For Americans in the early nineteenth century, the uncharted western frontier signified both great opportunity and grave danger. Bold pioneers left the civilized Eastern Seaboard in droves, seeking riches and reinvention. Trekking across the continent's vast plains and rivers, they faced the threat of disease, wild animals, and violence from Native Americans who resented this invasion into their land. In this stunningly dynamic novel, autho ...
Ему было двадцать два года когда началась война. Он был простым советским парнем, который мечтал после армии поступить в институт и выучиться на инженера. Но его планам не суждено было сбыться. Началась война, и ему пришлось пройти совсем другое обучение. Его учили убивать. В основу сюжета книги " По следу диверсанта. За час до рассвета" легли воспоминания непосредственного участника тех уже далеких событий. Он расскажет нам о войне с самых перв ...
From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were – to his delight – told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal ...
When James Everard announced that he had invited a young lady home for the holidays, his father, the Earl of Gyllford, was astounded and skeptical. Could it be that Jamie was finally showing an interest in something other than horseplay with his friends? But when lovely Miss Evalyn Pennington arrived at Gyllford Manor, it was the earl who found himself inexplicably drawn to her winsome beauty. Having been dismissed from her post as a governess, ...
Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator. He is lured back again and again as a traveler, a soldier, and then as a reporter by his fascination for the exotic land and for Lan, a mandarin's daughter he cannot forget. Over five decades Joseph's life becomes enmeshed with the political intrigues of two of Saigon's most influential fa ...
On February 24th, 1868, the impeachment of the United States' seventeenth president was initiated. Democrat Andrew Johnson was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors that were detailed in eleven articles of impeachment and faced trial before the United States Senate. Andrew Johnson took office after John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 15th, 1965. After months of Johnson and the Senate butting heads, oftentimes with John ...
Am Ostermorgen 1342 wird ein englisches Kustendorf von vier franzosischen Schiffen uberfallen, angefuhrt von einem geheimnisvollen schwarzen Ritter, der sich «Harlekin» nennt. Schnell brennt der ganze Ort, und aus der Kirche wird ein Schatz gestohlen: eine alte Lanze, sie soll Sankt Georg gehort haben, dem Schutzheiligen der englischen Konige. Als einer der wenigen uberlebt Thomas, der Sohn des Pfarrers. Sein Vater verrat ihm im Sterben, dass de ...
The mysteries of blues legend Robert Johnson’s live and death long ago became myth. Part researched reconstruction, part vivid imagination, this lyrical novel brings Johnson alive through the voices of his six wives, revealing the husband and son inside the legend, illuminating the vacuum Johnson left in the worlds of those who loved him and those he would never meet. ...
On June 1st, 1914, Una O’Shaughnessy sends a postcard home from a Cornish seaside town. Back in two weeks, she promises. But seven months later, she still has not returned to Ireland, and she sends another postcard, this one signed Una, Michael, Rene (!).The Past is the story of Rene, this unexpected child, as told by her own child as he searches for the truth about his parents’ mysterious and romantic history. Through the re ...