On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen: two fleets of dreadnoughts gigantic 'castles of steel' able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away were ready to test their terrible power against each other.
From colonial disputes, secret treaties with former foes, high-wire diplomacy, and tit-for-tat building of the terrifyingly powerful dreadnought battleships.
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia that was expressed in a rash of 'invasion scare' literature.
In a secluded headquarters on the other side of the globe, a terrorist mission is underway - a plan to set of an underwater explosion so great, with such a hellish force, that it could shift the very foundation of the earth's surface, causing untold calamity and world-wide disaster.
A heart-warming and passionate tale from the author of Tommy Glover's Sketch of HeavenAt the age of five I ran into a wood, and nearly two years later I walked out of it and into the nearest house.
Third and final instalment of this critically acclaimed young adult alternative historical series that began with Front Lines and Silver StarsIt's 1944, and it feels to everyone like the war will never end.
A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER seriesAbandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun is an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, weighing three tons.
A stand-alone novel that inspired Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe seriesIt is 1810, and the last French invasion of Portugal has penned Wellington's army behind the river Tagus with their backs to the sea.
From the fight for survival against the ferocious Red Army and the icy, shell-ravaged wastes of the vicious Russian winter, to the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front, Sven Hassel's gripping novels are based on his own experiences in the German army.
'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second World War' The Sunday Times'One of the most gifted English writers of her generation' New York TimesAs Rommel advances in wartorn Egypt, the lives of the civilian population come under threat.
A red-hot apocalyptic thriller from a writer "e;penning stories pumped with enough adrenaline that you'll suffer from insomnia until you read the last word"e; (Jeremy Robinson, New York Times-bestselling author).
For fans ofThe Rose CodeandThe Paris Library,The Librarian of Burned Booksis a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war.
ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALLFrom the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put in jeopardy when a volatile socialite and Austrian double agent threatens to expose the mission to German High Command.
Dieses eBook: "Historiografische Werke: Amerika" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
From the critically acclaimed author ofThe Library of Legendscomes a vividly rendered novel set in WWI France about two young womenone Chinese, one Frenchwhose lives intersect with unexpected, potentially dangerous consequences.
Meet Gabriel Prst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmarks Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present in a page-turning Nordic murder mystery with a cosmopolitan vibeEveryone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a refugee from Iraq, brutally murdered the right-wing politician Sanne Melgaard.
'Her work merits comparison with that of Edna O'Brien or Muriel Spark' New York TimesStretching from war-torn 1940's Liverpool to Oxford at the end of the century, this story explores the emotional landscape of the time and the impact tiny moments of betrayal can have on our relationships in the years that follow.
Hailed as a masterpiece, Jean Rouauds first novel, Fields of Glory, was awarded Frances most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, and sold over a million copies worldwide.
Authors Robin Moore and Michael Lennon team up in this exciting new novel to tell the fictionalized stories of the men who have risked it all for the U.
Die Karpatenfront des Ersten Weltkriegs war ein Teil der großen Ostfront und konzentrierte sich auf das den Namen gebende Gebirge, wo Österreich-Ungarn den russischen Streitkräften gegenüberstand.
