Hugh Sebag-Montefiore approccia la storia con l'occhio acuto di un giornalista e la precisione di un avvocato. Il suo lavoro approfondisce momenti cruciali delle imprese militari britanniche, svelando non solo le manovre strategiche, ma anche le storie umane al loro centro. Sebag-Montefiore possiede un'abilità unica nel connettere grandi eventi storici con legami familiari personali, conferendo alle sue narrazioni una profonda risonanza. Il suo stile è sia informativo che avvincente, offrendo ai lettori nuove prospettive su battaglie storiche significative e sul loro impatto duraturo.
The classic story by Charles Dickens retold as part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories. Set during the French Revolution, the lives of Charles Darnay and his family are changed forever as the drama unfolds.
A re-telling of the beloved Louisa May-Alcott story for younger children. The inspirational story follows the fortunes of the March sisters as they struggle through the American Civil War and learn the importance of love, family and following their dreams. Usborne Young Reading Series 3 is for confident readers.
Suitable for children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and complex stories, this title tells the doomed love story of Cathy and Heathcliffe as seen through the eyes of a neighbor, Mr Lockwood, and the old nurse, Nelly Dean.
Sebag-Montefiore has created a bold and powerful account of the small group of men who fended off the German army so that hundreds of thousands of their comrades could exit this doomed land.
The classic story of Amy Dorrit, who lives much of her life at the Marshalsea prison where her father is imprisoned for debt, earning meager wages at jobs outside the prison walls, including seamstress work for Mrs. Clennam, whose son Arthur takes an interest in her plight.
An extraordinary and fresh account of the most famous battle in World War One. No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life and stoic endurance by troops who walked towards their death is an iconic image which will be hard to ignore during the centennial year. Despite this, this book shows the extent to which the Allied armies were in fact able repeatedly to break through the German front lines. By focusing on the first-hand experiences of both Allied and enemy soldiers, the author weaves a remarkable portrait of life at the Front.
A king and queen have fallen on hard times - but then their eldest daughter is given a magic wishbone. Can this improve their fortunes? A magical retelling of a Charles Dickens' fairytale, specially written for children who have just started reading alone and developed in conjunction with a reading expert from Roehampton University.
David, orfano di padre, vive una infanzia felice con la madre, ma questa poi si risposa con il signor Murdstone, un uomo crudele che la porta alla tomba. Privo di affetti, David sperimenta la dura scuola del maestro Creakle. Il patrigno gli impone un lavoro avvilente in un negozio di Londra. Disperato fugge a piedi a Dover, dove una zia, Betsey, accetta di occuparsi di lui. Lo manda a Canterbury, per educarlo, in casa del suo avvocato, padre di Agnes, una dolce fanciulla. Divenuto cronista parlamentare e conquistata anche fama letteraria, David sposa Dora che pochi anni dopo muore. Il giovane allora si accorge della dolce Agnes che sposa, dopo aver salvato il futuro suocero dalle trame del suo amministratore. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali
The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire.... Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a hearbeat away. A master storyteller - his fiction is compelling. (GQ). A natural storyteller who brings his encycolopedic knowledge of Russian history to life in language that glittlers like the ice of St Petersburg. (Washington Post).
Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book will tell the whole Enigma story: the original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked, and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.
