Ergebnis für "Mark" in Historische Romane

Ukraine, März 1944: Es ist tiefer Winter, als Adeline und Emil Martel mit ihren beiden kleinen Söhnen vor der Roten Armee fliehen müssen. Als Deutsche sind sie in ihrer Heimat nicht mehr sicher und es bleibt ihnen nichts Anderes übrig, als sich auf den beschwerlichen Weg gen Westen zu begeben. Der aber wird von den Nazis kontrolliert. Emil, der als Soldat Gräueltaten der SS miterlebte, muss weiter um die Sicherheit seiner Familie fürchten. Besonders, als Adeline einer Jüdin bei der Flucht hilft und sie alle in Gefahr bringt.

Der Weltbestseller aus den USA, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. "Unter blutrotem Himmel" ist die wahre Geschichte eines vergessenen Helden und zugleich die unfassbare Erzählung über einen jungen Mann und seine Tapferkeit in einem der dunkelsten Kapitel der Geschichte. Pino Lella will eigentlich nichts mit dem Krieg oder den Nazis zu tun haben - er ist ein normaler italienischer Jugendlicher, der sich für Musik, Essen und Mädchen interessiert. Dann schafft ein Bombenangriff in seiner Heimatstadt Mailand eine Wirklichkeit, die den jungen Mann über Nacht erwachsen werden lässt.

Inspiriert von einer wahren Geschichte erzählt #1-Kindle-Bestsellerautor Mark Sullivan das epische Drama zweier Kindersoldaten und ihren Kampf ums Überleben. Uganda in den 1990er-Jahren: Skrupellos entführt der Warlord Joseph Kony Kinder aus den Dörfern, macht sie zu Soldaten und schickt sie schwer bewaffnet ins Feld. Auch Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori werden aus ihrem Leben gerissen und Teil von Konys fanatischem Machtkampf. Fern von ihren Familien und der Hoffnung auf eine gute Zukunft bleibt den brillanten Schülern nur ihr tief verwurzelter Glaube an das Gute im Menschen, um zu überleben.

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls - but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier - a move they think will keep him out of combat.

Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate. As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy - a legacy that supports her people - or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.

Adapted from the major television series created by Mark Gatiss - out now! 'A delicious read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW London, 1946. Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He is also a sleuth who uses...

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

Buch 4 eines Isekai LitRPG-Abenteuers über einen unerwarteten Helden, der in seiner neuen Heimat heranwächst, an Macht und Fähigkeiten gewinnt, während er die Geheimnisse der Magie und eines Systems aufdeckt, das vielleicht nicht so vertrauenswürdig ist, wie es scheint.

Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.

Trapped in the forest, surrounded by vengeful gods and evil spirits, Hakon Vettel is dying. His dreams of the Alekkan throne in tatters, he must fight for his life while those around him plot their next move. On the journey to find her children, Alys becomes convinced that someone or something is following her, but her visions are blocked. She desperately searches for an answer before it’s too late. At Slussfall, Jonas and Vik must find a way into the fort to rescue Lotta, though with enemies lurking behind those old walls, to do so will risk all of their lives.

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business...

When I answered an ad for a caretaker at Saint Mark’s Sanctuary, I thought I’d be dusting chandeliers and polishing floors. I didn’t expect to be tricked into a curse, going into debt to a monster, and being forced to take a self-paced “let’s learn magic” course so I can fix a 2,000-year-old problem. And that monster? Not your ordinary, everyday beast. He has hooves, and horns, and fur on his legs. But you know where he doesn’t have fur? Yeah. There. Which is fine. Except he doesn’t wear pants.

February 1355: Oxford explodes in one of the most serious riots of its history. Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee, and some choose the University at Cambridge as their temporary refuge. But they don't remain safe for long. Within hours of their arrival, the first of their number dies, followed quickly by a second. When Matthew Bartholomew begins to investigate the deaths, he uncovers evidence that the Oxford riot was not a case of random violence, but part of a carefully orchestrated plot.

13. Jahrhundert: Eine kleine Gruppe von Kriegern und Mystikern greift zu ihren Schwertern, um Europa vor einer blutrünstigen Mongoleninvasion zu retten. Unter der Führung des Ältesten eines Ordens von Mönchskriegern begeben sie sich auf eine gefährliche Reise und stoßen auf Rätsel um verborgenes Wissen und Auseinandersetzungen zwischen mächtigen Geheimbünden, die seit Jahrtausenden die Geschehnisse der Welt maßgeblich beeinflussen.

An einem Herbsttag in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts werden in London zwei Knaben geboren: Tom Canty im Armenviertel und Prinz Edward, der langersehnte Thronfolger, im königlichen Schloß. Dreizehn Jahre später lernen sich die beiden zufällig kennen und tauschen ihre Kleidung. Vor dem Spiegel entdecken sie, dass sie sich zum Verwechseln ähnlich sehen. Da wird auch schon der kleine Prinz in Toms Lumpen von der Wache davongejagt. In Londons Straßen bekommt er das harte Los seiner Untertanen am eigenen Leib zu spüren.

Who was the man that would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy? When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark Antony and his family are disgraced. His adolescence is marked by scandal and mischief, his love affairs are fleeting, and yet, his ambition is vast. Antony's path to prosperity leads him to an education in Athens, a campaign for a seat in the Senate, and a position of military command.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New...

G.A. Henty offers the thrilling story of Francis Hammond, the son of an English merchant working in Venice. Francis must overcome threats to the lives and freedom of his Venetian friends and himself, and keep his wits and sword arm strong during sea battles against pirates and opposing navy fleets. With the balance of European power and vast riches at stake, this is a story of adventure and intrigue, dastardly villains and profound tests of loyalty, honor, courage, and intelligence set among the winding canals of Venice and on the surging waves of the Mediterranean Sea. Set in 1380 A.D.

New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale falls for him instantly but too late to prevent her engagement to a much older man. Harry and Catherine pursue one another in a romance played out in postwar America’s Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, and the haunts of gangsters.

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and...