Ergebnis für "Introduction" in 20. Jahrhundert

In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.

Before Stonewall, there was Sam: a revealing, unapologetic glimpse into the lives, loves, and ambitions of gay men in 1950s New York Lonnie Coleman broke numerous taboos by exploring queer life in his novel Sam, originally published in 1959. Defying the era's typical tragic tropes, Coleman...

Bloomsbury presents Orlando King by Isabel Colegate, read by Antonia Beamish. The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) 'If you are curious as...

I could take whichever I would of these paths. A Penguin Classic Sammy Mountjoy rises from poverty to become an acclaimed visual artist. He is then swept into World War II and somehow, somewhere, he loses his freedom—as a prisoner of war, through torture, undergoing captivity in total darkness...

London, 1939. 'Downton with dance, perfect' Santa Montefiore As war is declared once more, a shadow falls over Britain. The staff at the luxurious Buckingham hotel must do all that they can to keep their important guests happy, but behind the scenes they are scared. Away from the glitz and the...

“A haunting, harrowing tale that lingers in the imagination long after you’ve turned the last page.” —The Washington Post Book World A “fierce and disturbing” (The New York Times) tale of twin brothers locked in an agonizing bond during the upheaval and savagery of twentieth century...

Victory: Volume One Foreword by Stephen Coonts The Sea Witch by Stephen Coonts Wolf Flight by Jim DeFelice From The New York Times bestselling editor of Combat A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world...

Victory: Volume Two Foreword by Stephen Coonts Honor by Ralph Peters V5 by David Hagberg From The New York Times bestselling editor of Combat A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of...

A thrilling, long-lost British novel—never before published in the U.S.—that warned of Hitler's rise through the story of an ordinary German family during six fateful months in 1933; it has been hailed as "a surprise breakout success" and "a word-of-mouth jaw-dropper" in the UK. The Klugers...

History offers few records of war as vivid, haunting, and evocative as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. As enthralling to twenty-first century audiences as it was to those who first encountered the book in 1928, Remarque’s landmark tells the story of a young German volunteer who, with his comrades, moves from idealism to fatalism witnessing the horrors of mass killing and the intimate deaths of friends or the disfiguring survival of young men languishing in field hospitals.

A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers. In the title story, "Voices of the...

A collection of short stories from a chorus of bestselling writers all set on the same day, October 23, 1915, in which over a million women marched for the right to vote in New York City, with an introduction by Kristin Hannah Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories from...

From the New York Times bestselling editor of Combat, Victory: Volume Five includes Hangar Rat by Dean Ing and Eyes of the Cat by James Cobb. A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of...

From the New York Times bestselling editor of Combat, Victory: Volume Four includes Blood Bond by Harold Robbins and Flame at Tawara by Barrett Tillman. A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short...