Aleksandr Alehin. Zhizn' kak voyna

Alehin ne prosto geniy i pervyy russkiy chempion mira po shahmatam. Eto chelovek udivitel'noy sud'by. Mirovye i grazhdanskaya voyny, krovavye revolyucii, nesostoyavshiesya rasstrely, poterya rodiny, obvineniya v kollaboracionizme — zhizn' Alehina byla uzhasno neprostoy, no on udivitel'nym obrazom prisposablivalsya. I delal vse, chtoby nikto ne meshal emu zanimat'sya edinstvennym lyubimym delom, kotoromu on otdavalsya maniakal'no, — shahmatami. V otlichie ot bol'shinstva drugih knig ob Alehine v etoy vy uvidite dosku s polnym naborom shahmatnyh figur: vas zhdut podrobnye istorii o velikom Laskere, elegantnom Kapablanke, chlene NSDAP Bogolyubove i sovetskom kolosse Botvinnike, kotorye byli vazhnoy chast'yu sud'by nashego geroya.