In this riveting account of one of the most notorious spy cases in Cold War history, Rodney Barker, the author of The Broken Circle and The Hiroshima Maidens, uncovers startling new facts about the head-line-making sex-for-secrets marine spy scandal...
"A hundred years old, Hollywood is the world's largest film business with its movies adored around the globe. But the drama on-screen has been matched, and often exceeded, by the lives off-screen."
As the title suggests the book covers the history...
The world’s largest Christian organization with 1.2 billion members, the Catholic Church is one of the world’s oldest institutions and has played a crucial part in the development of Western civilization. But in its rise from Jewish sect to...
Despite its reputation as the longest established in Europe, the history of the English monarchy is punctuated by scandal, murders, betrayals, plots, and treason. Since William the Conqueror seized the crown in 1066, England has seen three civil...
In the 10th century, being head of the Catholic Church didn’t stop Pope John XII from allegedly committing incest with his sisters, calling on pagan gods and goddesses, being an alcoholic and putting his mistress in charge of his brothel. Of...
Divorced, beheaded, died,
Divorced, beheaded, survived.
– the fates of Henry VIII’s wives
Beginning with the victory of Henry Tudor over Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, and ending with the death of the childless Elizabeth I in 1603...
The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition.
Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike...
Kurzbeschreibung
Vandenberg erzählt die Geschichte zweier Männer, die verschiedener nicht sein konnten: Der eine Franzose, wagemutig, ein Draufgänger; der andere Deutscher, feinsinnig und schüchtern ═ Auguste Mariette und...