Books written by Michael Dobbs

Whispers of Betrayal

Thrown on the scrapheap, along with thousands of other soldiers, by a Government that cares more for cheap publicity than principle. Amadeus feels betrayed. He wants an apology, but this is not a Government that believes in apologising.
Old Enemies

Casey glanced nervously around her, but the three of them were alone on the balcony, looking out over snowtopped roofs that stretched like jigsaw pieces into the valley below. Inside the transparent plastic sleeve were six small tablets ...
Winston’s War: A Novel of Conspiracy

A blanket of embarrassment fell over Churchill and Bracken as they heard Boothby pounding out of the front door. “over-excitement,” Bracken apologized. “there's a lot of it about this evening. two Members were physically sick in the ...
Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill

“I said that I am not bloody surprised,” Bracken repeated, blowing a blue ring of Cuban smoke from the depths of a cracked leather armchair. “You are so damnably offensive.” In normal times Churchill would respond to the barb by ...
The Reluctant Hero

David Bracken was one of those few. He was a tall, ascetic man who had made several fortunes in the information-technology sector and spent much of it wisely, some of it on the recent presidential reelection campaign.
Winston's War: A Novel of Conspiracy

From Michael Dobbs, author of the book that inspired the smash hit Netflix series House of Cards, comes Winston's War, a thrilling novel about the dawn of WWII and Winston Churchill's rise to power.
Wojna Winstona

Kiedy Hitler wkracza do Czechosłowacji, brytyjski premier Neville Chamberlain stwierdza, że to jedynie „kłótnia w dalekim kraju między ludźmi, o których nic nie wiemy”.
A Sentimental Traitor

For this is a plot not just to take over one country but the whole of Europe. And in this deadly game, the victors will claim total victory - unless Harry Jones can stop them.
Blue Moon over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis

9Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes (New York, Doubleday, 2007), pgs 194–195. 10 Memorandum, U-2 Overflights of Cuba, pg 128. ... 22 Jeffrey G. Barlow, Some Aspects of the US Participation in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Naval Historical Center).
Blue Moon over Cuba: Aerial Reconnaissance during the Cuban Missile Crisis

... ADJ2 Jeannotte, T. K., PC3 Jenkins, C. E., AN Jeter, W. E., AE1 Johnson, C. H., AMH1 Johnson, W. F., ADJ3 Jones, C.W., PH2 Jones, D. L., AN Jordan, L. B., ADJ2 Jusko, D.A., PTAN Karobeinick, J., AMSCA Kelly, K. G., SN (YN3) Kennedy, ...
The Lord's Day

The drama of the greatest siege since Troy is set in the House of Lords in the fourth innovative Harry Jones thriller that breaks all the rules The boundaries of parental love and filial devotion are explored to their breaking point in this ...
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between

The refugees would be required to leave a large chunk of their wealth behind in Germany in a “trust fund” as “collateral” for a bond issue to be financed by “international Jewry." The bond issue would ...
Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey

An invaluable reference source , the Memorial Book records the names of all Czech Jews transported to Terezín , together with ... 49 . highest number of deaths : Terezín Memorial Book , A guide to the Czech original ( 1996 ) , p . 52 .
Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

See Dobbs, “The Czech's Long Dissent; Playwright Vaclav Havel, 20 years after the Soviet Invasion,” WP, August 22, 1988, p. CI. 95. Mlynaf, Nightfrost in Prague, p. 146. 96. Dubcek, p. 178. 97. Dobbs, “The Autumn of Alexander Dubcek,” ...
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

A study of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis chronicles the standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over the placement of missiles in Cuba, analyzing the events and personalities involved to reveal how close the world came to all-out ...
House of Cards

Political mover and shaker Frank Urquhart, willing to do whatever he must to become prime minister, butts heads with Mattie Storin, a tenacious young reporter who has a knack for uncovering the real stories behind the headlines.
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy

Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, this is an epic and deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate - an American Tragedy

Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, this is an epic and deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.
To Play the King

“It's nota matterof just friends, Bryan. To override the objections of the Scrutiny Committeeandbe willing to putupwith theresulting flakwould require a very goodfriend. To bequitehonest,Henry Collingridgewas never that sortof friend ...
Échec au roi: House of Cards

« Réaliste, authentique et délicieusement cynique : un triomphe. » The Independent Pour contrer le nouveau souverain britannique, trop idéaliste à son goût, le Premier ministre fraîchement élu Francis Urquhart menace de révéler ...