Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.
This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed.
A magnificent debut novel, which follows in the spirit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which an alienated student named Lopez joins the Vietnam war to escape from his past and himself.
A neonatal ICU nurse, consumed with grief over the losses of both her mother and newborn daughter, begins to suffer from a series of disturbingly vivid visions.
Dieses eBook: "Heinrich von Plauen (Ritterroman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
When a bold knight kidnaps the wrong lady, he ends up with more than he bargained for in this passionate, exciting love story from the pen of a most talented writer.
Was Homer mit seinen Heldengesängen so wunderbar poetisch berichtet, ist allerdings nicht die ganze, die eigentliche Wahrheit über diesen grausamen Krieg, der zum Untergang Trojas führte.
For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated through South America in linen suits, keeping two steps ahead of Mossad agents, international police and the world's journalists.
Le peuple gaulois, orphelin de ses grands rois, vaincu par les Romains, abandonné par ses dieux, voit peu à peu s’éteindre les croyances d’une époque révolue.
Milon de Crotone a gagné les Jeux olympiques de lutte dans la catégorie des plus jeunes quand un « inconnu » du nom de Pythagore lui annonce qu’il ne remportera plus jamais de victoires, à moins qu’il ne suive ses conseils.
Avec la Terreur et la montée d’un nouvel ordre républicain puis impérial, de nombreux Français de l’époque, ballotés par des événements qu’ils ne pouvaient maîtriser, connurent des moments difficiles et eurent parfois, hélas, leurs vies brisées.
During 1942 and 1943, German U-boats sank over one hundred tankers in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, blocking the flow of crude oil to the refineries in the northeastern US.
Una tarde de comienzos de verano, junto a un cruce de caminos en el corazón de los montes ólcades, un joven celtíbero es testigo de un combate entre soldados cartagineses y guerreros oretanos.
Huckleberry Finn, el mejor amigo de Tom Sawyer, recibe los cuidados y la protección de la viuda de Douglas, pero al mismo tiempo se dedica a sus juegos de siempre ayudando a Tom en su banda de ladrones.
During a visit to her birthplace, Mafalda, the third daughter of the juggler Orontius, finds an ancient coin in the ruins of a chapel where Saint Catherine was celebrated in 1551.
"e;Set in Cleveland, Ohio, from its earliest beginnings as a forested frontier to the urban blight of modern times, Mistakes by the Lake is a collection of ten thematically linked stories spanning the many faces of the city's history: A motorman navigates his 1920's back-and-forth trolley until he snaps; A stockyards knocker encounters the Virgin Mary during the 1954 World Series; A wannabe wrestles his unruly mind along the flammable 1960's Cuyahoga River; In a reinvention of Henry IV, a young man must either stick with his bumbling criminal crew or uncover legit ways to support his mother and transgender Gramps.
Lily Fairchild is born in southern Ontario in 1840 and leads a life of constant struggle against the historical forces of her time: the coming of the railroads, the discovery of oil, the Riel Rebellions, the Great War and the influenza pandemic that followed.
