When the Russians come, where do you go?
It is the end of April, 1945 in a small village in eastern Germany. The front is coming closer and ten-year-old Fritz knows that the Soviet Army’s invasion of his family’s home can be only a few days...
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It is winter 1943 and the once victorious armies of the Third Reich are on the retreat, burning, slaughtering and destroying everything in their path.
Under the command of Captain Josef Kleiser, an SS unit massacres the villagers of Prokev.
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When Peter forged travel documents during Stalin’s formidable reign to see his parents in a Siberian labour camp before they perished, he knew he was facing the life-or-death challenge of his life.
What followed in the years after that journey...
An epic novel of love and revolution.
Russia, 1907. The revolution has failed. Leon Trotsky is one of a group of political prisoners being escorted by armed police, in a convoy of horse-drawn sleighs, to a secret location in the icy north of the...
Historical novel, set in Italy during the time of Napoleon. The hero is Marc-Antoine Villiers de Melleville, a French nobleman (but English on his mother's side). His estates in France have been confiscated, and he has been betrayed by someone who...
When Grace married the handsome and worldly Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia during the middle of the Second World War, she never doubted that she had married a hero and he would come back to her unscathed. But Leo never returns from a commando...
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Twelve Years a Slave / Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana
Twelve Years a Slave / Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in...
Автор: Цвейг Арнольд
Серия: The Great War of the White Men #3
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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A new translation of a forgotten masterpiece of German World War I literature, based on the author’s own first-hand experiences of combat.
“The war, an operation instigated by men, still felt to him like a storm decreed by fate, an...
AD 98: The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world.
In just over twenty years time, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous wall. But for now defences are weak as tribes rebel...
The original novel of submarine warfare, available for the first time as an ebook after selling over half a million copies in its original editions.
Written with a blazing intensity, it is a stirring and compellingly authentic journey through...