and it is his restless pursuit of new challenges that has led on the one hand to his recognition as one of the few stars who refuses to "sell out," and on the other hand to his being sued by his record company for making albums that were not "characteristic of Neil Young." In A Dreamer of Pictures , David Downing paints an illuminating and entertaining portrait of this contradictory and enigmatic figure. Here we see his childhood in Canada and his first forays into musicmaking; his ups and downs with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and Crazy Horse; the privations and excesses of life on the road; his unconventional filmmaking and fundraising ventures; his often absurd political pronouncements; his two marriages; his involvement with his younger son's therapy to combat cerebral palsy; and his continuing musical evolution. Neil Young has taken rock beyond generational boundaries and has helped to establish it as a unique art form; A Dreamer of Pictures is thus a portrait not only of Young, but of rock itself.
In November 1945, a party from Moscow Dynamo FC travelled to Britain to play four matches against top British teams. They departed 33 days later, leaving a trail of controversy in their unbeaten wake. Nothing went smoothly on this tour, and throughout, the Russians were involved in disputes with the FA, the British clubs, the match referees, and the press. With the Cold War not yet begun, Russia was still Britain's ally and everyone claimed to want to keep politics out of sport. But the Soviet authorities were clearly anxious that Dynamo's performance should reflect well on the State; and there were many in the British press eager to make political capital out of the controversy surrounding the tour. The book contains a blow-by-blow account of the tour itself; a history of the Moscow Dynamo club, and a discussion of the state of British football at the end of the war, including those aspects of the gameâ style of play, training methods, the issue of professionalismâ which the Dynamo tour brought into question.
An England vs. Germany football match is one of the most passionate and controversial sporting events there iswhether it's a club match or international. In this book, David Downing examines the history of such clashes, unearthing the stories, the statistics, and the footballing trends.
A biography of the Nobel Prize winner and president of the Palestinian National Authority, which governs the areas of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.