enigma books
Publishers of significant works of 20th Century History for all readers, students, & scholars
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A CRATE OF VODKA 978-1-929631-89-6 • Trade Cloth JUST PUBLISHED! A New Exciting Book From Enigma These are just some of the names that appear in this book: Yuri Andropov, Lavrenty Beria, Leonid Brezhnev, Iosif Brodsky, Konstantin Chernenko, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Vladimir Nabokov, Augusto Pinochet, Yevgeny Primakov, Vladimir Putin, Valentin Rasputin, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Andrei Sakharov, Eduard Shevardnadze, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Soros, Joseph Stalin, Leo Tolstoy, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Zhirinovsky …among many others
The English translation of the Russian bestseller, A Crate of Vodka will be launched at the Book Expo America trade show at the Javits Center in New York on May 29, 2009. The authors are both protagonists of the last 20 years of events and transformations that have rocked both the West and Russia since the Soviet Union was dissolved and recast into a dynamic new State that the world must acknowledge.
“Brezhnev died in 1982, and in 2001 terrorists bombed New York and Washington. In between, in 1991, a great empire collapsed. All those events fit into our slice of time, exactly twenty years, like vodka bottles in a crate. |
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A DEATH IN WASHINGTON 978-1-929631-14-8 • hardcover 2003
The greatest defector from Stalin's Russia died mysteriously in Washington DC in 1941. His role and importance are explored in detail by Gary Kern.
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A DEATH IN WASHINGTON 978-1-929631-25-4 • paper 2004
The greatest defector from Stalin's Russia died mysteriously in Washington DC in 1941. His role and importance are explored in detail by Gary Kern.
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AT NAPOLEON'S SIDE IN RUSSIA 978-1-929631-47-6 • Paperback 2009 The eyewitness account of the retreat of Napoleon's army after the disastrous invasion of Russia by the Emperor's closest confidant. Napoleon's return from the disaster of his armies in Russia by a close eyewitness. Caulaincourt spent many days in the stagecoach facing the emperor as he slept, drank and talked an experience he committed to paper as they went through Russia and Germany |
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BALKAN INFERNO 978-1-929631-63-6 • Paperback Publication Winter 2007
Yugoslavia broke up, or was broken up, and it’s difficult to see it ever coming together again, except perhaps as a common economic zone. Eventually, the countries will enter the European Union. But, until that happens, political discontent over borders and the shake out of ethnic power will be the norm, for nothing has been really resolved. In the Balkans, people are ‘nations’ and nationalism dies very hard. And, when ethnic-cum-religious conflict takes place, all sides believe they are right.
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BECOMING WINSTON CHURCHILL 978-1-929631-87-2 • Trade Paper
Announcing the first paperback edition of Becoming Winston Churchill, The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
Winston Churchill was only 20 when he met the man whom he credited, more than any other, with shaping him as a statesman and an orator, one whose voice and political courage would save his country and the world during their darkest hour. As Churchill once wrote: “I regard his as the biggest and most original mind I have ever met. When I was a young man, he instantly gained my confidence and I feel that I owe the best things in my life to him.”
That man was Bourke Cockran, a charismatic Irish-born Democratic Congressman from New York City, acclaimed by his peers as the greatest orator in the Gilded Age of politics. Following the death of Winston’s father, Lord Randolph, in 1895, Cockran, who was a widower, became the lover of Churchill’s mother, the beautiful American-born heiress Jennie Jerome, who persuaded Cockran to take her son under his wing. |
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CALCULATED RISK 13 978-1-929631-59-9 •
From North Africa in 1942 to Italy and the Nazi surrender in 1945, the epic story of the American commander who took Monte Cassino and Rome in 1944.From North Africa in 1942 to Italy and the Nazi surrender in 1945, the epic story of the American commander who took Monte Cassino and Rome in 1944. General Mark W. Clark, a top WWII commander with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, and George S. Patton, Jr., is widely regarded as key to victory in Europe. That view will stand for all time. Calculated Risk is among the best accounts of the military events which he largely shaped. His narrative reveals an insider’s knowledge, and is authoritative in dealing with conditions that are familiar today.
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CLOSING THE BOOKS 978-1929631834 • Hardcover A torrent of recent studies has attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity in modern history. First came the accusations that Swiss banks, those zealous keepers of a reputation for probity and integrity, had been silently hoarding countless millions of dollars that belonged to Jews who had perished in Nazi extermination camps. Backed into a corner, the banks agreed to pay, handing out more than one billion dollars to heirs of depositors and to humanitarian causes related to the Holocaust.
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DIARY 1937-1943 1-929631-02-2 • hardcover 2002
Count Galeazzo Ciano was Mussolini's son in law and foreign minister. He took daily notes throughout his tenure and revealed the darkest secrets of the Nazi and Fascist elite. When the war turned sour for Italy Ciano also tried to change sides and began attempting to take Italy out of the Axis. But his efforts failed and he was eventually shot as a traitor after the fall of Mussolini and the creation of the Republic of Salo in Northern Italy. His diaries are one of the war's greatest single documents.
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DOUBLE LIVES 978-1-929631-20-9 • paper 2004
Stalin wanted to destabilize the democracies through the intellectuals. Many were taken in by communist rhetoric and its agents, including Hemingway, Malraux and Lillian Hellman among others.
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