Невероятната тайна технология на Третия райх. ... През 1945 г. секретен оръжеен проект с кодово име "Камбаната" напуска подземния ни бункер в Долна Силезия заедно с цялата проектантска документация, а операцията ръководи генералът от СС Ханс Камлер. Всичко е прибрано на борда на огромния "Юнкерс 390" с шест двигателя, който без презареждане може да отлети до всяка точка на света - например до САЩ или Аржентина. Малко преди бързата евакуация убийците от СС са се погрижили повечето механици, конструктори и инженери, свързани с мистериозното оръжие, да загинат при "вражеско" въздушно нападение, ... |
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В Моите спомени О'Конър разказва болезнената история на детството си в разбито и изпълнено с насилие семейство. Вдъхновена от плочите на Боб Дилън, тя намира убежище в музиката. Шиниъд си припомня първите опити с местни ирландски банди, завършването на първия си албум, когато е бременна в осмия месец, и разбира се - постигането на невероятна популярност с кавъра на песента на Принс - Нищо не може да се сравни с теб. Нейните мемоари са интимно и преливащо от проницателни наблюдения и цинични шеги четиво, в които от първо лице е разказана истината за неконвенционалната кариера на влиятелен артист с дълго присъствие на ... |
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Read from the beginning with this deluxe hardback collector’s edition of the first novel in the worldwide-bestselling "Shadow and Bone" Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo ! This edition features: brand-new artwork; intricate foil iconography from the world of the book; beautiful endpapers; sprayed edges. Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold-a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed. Now Alina will ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Homer's great epic, "The Odyssey", is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife Penelope is forced to resist the suitors who besiege her on Ithaca. Both an enchanting fairy tale and a gripping drama, "The Odyssey" is immensely influential. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition uses a ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. She is ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Ross Poldark features an afterword by novelist Liz Fenwick. Ross Poldark is the first novel in Winston Graham's sweeping saga of Cornish life in the eighteenth century. First published in 1945, the Poldark series has enthralled readers ever since serving as the inspiration for hit BBC TV series, Poldark, Returning home from grim experiences in the American Revolutionary War, Ross Poldark is reunited with his beloved Cornwall and family. But the joyful homecoming he had anticipated turns sour; ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... First staged in 1599, Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Written at the end of the life of Elizabeth I, this inspirational, gripping play struck a chord in a time of uncertainty. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert (1817 - 1897), and ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Evocative of "the blue remembered hills" of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's "A Shropshire Lad" is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman's verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible effects of war, against the background of an achingly beautiful countryside. Inspirational for generations of readers, "A Shropshire Lad", with its sweeping themes of youth and love, has found its way into the canon ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Tales of the Jazz Age" features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and "novelettes" including "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz". Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insight, along with fantasy of extraordinary invention. These stories illuminate the unique talent who went on to ... |
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Dora ist mit ihrer kleinen Hündin aufs Land gezogen. Sie musste dringend raus aus der Stadt, auch wenn sie nicht genau weiß, wovor sie auf der Flucht ist. Großstadt, Lockdown, stressiger Job, ein übereifriger Freund, dazu Donald Trump, Brexit und Rechtspopulismus – wann ist die Welt eigentlich dermaßen durcheinandergeraten? Dass Bracken, dieses kleine Dorf im brandenburgischen Nirgendwo, nicht die ländliche Idylle ist, von der manche Städter träumen, war Dora klar. Alle haben sie vor der Provinz gewarnt. Jetzt sitzt sie trotzdem hier, in einem alten Haus auf einem verwilderten ... |
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Книгата е част от поредицата "Тези, които пишеха историята" на издателство "Унискорп". ... Юсуф Салах ад-Дин ибн Аюб (или Саладин) е султан на сарацините в Сирия и Египет през втората половина на XII век. Бъдещият лидер на мюсюлманите в Близкия изток е роден през 1138 г. в град Тикрит. Запомнен е от средновековната западноевропейска литература като най-силния и благороден противник на кръстоносците. Дава името си на основаната от него династия Аюбиди. По време на Третия кръстоносен поход (1189 - 1182) Саладин се сблъсква с кръстоносните войски на крал Ричард Лъвското сърце, германския крал Фридрих І ... |
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Collections of documents. Edited by: Evgeniy Kandilarov , Soyoung Kim , Svetla Karteva-Dancheva . ... This collection of documents is dedicated to the relations between the European Union and the East Asian region, which includes three of the EU strategic partners in East Asia: China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. The EU's rising interest in Asia has been largely based on the economic and political importance of Asia in the post-Cold War period, as well as the impact that it has had on Europe's own international relations. The whole Indo-Pacific region is rapidly evolving and is becoming the centre of ... |