Загадочное дело Рудольфа Дизеля: Удивительная жизнь и необъяснимая смерть великого изобретателя

Annotatsiia k knige 'Zagadochnoe delo Rudolʹfa Dizelia: Udivitelʹnaia zhiznʹ i neobʺiasnimaia smertʹ velikogo izobretatelia' Brant D. :29 sentiabria 1913 g. parokhod «Drezden» otpravliaetsia iz Belʹgii v Velikobritaniiu. Na ego bortu — izobretatelʹ innovatsionnogo dvigatelia Rudolʹf Dizelʹ, chʹe tvorenie meniaet oblik evropeĭskoĭ i amerikanskoĭ promyshlennosti. No genialʹnomu inzheneru ne suzhdeno pribytʹ na mesto naznacheniia: nochʹiu on bessledno ischezaet. Gazety po vsemu miru gadaiut: chto proizoshlo? Neschastnyĭ sluchaĭ? Samoubiĭstvo? A mozhet, khladnokrovnaia likvidatsiia po politicheskim motivam?V vashikh rukakh — zakhvatyvaiushchaia biografiia i istoricheskiĭ detektiv, stavshiĭ bestsellerom po versii The New York Times. Duglas Brant vossozdaet zhiznʹ blestiashchego izobretatelia v burnuiu ėpokhu rubezha XIX–XX vv. Na stranitsakh knigi perepletaiutsia istorii kaĭzera Vilʹgelʹma II i neftianogo magnata Dzhona Rokfellera, molodogo politika Uinstona Cherchillia i innovatora Tomasa Ėdisona — vsekh tekh, kto tak ili inache byl sviazan s sudʹboĭ Dizelia. Opiraiasʹ na arkhivnye istochniki, avtor pytaetsia razobratʹsia, chto proizoshlo na bortu «Drezdena» i komu pomeshal izobretatelʹ, izmenivshiĭ rasstanovku sil v globalʹnoĭ ėkonomike.

Abstract to the book "The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel: The amazing life and inexplicable death of the great inventor" Brant D. : September 29, 1913 steamer "Dresden" departs from Belgium to Great Britain. On board is Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the innovative engine, whose creation is changing the face of European and American industry. But the brilliant engineer is not destined to arrive at his destination: at night he disappears without a trace. Newspapers all over the world are guessing: what happened? An accident? Suicide? Or maybe a cold-blooded liquidation for political reasons?In your hands is an exciting biography and historical detective story that has become a New York Times bestseller. Douglas Brant recreates the life of a brilliant inventor in the turbulent era of the turn of the XIX–XX centuries. The book intertwines the stories of Kaiser Wilhelm II and oil magnate John Rockefeller, young politician Winston Churchill and innovator Thomas Edison — all those who were somehow connected with the fate of Diesel. Based on archival sources, the author tries to figure out what happened on board the Dresden and who was prevented by the inventor who changed the balance of power in the global economy.