The Fortune of War

Reducere. Captain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British ...

Reducere. Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in...

Fleeing a generations-long war, the Jonah breaks down in a rift in space-where they encounter the research ship Gallion, from 152 years in the futu...

A new edition of the classic war novel, published to tie in with the anniversary of WWI. First published in 1929 as }The Middle Parts Of Fortune{, ...

The story of Herbert Martin Massey CBE, DSO, MC, from his flying days in the First World War to life as a prisoner-of-war in the Second World War, ...

Antigua 1817Every harbour and estuary is filled with ghostly ships, the famous and the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this...

Reducere. On the Boston Common stands one of the great Civil War memorials, a magnificent bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It depicts the black so...

Reducere. Is gold worth gambling for when death is at stake?A fragile peace is broken and James Carregan is called to action. All thoughts of finding a suita...

Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over Fran...

After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. Men like Lieutenant James Ross, awarded the Victoria Cross for his work in...

Reducere. "These are the memoirs of a black woman who was born a slave, who had the good fortune to gain her freedom early in the war, with the education and...

Reducere. "If you love historical drama...then look no further." --Boston Globe Bernard Cornwell, the perennial New York Times bestselling author of the Rich...

Reducere. Originally published in 1863, The Fortune Teller and Dreamer's Dictionary by Madame LeMarchand, a "celebrated Parisian fortune teller, " is a littl...

Reducere. The life and influence of singer Phil Ochs Phil Ochs burst onto the American music scene just as the popularity of folk music was breaking through ...

It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. There's no conversation, no jolity, no fun - until...

Reducere. NEW EDITION REVISED AND EXPANDED From barnstormer to bush flyer to airline pilot, wartime ferry pilot and airborne firefighter, no job was too big,...

Reducere. Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1 New York Times bestse...

Reducere. Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting #1 New York Times bestselling thriller fro...

An exploration of Burma, which reveals a country where temples take priority over infrastructure, fortune tellers thrive and golf courses are carve...

Reducere. In his fifty-year career, Vaughn has made his mark in roles on stage, in film, and on television the world over. A Fortunate Life reveals the detai...

Reducere. YA FictionFresh off the debut of her EP, sixteen-year-old Dani Truehart is flying high on a string of number one hits. After locking down her first...

Reducere. While the rest of the world reels from World War II, Miller Dreeser remains focused on his obsession born of ambition, and sweet Caroline Bennett, ...

Richmond Heights, a community in southwest Miami, Florida, was founded in 1949 by Capt. Frank Crawford Martin for African American World War II vet...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the war, I thought all that was left was ashes, hollow ruins . . . Today, I know that's not true. Where man remains, a seed, too, ...

Reducere. "A powerfully vivid documentary reconstruction of Adolf Hitler's final days."--New York Times Here is an unforgettable, graphic account of the fina...

Reducere. Veer Savarkar was the first man who called the mutiny of 1857 'A War of Independence'. Until his time, no Indian had dared to say so. The martyrs o...

"One of the best guides ever on how to lead a company...the War and Peace of books on corporate leadership." --Fortune Magazine"Both readable and a...

(Revised in May 2009) Deneys Reitz was 17 when the Boer War broke out in 1899. Reitz describes that he had no hatred of the British people, but "as...

Reducere. Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this ...

During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunat...

In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, ...

American art underwent a transformation during the period 1940-55, and nowhere is that change better exemplified than in the work of Ralston Crawfo...

One very special work of art--a Chaim Soutine painting--will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthral...

Reducere. With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly...

Reducere. The unique sights, smells and sounds of the famous city are the luminous backdrop to these eleven tales whose colourful characters are lured to the...

Reducere. Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two famili...

Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that let William Boyd to say this is the finest novel to come out of th...

Reducere. Hercules Mulligan was a master spy who answered to George Washington, being instrumental to saving the revolutionary leader from capture during the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bernard BaruchBernard M. Baruch - one of the most remarkable men of our time - was an office boy at nineteen, a Wall Street...

Reducere. Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacati...

Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacati...

DescriptionFeel the swing and sway of the Jazz Age in this collection of stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Da...

Reducere. As your family is bright, so is it dark. Sure, the love and laughter of family lingers in your heart, yet it's the secrets, pranks, and punishments...

Reducere. DescriptionNot just home to Old Salem and tobacco tycoons, Winston-Salem has more stories to tell. Author Michael Bricker chronicles the history of...

Reducere. Many leading deities of the Aztec pantheon were worshipped by previous Mesoamerican civilizations, gods such as Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipo...

Reducere. It's 1922 and Jack Haldean, crime writer and ex-wartime pilot, is enjoying the local fete on a beautiful summer's day in Sussex. It's idyllic - the...

DescriptionSpecial agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic ne...

Reducere. "I don't know how long before i shall have to go into the field of battle. For my part i don't care. I don't feel afraid to go. I don't believe the...

Contributor(s): Author: Clifton LeafA "brilliant" (Fortune), eye-opening history of the war on cancer, The Truth in Small Doses asks why we are los...

Reducere. A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose...

Reducere. DescriptionFreedom's Sons is the fifth and last in underground cult novelist H.A. Covington's series of Northwest Independence novels. In the first...

Reducere. In everyone's life, there is a story, narrow that down, but you will have a chapter full of information. I have been fortunate I make no mistakes a...

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter a deadly bank heist and JUAN-JUAN's ultimate sacrifice, J-BO escapes with a trunk full of money and a guilty conscious. But an une...

DescriptionThe concept of a twin-engine fighter that could accompany bomber formations and effectively drive off defending fighters was the rationa...

Reducere. The award-winning, national bestselling author of Whistling Past the Graveyard sends an unlikely trio on an exhilarating adventure high above the A...

Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs "Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction."--Nature Th...

Reducere. Every day he stood exactly where he was directed. He listened for his number, shouted his answer in the freezing cold. He was ragged and he was sta...

Reducere. In 1919, Wilford Hamilton Fawcett, better known as "Captain Billy, " published the first issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Filled with jokes and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Grady Thane BirdsongEditor: Alexandra O'ConnellDesigned by: Nick ZelingerVietnam 1968, the Year of the Monkey...This is the...

Baro Xaimos: A Novel of the Gypsy Holocaust follows the nearly miraculous survival path of a group of Roma, led by Tobor Mericano, through the Nazi...

Reducere. What if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between th...

Reducere. What if a secret society, founded during the Civil War, accumulated a fortune in gold coins in the hopes of someday funding a second war between th...

Reducere. Set out on a journey of fabulous adventure in lands beyond the limit of your imagination. Choose for yourself what role to play, where to venture, ...

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Reducere. Bestselling and beloved author Janet Dailey captures the heart of the last American frontier in this rousing, passionate tale of splendid adventure...

From a master of historical fiction (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remark...

Reducere. When the Quint Confederacy and the Kos Empire went to war--again--Queen Samara wisely kept her Rogue Coalition out of the conflict. But staying neu...

Reducere. In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Great Britain, General George Washington...

Reducere. International bestselling author Ian Hamilton returns with a riveting new novel featuring fan-favourite Uncle Chow Tung, who is called upon to end ...