Tutenchamun: der Kampf um den Thron ; historischer Roman
City of Gold is the thrilling new novel from Anton Gill.
Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious art patrons of the twentieth century. After her father, Benjamin...
Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had? Do you mean my own, or other people's? Peggy Guggenheim was an American millionairess art collector and legendary lover, whose father died...
From the engine room to the ballroom, this book—the companion volume to the five-part National Geographic documentary series Rebuilding Titanic (spring 2011)—is a testament to those who designed, built, and fitted the “ship of dreams ...
This book tells that story. —from the Introduction A fascinating look at the making of the Titanic in vivid, colorful detail When she set sail from Southampton on her doomed maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic was the jewel ...
Mad about the Boy: The Life and Times of Boy George and Culture Club
Describes the unsuccessful attempts of German resistors to overthrow Hitler, both before and during World War II
The numbers are small. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looks puny: too little, too late. And yet, in the context of a police state, it...
Here are union leaders and businessmen, priests and communists, students and factory workers; above all, here are the only people who had any real chance at more than symbolic resistance: those in the Army, the Foreign Office, the Abwehr.
"Nebuchadnezzar: military genius, law-giver, architect of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and ruler of marvelous Babylon, city of 200,000 souls girded by 18 kilometres of walls...
The pharaoh Tutankhamun is dead, killed in a mysterious "hunting accident.
The Devil's Mariner: A Life of William Dampier, Pirate and Explorer, 1651-1715
This is the story of twelve years when war, plague, famine, and chaos made their mark on a volatile Italy, and when a young, erratic genius, Michelangelo Buonarroti, made his first great statue - the David.
"Brilliant, compelling... an inspiration" MAIL ON SUNDAY "A thoughtful, caring book, full of sociological and psychological insight" SUNDAY TIMES "The first-person narratives alone make this book worth reading" THE TIMES
Details all aspects of ancient Egyptian life, from mythology and warfare to medicine and women's rights, 'Ancient Egypt' also focuses on four specific stories of ordinary people, bringing them back to life in illustrated tales based on real ...
"City of the Horizon" marks his first case, bringing him up against both Egypt's powerful priesthood and a brutal gang of tomb-robbers, all while he's trying to evade the clutches of the secret police.
A collection of the reminscences of 120 men and women from 14 different countries, all former concentration camp inmates. It is a remarkable frank and personal view of the Nazi...