1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants. When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague... Zobraziť viac
Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg knows that peace is far from reach. Though he has won the battle for his ancestral home, rebellion looms in Mercia and invading Norsemen appear at every turn... Zobraziť viac
Per aspera ad astra Through adversity to the stars Milan Rastislav Štefánik was great not only for the Slovaks, but also for the Czechs and the French. A virtuoso in life and death, a magnificent example of a man who in every act surpassed himself... Zobraziť viac
Based on the extraordinary true story of two men who risked everything in a mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich's third-in-command after Hitler and Himmler... Zobraziť viac
Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed... Zobraziť viac
The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London. You have six minutes to stop the second. Rudi Graf has dreamt since childhood of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, along with his friend Werner von Braun... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry of works by Isabel Allende. Zobraziť viac
Transworld Publishers Ltd: Book Description A new Quick Read title from the author of Bravo Two Zero... Zobraziť viac
A beautifully bound gift edition of this touching and wise classic book for children. A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow... Zobraziť viac
From the author of the bestselling and much-loved Seabiscuit, an unforgettable story of one man’s journey into extremity. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, ... Zobraziť viac
He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, ... Zobraziť viac
Ben Elton's most personal novel to date,Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour. Zobraziť viac
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West... Zobraziť viac
1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower. Dispatched to northern waters to... Zobraziť viac
A finales de enero de 1939, un grupo de prisioneros franquistas es fusilado cerca de la frontera francesa por soldados republicanos. Entre los prisioneros se halla Rafael Sánchez Mazas, ideólogo de la Falange, quien consigue escapar y ocultarse en el... Zobraziť viac
Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the “Little Prince” and tells him the story of how he grew up on a tiny asteroid before travelling across the galaxies and coming to Earth... Zobraziť viac
Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'You fail to read this book at your peril' - Admiral James G Stavridis, US Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe. Closely modelled on his NATO experience of war gaming future conflicts, ... Zobraziť viac
The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police Department. Hes superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology... Zobraziť viac
The final Horatio Hornblower story tells of Napoleon's plans to invade England... Set in 1805, "Hornblower and the Crisis" finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a ... Zobraziť viac
