The Last Year of the War

Reducere. On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its po...

Reducere. Book 6 in the Harry Potter seriesA New York Times BestsellerIn the fifth and most recent book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the last ...

Reducere. Solid, cautious Roger Sansarc and flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge are second cousins who become lifelong friends when they first meet as nine-...

Reducere. In March 1940 ten-year old Ann Mari Wallenburg found herself part of a daring escape across occupied Europe. Leaving neutral Sweden as the Nazis in...

Reducere. The Doughboys were the American soldiers who entered the Great War in the last year of the conflict; and of their number the Marine Corps were the ...

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from h...

Reducere. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Is...

Reducere. 2019 Alison Wiley, a once-idealistic biotech CEO, is processing her new reality: she's the last bud on the last branch of her family tree. On the h...

Reducere. * A fantasy ideally suited for adults, and teenagers, and anyone who loves Oz and flying over the rainbow *There is a darkness brewing in the west ...

DescriptionThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20...

DescriptionThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revol...

This is the last volume, although published out of chronological sequence, in the nine-volume operational history series covering the Marine Corps'...

DescriptionA revelatory and wide-ranging exploration of HMS Britannic---her life at sea and on the seabed--by the owner of her wreck. Launched in 1...

Reducere. "Harris tells a powerful story of war's destruction of property, people, hopes, and morals during the Civil War in Louisiana. This is top-notch his...

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes fo...

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. The conclusion to the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: The year is Three Rabbit, and the storm is coming. The Mexica Empire now has...

Reducere. DescriptionProcopius of Caesarea was born in approximately 500. He is generally considered to be the last major historian of the ancient world. His...

Reducere. Mountain midwife Orlean Puckett endured many trials during her lifetime. A bride at the age of 16, she had given birth to and buried 24 babies by t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find tha...

Reducere. DescriptionWith the country in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will shortly die and suffer in the afterlife. ...

Reducere. Book 6 in the Harry Potter seriesA New York Times BestsellerIn the fifth and most recent book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the last ...

Reducere. Jerry West is one of the most revered and enigmatic sports icons of all time, but beneath the surface lies a complicated man who shares his true st...

Reducere. Ten years have passed since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last US combat troops left Iraq-...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the last year of World War II, most of Germany realized defeat was imminent. Facing the overwhelming power and equipment of the Allie...

Reducere. On May 10, 1940, SS Sturmbannf hrer Gunther Dettmer stands on the border of Germany and France. He waits with the German war machine for the order ...

Set against the back-drop of the Cold War, Al Venter examines the Soviet-led guerrilla conflict in Portuguese Guinea which sought to expel the Port...

Reducere. Moscow, RussiaA massive bombing kills hundreds.Washington DC, USAThe President is terrified the attack is the opening salvo of a new Cold War.Langl...

Reducere. In a town battered and bruised by war, one woman embarks upon an impossible search-and one man must face the past in the very place that almost des...

Reducere. An utterly heartbreaking tale of two young girls, worlds apart, who are thrown together when they have lost everything. Fans of Wives of War, Befor...

Reducere. They were not her children. But she would protect them with her life... Corfu 1944. Though they don't know it, five-year-old Matilde and three-year...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Norman Conquest, then pay attention...The year 1066 CE is one of the largest turning points ...

Reducere. On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit histor...

Reducere. Irrepressible Terrell Calder is a cigarette-smoking, lunch trading, school skipping six-year old boy growing up in a migrant work camp during the l...

Reducere. DescriptionSeaside Park, located on the Barnegat Barrier Island in Ocean County, New Jersey, was incorporated in 1898. Over the last 100 years, it ...

Reducere. In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Herve...

As the Luftwaffe's standard fighter, beginning in 1937 the Bf 109 was produced in large numbers and after the outbreak of the Second World War saw ...

Reducere. The year is 1987, and NASA launches the last of America's deep space probes. In a freak mishap, Ranger 3 and its pilot, Captain William "Buck" Roge...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Doughboys were the American soldiers who entered the Great War in the last year of the conflict; and of their number the Marine Corp...

DescriptionIn 1975 Morocco invaded Western Sahara, what is now the last remaining colony in Africa, setting off a 16 year war with the inhabitants ...

Reducere. DescriptionImagine that a natural disaster results in a blackout lasting not days, but weeks. Imagine a cyber attack by a terrorist group or rouge ...

DescriptionDiscover "the ultimate experience" (Julia Fierro, author of The Gypsy Moth Summer) in modern fantasy with this astounding, epic conclusi...

Reducere. Failed Crusade is a deeply informed and passionate call for a fundamentally different American-Russian relationship in the post-Yeltsin era. Author...

DescriptionA prescient and gripping novel of a second American civil war, and the children caught in the conflict, forced to fight.Our children are...

DescriptionAlthough bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from A...

Reducere. Description381 AD: The Gothic War draws to a brutal climax, and the victor's name will be written in blood...The great struggle between the Eastern...

Contributor(s): Author: Maxene RaicesIn 1964 the Vietnam War was heating up, drafting young men into battle. It was an era in which sex was not dis...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rick St JohnA war that defined a generation. A band of paratroopers that defied the odds. A bond that couldn't be broken. I...

Reducere. It's the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We w...

Never have Aman and his mother needed a friend more than when a Springer Spaniel appears, thin and war-ravaged, in the mouth of their Afghan cave. ...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYFINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy ...

Ninety-one-year old Harry Leslie Smith became an internet sensation in late 2013 when his article for the Guardian website``This year, I will wear ...

Reducere. DescriptionNot much larger than a few city blocks (219 acres, plus 72 acres of water), the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of the most historically signi...

DescriptionIn the spring of 73 AD the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking i...

One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked...

Reducere. France, 1942. While war blazes at the front lines of Europe, in the walled southern city of Carcassonne, nestled deep in the Pyrenees, a group of c...

Reducere. A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the foun...

Reducere. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMESCHICAGO TRIBUNESLATE.COMTHE BOSTON GLOBETHE KANSAS CITY STARTHE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND)THE CHRISTIA...

Reducere. Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's t...

For thousands of children tramping through the White House on school trips and family vacations, the imposing presidential mansion will never be vi...

Reducere. When John Quincy Adams--the sixty-three-year-old former president, U.S. senator, secretary of state, and diplomat--was elected to the House of Repr...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and cont...

DescriptionWe have always been here... Traumatized by the effects of Compression travel, soldier Darren Loughlin holds the key to the fate of Earth...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this new scrapbook, Avatar: The Last Airbender's beloved character, Uncle Iroh, shares his memories and mementos with Prince Zuko. In...

DescriptionAt the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than ...

Reducere. In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the nex...

Reducere. Here, for the first time in one volume, are two rare autobiographical works by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), founder of Fascism and Italian dictato...

DescriptionA remembrance of love in a time of war. 92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe naval engagement often referred to as the 'Second Battle of Heligoland Bight', fought on 17 November 1917, between elements of the B...

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed author Sandler examines the pinnacle events of 1919 and their relevance to significant issues in American life today.1919 was ...