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Susanne Thorne is an orphan of means, one reason why Bette Hollander carries the young English girl off to her home in far-away Scotland. Bette would be more than happy forSusanne to fall in love with her handsome, headstrong son Louis, for marriage to the little...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2010-07-30
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Danger was forgotten, death was forgotten, the war was forgotten. They only knew they had to kill... The figures in khaki were no longer soldiers, no longer men. Sven Hassel and his comrades are once more hurled into the ferocity of the frontline.The Eastern Front is a...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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The Russian uses his machine pistol like a scythe. Feldwebel remains standing for a fraction of a second.The rain of bullets pours into him, making him twitch violently. He falls to the floor.The Russian grins. There is no doubt that he is enjoying himself. Sven Hassel...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-07-22
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival.Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight. The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war. They fight only...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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A sobering portrait of the absurdity of the Nazi regime and the atrocities committed by Hitler's secret police.'Frighteningly vivid, a most strongly felt piece of writing' IRISH TIMESAfter months of fighting a savage war on the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment -...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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THE BLOODY ROAD TO DEATH depicts all the savagery of war punctuated with black humour, as Tiny, Porta and the rest of the men advance across Europe.The Russian Officer falls forward and I sink my teeth into his throat. Blood runs down over my face but I don't notice it....
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-07-22
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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'They beat me,' whispers the artillery officer, 'Smashed my teeth in, sent an electric current through me. They want me to confess to something I never did.'Sven Hassel and his comrades are fighting on the Finnish front, facing an arctic winter more ferocious than...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-07-22
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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It is the middle of the 12th century . . .On the banks of the Nile, in a city alive with intrigue, Caliph Rashid al-Hasan rules as a figurehead over a crumbling empire. In the shadow of the Grey Mosque, generals vie for power and influence under the scheming eyes of a...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2010-07-22
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Discover explosive action and white-knuckle drama in the spectacular second instalment in Harry Sidebottom's vivid five-part series, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell Mesopotamia, AD 260 Betrayed by his most trusted adviser, the Roman Emperor Valerian has been...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2010-07-22
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'An impressive debut' IndependentGLORY. POWER. REVENGE. The seventh and last Crusade. Young, Spanish nobleman, Francisco de Montcada, is the hero of this novel, but his tale is told by his former friend, a moderately trustworthy Cistercian monk named Brother Lucas. For...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-07-20
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More than three thousand years ago, a black child was found on the shore of the Red Sea. She was given the name Zipporah, 'the bird'. But because of the colour of her skin, her fate was sealed: in the tribal lands where she lived, no man would want her as a wife. But...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2010-07-06
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A moving novel of love and war by the author of The Beekeeper of AleppoIt is July 1974 and on a bright, sunny morning, the Turkish army has invaded the town of Kyrenia in Cyprus. For many people, this means an end to life as they know it. But for some, it is a chance to...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2010-07-01
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Lee Langley's bewitching story of lost hope and thwarted love opens where Puccini's opera ends; with Madame Butterfly - Cho-Cho-San - handing over her beloved son to his American father before killing herself. In America Joey grows up torn between two cultures, haunted,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-07-01
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A young woman, Natalie Meadows, jumps from Blackfriars Bridge, escaping from the horror she has just witnessed. But she is rescued and feels duty-bound to find out who murdered her best friend, the music hall star Nellie Warwick, and why. Natalie reinvents herself as...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-06-30
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1588. In Lisbon the great Spanish Armada prepares to set sail for England. Along the coast of the Low Countries, the army of the Duke of Parma readies itself for embarkation. Threat is imminent. Yet behind it is a darker and more secretive game, one of espionage and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-06-10
Collection :
Christian Hardy Series
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When he's caught stealing, young Alan Dale is forced to leave his family and go to live with a notorious band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest. Their leader is the infamous Robin Hood. A tough, bloodthirsty warrior, Robin is more feared than any man in the county. And he...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2010-06-03
Collection :
Outlaw Chronicles
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David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic sect or go into his father’s line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New York’s Times Square. He joins the family...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
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2010-06-01
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This is Dougas Reeman writing under his pseudonym Alexander Kent with another thrilling Bolitho adventure!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 uneasy peace,...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-05-31
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'The year has, indeed, begun in gloom. The King ill, and Kipling dead ...' so wrote the diarist Chips Channon in 1936 as George V lay on his deathbed at Buckingham Palace. The passing of two such pillars of the establishment sent tremors through the nation and heralded...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-05-13
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'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT⭐ The Sunday Times number one bestseller⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize⭐ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize⭐ Shortlisted for the...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2010-05-13
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