Книги жанра историческая литература
«Поэзия останется всегда поэзией и многие страницы вашего романа будут жить, доколе не забудется русский язык», – писал А. С. Пушкин в письме к писателю И. И. Лажечникову в 1835 году. Жив ли еще величайший по богатству образов, самобытности, выразительности родной наш русский язык? Книги Всеволодовой – попытка заявить утвердительно: Россия, ее язык, ее герои, ее душа – бессмертны. Повести и пьеса …
Прошли уже многие годы после поражения династии рода Тайбуги. В столице Сибирского ханства, Кашлыке, властной рукой правит хан Кучум. Но жив князь Едигир, который уходит далеко на запад и волею судьбы принимает православие. А меж тем хан Кучум, окрепнув, заручившись поддержкой соседних князей, набирает отборное войско и тайно готовится к войне с Москвой. Вторая книга трилогии известного сибирского…
Matthew Dennison creates a revealing portrait of the brave and charismatic Vita, in the first biography of her to be written for thirty years.Vita Sackville-West was a woman who defied categorisation. She was the dispossessed girl whose lonely childhood at Knole inspired enduring feats of imagination, the celebrated author and poet, the adored and affectionate wife whose marriage included passiona…
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine–guns. What followed were the costliest days of the entire War. But how had it happened?In Catastrophe…
Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality, in conflict with friend and foe alike, in this tumultuous political drama of his last ten years of public life. Here is Churchill at his most outrageous, maddening and devious – but also at his most human, courageous, and defiant.At the end of July 1945, Churchill was a defeated man – hurled from power by the British people after a war in…
A page-turning collection from the nation’s favourite storyteller.A bumper collection of over a dozen gripping stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox.Includes The Beachcomber, Lovers and Liars, Live the Dream, The Journey, Journey’s End, The Loner, Songbird, Born Bad, Divorced and Deadly, Blood Brothers, Midnight, Three Letters, The Broken Man.
Conn Iggulden’s No.1 bestselling series, which tells the epic story of Genghis Khan, his warrior sons, and their fight to rule an empire, now in one complete eBook for the first time.WOLF OF THE PLAINS, LORDS OF THE BOW, BONES OF THE HILL, EMPIRE OF SILVER, CONQUEROR.The masterful series which brings to life the mighty Khan dynasty and one of the most powerful military empires in history. From the…
