Noe l. Barber Libri

Cairo, 1919. Egypt, choked by centuries of corruption and decay, is seething with rival factions battling to take control. For Mark Holt, heir to one of Cairo's ruling British families, it is a time of great excitement-and even greater danger. Trapped in a frightening web of espionage, royal intrigue and murder, Mark must fight for the glory of the country he knows and loves...and for the dazzling Egyptian woman he can't live without. From the decadence of King Farouk's court, to the fury of Rommel's desert legions, to the violent uprisings of Nasser and Sadat, Sakkara sweeps across decades filled with unforgettable daring and adventure-a story of a people's struggle for freedom and one man's triumph against all odds.

Tre giovani stranieri, un americano, un tedesco e un inglese, s'innamorano e si fidanzano con le affascinanti figlie di un principe italiano. Ma il turbine della seconda guerra mondiale divide e oppone i destini di ciascuno.

Nel pieno della rivoluzione bolscevica, i principi Korolev con i figli fuggono dalla Russia per rifugiarsi a Parigi. Qui, tra momenti felici ed esperienze drammatiche, la famiglia inizia una nuova vita.

The takeover, when it came, was quick, as expected. But the crushing strictness that followed was jolting. 'On May 24,' wrote one diarist, 'you could bribe everyone in Shanghai. On May 26 you could bribe no one - for perhaps the first time in a hundred years.

Sonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their passion is the most important part of his life. Until war places in jeopardy all they held dear - love, family and country.From the Left Bank of the 1930s to Nazi-occupied Paris, A FAREWELL TO FRANCE is a magnificent epic, played out against the tumultuous background of the time: a decadent French government, the life of a foreign correspondent, the grandeur of the champagne regions and the glory of the French Resistance.

Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independence - but on British, not on Chinese or Communist terms. Here is the war as it was. Here are the planters and their wives on their remote rubber estates, the policemen, the generals and the soldiers, the Malays, Chinese and Indians of a polyglot country, all fighting an astute, ruthless, and well organized enemy.

This story describes the dramatic lives of Prince Dmitri Korolev and his family caught up in the upheavals of European revolution and war. They flee Russia in 1919, escape to Switzerland and then Paris, but, with the Second World War, they come under further pressure from the Communist police. The author worked for many years in Paris as a foreign correspondent and wrote several novels including "Tanamera", "A Farewell to France", "A Woman of Cairo" and "The Other Side of Paradise".

Schauplatz des ereignisreichen Romans ist Singapur vor und während der japanischen Besetzung 1942 - 45. Zu jener Zeit gelten in der fernöstlichen Handelsmetropole noch die gesellschaftlichen Spielregeln der Kolonialzeit, denen sich auch John Dexter und Julie Soong in ihrer Liebe unterwerfen müssen. Dennoch versuchen sie, die sich von Kindesbeinen an kennen und glauben, füreinander bestimmt zu sein, allen traditionellen Schranken und Hemmnissen zu trotzen.

Fortement inspiré par les philosophes du siècle des Lumières, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux a défendu l'idée que l'architecture était source de transformation pour la société. Son projet de cité idéale dont la Saline royale était l'une des composantes essentielles est le reflet de ses ambitions. La Saline Royale est bien la " Cité des Utopies ". Le présent ouvrage n'a qu'une seule ambition : vous offrir un reflet de ce lieu unique, trace ou promesse d'une rencontre singulière...

Sur fond politique (1919-1953) une idylle quasi victorienne dans l'Egypte de Farouk et du jeune Nasser.