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Deadly Embrace
Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941
AvAnthony Read,David Fisher
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
468 kr
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An engrossing account of the mutual nonaggression treaty signed by Hitler and Stalin in 1939, and the historical events it produced. Here readers will be able to view the dramatic story of the circumstances behind the signing, and twenty-two months later, the breaking of this notorious pact.
Proudest Day
India's Long Road to Independence
AvDavid Fisher,Anthony Read
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
432 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
And yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees were slaughtered on their flight to safety -- not by the British, but by each other. Macaulay's dream had become a flawed and bloody reality. The Proudest Day is a riveting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. Anthony Read and David Fisher tell the whole epic story in compelling and colorful detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier; their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants --Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah --who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years. Meanwhile, a succession of British politicians and viceroys veered wildly between liberalism and repression until the Raj became a powder keg, wanting only a match.
Devil's Disciples
Hitler's Inner Circle
AvAnthony Read
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
578 kr
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The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult relying on the hypnotic personality of Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen successor. This peculiar leadership dynamic resulted in millions of deaths and some of the worst excesses of World War II. The Devil's Disciples is the first major book for a general readership to examine those lieutenants, not only as individuals but also as a group. It focuses on the three most important Nazi paladins—Göring, Goebbels, and Himmler—with their nearest rivals—Bormann, Speer, and Ribbentrop—in close attendance. Perceptive, illuminating, and grandly ambitious, The Devil's Disciples is above all a powerful chronological narrative, showing how the personalities of Hitler's inner circle developed and how their jealousies and constant intrigues affected the regime, the war, and Hitler himself.
Berlin Rising
Biography of a City
AvAnthony Read,David Fisher
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
324 kr
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Fall of Berlin
AvAnthony Read,David Fisher
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
403 kr
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The authors have delved into archival research, diaries, and memoirs, and conducted numerous interviews to recreate through brilliantly detailed vignettes the story of Berlin and its resilient inhabitants: the soldiers and ordinary citizens pounded by Allied bombing but maintaining their gallows humor; the endless procession of refugees; the 5,000 Jews who foiled the Nazi's rabid attempt to "purify" the capital; people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer who gave their lives in heroic anti-Nazi resistance while film stars and the well-connected lived in precarious luxury; the Third Reich's leaders jockeying for power in Hitler's underground bunker even as a ragged army of children, invalids, and old men confronted Soviet tanks in the rubble above; and of course, Hitler himself, trapped beneath a city he hated, waiting for the miracle promised him in horoscope readings. Not since Is Paris Burning? has a book so vividly evoked the daily struggle for survival and dignity in the nightmarish center of total war.
World on Fire
1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism
AvAnthony Read
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
335 kr
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While the Western leaders were hammering out a peace treaty in Paris to end the Great War, a new war had already begun. Bolshevism—the creed of the Russian Revolution—had burst on the scene in 1917 and seared itself into the world’s consciousness even faster than al-Qaeda would some eighty years later. The Allied powers tried to destroy it at its source by intervening, controversially and unsuccessfully, in the civil war in Russia. Elsewhere there were bloody revolutions and bloodier counterrevolutions in Germany, Hungary, and the Baltic States; massive strikes and civil unrest broke out in Britain, Western Europe, and in both North and South America. In the United States, a series of terrorist bombings created a wave of hysteria, later labeled the Great Red Scare, that threatened the very foundations of a free and democratic society. This book chronicles and examines the running battle with terror during the most revolutionary year since 1789.
Devil's Disciples
AvAnthony Read
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
220 kr
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The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen successor. This deadly contest accounted for many of the regime's worst excesses, in which millions of people died, and which brought Western civilization to its knees. The Devil's Disciples is the first major book for a general readership to examine those lieutenants, not only as individuals but also as a group. It focuses on the three Nazi paladins closest to Hitler - Goring, Goebbels and Himmler - with their nearest rivals - Bormann, Speer and Ribbentrop in close attendance. Others who were removed in various ways - like Gregor Strasser, Ernst R-hm, Heydrich and Hess - play supporting roles. Perceptive and illuminating, The Devil's Disciples is above all a powerful chronological narrative, showing how the personalities of Hitler's inner circle developed and how their jealousies and constant intrigues affected the regime, the war, and Hitler himself.
Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Disappearing Detective
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
55 kr
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The first title in a thrilling, fast-paced adventure series about Sherlock Holmes's gang of street-urchin detectives.It is 1897, Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee year, and the Baker Street Boys are helping Sherlock Holmes to solve a case involving a mysterious American when Holmes himself disappears. Only the Boys realize that he hasn’t gone undercover but has actually been kidnapped by a Fenian gang from Boston who are planning to assassinate the Queen…
Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Captive Clairvoyant
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
55 kr
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Second in a thrilling, fast-paced adventure series about Sherlock Holmes's gang of street-urchin detectives.Holmes and Watson are out of town and it’s up to the Boys to rescue Mary from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Marvin the Mystic. But Marvin is in cahoots with the dastardly Moriarty! Together they scheme to rob rich people’s houses while Marvin performs seances. The Boys know Mary will never be safe with Marvin on the loose, so Rosie, the little flower girl, replaces Mary on stage in an attempt to reveal Marvin’s scam. But everything goes horribly wrong – Marvin is murdered and Rosie kidnapped! In a race against time, the Boys dash across London and, with some help from Mary’s real father, uncover the murderers and rescue their friend.
Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Ranjipur Ruby
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
55 kr
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The third title in a thrilling, fast-paced adventure series about Sherlock Holmes's gang of street urchin detectives.When the Boys rescue an Indian boy, Ravi, they get caught up in an exotic intrigue involving murder, secret underground passages and waxwork dummies. It looks like they’ve fallen victim to the curse of the Ranjipur Ruby. Pursued by a bloodthirsty cult and by Holmes’s nemesis Moriarty, the Boys have a case to solve!
Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Haunted Horrors
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
56 kr
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The sixth title in a thrilling, fast-paced adventure series about Sherlock Holmes's gang of street-urchin detectives.When Sarge sees a ghost in one of the exhibits during his night watch at the Baker Street Bazaar waxworks exhibition, everyone tell him he must have imagined it. But the ex-army officer is adamant, and when his job is put on the line as a result, Wiggins and Beaver decide to spend the night there themselves to find out once and for all what it was that he saw. When they do, they realize that all is not as it seems. Suddenly the Baker Street Boys are catapulted into a mystery involving a Russian spy ring, a case of mistaken identity … and murder.
Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Limehouse Laundry
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
53 kr
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The fourth title in a thrilling, fast-paced adventure series about Sherlock Holmes's gang of street-urchin detectives.London’s docklands: home to a large Chinese community and rife with smuggling – and not only of goods. Into the fray burst Sherlock Holmes’s Irregulars, who find themselves swinging into action (at no little risk to themselves) to stop a thriving racket shanghaiing children into slavery. And never is the cause more desperate than when one of those children is their very own Rosie…
Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Stolen Sparklers
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
56 kr
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The fifth title in a thrilling, fast-paced adventure series about Sherlock Holmes's gang of street-urchin detectives.When Lady Mountjoy’s diamond tiara goes missing, Polly, one of the maids, is accused of the theft. But Polly didn’t do it. Discovered by the Baker Street Boys, out of a job and with nowhere to go, Polly begs them to help her – and so they find themselves with another mystery to solve. Wiggins hits upon a plan: why doesn’t Queenie apply for the newly vacated job, infiltrate the house and see what she can find out? It seems there are certainly things to be discovered: (1) Lady Mountjoy is broke and in desperate need of money, (2) she has a wastrel brother living with her as a hanger-on, (3) both of them know Professor Moriarty…
Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Racehorse Ringer
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2012, 9-12 år
56 kr
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Seventh in a thrilling, fast-paced adventure series about Sherlock Holmes's gang of street-urchin detectives.There’s been a murder at the racing stables and Gertie’s father, Patrick, stands accused. The punishment is death by hanging, and Gertie is beside herself. She knows her father didn’t do it, but with Sherlock Holmes away, how can she prove his innocence? Wiggins suspects an inside job and sends Sparrow in to do some digging around. Undercover as the new stable lad, Sparrow finds himself mixing with some decidedly shady characters – and then he stumbles upon an audacious betting scam that puts a valuable racehorse in danger. Now there are two lives for the Baker Street Boys to save, and time is not on their side. The race is on!
Devil's Disciples
AvAnthony Read
E-bok
Engelska, 2011
167 kr
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The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen successor. This deadly contest accounted for many of the regime's worst excesses, in which millions of people died, and which brought Western civilization to its knees. The Devil's Disciples is the first major book for a general readership to examine those lieutenants, not only as individuals but also as a group. It focuses on the three Nazi paladins closest to Hitler - Goring, Goebbels and Himmler - with their nearest rivals - Bormann, Speer and Ribbentrop in close attendance. Others who were removed in various ways - like Gregor Strasser, Ernst R-hm, Heydrich and Hess - play supporting roles. Perceptive and illuminating, The Devil's Disciples is above all a powerful chronological narrative, showing how the personalities of Hitler's inner circle developed and how their jealousies and constant intrigues affected the regime, the war, and Hitler himself.
World On Fire
1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism
AvAnthony Read
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
166 kr
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At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Western leaders drafted a peace treaty that would punish German militarism and 'make the world safe for democracy' but the world itself was already fighting a new war, against terrorism. The great evil was now Bolshevism, which had burst onto the scene in 1917 and rapidly seared itself into the world's consciousness.The Allied powers' attempts to destroy this threatening ideology at its source by intervening in the Russian civil war were both unsuccessful and controversial and the tremors of the Russian upheaval eighteen months earlier were being felt throughout the world, resurfacing in bloody revolutions and even bloodier counter-revolutions in Germany, Hungary and the Baltic States, as well as in the massive strikes, riots and civil unrest that paralyzed the rest of the world. Military revolts involving thousands of British personnel saw a group of sailors imprisoned for taking over their ship, hauling down the white ensign and hoisting the red flag in its place, while in Ireland Michael Collins and the IRA were conducting a successful terrorist campaign against the British; in Italy Benito Mussolini deserted the socialist camp and drew up the Fascist Manifesto; and in the United States a series of terrorist bombings, later labelled the Great Red Scare, created a wave of hysteria that shook the very foundations of a free and democratic society. Anthony Read's absorbing and revelatory book chronicles and examines the running battle with Bolshevism, insurgency and fear during the most revolutionary year since 1789.

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Anthony Read – författare

Deadly Embrace

Proudest Day

Devil's Disciples

Berlin Rising

Fall of Berlin

World on Fire

Devil's Disciples

Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Disappearing Detective

Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Captive Clairvoyant

Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Ranjipur Ruby

Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Haunted Horrors

Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Limehouse Laundry

Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Stolen Sparklers

Baker Street Boys: The Case of the Racehorse Ringer

Devil's Disciples

World On Fire

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