Political Historical Fiction

Washington, D.C., June 1863. It is the week before Gettysburg, and the nation's fate hangs in the balance. Major Russell Johns is being played by puppet-master Gerard Chantier, who hosts the city's most lavish entertainments, attended by members of Lincoln's cabinet and Washington's elite. Little do they know Gerard is coordinating an attack with Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry to take over the city, kidnap Lincoln and bring victory to the South.

During the financial devastation of the 1920-'30, a group of German Industrialist assume control of their government by supporting Hitler and his Nazi Party's rise to power. Goals of nationalism turn in a quest for global Aryan supremacy, leading a world to war. In 1943, the Sentinels learn of an attempt by the same industrialists to smuggle their "Fortunes of War" out of Germany before the Allied forces invade. Fearing the wealth will be used to finance the organization of a Fourth German Reich, the Six Sentinels gather together.

Die Fortsetzung des Amazon Bestsellers "Die heilige Waffe". Lange verschollenes Wissen. Ein Relikt ungeahnter Macht. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Als Hinweise auf die lange verschollene Bibliothek von Alexandria auftauchen, sind Ex-Cobra Offizier Tom Wagner und Archäologin Hellen de Mey nicht die einzigen, die das verborgene Wissen wiederfinden wollen. Eine grausame Macht zieht im Hintergrund die Fäden und nichts ist, wie es scheint. Und das dunkle Geheimnis, das die Bibliothek in sich birgt, ist eine Gefahr für die gesamte Menschheit.

Profesorul Kalitin este un chimist sovietic fără scrupule, obsedat de crearea unei otrăvi mortale, care să fie imposibil de depistat și fără antidot. Când înțelege câți oameni mor din cauza lui, este copleșit de vinovăție, iar la destrămarea URSS fuge în Vest. Deși primește o nouă identitate, e deconspirat și implicat în ancheta asupra uciderii a doi agenți occidentali. Iar pe urmele sale pornesc doi ucigași din forțele speciale, care vor să-i administreze chiar otrava creată de el.

Berlin, 1920. Soziales Elend, politische Richtungskämpfe, Ungewissheit. Inmitten der Nachkriegswirren wird Philosophieprofessor Hendrik Lilienthal zu den Ermittlungen zum Mord an Max Unger hinzugezogen, einem Industriellen und Kriegsgewinnler, der für seine rabiaten Methoden bekannt war. Sein Tod lässt denn auch mehr Sektkorken knallen als Tränen fließen. Verdächtige gibt es zuhauf: Die Brüder des Opfers, die eigene Pläne mit dem Unger'schen Konzern verfolgen.

En su casa modesta a las afueras de la ciudad, el expresidente de un país latinoamericano anónimo recibe a una periodista en su famoso jardín, para discutir su legado y las circunstancias funestas que amenazan a la democracia en todo el mundo. A él lo conocían como el Presidente Más Pobre del Mundo, y su reputación es mítica: fue guerrillero y lo encarcelaron por incitar a la revolución antes de convertirse en la imagen de la justicia, los derechos humanos y el altruismo para su país.

Martin Erikssons arbete i Kaptensgruvan i Malmberget är hårt, till och med livsfarligt. Detta blir han varse om när en kropp påträffas i gruvan, fastklämd mellan två malmblock. Kroppen tillhör Manfred Wallin, gruvarbetare och fackligt engagerad. Initialt tror man att Wallin dött till följd av en olycka, men polisöverkonstapel Allan Strömberg och lokaljournalisten Britta Lindh förstår snart att det rör sig om ett mord.

Under the shadow of an illustrious father, Sambhaji finds himself thrust into the Maratha-Mughal conflict from a tender age. His mistakes cost him dearly, and when his father suddenly dies and he becomes the chhatrapati, it is as if he has inherited a crown of thorns. In the nine years that follow, he faces a constant battle - internally, as palace intrigues simmer to kill him, and externally, as Aurangzeb descends on the Deccan with full military force. Even Chhatrapati Shivaji had never faced a full-blown Mughal aggression.

Norman Armstrong and Alf Burton are an unlikely pair of political friends. One is a left-wing journalist who grew up in poverty, a man with a national reputation and a sharp tongue. The other is the Tory Chief Whip and the latest in a long family line of distinguished politicians. A violent argument between the two proves to be the beginning of a lasting bond. When Alf tells Norman that he has been lucky enough to secure access to a revelatory manuscript written by Charlotte Morris, both men immediately understand the potentially explosive significance of the event.

A young Yale academic is summoned to Ireland to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe-deposit box, in which she finds only one thing: a nonfiction manuscript by James Bond author Ian Fleming. The manuscript, detailing Fleming's own involvement in British espionage during World War II, contains evidence that the Duke of Windsor was in a treasonous plot with Hitler, information so confidential that people are willing to kill to continue its secrecy.

Egypt, 1914. It is the beginning of the war and Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of Cairo’s Secret Police, is given the unhappy task of rounding up enemy aliens. But, in a land where adoption of foreign nationality is a popular means of avoiding trial by an Egyptian court, determining who counts as German proves contentious. And then there’s the face in the cemetery.

The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers.

Il capolavoro della letteratura italiana e la base dell' italiano corretto. L’ascolto ribalterà le cattive impressioni dovute al forzato apprendimento scolastico. Si apprezzerà un romanzo fresco, ironico, di grande spessore spirituale.Di grande attualità; una storia d’amoreAdatto a: tutti, iIn particolare a chi a scuola l’ha detestato e si è sempre chiesto se era un capolavoro oppure no; ai cultori del romanzo storico; a chi ha fede e a chi non ne ha, per un confronto con un’opera dalle infinite sfaccettature.

Among Howard Fast's historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine - one of America's all-time best-sellers - occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine's revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us "a vivid picture of Paine's mode of writing, idiosyncrasies, and character-generous, nobly unselfish, moody, often dirty, frequently drunken, a revolutionist by avocation" ( Library Journal).

Bruce Baron was a first rate foreign correspondent during World War II, but his association with the Communist Party plunges him into trouble with the McCarthy witch hunts. His only salvation is the passionate and feisty Molly Maguire but her own political leanings do nothing to help his cause.

August 1961: Hauptmann Max Heller ist in den Innendienst versetzt worden. Ein Affront für Heller, der kurz vor seinem Ruhestand steht. Als er eines Tages ein Paket mit Beweismaterial aus einem längst aufgeklärten Mordfall erhält, ist schnell klar: Der wahre Täter von damals ist zurück und fordert ihn zu einem Kampf um Leben und Tod heraus. Eine atemlose Mörderjagd beginnt. Auch die politische Lage in der DDR spitzt sich zu. Nahezu unbemerkt von der Welt wird der Bau der Berliner Mauer vorbereitet. Und Karin und Max Heller müssen eine dramatische Entscheidung treffen - gehen oder bleiben?

1945. La votación de la Cámara de los Lores para decidir quién hereda la fortuna familiar de los Barrington ha acabado en empate. El voto decisivo del Lord Canciller hará tambalearse las vidas de Harry Clifton y Giles Barrington. Harry regresa a América para promocionar su última novela, mientras que su amada Emma se embarca en la búsqueda de la niña que apareció en el despacho de su padre la noche en que éste fue asesinado.

In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family's generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president of the United States.

In the time of Vespasian, just after Rome has crushed the Jewish Revolt, Julius Varro, a Roman Questor (an investigating magistrate ) is commissioned to investigate the story that a Jew rose from the dead after being crucified in Jerusalem. Because the fast-growing Nazarene sect founded by the martyr's followers is becoming a threat to the stability of the region, there is much riding on debunking the story.

Als der ehemalige Betriebskindergarten gut zehn Jahre nach der Wende verkauft werden soll, weckt das den verloren geglaubten Gemeinschaftsgeist in der alten Belegschaft - und völlig unvermittelt ergibt sich eine Chance, den Lauf der Dinge zu ändern. Nach der Abwicklung des Brandenburger Chemiewerks im Jahr 1994 sind Erika und ihr Mann Mitte 50 und schlagartig arbeitslos. Ihre Tochter kehrt ihnen den Rücken und zieht nach Berlin.