A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list... Zobraziť viac
Román Vojna a mír se řadí mezi nejvýznamnější díla nejen ruské, ale i světové literatury. Popisuje Napoleonovo tažení do Ruska a obraz každodenního života v carském absolutismu z pohledu pěti aristokratických rodin. O milostná vzplanutí a líčení... Zobraziť viac
Random House Children's Books: Book Description A new edition of this best-selling book reissued alongside five other... Zobraziť viac
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a ... Zobraziť viac
Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions Ltd: The author of this text, the Prussian soldier Carl von Clausewitz, had witnessed at first hand the... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie... Zobraziť viac
This parable tells the story of an air pilot who meets a Little Prince when he has to make a forced landing in the Sahara... Zobraziť viac
Once upon a time in an enormous forest, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion. Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child... Zobraziť viac
A pilot, forced to land in the desert, meets a small boy-a young prince-who tells him a strange tale about a tiny planet far away, with three volcanoes and one haughty rose. First published in 1943... Zobraziť viac
Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family; a farmer, father, and a faithful member of the Methodist Church. Then one cool October morning in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, ... Zobraziť viac
1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession. After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act as flagship... Zobraziť viac
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted ... Zobraziť viac
When Liv finds a secret box from her grandmother's childhood she uncovers an extraordinary war-time story of bravery, betrayal and daring defiance. A story that will change Liv and her family forever... Zobraziť viac
O, yakyy spravdi khorobryy voyak, yakyy bravyy opovidach, tsey khytryy, zlobnyy, nerozumno zvorushlyvyy Shveyk, yakyy (yak uzhe neodnorazovo pysaly y malyuvaly) razom z inshymy literaturnymy tytanamy, takymy yak Hamlet i Don Kikhot... Zobraziť viac
She'll light the fire of resistance―but she may get burned… Zobraziť viac
Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterful trilogy, edited with an introduction by Angus Calder in Penguin Modern Classics... Zobraziť viac
Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society... Zobraziť viac
On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared... Zobraziť viac
