The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia: A Romanov Tragedy, Paperback - Christopher Warwick

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Reducere. This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Romanov, the first daughter of the...

Reducere. DescriptionFor eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Ken...

Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with S...

Reducere. * “The most complete and successful biography of the Fuehrer available for this audience.”—SLJ, starred review Many people believe Hitler was the p...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationshi...

The true story of one of the biggest financial scandals in recent history reaches very different conclusions to the standard narrative.Publisher: B...

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery of Stoudios and the me...

Reducere. Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan...

In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out t...

Reducere. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper...

A new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both, in the course o...

First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot villag...

Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

Reducere. The True Story of The Original Tabloid Blonde! Before Anna Nicole, Before Pam Anderson, there was Jayne Mansfield. The original working mom with se...

DescriptionNorthern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. ...

Reducere. Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart, Paperback

Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Al...

Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cin...

Reducere. In 1823, Hugh Glass did the unthinkable: he wrestled a grizzly bear...and won. But that is only the beginning of the remarkable tale--Glass, badly ...

Reducere. Thirty-five years after his death in Paris at age twenty-seven, Jim Morrison's iconic legend remains as powerful as ever, swathed in the mists of m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

Reducere. Sellers' fluidity as an actor made for a terrifying madness that grew like a slow metastasizing cancer throughout his adult life. The story of Pete...

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Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black g...

On 17th August 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra was executed in Pentonville Prison for the assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a high-ranking o...

Reducere. Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev is a biography of one of history's greatest dancers, who ended his own life in a snow-b...

The Life and Death of Andy Ducat tells the story of one of England's earliest sporting heroes. He played football for Woolwich Arsenal, Aston Villa...

Reducere. After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and f...

A memorial to one of the greatest coaches in college football history written by the man who knew him better than anyone: his oldest son and coachi...

A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh

Description"Andrews' wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and mea...

Reducere. In a major new biography, veteran military historian and WII biographer, Charles Whiting combines both talents to tell the tale of barefoot Texan s...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Referred to by Churchill as `the Beast', `Tirpitz' was Germany's last great battleship and was one of the largest ever constructed in Europe. It wa...

Reducere. Black Crowes drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman shares the band's inside story in this behind-the-scenes biography, from their supernova stardom in...

"Stradley has]...a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Boxing fans interested in this...tragic fig...

The true story of the Englishman allegedly freed from a French prison after meeting John Amery, the treacherous son of a Cabinet minister, and sent...

The horrific true story of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate: how it happened, why it happened and what happened nextIllustratio...

DescriptionThe many loves of Conan Beyond his lusts for ale, battle and gold, there have been many women who have captured the Barbarian's heart ov...

Reducere. The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand ye...

Reducere. About the AuthorGary A. Wilson's previous books include Honky Tonk Town: Havre, Montana's Lawless Era and Outlaw Tales of Montana. Biographer, hist...

A cornerstone of Greek Mythology, Medusa is known all too well as the monster with snakes for hair, and a look that will turn any man to stone. But...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas KollerstromAn underground culture has arisen around the Beatles since rumors began to surface that Paul had died-a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BertonIn 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pi...

Reducere. DescriptionAn insider biography of the Black Crowes by drummer and cofounder Steve Gorman For over two decades, The Black Crowes topped the charts ...

DescriptionBY CROM, THE GREATEST SWORD-AND-SORCERY HERO RETURNS TO MARVELFrom an age undreamed...hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sul...

Reducere. In the 1940s coal camp of Stansbury, Wyoming, life revolved around the underground mine, community, and family. In many ways, it was the idyllic mo...

DescriptionLord Horatio Herbert Kitchener is most famous today as the face of the poster that led Britain's recruitment drive during the early part...