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”Marooned in his unresolved past, the nervous person cannot set a course for the future.” Robert Von Reichmann MD. Peter Federson's life was littered with divorces, lost jobs, and failure in college, which led to a miserable tour of Vietnam, and a checkered life in the 21st century. One day Pete realized that it was his own doing. ”Please God, let me start over again!” 24-hours later, fate threw Pete backward forty years. Now he has the chance to earn a passing grade for the 20th...
| Автор | Robert Rickman |
Anno 2017: la giovane studiosa Lucia Balleani, sistemando e classificando i testi della biblioteca della fondazione Hoenstaufen, si ritrova a lavorare nell'antico palazzo che era stato la residenza della nobile famiglia Baldeschi-Balleani, di cui è diretta discendente. Una serie di visioni legate a quanto accaduto alla sua omonima Lucia Baldeschi, porterà il lettore a scoprire insieme a lei un'oscura vicenda svoltasi nello stesso luogo 500 anni prima. Anno 2017: la giovane studiosa Lucia...
| Автор | Stefano Vignaroli |
La tragica storia di Robert Johnson , grande musicista Blues degli anni '30 Americani, la risoluzione al giallo della sua tragica fine, i retroscena e la discografia completa. Un giallo emozionante e una ricerca storica sulla breve vita di Robert Johnson, considerato dai più come il nonno del rock ma amatissimo dai patiti del blues. Una narrazione avvincente e forse la soluzione di un intrico oscuro, denso di esoterismo e fanatismo religioso, che portarono alla morte violenta e prematura di...
| Автор | Patrizia Barrera |
在基督之后的第八世纪，保罗·迪肯用拉丁文写成的一本历史著作，记叙了离开斯堪的那维亚来到意大利并统治了两个世纪的伦巴德人的故事。 今天，以米兰为首府的地区，伦巴第仍然承载着他们的名字，伦巴德人的土地。这个故事很有趣，虽然法兰克人的征服夺走了快乐结局的滋味。电视和幻想小说，似乎从这些人的兴衰起伏中汲取了不少故事，格里摩多的一生，伦巴德之王，一个人就是一部小说。 从离开斯堪的那维亚和名字的传说开始说起。接下来讲述了走向意大利的长征。稍稍跑题，关于圣本笃的两首不重要的诗歌，然后是抵达意大利，半岛的描述，阿尔博因，他的事业，罗莎蒙德和埃尔米奇谋杀阿尔博因。王国无政府状态十年，奥塔里和泰奥多林达，巴伐利亚来的天主教公主，阿吉卢尔夫，泰奥多林达的第二任丈夫，罗塔里国王和他的敕令，罗马法之后的第一部伦巴德人法律，有组织立法的第一个例子。对之后立法权的历史非常重要。接着是格里摩多的非凡冒险，逃离囚禁，阴谋，贝内文托公国和夺得王位。然后是格里摩多击败法兰克和拜占庭，欺骗阿瓦尔人 .......
| Автор | Paolo Diacono – Paulus Diaconus |
Um livro histórico, escrito em latim por Paolo Diacono no oitavo século d.C., narra os acontecimentos do povo Lombardo que saiu da Escandinávia para alcançar a Itália e reinar por outros dois séculos. Hoje, Milão é a capital daquela região que leva o nome de Lombardia, terra dos Lombardo. A história é interessante mesmo se a conquista Franca nos tira o gosto do final feliz, Na tv e nas ficções, há histórias que parecem retiradas das histórias deste povo; a vida de Grimoaldo, Rei dos Lombardos...
| Автор | Paolo Diacono – Paulus Diaconus |
Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.Russia today is a world in a dark limbo. The body politic is diseased, the state in collapse. Yet for all the signs of encroaching doom, Russians do not fear the future. They fear the past. Russians have long known theirs is not a land that develops and progresses. It careens, heaves, and all too often sinks.Once again, Russia stands at a crossroads getting by on little but faith, vodka and a blithe indifference to the moral and...
| Автор | Andrew Meier |
Inhalt des Buchs Das Buch enthält ein kurzes Vorwort, das sich in mehrere thematische Sektionen teilt. Danach kommt die Origo Gentis Langobardorum, die mit seinen sieben Absätzen die Legende des Namens umfasst. Dann gibt es die Historia Langobardorum von Paolus Diaconus. Dessen sechs Büchern folgt das Chronicon von Andreas Bergomas, das mit neunzehn Sektionen die Erzählung der Historia ergänzt. Die Anmerkungen verdienen eine kurze Bemerkung: Die sind wenig aber praktisch, kommen von...
| Автор | Paolo Diacono – Paulus Diaconus |
The Sunday Times bestsellerFrom the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love.The ‘friendly invasion’ of Britain by over a million American G.I.s caused a sensation amongst a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s soon had the local girls queuing up for a date, and the British boys...
| Автор | Duncan Barrett |
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia’s most illustrious institutions into scandal.Under Vladimir Putin, the Bolshoi Theatre has been called on to preserve Russia’s lengthy artistic legacy and to mirror its neo-imperial ambitions. As renowned musicologist Simon Morrison shows in his tour-de-force account, the attack, and its torrid...
| Автор | Simon Morrison |
Renowned industrial expert Geoffrey Owen analyses the complex reasons behind the delayed modernisation of British industry.In 1945, following the economic hardship of the war years, British industry looked forward with confidence to re-establishing links with its traditional trading partners in the Empire, and in the years of reconstruction which followed enjoyed unprecendented growth and prosperity. But the emergence of an economically vigorous and fiercely competitive Europe forced Britain to...
| Автор | Geoffrey Owen |
World War II affected the lives of ordinary men and women more directly than any other conflict before or since.This is an unprecedented look at the lives of twenty-one young men who answered their country’s call to arms and left their homes to fight in unfamiliar and far-reaching corners of the globe.Many never returned, and those who did found their homes and countries much changed by long years of war. Most discovered they had become different people: having seen death and destruction on a...
| Автор | James Holland |
A far-reaching history of terrorism across the world from its beginnings to the modern-day, from the highly acclaimed author of ‘Sacred Causes’ and ‘Earthly Powers’.Basing his study on a wide range of sources and key players from the world of terrorism, Burleigh explains and defines the meaning of terrorism and marks its progression from its hard to trace beginnings to the modern-day.He begins with the first modern terrorist groups: the Irish Republican Brotherhood – the precursors of the IRA –...
| Автор | Michael Burleigh |
‘A glamorous read packed with period detail…strong women are centre stage’ Daily MailThe secrets of an aristocratic dynasty are about to be revealed…The year is 1949. And at Cavendon Hall, a Yorkshire stately home, the Second World War has exacted a terrible price and the estate is facing bankruptcy. The aristocratic Ingham family is at odds with its loyal retainers, the Swanns, for the first time.And when Cavendon’s secrets start to rise to the surface, young and old alike are threatened. Can...
| Автор | Barbara Taylor Bradford |
Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins, sitting in decay.Stories, facts and photographs of 60 beautiful and eerie abandoned places from throughout the world. Time has stopped and nature is taking resident in these places mainly due to natural disasters, war or economic reasons.Places include:• Severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Six Flags...
| Автор | Richard Happer |
In a return to sweeping social history of wartime, Patrick Bishop – author of bestselling Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys – explores the lives and wartime experience of thousands of men and women who served in all units of the airforce. To mark the centenary of the RAF in 2018.On 1 April 2018, the Royal Air Force will be a hundred years old – a short life by military standards but an extraordinarily important and eventful one.From the start it was special, standing sometimes awkwardly but always...
| Автор | Patrick Bishop |
A substantially revised and updated edition of the author's classic 1987 book, 'The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and their Culture', which has been out of print since 2001.No nation's history has been so distorted as that of Poland. In 1797 Russia, Prussia and Austria divided the country up among themselves, expunging Poland’s sovereignty from history, casting it as a backwater that needed civilising. But as Adam Zamoyski’s thrilling history shows, the country they had wiped...
| Автор | Adam Zamoyski |
The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah CadburyIn 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building.Beginning with an account of John Cadbury, who founded the first Cadbury's coffee and chocolate shop in Birmingham in 1824,...
| Автор | Deborah Cadbury |
Afghanistan, Summer 2006. This is war.Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it.In April 2006, the elite 3 Para battlegroup was despatched to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. They were tasked with providing security to reconstruction efforts, a deployment it was hoped would pass off without a shot being...
| Автор | Patrick Bishop |
Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you.Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky,...
| Автор | James Canton |
From the bestselling author of THE WHITE QUEEN – the first three novels of her Tudor Court series: THE CONSTANT PRINCESS, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, THE BOLEYN INHERITANCETHE CONSTANT PRINCESS tells the story of Henry VIII’s first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess raised to be Queen of England and first brought to England to marry Henry’s older brother, Prince Arthur. But when her new husband dies, she must fight for her birthright – and in marrying the now heir to the throne, she must...
| Автор | Philippa Gregory |
This short bonus ebook tells June’s story, a true account of a woman who crossed the Atlantic for love after the Second World War.June noticed an American soldier walking towards her … In the drab setting of the churchyard he looked utterly out of place, as if a movie star had just dropped out of the sky.Raised in Birmingham, June marries a handsome GI called Borgy and looks forward to a new life in America. But when war ends, June is horrified to receive a letter from her husband telling her...
| Автор | Duncan Barrett |
‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat.The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was...
| Автор | Bernard Cornwell |
An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain’s empire in North America. Military history at its best.Perched on top of a tall promontory, surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St Lawrence River, Quebec – in 1759 France's capital city in Canada – forms an almost impregnable natural fortress. That year, with the Seven Years War raging around the globe, a force of 49 ships and nearly 9,000 men commanded by the irascible General James Wolfe,...
| Автор | Dan Snow |
Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest – but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on the edges of Empire.A Palladian mansion filled with Western art in the centre of old Calcutta, the Mughal Emperor’s letters in an archive in the French Alps, the names of Italian adventurers scratched into the walls of Egyptian temples: in this...
| Автор | Maya Jasanoff |