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Es ist eine Zeit des Umbruchs, eine Zeit der Finsternis. Aber auch der Hoffnung, die selbst das tiefste Dunkel erfüllt. Während sich die Lage in Europa gefährlich zuspitzt, versuchen drei junge Menschen heldenhaft ihr Schicksal zu meistern: Der Engländer Lloyd Williams wird Zeuge der Machtergreifung Hitlers und entschließt sich gegen den Faschismus zu kämpfen. Die deutsche Adelige Carla von Ulrich ist entsetzt über das Unrecht, das im Namen des Volkes geschieht, und geht in den Widerstand,...
| Автор | Кен Фоллетт |
Ricarda Jordan Das Erbe der Pilgerin gelesen von Dana Geissler Das bewegende Schicksal zweier Liebender vor prachtvoller historischer Kulisse aus der Feder von Sarah Lark Mainz 1212. Bei der Krönung Friedrichs II. begegnen sich der junge Ritter Dietmar von Ornemünde und die schöne Sophie. Die beiden verlieben sich auf den ersten Blick, doch eine Ehe ist undenkbar. Denn Sophies Vater hat sich unrechtmäßig die Besitzungen von Dietmars Familie angeeignet und gar versucht, dessen Eltern zu...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays. As unpredictable as its subject, Areas of Fog combines wit and poetry with humor and erudition. A fun, breezy, and discursive read, it is an intellectual game that exposes the artificiality of genres. Will Dowd is a writer and artist based outside Boston. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, where he received a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship; an...
| Автор | Will Dowd |
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a civil war started in Northern Ireland. This book tells that story through Belfast and Derry, using original archival research to trace how multiple and overlapping conflicts unfolded on their streets. The Troubles grew out of a political process that mobilised opponents and defenders of the Stormont regime, and which also dragged London and Dublin into the crisis. Drawing upon government papers, police reports, army files, intelligence summaries, evidence to...
| Автор | Simon Prince |
The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled. The largest seaborne invasion in history, it began the liberation of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi control, laying the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front. What is less well known, however, is that thousands of Irish and members of the Irish diaspora were among the Allied units that landed on the Normandy beaches. Their vital participation has...
| Автор | Dan Harvey |
One of the most shocking scandals in Northern Irish political history: originally a green-energy initiative, the Renewal Heat Incentive (RHI) or ‘cash-for-ash’ scheme saw Northern Ireland’s government pay £1.60 for every £1 of fuel the public burned in their wood-pellet boilers, leading to widespread abuse and ultimately the collapse of the power-sharing administration at Stormont. Revealing the wild incompetence of the Northern Ireland civil service and the ineptitude and serious abuses of...
| Автор | Sam McBride |
Considering Grace records the deeply moving stories of 120 ordinary people’s experiences of the Troubles, exploring how faith shaped their responses to violence and its aftermath. Presbyterian ministers, victims, members of the security forces, those affected by loyalist paramilitarism, ex-combatants, emergency responders and health-care workers, peacemakers, politicians, people who left Presbyterianism and ‘critical friends’ of the Presbyterian tradition provide insights on wider human...
| Автор | Gladys Ganiel |
The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands displaced from their homes and many more forced from their jobs. Two new justice systems were created; the effects on the major religions were profound, with both jurisdictions adopting wholly different approaches; and major disruptions were caused in crossing the border, with invasive checks and stops becoming the norm. And...
| Автор | Cormac Moore |
During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three prisoners were executed after trial by military court. The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity explores the pressures that drove the provisional government to try prisoners for arms offences by military courts, and how, at a time of great crisis, the rule of law evaporated and the new policy morphed into reprisal executions. More than 125 further prisoners were killed in the custody of the state: kidnapped and shot; tied to landmines and blown...
| Автор | Seán Enright |
A colourful look at Toronto's pioneer roots, tracing the history of three neighbourhoods from their farming days to modern day. <br/> <br/> Includes: <br/> <b><i>Don Mills: From Forests and Farms to Forces of Change</i></b> <br/> As recently as 1970, wheat crops were grown at Don Mills – and no small amount, but enough to line Toronto’s grocery-store shelves with baked goods. Single-herd milk was also commonplace, thanks to this last...
| Автор | Scott Kennedy |
Presenting all six installments of Richard Feltoe’s series on the War of 1812, gathered together in an ebook bundle. Each book in this battlefield-based chronicle combines the best of modern historical research with extensive quotations from original official documents and personal letters to bring to life this crucial period of Canada’s early history. Throughout the authoritative series, historical images are counterpointed with modern pictures from the same perspective to give a true...
| Автор | Richard Feltoe |
England, 1184. Der junge William verfolgt nur ein Ziel: Er will Falkner werden – trotz seines verkrüppelten Fußes und der Tatsache, dass dieser Beruf Adligen vorbehalten ist. Als William den weißen Falken von Henry II. vor dem Tod retten kann, scheint sich sein Schicksal zu wenden. Er bekommt eine Stellung in der königlichen Falknerei und findet in dem Sohn des Meisters einen treuen Freund. Doch die Intrigen des Knappen Odon drohen seinen Lebenstraum für immer zu zerstören ?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In «Griseldis» sind Kriminal- und Liebesgeschichte kunstvoll verbunden. Die junge Griseldis von Ronach kommt als Erzieherin der jungen Gilda in das Schloss ihres Vaters, des Grafen Harro von Treuenfels. Dieser steht im Verdacht, seine Frau vergiftet zu haben und wird, obwohl mangels an Beweisen freigesprochen, von Standesgenossen geschnitten, von den Bauern hinter vorgehaltener Hand verhöhnt. Doch Griseldis, die sich leidenschaftlich in Harro verliebt, will um jeden Preis seine Unschuld...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Irland Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: Ciara, die Schwester eines rebellischen Clanoberhaupts, kehrt nach Jahren der Verbannung mit ihrer Familie in ihre Heimat in Ulster zurück. Doch dies bedeutet beileibe nicht Ruhe und Frieden, denn ihr Bruder und seine Männer wollen erneut für die Freiheit Irlands in den Kampf ziehen. Ohne Unterstützung scheint dies ein aussichtsloses Unternehmen zu sein, und so rufen sie dafür den deutschen Söldnerführer Simon von Kirchberg zu Hilfe. Dieser war die erste große...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Rom, 1623. Während die katholische Welt den neuen Papst feiert, trifft in der Ewigen Stadt eine blutjunge Engländerin ein, hungrig auf Leben und Freiheit. Sie ahnt nicht, dass es schon bald um Leben und Tod gehen wird. Im Rom der Kardinäle und Kurtisanen erlebt Clarissa eine Welt verwirrender Gegensätze: von Glanz und Elend, Chaos und Größe, Freizügigkeit und Sittenstrenge. Schnell gerät sie in den Bann dieser faszinierenden Welt, in der die Künste zu nie geahnter Blüte gelangen. Vor allem aber...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Ohne Liebe und Geborgenheit wächst Liselotte nach dem allzu frühen Tod ihrer Eltern auf Schloß Bodenhausen auf. Verächtlich wir sie von allen Bettelprinzeß genannt. Als sich an ihrem 18. Geburtstag das Geheimnis ihrer Herkunft enthüllt, wird aus der armen Bettelprinzeß plötzlich eine reiche Gräfin. Über dem unverhofften Glück liegt jedoch schon ein neuer Schatten, denn Liselotte liebt insgeheim einen Mann, dem der Ruin droht Wird sie ihn und seine Familie vor einem Leben in Armut bewahren...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Set in vaudeville in the early twentieth century, Jonah Man is a gripping and ultimately heartbreaking novel that reveals the often tragic lives of performers struggling to make it to the big time. Told from the perspectives of multiple characters, including a one-handed juggler who moonlights as a drug trafficker, a talented young boy who longs to escape the shadow of his abusive father, and a police inspector whose bumbling attempts to solve a murder result in a series of calamitous missteps,...
| Автор | Christopher Narozny |
Nach DIE SÄULEN DER ERDE und DIE TORE DER WELT der neue große historische KINGSBRIDGE-Roman des internationalen Bestsellerautors 1558. Noch immer wacht die altehrwürdige Kathedrale von Kingsbridge über die Stadt. Doch diese ist im Widerstreit zwischen Katholiken und Protestanten zutiefst gespalten. Freundschaft, Loyalität, Familie – nichts scheint mehr von Bedeutung zu sein. Auch der Liebe zwischen Ned Willard und Margery Fitzgerald steht der Glaubensstreit im Weg. Als die Protestantin Elizabeth...
| Автор | Кен Фоллетт |
Learn to master ninjutsu techniques and the Budo warrior ethos with this informative and entertaining martial arts guide. Welcome to the secret world of the ninja master! The Illustrated Ninja Handbook is your ultimate guide to the esoteric knowledge and teachings of the ancient Japanese shinobi. It provides ninjitsu devotees with the first detailed understanding of this shadowy and mysterious martial art form.This handbook contains step-by-step instructions that allow you to master the 40...
| Автор | Remigiusz Borda |
"The schoolgirl is the main driver of Japan's Gross National Cool, and Brian Ashcraft's book is the best source for those hoping to understand why." —Chris Baker, WIRED Magazine Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential takes you beyond the realm of everyday girls to the world of the iconic Japanese schoolgirl craze that is sweeping the globe.For years, Japanese schoolgirls have appeared in hugely-popular anime and manga series such as Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, The...
| Автор | Brian Ashcraft |
Harp of Burma is Japan's haunting answer to Germany's well-known requiem for the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front . Winner of the prestigious Mainichi Shuppan Bunkasho prize, and the subject of an acclaimed film by Ichikawa Kon, Harp of Burma portrays a company of Japanese troops who are losing a desperate campaign against British forces in the tropical jungles of Burma. The young soldiers discover that the trials of war involve more than just opposing the enemy....
| Автор | Michio Takeyama |
With over 300 stunning photographs and woodblock prints along with extensive historical and cultural commentary, Japanese Swords is the ultimate authority on Samurai weaponry. Historically, Japanese warriors considered their swords to be far greater than simple weaponry. Their swords were both lethal tools and divine companions — social and religious icons. Traditionally worn by the samurai as a sign of social status, the Japanese sword represented the junction between the reigning...
| Автор | Colin M. Roach |
**Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015** This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary . The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional appeal, whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, an architectural marvel, a teapot, or a contemporary work of art. This allure has come to permeate the entire culture of...
| Автор | Patricia Graham |
The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code. The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese texts—written nearly 300 years ago by Yamamoto Tsunetomo to summarize the very essence of the Japanese Samurai bushido («warrior») spirit. Its influence has been felt throughout the world, and yet its existence is scarcely known to many Westerners. This is the first translation to...
| Автор | Yamamoto Tsunetomo |