Историческая литература
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From the bestselling author of The Kashmir ShawlBorn into an aristocratic family, beautiful Amy Lovell leads a whirlwind life of extravagant parties and debutante balls.But Amy, curious about the world beyond the narrow confines of her class, is ill-suited to a life of indulgence. Eagerly embracing a nursing career, she is drawn into the radical politics of the day.As the spectre of war looms, Amy's bittersweet love for the proud miner Nick Penry – a love which defies the differences...
| Автор | Rosie Thomas |
The brand-new, gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay!‘Warmth, depth, mystery, magic and the supernatural … such a beautiful book!’ bestselling author Santa Montefiore ‘A dazzling roller-coaster of a book that will thrill, enchant and intrigue those who love history and the supernatural’ bestselling author Alison WeirMercia, 788 ADIn the grand Saxon halls of Mercia, King Offa rules with cold ambition. His youngest daughter Eadburh is destined for an...
| Автор | Barbara Erskine |
Великая Смута… одно из событий в истории России, возникновение которого, смысл и последствия не могут оценить до сих пор. Вообще, смута – это разрушение моральных устоев в душах людей. Это чисто русское явление и ни в какой другой стране оно произойти не могло. Это многовековое метание русской души, стремящейся найти свое место между Богом и безбожием, между правдой и ложью, между справедливостью и бесправием, честью и бесчестием, верностью и предательством… И когда все это дошло до точки...
| Автор | Владлен Шувалов |
Великая Смута… одно из событий в истории России, возникновение которого, смысл и последствия не могут оценить до сих пор. Вообще, смута – это разрушение моральных устоев в душах людей. Это чисто русское явление и ни в какой другой стране оно произойти не могло. Это многовековое метание русской души, стремящейся найти свое место между Богом и безбожием, между правдой и ложью, между справедливостью и бесправием, честью и бесчестием, верностью и предательством… И когда все это дошло до точки...
| Автор | Владлен Шувалов |
Step back in time with the perfect cosy crime bundle, featuring all four Lady Alkmene mysteries!Murder can be deadly!A Proposal to Die ForA murderous beginningWith her father away in India, Lady Alkmene Callender finds being left to her own devices in London intolerably dull, until the glamorous Broadway star Evelyn Steinbeck arrives in town! Gossip abounds about the New York socialite, but when Ms Steinbeck’s wealthy uncle, Silas Norwhich, is found dead Lady Alkmene finds her interest is...
| Автор | Vivian Conroy |
The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing raid.Bomber is a novel war. There are no victors, no vanquished. There are simply those who remain alive, and those who die.Bomber follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama, both in the air and on the ground, in Britain and in Germany.In its documentary style, it is...
| Автор | Len Deighton |
**A gritty and emotional family drama, from the Sunday Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn.**BEATENGlenda Jenkins has been beaten by her husband Harry one too many times – and this time he’s put her in a hospital bed. Battered and bruised, Glenda slowly makes her recovery. But she fears what awaits her back at home…BROKENWhen Glenda meets kind hospital porter Frank, he offers her a lifeline she can’t refuse. The pair decide to run away together, escaping the...
| Автор | Kitty Neale |
A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treasure.This edition does not include illustrations.The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it’s not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless, incomparable – nothing of it’s delicacy and texture, let alone wit, survives from the period. As a pictorial story it is...
| Автор | Andrew Bridgeford |
A war-torn summerA house fallen into ruinA family broken apart by scandal…Summer 1944: Bombed out by the blitz, Bethany Merston takes up a post as companion to elderly Alice Summer, last remaining inhabitant of the dilapidated and crumbling Summerhayes estate. Now a shadow of its former glory; most of the rooms have been shut up, the garden is overgrown and the whole place feels as unwelcoming as the family themselves.Struggling with the realities of war, Alice is plagued by anonymous letters...
| Автор | Merryn Allingham |
The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father’s love, a little boy’s journey,and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox.Eight-year-old Casey’s mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness for other women’s husbands.Casey’s father is gentle and hard-working and, though Tom Denton has long suspected his wife of having sordid affairs, he has chosen to turn a blind eye to keep the peace. But then, out of the blue, Tom’s world is...
| Автор | Josephine Cox |
From a bestselling novelist with an unrivalled insight into the workings of power comes a compelling new novel exploring Winston Churchill’s remarkable journey from the wilderness to No 10 Downing Street at the beginning of World War II.Saturday 1 October 1938. Two men meet. One is elderly, the other in his twenties. One will become the most revered man of his time, and the other known as the greatest of traitors.Winston Churchill met Guy Burgess at a moment when the world was about to explode....
| Автор | Michael Dobbs |
The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings.C.S. Forester’s 1936 masterpiece follows Lt General Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War. 1914 finds him an honourable, decent, brave and...
| Автор | C. Forester S. |
‘A modern day Nancy Mitford.’ Sir Elton John‘Fans of Downton Abbey will love this.’ Davina McCallChristmas morning, 1969.All eleven-year-old Esme Munroe wants for Christmas is for her mother to be on one of her ‘good’ days – and, secretly, for a velvet riding hat. So when she finds an assortment of wet towels and dirty plates in her stocking, she’s just relieved Father Christmas remembered to stop at The Lodge this year.But later that day Esme’s mother disappears in the heavy snow. Even more...
| Автор | Susannah Constantine |
Three classic novels of the Second World War by the ‘greatest war novelist of our time’, together in one e-bundle for the first time.During the years 1939-45 Europe was in the midst of a titanic struggle for supremacy, involving man and machine. The drama, horror, romance and excitement of that time is captured in three acclaimed novels by Len Deighton:Bomber – an epic masterpiece that tells the story of a fictional RAF bombing raid on a German industrial town in 1943. As events unfold we share...
| Автор | Len Deighton |
‘A great tale… the golden thread that led to the crown of England’ Conn IgguldenJasper Tudor, son of Queen Catherine and her second husband, Owen Tudor, has grown up far from the intrigue of the royal court. But after he and his brother Edmund are summoned to London, their half-brother, King Henry VI, takes a keen interest in their future.Bestowing Earldoms on them both, Henry also gives them the wardship of the young heiress Margaret Beaufort. Although she is still a child, Jasper becomes...
| Автор | Джоанна Хиксон |
Europa, niewielki obszar w skali świata, stworzyła cywilizację, której kultura, nauka, gospodarka i polityka osiągnęły bogactwo nigdzie indziej niespotykane. Po dziś dzień wraz ze swą córką Ameryką wywiera dominujący wpływ na cały świat. Początek tej wielkiej przyszłości europejskiej to V wiek, spotkanie Germanów i chylącego się ku upadkowi antycznego świata, germańskiego instynktu państwowo- i prawotwórczego ze schrystianizowaną już tradycją Grecji i Rzymu. Także chrześcijański indywidualizm i...
| Автор | Marcin Libicki |
Życie i los Wasilija Grossmana to książka niezwykła, niezwykłe też są jej dzieje. Autor pisał ją, wierząc, że zostanie opublikowana w ZSRR, władza wykonała jednak swoistą egzekucję, nie na samym autorze, ale na jego dziele – skazano je na nieistnienie, aresztując rękopisy. Dużo wcześniej niż inni Grossman zrozumiał: jak dalece podobne są oba, zwarte w śmiertelnej walce, totalitarne ustroje: sowiecki i hitlerowski. Napisana z Tołstojowskim rozmachem powieść przedstawia losy jednej rodziny na tle...
| Автор | Василий Гроссман |
Na przełomie września i października 1632 r. wojska moskiewskie przekroczyły granicę Rzeczypospolitej z zamiarem zajęcia miast i zamków utraconych na mocy rozejmu dywilińskiego. Głównym celem wojny miało być zdobycie Smoleńska, największej twierdzy pogranicza, o kluczowy znaczeniu strategicznym zarówno dla bezpieczeństwa Wilna, jak i Moskwy. Piętnastomiesięczne boje toczone pod murami i w okolicach Smoleńska do lutego 1634 r. okazały się decydujące dla przebiegu całej kampanii. Starcia w innych...
| Автор | Dariusz Kupisz |
NAJBARDZIEJ WYCZEKIWANY AUDIOBOOK OSTATNICH LAT MISTRZOWSKA PROZA NOBLISKI W INTERPRETACJI WYBITNYCH AKTORÓW Księgi Jakubowe czytają Danuta Stenka, Wiktor Zborowski, Jan Peszek, Agata Kulesza, Maja Ostaszewska, Adam Ferency i Mariusz Bonaszewski. Rok 1752. Do Rohatyna na Podolu przybywają kasztelanowa Katarzyna Kossakowska i towarzysząca jej poetka Elżbieta Drużbacka. Jednym z gości na powitalnej kolacji jest miejscowy proboszcz Benedykt Chmielowski, autor pierwszej polskiej...
| Автор | Ольга Токарчук |
Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania is a collection of oral histories that guides readers through through the decades (1944-1992) in which everything was controlled by the Communist Party; what work one could do, what food was available, and even who one could marry. The reader accompanies Shannon, the author and historian, through intimate interviews with six Albanian men and women. We hear how everyday people survived shocking living conditions, political persecution and...
| Автор | Shannon Woodcock |
<P>Native Tributes is a sequel to Blue Ravens by Gerald Vizenor, a historical novel about Native Americans in the First World War published by Wesleyan University Press in 2014. Basile Hudon Beaulieu, a native writer, his brother Aloysius, an abstract artist, travel by train from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota to Washington, D.C. where they protest with thousands of other military veterans in the Bonus Army, and their cousin By Now Rose Beaulieu, a veteran nurse, rides...
| Автор | Gerald Vizenor |
Timed to the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, to leverage media interest.Fascinating author pairing leads to extraordinary insight into the roots of recent protests across the country. Pulls together a formerly-incarcerated activist with a confidant of King’s.Highly active author: regular speaker at events around the country, active traditional media interviewee, and strong social media engagement.Author's prior works ( Lessons of Redemption :...
| Автор | Kevin Shird |
When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. Everything Anne touches seems to turn to gold, and Mary is certain Anne will one day become Queen. But Mary has also seen the King's fickle nature and how easily he discards those who were once close to him. . . Discovering that she is a pawn in a carefully orchestrated plot devised by her father, the duke of Norfolk, Mary...
| Автор | D.L. Bogdan |
Competitively priced, this book is the perfect companion to the more than thirty travel guides on Cuba available today. Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and finally ending with Fidel Castro's decision to step down in 2008, this slim volume provides the reader with an overview of the history of the tiny Caribbean island that so often has been at the center of world...
| Автор | Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy |