Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed — no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy. Whether he's discussing the incandescent effect of The Qu'ran, the enduring influence of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, of the way in which Uncle…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him — a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and ignorant public, the strictures of the Dewey Decimal System and the sinister expansionist conspiracies of the books themselves, two things shine through: her unrequited…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Fate sends two star-crossed lovers, Sasha and Volodenka, on two separate journeys across space and time. Sasha finds herself as a young woman in a time not far from the present day. Volodenka finds himself as a young soldier in a horrific conflict at the turn of the twentieth century. Yet, despite their cosmic schism, their letters still reach one another; as he helps her to come to terms with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Mogadishu, Somalia. A luxury cruise liner has been captured by Somali pirates, with 860 lives at the mercy of the ruthless hijackers. Jake Grafton, head of Middle Eastern covert Ops for the CIA, has contacted his uniquely talented operative Tommy Carmellini, requesting his presence. Grafton's veins of ice and nerves of steel make him Washington's go-to man in a crisis, while Carmellini has the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most notorious kings, the house of Plantagenet would reign for over 300 blood-soaked, yet foundational, years. The dynasty provides some of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Surrounded by evil, how long can one man's good intentions last? February 1941, Berlin: A murderer is on a killing spree. The Murder Squad is in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. Georg Heuser is the idealistic, brilliant young detective set to crack the case. July 1959, West Germany: Lawyers Max Kraus and Paula Siebert are investigating war crimes of unimaginable magnitude…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 'I'm looking for that perfect blend of flavours; the taste that used to be you.' It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to finish writing The Flavours of Love, the cookbook he started before he died. Everyone thinks I'm coping so well without him — they have no idea what I've been hiding or what I did back then to protect my family. But now that my 14-year-old daughter…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the greatest Italian painter of his day, is expelled from the Order of the Knights of Malta. Subject to a clandestine hearing, his crime remains a closely guarded secret. 2014. Two bodies are found in a London art gallery — stripped naked, necks bound with wire and legs obscenely contorted. They are twin brothers — successful art dealers — their brutal murder…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 717 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 534) Аннотация: IF YOU FLEE FATE...When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU...But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets the prime suspect, the victim's wife, and is convinced that he…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman; it is notable for its warmth, its sense of fun and for the benign…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Frank Lloyd Wright was the greatest American architect of the 20th century. During a long life he designed many of the most striking and iconic buildings in the USA — structures such as Fallingwater, a house poised above a waterfall in rural Pennsylvania, the Unity Temple, the USA's first all-concrete public building, and New York's amazing, spiral-shaped Guggenheim Museum. One of the most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'If only our country hadn't been invaded. If only we could have carried on the way we used to, watching other people's wars on television'. Book 5 of The Tomorrow Series. Ellie and her friends are more determined than ever to make an impact on the enemy. But the constant fighting is beginning to take its toll on the group. Kevin is suffering an emotional breakdown, and the friendship that has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In this new, updated edition of The Digital Photography Handbook Doug Harman includes the very latest developments in digital technology — from cutting-edge cameras to up-to-the minute software, such as Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5. Featuring fresh new pictures and a new, easy-to-follow layout, the book will show you how to combine photographic flair with digital expertise in order to achieve…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Though controversial in his time, Gustav Klimt's works are today recognized as masterpieces. The Byzantine luxuriance of form, the vivid juxtaposition of colours and the rich symbolism, sensuality and eroticism of his work have made the artist one of the most popular in the world. In this lavish volume his most important and iconic works are arranged thematically, and are accompanied by Rachel…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Whether your idea of island heaven is relaxing on a warm, sandy beach, or a cool and invigorating mountain hike, this beautifully illustrated survey has it all. Part travel guide, part reference, Dream Islands combines spectacular photography with insightful narrative descriptions, providing the perfect way to discover some of the most beautiful and unique corners of the world. Looking at every…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. So far, so simple. Now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death. By now you realize that this novel is unique. And, when you learn how it has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Even after four years military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging it. Vespasian's mission is the key move in a deadly struggle…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East Germans were informing on their countrymen and women, there are a thousand stories just waiting to get out. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of…