Ergebnis für "Mark Williams" in Historische Romane

Winter 1264. England is in turmoil. King Henry III's reign is under threat. In Oxford the barons prepare to challenge his rule. Searching for his lodgings down a dark alley, young student Thomas Symon hears a scream. It's a young girl, her throat slit. Mistaken for the fleeing killer, Thomas is saved from a vengeful town mob by a stranger pulling him into a dark passageway. The man is his new university tutor, renowned academic Regent Master William Falconer.

Scottish author George MacDonald Fraser took the loutish bully from Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown's Schooldays and gave him a new lease of life. Over the course of 12 novels, caddish anti-hero Flashman swashbuckled his way around the British Empire, playing a key role in some of the 19th century’s most significant events.

During the Great Depression, high-profile kidnappings became more and more commonplace. On December 17, 1931, self-made millionaire fashion designer Nell Donnelly becomes the next casualty.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts.They don’t see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost – much, much worse.

This is a fictional story of a group of Native Americans struggling to survive through the burning flames of the French and Indian War and the forceful colonization of their lands at the beginning of the American Revolution.

Jon Zachery moves his wife and two small children to Meridian, Mississippi, in 1968 to begin US Navy flight training. He and his family wind up in the middle of a KKK resurgence. Jon must cope with the winnowing process that is Navy flight training while keeping his family safe. His wife Teresa discovers she is wed to the US Navy every bit as much as she is wed to Jon.

Here is a classic novel from one of our most honored writers - the author of such acclaimed works as So Long, See You Tomorrow and All the Days and Nights. The Folded Leaf is the serenely observed yet deeply moving story of two boys finding one another in the Midwest of the 1920s, when childhood lasted longer than it does today and even adults were more innocent of what life could bring.

Before writing his memoir of madness, Darkness Visible, William Styron was best known for his ambitious works of fiction–including The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. Styron also created personal but no less powerful tales based on his real-life experiences as a U.S. Marine...

The citizens of Brotherton, Kansas, contend with a series of attacks from pro-slavery forces. Even women and preachers must bear arms in their defense. But what is the driving force behind all the attacks? Will the assaults ever end?

The lives of a young man and woman become intertwined as they struggle to survive during the Zealots' rebellion, 66-70 AD, against Roman rule in Judaea. Confronted with hostility and death from mercenaries, Roman Legionaries and their own people, they discover something that binds them together as they struggle to live for another day.

In 1858, Found Grace Church in northeastern Illinois decides to relocate to Kansas. There they will vote to keep the state free, rather than allow it to fall to those who supported the abomination of slavery. The pastor, Preacher Larrimer, declares the wagon train trip a Holy Crusade.

1971. Navy Lieutenant Jon Zachery has flown piece-of-cake combat missions for six months. Then on the last hop of the deployment, all hell breaks loose. On the other side of the world, his wife Teresa is thankful that, at last, Jon's last day of combat flying is at hand.

US Navy pilot Jon Zachery feels a sense of duty to serve in Vietnam when many are saying, "Hell no. I won't go!" He deploys on an aircraft carrier and rooms with four other pilots and one anti-war oriented officer in the Junior Officer Bunkroom. The JOB, he discovers, operates to its own set of Rules of Engagement.

1971. Navy Lieutenant Jon Zachery has flown piece-of-cake combat missions for six months. Then on the last hop of the deployment, all hell breaks loose. On the other side of the world, his wife Teresa is thankful that, at last, Jon's last day of combat flying is at hand.

Jorge Salazar is an initiated member of the Latin Kings street gang. When he finds his heroin-addicted mother dead on the bathroom floor, he begins to question everything about his life. Visualizing a high probability of an early death as a gang member, Salazar decides that escaping New York is his only alternative. He enlists in the United States Army, and after basic training, he is deployed to Vietnam where he faces the life and death challenges he thought he left behind.