April 1915, and it has become apparent that the war will be neither glorious nor short. England is changing, rapidly in some aspects, and the feuding between military and politicians is just beginning.
The three remaining midshipmen, two...
Enemy of God is the second novel of the Warlord series, and immediately follows the events described in The Winter King. In that book the King of Dumnonia and High King of Britain, Uther, dies and is succeeded by his lamed baby grandson, Mordred....
Katharina II. wurde 1729 als Prinzessin Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg (in der Literatur gewöhnlich Sophie oder Sophia von Anhalt-Zerbst genannt) in Stettin geboren. Sie war eine Tochter von Fürst Christian August von...
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1982. gada 5. maijā Latvijas PSR Augstākā tiesa man piesprieda nāvessodu nošaujot.
Deviņpadsmit gadu vecumā. Nevainīgam. Zvēru jums visiem,...
Audacious. Wildly ambitious. Prolific. All describe William T. Vollmann, author of the seven-volume nonfiction work Rising Up and Rising Down and “Seven Dreams” sequence of novels, which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “likely to...
From T. H. White's The Once And Future King to Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists Of Avalon, the legend of King Arthur has haunted and inspired generations of writers to reinvent the ancient story. In The Winter King and Enemy Of God, Bernard...
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an...
Die dramatischen Ereignisse, die zur Geburt des Staates Israel führten, bilden den Rahmen für Leon Uris' brillantes Epos: Er erzählt die Geschichte einer amerikanischen Krankenschwester, eines jüdischen Freiheitskämpfers und zahlreicher...