Биографии и мемуары

В книгу вошли монументальные биографии Александра II и Николая II, царей, чье правление навсегда изменило лицо России. В формате a4.pdf сохранен издательский макет.

«Молодая гвардия», «Отелло», «Попрыгунья», «Судьба человека», «Война и мир», «Они сражались за Родину», «Степь», «Борис Годунов» – названия этих художественных произведений неразрывно связаны с и…

18 октября 1944 года войска 3-его Белорусского фронта вступили на территорию Восточной Пруссии. Конец нацистского рейха уже предрешен, но сопротивление немецких войск оставалось упорным и ожесточ…

Рена и Данка – сестры из первого состава узников-евреев, который привез в Освенцим 1010 молодых женщин. Не многим удалось спастись. Сестрам, которые провели в лагере смерти 3 года и 41 день – уда…

В данном сборнике собраны материалы по селениям меннонитов Гансау, Кёппенталь, Линденау, Фрезенгейм, Гогендорф, Лизандергей, Орлов, Остенфельд, Медемталь и Валуевка. С колонистов брали расписку: …

A powerful biography of Spain’s great king, Juan Carlos, by the pre-eminent writer on 20th-century Spanish history.There are two central mysteries in the life of Juan Carlos, one personal, the ot…

Calling all One Direction fans!This is the only official book from 1D, charting their journey over the last year and a half – from the places they’ve visited and fans they’ve met, to their though…

Join the UK’s hottest new boyband on their rollercoaster ride to superstardom, with the follow-up to the Number 1 bestselling book One Direction: Forever Young: Our Official X Factor StoryIn 2010…

Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of th…

The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet.In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted …

The biography of one of Britain’s greatest explorers by a brilliant young writer.The achievements of James Bruce are the stuff of legends. In a time when Africa was an unexplored blank on the map…

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.This is the exciting, true adven…

From the bestselling author of ‘Elizabeth and Mary’, the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England. [Note tha…

William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising co…

On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden. Her murderer is a young soldier and Church of England minister; her lover, the Earl of Sandwich, one of the most powerf…

We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulle…

A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie – revised and updated editionAgatha Christie was the author of over 100 plays, short story collections and novels which have been translat…

This edition does not include illustrations.From the author of Unbroken – a major motion picture releasing in 2015 – this is the bestselling true story of three men and their dreams for a racehor…

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s gre…

Sometimes the most unlikely of friendships are the ones that save us. From the loyal dog who risks his own life to rescue a drowning boy to the lost kitten who comforts a grieving woman to an aba…