The beloved, bestselling science fiction classic Enders Game by Orson Scott Card comes to the screen in a major motion picture event in November 2013. Starring Hugos Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, the movie is sure to inspire a new audience of fans to read the book that started it all. Ender Wiggin brilliant, ruthless, cunning, tactical and strategic master, and a child.
In this remarkable account of the end of the Second World War, David Stafford looks behind the headlines of history and uncovers the stories of those, soldier and civilian alike, who had lived through the war and now must endure the daily horrors and hardships of its aftermath. Endgame 1945 is an unforgettable panorama of the defeat of Fascism, of ordinary men and women and extraordinary valour, and of Europe in every way tested to its limits. It is the final chapter of war.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11912-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. While the war may have seemed all but over by Hitler`s final birthday (April 20), Stafford`s chronicle of the three months that followed tells a different, and much richer, story. ENDGAME 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine men and women, ranging from soldiers to POWs to war correspondents, who witnessed firsthand the Allied struggle to finish the terrible game at last. Through their ground-level movements, Stafford traces the elaborate web of events that led to the war`s real resolution: the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini, the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau, and the Allies` race with the Red Army to establish a victors` foothold in Europe,...
Dans la jeune Union sovietique des annees 1920, Korotkov, modeste chef de bureau au Premier Depot central de materiel pour allumettes, est renvoye du jour au lendemain. Revoke par cette injustice, il decouvre peu a peu qu`il vit dans un monde peuple de cauchemars dont seule la folie lui permettra de s`echapper.
ISBN: 978-2-07-031281-8
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
The author describes her experiences during World War II when she and her family were arrested by the Russians and sent to work in the Siberian gypsum mines.
ISBN: 978-0-06-440577-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Страстное желание молодого, но несостоятельного Майкла Роджерса, обладать старинным поместьем, которое в округе считают проклятым, не останавливает его ни перед чем. Сомнений не вызывает, что несчастный случай, унесший жизнь молодой супруги героя, наследницы огромного состояния, дело рук Роджерса. И убийство это оказывается не единственным...
ISBN: 978-5-94962-150-9
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2009
When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy`s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman`s warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsy`s Acre is the place where fatal "accidents" Формат издания: 11 см х 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-00-715167-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose`s calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose`s beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.
ISBN: 978-0-099-48124-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011
