Книги жанра историческая литература
Когда подняли безымянную плиту, под нею оказались еще несколько тяжелых плит (две были отлиты из металла). Император покоился в четырех гробах, заключенных друг в друга. Так англичане стерегли его после смерти… Наконец открыли последний гроб. В истлевшей одежде, покрытый истлевшим синим плащом с серебряным шитьем (в нем он был при Маренго), император лежал совершенно… живой. Он был таинственно не …
LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZE 2012While carrying out historical research at an Ontario asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could the “Thomas Darwin of Down, England” be a relative of the famous Charles Darwin?In a narrative woven from letters, photographs, historical documents and illustrations, what emerges is a sketch of Thomas’s l…
Новая повесть Ольги Рожнёвой посвящена широкому периоду в мировой истории – 1904 –1955 годам. Вместе с главной героиней Ритой читатель пройдет через горнило испытаний и переживет все, что выпало на долю белоэмигрантов. События книги развиваются на фоне революций, мировых войн, крушений государственных режимов, столкновений культур в тихой Кульдже, свободном Шанхае, опасном филиппинском острове Туб…
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.King of England, claimant King of France, Lord – and later King – of Ireland, Supreme Head of the Church of England and, perhaps most famously, six times a husband, Henry VIII is England’s most notorious monarch.Succeeding his father, Henry VII, he allied with the Holy Roman Emperor and began his many obsessive invasions of France. Meanwhile th…
A breathtaking tale set of one girl’s determination to triumph against the odds. From the bestselling author of Child of the Mersey and Home For Christmas.Hettie is an orphan, taken in by Ellie Pride and her husband to their Preston home and treated as one of the family. But she has never felt she truly belonged.Hettie has a special gift – a beautiful singing voice – and on the cusp of womanhood, …
Пожелтевший снимок лежал на самом дне коробки с фотографиями. Какие-то военные. Лица мелкие, плохо различимы, стёрты. Но на обороте можно прочесть, что сделан он 8 августа 1945 года в городе Освенциме… С такой случайной находки началась эта история.
The sequel to THE BLACK JACKALS is set in the turmoil of the eastern Mediterranean in 1941, with the Brits struggling to hold their line in Greece against the powerful German and Italian forces.Peter Lamb and his men are halted in their retreat to England and forced to join the British forces holding the pass at Thermopylae. But their tough experiences in France have not prepared The Jackals for t…
'If you want a book that is exciting, fast-paced and impossible to put down, with plenty of twists and turns, then you need to buy this book! I can't wait to read more of Kathleen's novels.' – Emma's Book ReviewsSome secrets are best left buried…Researching her family tree had been little more than a hobby – until Katie stepped onto Kingsley House’s sprawling, ivy-strewn drive. The house may be cr…
Isabella Adams has tasted desire—and paid the price.With four scandalous attachments to her name, only the fierce patronage of Lady Watson has kept the doors of fashionable society open. And yet, when a handsome stranger literally sweeps her off her feet, Isabella can’t help but yearn for more…After five long years away from England, Lord James Crawford has returned to find little has changed—asid…
To have and to hold?Reluctant debutante Lady Clarissa Macpherson has never forgotten the forbidden kiss she shared with notorious rake, Lord Theodore Bennett, all those years ago. Even now, he’s the one man who sets Clarissa’s pulse racing and her skin tingling – no matter how hard she tries to ignore it!Yet, when Theodore rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken Lord at a society ball,…
Love, Betrayal and RedemptionCalista ‘CC’ Collins is used to being the talk of the town. With her scandalous past she’s learnt the hard way that a woman needs to be strong to get what she wants in a man’s world. And what she wants is the infamous Captain Beauford Tollier—roguish son of an earl, notorious blockade-runner and all-round knave of the seas.However, Captain Beau is not one to be cajoled…
Гай Юлий Цезарь убит. Рим охвачен скорбью. Убийцы, нарекшие себя Освободителями Рима, амнистированы, но не спокойны за свою судьбу – слишком громко отозвалось свершенное ими. Сенат на их стороне, однако не все готовы предать память великого героя Рима. Многолетний соратник Цезаря, возвысившийся под его покровительством Марк Антоний, и приемный сын Цезаря Гай Октавиан заключили союз и не остановятс…
Рассказ окунёт читателя в атмосферу дорог и быта 70-х годов прошлого века. Естественно не без приключений.
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united.The American Civil War: History in an Hour gives a concise and authoritative overview of thes…
Rome, 1961. As the cameras roll on Cleopatra, the world is transfixed by the love affair emerging between Hollywood’s biggest stars: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.But on the film set, tensions are running high. The money is running out, and a media storm is brewing over the Taylor-Burton relationship. When historical advisor Diana Bailey starts work on the film, she wants nothing more than t…