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Оглавление - The History of the West
Through the Eyes of Bears and Balalaikas
- Preface (boring, but short)
- Introduction. How to and How Not to Study History
- Who won and who lost the Second World War
- Who fought for what
- Tanks Against Tanks
- The Second Front and Comrades in Arms
- Could Hitler Have Won?
- A Little More about the Role of Chance
- The Last Greeting of the Middle Ages
- On the Harm of Sleep in Modern History
- Time of High Speeds
- Liberation of the Genius
- Two Ships
- Window for a Bear with a Balalaika
- About Taxes and Parliaments
- The Hour of Bloody Dreamers
- Swords and Spears
- Everyone Against the Emperor
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Turkish Affairs
- The Last Blow of Islam
- About the Great Empire and the Little Man
- A Small Apostasy of the Grand Master
- Merchants versus Knights
- Dream of a Fantasist
- The Ugly Duckling
- Chevalier d’Artagnan and the Queen’s Pendants
- Cardinal
- Europe is Shrinking
- On the Edges of the Continent
- Great Deeds and Small Mischiefs
- The Great Change
- Pork with Beef
- The Mistake of General Stewart
- Gentlemen, I Will Be Brief
- And How Is It in Africa
- Sold Homeland
- About Cowboys and Indians
- The Work We Deserved
- Savages and Cynics
- Why Are We No Longer on the Moon
- Major Lee Byung and Captain Chambers
- The End of the White Man’s Burden and the Struggle for Meanings