Böcker av Dan Dimancescu

An epic turn-around story... from 'rock bottom' victim of Communism in 1990 to high-flying EU economic contender 30- years later, Romania's decades-long transformation is testimony to its resilience and innovation in a culture undermined by its own debilitating public corruption.

Supported by the National Geographic Magazine in 1985, seven Americans and seven Koreans kayaked the southern islands of South Korea under the auspices of the Ledyard Canoe Club (Dartmouth College). The 500 mile expedition took them along the 3,300 island dotted peninsula.

At the start of WW-II, the British government launched a propaganda campaign against Nazi-Germany and its Axis-allied countries. Romania was one of these. One program, carried out by a newly established Political Intelligence Department (PID) in the Foreign Office, was headed by H. Bruce Lockhart, the famed British spy who attempted to assassinate Lenin in 1918, adventurer, author, and journalist. The program consisted of covert broadcasts transmitted from Bletchley Park- famed as the site of the German Enigma Machine decoding success by Alan Turing. The story is based on the private files of Dimitri D. Dimancescu (1896-1984) when serving as a Romanian diplomat in London. While exiled in London during WW-II, he was asked by his friend Lockhart to oversee the covert broadcasts into Romania of which he completed 900 between 1940 and 1943. This is that story.

Periplul de 10.000 de mile cu trenul alReginei Maria prin America de Nord a fost o c¿l¿torie epic¿. Invitat¿ pe continent în 1926 pentru a inaugura bizarul Muzeu Maryhill, o cl¿dire înc¿ neterminat¿ ce veghea deasupra malurilor pustii ale fluviului Columbia, suverana României avea s¿ fie descoperit¿ de americani drept o femeie plin¿ de magnetism ¿i foarte modern¿. La rândul ei, Regina avea s¿ descopere o ¿ar¿ care începea în for¿¿ epoca interbelic¿, ca putere mondial¿ în curs de maturizare. Jurnalul Reginei, alte relat¿ri personale, o mul¿ime de imagini, h¿r¿i ¿i articole din ziare alc¿tuiesc istoria acestui voiaj, în care diversele experien¿e, personalit¿¿i ¿i evenimente se între¿es într-o textur¿ unic¿ ¿i extrem de bogat¿.

ERWIN ROMMEL - E f¿r¿ îndoial¿ cel mai faimos general al Germaniei din Al Doilea R¿zboi Mondial. Mai pu¿in cunoscute sunt îns¿ faptele sale din Primul R¿zboi Mondial. La 25 de ani a servit ca locotenent-major pe frontul din România timp de nou¿ luni, în 1916 ¿i 1917. Sa dovedit un comandant înzestrat ¿i a utilizat mitralierele în moduri inovatoare, folosindu-le ca arme ofensive. În ultima sa b¿t¿lie, de pe Cöna / Cota 789, trupele române¿ti l-au împiedicat s¿ for¿eze o str¿pungere a frontului, cu consecin¿e strategice majore. În acea mare b¿t¿lie de pe frontul românesc, din august 1917, tat¿l autorului conducea o companie.

The famed General Erwin Rommel served as a First Lieutenant in the ?lite W?rttemberg Regiment during World War I. His war experiences in Romania during 1916-1917 are recounted from his detailed memoirs, unpublished original archival material and other sources.

The Plevna Battle of 1877 is described through first person accounts. Fighters, military leaders, war correspondents provide a composite description of an epic event that marked the end of Ottoman rule over its European territories. The stories told are at once: shocking / historic / dramatic.