Featuring illustrations throughout, this concise volume explores the development of the fortress of Verdun and the climactic battle that took place around it.
WINNER OF THE 2025 ADCI LITERARY PRIZEBBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'Powerful, joyful, heartbreaking and so funny all at once' SARA NISHA ADAMS'Every now and then a book comes along that changes the way you see the world, and this is one of them' FREYA SAMPSONHattie has a plan.
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award"e;This first novel is so eloquent because it is hellbent on collaring the reader and telling him or her the whole passionate story.
Renée Knight follows up her international sensation Disclaimer with this shivery tale of psychological suspense, featuring a character as disturbing and compelling as Mrs.
A systematic etymological approach to understanding the Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes of "e;med-speak"e; Greek and Latin Roots of Medical and Scientific Terminologies explains the Greek and Latin origins of the roots, prefixes, and suffixes of terms used in med-speak, the specialized language of medicine, science, and healthcare.
Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka.
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our centuryOne September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse.
Dora and Luka are inseparable: ever since he fainted at the sight of her - walking into the classroom with her new schoolbag - and she woke him with a chaste kiss, it has been love at first sight.
Zwischen Angola und Portugal, zwischen Rebellion und Tragödie findet ein Bruch statt – einer, der eine neue Welt eröffnet, der zeigt, was uns ausmacht.
A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds.
As the major powers engaged in an arms race in the early years of the 20th century, the Admiralty was tasked with developing that deadly stalker of the high seas the submarine.
The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships.
From John Reed, author of the controversial Orwell parody, Snowball's Chance, comes a subversive satire of modern culture, the complete lack thereof, and a lost generation that no one even tried to look for.
A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the pastIts London, 1960, and Aoife Kellyonce the sparkling object of young mens affectionsruns pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash.
"e;A moving novel"e; of a family's struggle with trauma written in "e;clear prose"e; that lends "e;a luminous quality to [a] story of thriving against the odds"e;(People magazine).
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.
With the suspense of a thriller and the moral resonance of a Joseph Conrad classic, The Stowaway is an adventure story of the highest caliber, a profound tale of good and evil all the more moving because it is based on actual events.
Eine Neuausgabe des Romans, den Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding für seinen besten hieltIn seinem Roman »Die Erben« reist Literaturnobelpreisträger William Golding in die Vorzeit zurück und versetzt uns in das Leben der Neandertaler.
Bestselling author ';May Sarton has never been better than she is in this beautiful, harrowing novel about being old, unwanted, yet refusing to give up' (The Boston Globe).
Berlin vor dem Fall der Mauer, China vor dem Massaker am Tian'anmen-Platz: eine Welt voller uneinlösbarer Versprechen, eine Generation, die sich treiben lässt auf der Suche nach einem anderen Leben.
