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‘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 |
In this new edition of Janet Lewis’s classic short novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre , Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth writes that Lewis’s story is “a short novel of astonishing depth and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and women, and about an individual’s capacity to act within an inflexible system.” Originally published in 1941, The Wife of Martin Guerre has earned the respect and admiration of...
| Автор | Janet Lewis |
One of Germany’s literary giants, Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was thrown into Buchenwald concentration camp for publicly backing anti-Nazi pastor Martin Niemöller. His final novel, published posthumously, deals with the aftermath of the Holocaust – how the survivors, both victims and perpetrators, seek healing and redemption as they pick up the shattered pieces of their world. Evoking comparisons to the Russian greats Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Wiechert displays an uncommon depth of insight...
| Автор | Ernst Wiechert |
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to...
| Автор | Simon Garfield |
Hoe moet dit voel om vir maande, selfs jare, van jou familie geskei te wees en geen idee te hê of jy jou plaas en jou land ooit weer sal sien nie? Nadat hy in die Brandwaterkom gevange geneem is, is veldkornet Charles von Maltitz in die Groenpunt- en Simonstad-krygsgevangenekamp en later in Trichinopoly in Indië aangehou. Sy lot was soortgelyk aan dié van duisende ander burgers wat gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog na kampe op St. Helena, Ceylon, Bermuda en elders gestuur is. Sy dagboek, nou vir...
| Автор | Chris Schoeman |
Ester Zorgenfliess verlaat haar tuisstad om vir ’n tyd lank te gaan oorbly in ’n plattelandse dorp waar sy haar ervaring van die dorp en sy inwoners orden rondom die plekke wat sy feitlik daagliks besoek. Net soos in Landskap met vroue en slang word die emosionele lewens van die karakters in Buller se plan met groot sorgvuldigheid ontleed terwyl daar steeds kennis geneem word van die natuurlike landskap én die landskap van die liggaam. En soos in Belemmering is die Anglo-Boereoorlog ook hier ’n...
| Автор | Ingrid Winterbach |
Can you handle mornings without a brew? No? Multiply that. Imagine an entire population under a cloud of lethargy, unable to kick start their days. Now introduce coffee. Bingo. The brain moves into over-drive and it's time for empire building. So goes Stewart Lee Allen's crazy theory. Only thing is, after retracing coffee's journey to world domination – by train, rickshaw, cargo freighter and donkey – he has plenty of evidence to back it up. Stewart Lee Allen has filtered...
| Автор | Stewart Lee Allen |
In Ben Barka Lane we see the Morocco of the late 1960s through the eyes of a young political exile from Iraq—its beauty and misery, its unforgettable people. In this contemporary classic, Mahmoud Saeed offers us a unique portrait of a time and place, and a tale of the passion, politics, vengeance, and betrayal that take place there. “A landmark of the modern Arab novel,” in the words of one critic, Ben Barka Lane is now, at last, in English translation, as compelling...
| Автор | Mahmoud Saeed |
<P><B>Winner of the New England Book Show Award</B></P><P>It's been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Creek to the Galapagos Islands, the high Arctic, the Pacific Northwest, the Amazon Jungle—and now, China. This informative narrative is full of fascinating people: Chinese people, mostly writers, who encounter American writers in various bizarre circumstances in both China and the U.S. There is a toasting scene...
| Автор | Annie Dillard |
It started with a festival – three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto. But when it became apparent that there was a need for a national opera company, an organization was founded that would go on to become one of the largest performing arts organizations in the country. The Canadian Opera Company was born in 1950, and is now one of the major opera companies in North America. The Company has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States, and has delighted audiences as...
| Автор | Ezra Schabas |
The Unwilling and the Reluctant: Theoretical Perspectives on Disobedience in the Military and The Apathetic and the Defiant: Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1812-1919 are the first two volumes in a series devoted to disobedience issues in the Canadian military. Now with The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant , the trilogy is complete. Military leadership has both formal and informal dimensions. The formal leadership of any organization must ensure that it minimizes the...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Canadian soldiers have served their country for centuries, and for the most part they have done so honourably and loyally. Yet, on certain occasions, their conduct has been anything but honourable. Whether by disobeying their legal orders, terrorizing the local population, or committing crimes in general, some soldiers have embodied the very antithesis of appropriate military conduct. Covering examples of unsavoury behaviour in the representatives of our military forces from the War of 1812 to...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Contrary to popular opinion, this nation has always consciously and consistently utilized military force to further its security, as well as its economic and political well-being. Despite the best of intentions to aid others, the reality is that military force has most often been used to serve the national interest in ways that were not always altruistic but rather to serve practical political purpose. In the final analysis, the Canadian military experience has been integral to creating the...
| Автор | Bernd Horn |