Kirjahaku

A 2013 CASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year and a Booklist Top Ten Sports Book of the Year When baseball swept America in the years after the Civil War, independent, semipro, and municipal leagues sprouted up everywhere. With civic pride on the line, rivalries were fierce and teams often signed ringers to play alongside the town dentist, insurance salesman, and teen prodigy. In drought-stricken Bismarck, North Dakota during the Great Depression, one of the most improbable teams in the history of baseball was assembled by one of the sport's most unlikely champions. A decade before Jackie Robinson broke into the Major Leagues, car dealer Neil Churchill signed the best players he could find, regardless of race, and fielded an integrated squad that took on all comers in spectacular fashion. Color Blind immerses the reader in the wild and wonderful world of early independent baseball, with its tough competition and its novelty. Dunkel traces the rise of the Bismarck squad, focusing on the 1935 season and the first National Semipro Tournament. This is an entertaining, must-read for anyone interested in the history of baseball. "A tale as fantastic as it is true." --Boston Globe

Detektivnaja istorija antigitlerovskogo zagovora v Germanii - ot vozniknovenija Tretego rejkha do kontsa Vtoroj mirovoj vojny. V 1938 godu okruzheniju Gitlera stalo ponjatno: Evropa na poroge bolshoj vojny. Voennye chiny vermakhta i chleny abvera sobirajut vokrug sebja vsekh nedovolnykh rezhimom juristov, diplomatov i intelligentov. Razroznennaja set uchastnikov soprotivlenija, prozvannogo gestapo "Chernoj kapelloj", delaet vse, chtoby ne dopustit krovoprolitija i podorvat Tretij rejkh iznutri: soobschaet sojuznikam o peredvizhenijakh vojsk, snabzhaet dezinformatsiej natsistskoe rukovodstvo, planiruet zagovor s tselju ubijstva Adolfa Gitlera. Sredi zametnykh uchastnikov antigitlerovskoj jachejki - polkovnik Khans Oster, bogoslov Ditrikh Bonkhjoffer i ego zjat Gans fon Donani, shtatnyj sotrudnik abvera, voennoj razvedki Germanii. Po mere zatjagivanija vojny zagovor shiritsja: "Chernuju kapellu", iskavshuju sposob ubrat Gitlera i voplotit plan po zakhvatu vlasti, podderzhivajut glavnokomandujuschij i nachalnik genshtaba. Kulminatsiej stanovitsja operatsija "Valkirija" - neudachnoe pokushenie na Gitlera 20 ijulja 1944 goda. Vzryv bomby, kotoruju v portfele pronesli na soveschanie, edva ranit Gitlera - chto oznachaet neminuemuju smert dlja vsekh zagovorschikov. Uvlekatelnaja i ostrosjuzhetnaja, kniga "Chernaja kapella" - eto istorija o ljudjakh, gotovykh risknut svoej zhiznju, chtoby svernut s togo bezumnogo puti, na kotoryj vstupila ikh strana.

They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitors the "Black Orchestra." This is their tension-filled story. As the "Final Solution" unfolds, a loose network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and civilians are doing everything in their power to undermine the Third Reich from the inside: reporting troop movements to the Allies, feeding disinformation to the Nazi high command, plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and more. The Gestapo nicknames this shadowy confederation of traitors the "Black Orchestra." Its players include Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor-turned-government agent, and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi, a staff attorney at the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service. In this tension-filled narrative, Tom Dunkel traces the perilous movements of these "white knights" as they and their families face constant danger of being exposed and executed. Some act out of moral outrage and patriotism. Some want to atone for their own Nazi sins. When their treasonous activities are finally discovered, Hitler's SS and the Gestapo are hell-bent on taking bloody revenge as the end of the war rapidly approaches and lives hang in the balance. White Knights in the Black Orchestra is a tautly written, meticulously reported account of men and women heroically resisting Hitler's ruthless regime. It packs the punch of the best espionage thrillers, but the cat-and-mouse drama and plot twists are grounded firmly in fact. This is a stirring story of people willing to risk all by doing the right thing in a country gone mad, a story that may prompt readers to ask themselves "What would I have done?"