Only in wartime could a stalwart lass from Manchester rub shoulders with a Scottish aristocrat. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out of a faulty plane over France... Zobraziť viac
A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England ...Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio ... Zobraziť viac
The Ottoman Army - the most powerful the world had known by that time - lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that has to be overcome... Zobraziť viac
On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life... Zobraziť viac
Two female spies. A banned masterpiece. A book that changed history. 1956.A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union... Zobraziť viac
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human... Zobraziť viac
From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine’s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently enteri Zobraziť viac
The Sharpe Appreciation Society: Book Description Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stories, Sharpe's Christmas and... Zobraziť viac
In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing - and previously untold - spy stories of the... Zobraziť viac
The story of relativity - showing how science really works, and how Einstein became famous In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations o Zobraziť viac
New York City, 2015: Eighty-year-old Elise Duval is a French Catholic who arrived in New York after the Second World War. When a woman from Cuba visits with letters written in German to Elise from her mother during the war... Zobraziť viac
Autorka, jež se narodila roku 1944 poblíž Pirmasens, napsala tento dokumentární román o tom, jak byla svedena, do "vysoké politiky" zapletena a vyhnána celá vesnice na základě intenzivního studia pramenů: 15. března 1939 vpochodovala... Zobraziť viac
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping epic that follows the lives of five aristocratic Russian families from the dazzling ballrooms of imperial Moscow to the carnage of Napoleon’s battlefields, this is one of the greatest stories ever told about war, love, loss and forgiveness. Zobraziť viac
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, ... Zobraziť viac
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest... Zobraziť viac
New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother... Zobraziť viac
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author... Zobraziť viac
Bantam: After decades of warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the rule of the Warlock King. But... Zobraziť viac
