Ergebnis für "Richard III." in Historische Romane

Teil 3 der Wikinger-Trilogie von Bestseller-Autor Richard Dübell! Wider Erwarten erreichen Viggo und die Wikinger unter Führung des berühmten Abenteurers Leif Eriksson die Küste der Neuen Welt. Mit an Bord sind auch Viggos bester Freund Thorkell sowie die Schildmaid Thyra, die auf magische Weise mit Viggo verbunden ist. Denn Thyras Leben wurde von der mythischen Walküre Hildr gerettet – Viggos Mutter!

Berlin in den Zwanziger Jahren: Der atemlose Tanz auf dem Vulkan. Die Weimarer Republik 1921: Der erste Weltkrieg ist seit drei Jahren zu Ende und wirft dennoch lange Schatten, auch auf die Familie von Briest. Otto und Hermine von Briest stehen kurz vor dem Bankrott. Ihre Tochter Luisa hofft auf eine Karriere beim Film. Trotz Inflation und Wirtschaftskrise strömen die Menschen in die Varietés, die Lichtspielhäuser und auf die neu entstandenen Autorennstrecken. Dort versucht sich Max Brandow zu beweisen, der Ziehsohn der Briests.

Venedig 1478: Aus den trüben Wassern der Lagune wird vor den Augen des deutschen Händlers Peter Bernward die Leiche eines Kindes geborgen. Bald darauf kommen zwei weitere Kinder ums Leben - Gassenjungen, die als Zeugen gesucht wurden. Wussten sie zu viel? Bernward beschließt, den wenigen Hinweisen nachzugehen. Dabei dringt er tief in das Räderwerk der Macht vor, mit der Venedig seit 400 Jahren den Handel in Europa kontrolliert - und gerät in ein Netz aus Verbrechen und Intrigen, das die dunkle Seite der Stadt offenbart.

Die lang erwartete Fortsetzung der historischen Fantasy-Saga von Mira Valentin! Obwohl die drei verfeindeten Familien in alle Winde zerstreut sind, geht das Spiel der Götter weiter. Auf Grönland schmiedet Leif Pläne, Seefahrer zu werden, um Jorunn wiederzufinden. Diese jedoch kämpft im fernen Kiew ihren eigenen Kampf. Unterdessen geraten Sven und Herja auf Island mit Alva aneinander, die mittlerweile eine mächtige Völva geworden ist. Ganz gleich, an welches Ende der Welt es die tapferen Wikinger auch verschlagen hat - jeder von ihnen hinterlässt Spuren für die Ewigkeit.

In a remote English country mansion, modern devotees of the infamous King Richard III, immortally villainized by Shakespeare, have gathered for a grand weekend of role-playing and Ricardian scholarship. Jacqueline Kirby, an attractive American librarian attending the festivities, anticipates...

Das Finale der Kain-Trilogie Durch puren Zufall erfährt das FBI am 3. März um 19 Uhr abends von einem perfiden Mordanschlag auf Florentyna Kane, die amerikanische Präsidentin. Um 20.30 Uhr wissen fünf Personen alle Details – eine Stunde später sind vier von ihnen tot. Nur der Agent Mike...

Relieved that Lorkin is coming home, Sonea prepares to meet with the traitors on behalf of the Guild. Then bad news arrives: The Sachakan king has imprisoned her son.

As the Sachakan king tries to force Lorkin into betraying the traitors, Dannyl questions his friendship with Ashaki Achati. Can he trust the Sachakan? Not at all, if Tayend is right. But do Tayend’s suspicions spring from good political instincts, or jealousy? Easily evading capture by the Guild, the Rogue knows only one obstacle lies between him and his ambition to rule the underworld: Cery.

The army is no place for being idle. A bad soldier is one who can't get this into his head; one who'll do anything to get out of work, who's forever looking for a quiet corner where he can sit and do nothing. But Konstantin was not that soldier. Konstantin was always looking for ways to make...

Das Finale der Kain-Trilogie Durch puren Zufall erfährt das FBI am 3. März um 19 Uhr abends von einem perfiden Mordanschlag auf Florentyna Kane, die amerikanische Präsidentin. Um 20.30 Uhr wissen fünf Personen alle Details – eine Stunde später sind vier von ihnen tot. Nur der Agent Mike...

Contains books three and four of the Richard Jackson Saga, a coming-of-age adventure series: Hollywood and In the Movies. 

Kidnap, murder, slander and a legend unearthed.1483: King Edward IV dies, leaving two innocent young princes in line to the throne. But when scandal and conspiracy explodes around their claim, Richard of Gloucester is proclaimed king. Shortly after, the princes vanish, and storm clouds begin to gather around the newly crowned King Richard III.Fighter, philanderer and royal spy Henry Morane is tasked with investigating the princes' disappearance, the attempted kidnap of the exiled Lancastrian leader Henry Tudor and the hunting out of traitors amid Richard's supporters.

The specter of civil war haunts a ravaged land. And a specter even more fearsome gains power; for the demon, though defeated, was not destroyed. And now its vengeful spirit has found an unholy sanctuary at the very heart of the Abellican Church. As the elf-trained ranger Elbryan Wynden presses north to reclaim the savage Timberlands from retreating goblin hordes and his companion, Pony, mistress of gemstone magic, turns south to the civilized—but no less perilous—streets of Palmaris, they find themselves caught up in a ruthless power struggle to decide the fate of all Corona. 

In this BBC full-cast production of Richard II, the male ego and narcissism of monarchs are hung out to dry... Written entirely in verse, the rhythms of the language in this epic tragedy encompass its themes of dignity and kingship with fitting grandeur and pathos, as the capricious and...

Hunted by an ungrateful Persian royal family, the rogue agents Samuel and Mehrnaz are on the run to escape the empire they formerly served. Their destination (if they live to see it): the distant fabled land of India. There, on the far side of the Indus, the agents find ancient perils have returned in the weapons-blasted desert left behind by the earth-shattering Mahabharata War. Nightmarish creatures that have grown giant and twisted hunt down their human prey, while other animals have metamorphosized into something stranger still.

Sir Thomas of Stockton has lost his son. Taking a handful of chosen men, he crosses the seas to travel through France seeking his enemy. Fate throws him in with a French lord and he meets the French King Louis. After exacting revenge, he returns to England where he helps King Henry plan and...

1971. As Ted Heath's government presides over the collapse of Rolls Royce, and Britain goes over to decimalisation, Brian Oldman is locked up in Brixton Prison. Joseph Oldman pulls every corrupt string in a desperate attempt to get him released; yet no sooner is Brian out than he finds himself back inside. Joseph, however, is on the up: expanding his business through dodgy deals with a Colombian drug cartel and making friends in high places, including Lord Goodman and Margaret Thatcher. Entering the murky world of politics, he becomes an MP and reverts to his old surname, Olinska.

Freed from their colonial masters, Thailand, Indo-China, and Malaysia welcome the Japanese invaders with open arms. Once Burma falls, only India stands between them and the oil-rich Middle East. Now poised to achieve the same results in Burma, they attack.

‘Gripping’ The Times ‘Fans of Philippa Gregory and other historical fiction writers will love Anne O’Brien’s A Tapestry of Treason’ Yours Her actions could make history – but at what price? 1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the...

With the war behind them, Germans struggle to rebuild both the structures demolished in the war, and their society decimated by the Nazis. While Willi works to rebuild the civilian police a serial killer targets young women in both the Western and Eastern zones. At the same time, Major Ross, now fully engaged in US intelligence, is ensnared in the growing conflict between the Russians and their Western allies. Entangled with a female Russian defector, she demands Ross provide both security and, in her words, comfort during this trying moment in her life.

Series 11-15 of the major BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during the First World War – plus special extended episode Home Front: A Fragile Peace First heard on radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of Home Front is set exactly one hundred years before...