Книги жанра историческая литература
A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history.This compelling history, culminating in the execution of Charles I, brings to life the people who fought in it, died in it, and in doing so changed the history of the world forever. In an excitingly fresh approach to the period Diane Purkiss tells…
Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony’s 400th anniversary in 2007.Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men-led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy-left London aboard a fleet of three ships to start a new life in America. They arrived in Virgini…
Heartache and hardship in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny StreetIt’s the 1950’s and the orphans of Halfpenny Street have found a new home in the Essex countryside at Halfpenny House. Meanwhile, back among the slum clearances of Bethnal Green, St Saviour’s has now been partially given over to a home for disturbed girls though it still serves as a reception…
From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged – in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.The nineteenth century saw the creation of some of the world's most incredible feats of engineering. Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolut…
No war in modern times has inflamed the passions of both ordinary people and intellectuals in the way that the conflict in Spain in 1936 did.The Spanish Civil War is burned into European consciousness, not simply because it prefigured the much larger world war that followed it, but because the intense manner of its prosecution was a harbinger of a new and horrific form of warfare that was universa…
This edition does not include illustrations.An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.‘English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and leaving their embassies drives them completely off their rockers’ – Nancy MitfordFrom the first exploratory expedit…
The next book from the author of If They Knew, coming January 2019.Cambridge, 1986. Alex, Karen and Misty are an inseparable trio at Cambridge University – one can never be found far from the others. But when Alex dies suddenly, the remaining two friends can’t look one another in the eye – knowing they both had a part to play in her death.Present day. Misty and Karen haven’t spoken in years, but, …
A vibrant thriller of adventure, suspense and mystery set in the last quarter of the XIX century and the First World War. A prominent archaeologist disappears under strange circumstances during the First World War as armies battle an endless front engulfed in bloody battles and enormous hardships that wreak havoc on both sides. At the end of the war, a shrewd journalist intrigued by the surprising…
Тонущую молодую девушку вытаскивает из реки слон. Это недалеко от лагеря Ганнибала в 218 году до нашей эры. В 218 году до нашей эры Ганнибал повел свою армию вместе с 27 слонами через Альпы, чтобы напасть на Римлян. За одиннадцать лет до этого исторического события, на берегу реки близ Карфагена, в Северной Африке, один из его слонов вытащил тонущую девушку из бурных вод. Так началось эпическое пу…
Eine Liebe, wie sie nur im Märchen vorgesehen ist … Lady Delilah Everly hat nicht das zauberhafte Leben geführt, wie es viele dachten. Böse beschrieb nicht einmal annähernd ihre Mutter oder wie sie diejenigen behandelte, die sie eigentlich lieben sollte. Es erschwerte es Delilah zu lieben und sie lernte früh sich auf sich selbst zu verlassen und begann Fähigkeiten zu erlangen, die notwendig waren…
An Italian-style Western On a day like any other in the morally depraved town of Little Pit, a dusty man on a horse rides up. The man is in a hurry and carrying with him a suspicious package. Hugg Badfinger cannot resist the temptation to discover what’s inside, so he takes the man down and sends his kid to claim the man’s effects. Not long after, father and son burst out of the town on horseback …
Про воинов, которые ничего не боятся. Которые знают, что делать и как себя вести на войне.
Алленберг… Что это за место? Заброшенная психиатрическая клиника, притягивающая сотни туристов своим загадочным, немного жутковатым видом; одна из многочисленных прусских построек, уцелевших после войны, и по сей день напоминающих нам о былом. Всё это так, но эти стены скрывают в себе намного больше. Я хочу рассказать вам историю, о которой вы никогда не слышали. Я хочу показать вам жизнь в стена…
