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.
In Who Am I? A Book of Riddles author Charlotte Sebag-Montefiore has produced a delightful child's bestiary in verse form. Designed to be read aloud, there are thirty-five poems of five verses each, in which different characters of land, sea and air are depicted, by turns humorous and quirky. In a sixth verse, which is refrain, the young listener is invited to guess the identity of each.
Orphaned Pip lives a humble life with his sister and her husband, until a fateful encounter on the marsh causes his life to change irrevocably. Will his great expectations be fulfilled, or can this new life only lead to disaster? Specially rewritten as part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme, aimed at children growing in reading confidence.
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.
Fight to the Last Man
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.
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.
Pubblicato a puntate in venti fascicoli mensili (l’ultimo, secondo la consuetudine, doppio) dal maggio 1849 al novembre 1850, e immediatamente riproposto in un volume con le illustrazioni di H.K. Browne, detto “Phiz”, David Copperfield diviene subito uno dei romanzi di Charles Dickens più apprezzati non solo dalla schiera degli affezionati lettori, che avevano seguito l’uscita delle sue opere dai tempi del Circolo Pickwick (1837) e di Oliver Twist (1838), ma anche da scrittori e intellettuali illustri, George Eliot e Henry James, Dostoevskij e Freud. Né si possono dimenticare, in Italia, le pagine illuminanti dedicate al David Copperfield da Mario Praz, da Carlo Izzo, e da Cesare Pavese, che tradusse l’opera nel 1939.
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.
Makes a portrait of India. In this book, these unabridged observations of the British in India and Indian life were originally commissioned for The Civil and Military Gazette where the author worked as a journalist in the 1880s.
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.
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.
