'No review can do justice to the human sensitivity of this book, or to the horror it describes 1812 is one of the greatest stones ever told 'Christopher Woodward, Spectator Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the terrible retreat from Moscow were a military epic and a human tragedy on a colossal scale - history's first example of total war. 1812 is a masterful account of this turning point in European history, both a poignant tale of the individual foot soldier and a sweeping history of a turbulent time. Adam Zamoyski lias drawn on a vast pool of first-hand accounts in French, Russian, German, Polish and Italian, many never before translated into English, to paint a harrowing and vivid picture of the experiences of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-712374-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Civil War comes alive in all its passion and fury–only now the Brits are alongside the Confederacy. Outraged when the Navy seizes three Confederates aboard an English sailing ship, Britain retaliates by entering the fray in support of the Rebels – and suddenly it’s a whole new war. Once again, cotton is king as the North’s blockade crumbles before the might of the Royal Navy. While Lincoln confronts the monumental challenge of vanquishing mighty Britannia, the Redcoats revive their 1812 penchant for burning down American cities, and Union troops see Canada as ripe for the picking. From the Mississippi bayou to the Pennsylvania farmlands to the woods of Maine, the great armies of Generals Grant and Lee face off in the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48237-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Двадцатилетний Джордан Скотт, шесть лет назад изгнанный из дома в Месадейле, штат Юта, и живущий своей жизнью в Калифорнии, вдруг натыкается в Сети на газетное сообщение: его отец убит, застрелен в своем кабинете, когда сидел в интернет-чате, а по подозрению в убийстве арестована мать Джордана — девятнадцатая жена убитого. Ведь тот принадлежал к секте Первых — отколовшейся от мормонов в конце XIX века,...
ISBN: 978-5-389-02583-7
Издательство:
Иностранка
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. If they don`t, world war will result. In this dramatic account Richard Overy re-creates hour-by-hour the last days of peace in 1939, as politicians and the public braced themselves for a war they feared might spell the end of European civilization. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was convinced the West would back down. The one constant feature was the determination of Poland to fight against the armed might of Germany. Countdown to War brings to life a defining moment in the history of the...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104130-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Japan has only begun to In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame – their aim: to take America down with them. In Robert Conroy’s brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito’s capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is forced to invade Japan as a last step in a war that has already cost so many lives. As the Japanese lash out with tactics that no one has ever faced before – from POWs used as human shields to a...
ISBN: 978-0-345-49479-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A brand new Agatha Christie omnibus, bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1960s and early 70s - Endless Night, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Passenger to Frankfurt and her last book Postern of Fate. Agatha Christie`s imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. Best known as the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, her prolific output would bring her publisher William Collins at least one book every year. Twenty of her contemporary crime novels were to feature neither Poirot or Marple, instead a wide range of ingenious plots would be played out by a selection of amateur sleuths, professional detectives, young...
ISBN: 978-0-00-720866-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
