A tale set during the Napoleonic siege of Cádiz finds unwavering police commissioner Rogelio Tizón investigating a series of murders committed by one of several possible suspects trapped within the bomb-stricken city. 15,000 first printing.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Leningrad in 1941, an intricately woven tapestry of love and war follows the Levin family--twenty-two-year-old Anna, her young brother Kolya, and their father, Mikhail--as they struggle to survive ...
"The forgotten siege of Kut el Amarah, Mesopotamia; 1916- a saga of heroism and military blunder, the greatest humiliation suffered by British arms between Balaklava and Singapore"--p. [1] of book...
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Using many usually inaccessible sources, such as P.L.O. telexes and government messages, and interviews with key military officials and diplomats, he tells the story from the compelling viewpoint of those living amid the fighting.
Jean-Baptiste Poncet is practicing medicine in Persia for the Shah and trying to rescue his wife and daughter from inside the walls of a city under attack.
A major study and an essential reference work, this book presents a critical evaluation of the sources on the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Almost every official who had been instrumental in the city's survival was implicated, convicted, and executed. Harrison Salisbury has told this overwhelming story boldly, unforgettably, and definitively.
Hoffman's orders enjoined him to protect German interests in the region generally, and to seek out potential sites for a permanent base.3 Both the composition of the Cruiser Division, the 'Carola' class vessels were obsolete when ...
“Sir, I would most earnestly advise that you do not land your men at Annapolis,” Hicks cautioned. “The excitement here is very great, and I think that you should take your men elsewhere.”44 After his meal with Blake, Butler had met with ...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.