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Thomas Burnett Swann was a brilliant fantasy writer who died in 1976. He wrote primarily about the ancient Greek and Roman world, blending myth with romance and adventure. A reviewer in the Village Voice sums his work up well: «Swann's neo-romantic fantasies of the past are unique. He uses the stuff of myth but with twists and inventions of his own.» Swann's last published novel, Queens Walk in the Dusk is a retelling of the romance of Dido and Aeneas. It is a companion volume to...
| Автор | Thomas Burnett Swann |
As a young boy Atilus Cindras had been taken from Britain to Rome as a slave, and trained in the gruesome arts of the gladiators. Fueled by his hatred for Rome, he'd risen to the top of his killing trade with his fierce and deadly skill, and won the coveted Rudis, the wooden sword that gave him his freedom. But he wants more from Rome than this, and gambles all of his money on a commercial venture that fails. Now deeply in debt, he's pulled into a partnership with wealthy patricians...
| Автор | E. C. Tubb |
When George Rounsivel's pirate band captured the niece of the Governor of the Bahamas, that young American buccaneer was in a jam. For he already shared his cabin with a jealous pirate wench who would slip a dagger into him the instant he looked at another woman. <P> Yet he couldn't throw this blue-blooded captive to the lustful arms of the crew. For as a sea-wolf, Rounsivel was sailing under false colors – and a single word of this from the governor's niece would leave...
| Автор | Donald Barr Chidsey |
Matt Burnett joins the militia when he hears of pending French and Indian attacks upon colonial settlers. He immediately finds himself regarded as a hero and at the same time a spy-suspect, both situations arising from a series of incidents involving the young Major George Washington.<P> Matt and Chief, his elderly Indian accomplice, begin their adventure by foiling an ambush of Washington. Shortly afterward, Matt is part of the young Washington’s first military command. The colonial...
| Автор | Robert Edmond Alter |
Uhtatse becomes the «One Who Smells the Wind» for his Anasazi clan, and sends his mind searching outward for enemy tribes in the Great Plains. When he finally senses peril, he fails to convince his Elders to seek shelter. The attack, when it comes, decimates the Anasazi, forcing them finally to build their cliffside cave dwellings at Mesa Verde.<P> "Ardath Mayhar is superb at creating an alien world from another time and place"–Robert Reginald.
| Автор | Ardath Mayhar |
Through a myriad of characters both real and invented (and some whose names have been changed) journalist and author Bryan Woolley presents one of the best dissections of Dallas life in 1963 in his novel November 22. Covering the twenty-four hours surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Woolley accurately captures the essence of the day’s atmosphere, resulting in a rich cross section of a city more complex and diverse than many observers have been willing to acknowledge. He...
| Автор | Bryan Woolley |
As the first of the MHS Express imprint, this short e-book will highlight the rifts and crises leading up to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota between the Dakota people and the U.S. government, as keenly represented by then-governor and later militia colonel Henry Sibley, and will weave together excerpts from the 2004 MHS book, Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart, and with a new MHS Express introduction by author Rhoda Gilman.
| Автор | Rhoda R. Gilman |
Peter Sacco, the host of the local TV series «Niagara's Most Haunted», brings you more spine-chilling tales from the grave. His real life stories focus on several unique, bizarre cases that have haunted the Niagara Region for many decades, stories shrouded in secrecy where the locals would prefer you didn't talk about it. Peter Sacco introduces you to previously unknown cases of: * The Poltergeist Possession * An Evil Haunted House * Haunted Trees and Forests * A Haunted Theatre...
| Автор | Peter Sacco |
"A Spellbinding Tale Of The Last Days Of The Confederacy." –David J. Eicher, author of The Longest Night In the only book to tell the definitive story of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's chase, capture, imprisonment, and release, journalist and Civil War writer Clint Johnson paints a riveting portrait of one of American history's most complex and enduring figures."Riveting And Revealing." –Marc Leepson, author of Desperate Engagement In the vulnerable weeks following the...
| Автор | Clint Johnson |
The Battle of Passchendaele has come to epitomize the mud and blood of the First World War. Passchendaele is perhaps one of the most iconic campaigns of the First World War, coming to symbolize the mud and blood of the battlefield like no other. Fought for over three months under some of the worst conditions of the war, fighting became bogged down in a quagmire that made it almost impossible for any gains to be made. In this Battle Story, Chris McNab seeks to lift the battle out of its...
| Автор | Chris McNab |
Bosworth marked the end of the reign of Richard III and the rise of the Tudor dynasty. Bosworth Field saw the two great dynasties of the day clash on the battlefield: the reigning House of York, led by Richard III, against the rising House of Tudor, led by Henry Tudor, soon to become Henry VII. On August 22, 1485, this penultimate battle in the War of the Roses was fought with the might of the Yorkists ranged against Henry Tudor’s small army. This book describes how these two great armies came...
| Автор | Mike Ingram |