Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts — for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 3 Again Getafix is kidnapped, this time by a raiding band of Goths. Asterix and Obelix follow them into Germania and, in the process of rescuing their druid, set off a whole series of tribal wars.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A strange, beautiful account of a woman's intimate encounters with the people, places and politics of a rich yet crumbling culture.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Burning, looting, raping, murdering, Hitler's Penal Regiment advanced on the centre of Warsaw leaving in their wake a bloody trail of death and destruction. They killed indiscriminately: Pole or German, man, woman or child — anyone who crossed their path was eliminated. For Himmler had sworn that Warsaw would be razed to the ground — if it took every member of the German army to do it! And tot…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: “The Separation” is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and becomes Churchill's aide-de-camp; his twin brother, a pacifist, works with the Red Cross, rescuing bombing victims in London. But this is not a straightforward story of the Second World…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Four uproarious new stories enhanced by Miranda Richardson's inspired reading and really horrid music and sound effects, in which the Queen visits Horrid Henry's school and watches the children make wattle and daub; and Horrid Henry tries to hypnotise Moody Margaret, tricks Perfect Peter into doing his household chores, and gets his own way at bathtime.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Four hilarious unabridged stories in the book and on the tape, with really horrid music and sound effects: Horrid Henry and the Mummy's Curse Horrid Henry's Hobby Horrid Henry's Homework Horrid Henry's Swimming Lesson
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Like its acclaimed predecessors, RESTORATION LONDON and DR JOHNSON'S LONDON, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of everyday life — and the conditions in which most people lived — so often ignored in conventional history books. The book begins with the River Thames, which — from its surly water-men to its great occasions — played such a central…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From the wartorn steppes of Russia, from the slopes of Monte Cassino, the stunned, bloody remnants of Hitler's armies were gathered to fight the last battle of the German Reich — the battle of the Western Front. And as the Allies advanced upon Paris, the war erupted into its most ruthless, most savage and cruel phase. Across the scarred, corpse-strewn landscape of northern France, the men of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A few years from now the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist. Philip K. Dick tells a story of desperate love, lethal body odour and an attempted fascistic takeover of the USA and shows that there is always another…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Roman Londinium, Saxon Lundenwic, the medieval City of London, the great metropolis that has survived the Plague, the Fire and the Blitz — it's all here, along with the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Madam Tussaud's, the London Eye and all the famous landmarks. Richard Brassey has a gift for focussing on just the colourful details children will enjoy, and on each page the narrative breaks…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The days between 27 December and New Year's Eve are dead days — days when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a man, Valerian, whose time is running out, who must pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. His servant is Boy, a child with no name and no past; a child he treats with contempt, but who serves his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Grace Darling and other famous names from 3000 years of history live again in these 100 tragic, comic, stirring tales of adventure, folly and wickedness. These stories, many of them virtually forgotten, are Britain's heritage, told and illustrated with such verve and colour that they are the perfect way to give present-day children a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams she calls him to the land of the dead — and now the dead are haunting him, begging for release.…
Скачать книгу (размер 7 174 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1408) Аннотация: THE BOURNE IDENTITY: He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was fished out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face, a Swiss bank account containing four million dollars, and a name: Jason Bourne. But he is marked for death, racing for survival through the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Years have gone by since the events surrounding the death of Anne Boleyn. But her missing hand and all that it represents to the dark world of 16th-century Europe still draws the powerful to seek it out. Jean Rombaud — the French executioner of the first novel — has grown old, both in age and spirit. Wearied by the betrayal of a son and the scorn of a wife, he fights in the seemingly never-ending…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: In THE ROAD TO STALINGRAD Professor Erickson takes us in detail from the inept command structures and strategic delusions of the pre-invasion Soviet Union, through the humiliations as her armies fell back on all fronts before the Barbarossa onslaught, until the tide turned at last at Stalingrad. Unsparingly he assesses the generals and political leaders, and analyses the confusions and wranglings…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Ukraine is one of the most neglected countries in the world. It has a population of 52 million — larger than Britain's — and a land mass the size of France; it also has Chernobyl, and after Russia is the largest nuclear power. The word 'Ukraine' means 'borderland' and for most of its history the lands that make up present-day Ukraine have been a collection of other countries' border regions.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Michael Palin's epic voyages have seen him circumnavigate the globe, travel from the North to the South Pole and circle the countries of the Pacific Ocean, but this was perhaps the greatest challenge yet: to cross the vast and merciless Sahara desert. As the journey unfolds, the Sahara reveals not the emptiness of endless sand dunes, but a huge and diverse range of cultures and landscapes and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery. Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game — the assassination game — which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer? Which made for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of…