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Beaver Paul Winkle. The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot
Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent, there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met the eye. From shooting down Luftwaffe bombers from the deck of a carrier in the Battle of the Atlantic and narrowly escaping death when his ship was torpedoed, to accumulating a never-to-be repeated litany of world records and firsts as a test pilot, his unparalleled flying career saw him take the controls of over four hundred different kinds of aircraft - more than any other pilot in history. A rival to Chuck Yeager and hero to Neil Armstrong, by the time of his appearance on Desert Island Discs' 1000th episode Winkle had become a legend in his own lifetime, and by his death, a national treasure. But despite his enormous fame, there have always been mysteries at the heart of Winkle's story. Now, drawing on previously unseen documents and unfettered access to Winkle's own personal archive, Paul Beaver uncovers the complex and enigmatic man behind the legend - the real story of Britain's greatest pilot. A story Winkle insisted could only be told after his death . . .
6425 Руб.
Hugo Victor Les Miserables
Les Miserables is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor and oppressed. Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Miserables is one of the greatest stories ever told.
2989 Руб.
Chesterton Gilbert Keith Favorite Father Brown Stories
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON was born in London on May 29, 1874, and before the turn of the century established himself as a free-lance journalist and reviewer. From the publication in 1900 of his first book of poetry, The Wild Knight, until his death in 1936, Chesterton was one of the most prolific and best-known figures on the English literary scene. During those three and a half decades he turned out dozens of volumes of political and social commentary, literary criticism and biography, theological essays, poetry, short stories and novels. Among his best-known works of fiction are The Napoleon ofNotting Hill (1904) and The Man Who Was Thursday (1908). To the connoisseur of the detective short story in its classic form, the five volumes that chronicle the adventures of Chesterton's priest-detective Father Brown are unique in the genre. The Father Brown stories comprise one of the few sequences that may be compared, for inventiveness and charm, with the work of Chesterton's great contemporary Arthur Conan Doyle. The six stories in this collection, from the first two Father Brown books, The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) and The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), trace the sleuth's early adventures, which often feature the arch-criminal Flambeau (who after a brief spell as Brown's adversary retires from his life of crime to become the clerics friend and frequent companion). The later volumes were The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), The Secret of Father Brown (1927) and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935).
160 Руб.
Brands H. W. The Zealot and the Emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.
1570 Руб.
Brands H. W. The Zealot and the Emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery.
1570 Руб.
London Jack Love of Life and Other Stories
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story Love of Life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging; Negore, the Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected; The White Man's Way, and Brown Wolf.
307 Руб.
Love of Life and Other Stories
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story Love of Life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging; Negore, the Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected; The White Man's Way, and Brown Wolf.
99 Руб.
London J. Love of Life and Other Stories: рассказы
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story Love of Life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging; Negore, the Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected; The White Man's Way, and Brown Wolf.
333 Руб.
London J. Love of Life and Other Stories: рассказы
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story Love of Life follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging; Negore, the Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected; The White Man's Way, and Brown Wolf.
333 Руб.
London Jack Love of Life and Other Stories
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include and Love of Life The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging Negore, he Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected;The White Man's Way, Brown Wolf.
412 Руб.
Лондон Джек Love of Life and Other Stories = Любовь к жизни и другие рассказы на англ.яз
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include and Love of Life The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging Negore, he Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected;The White Man's Way, Brown Wolf.
522 Руб.
Лондон Джек Love of Life and Other Stories = Любовь к жизни и другие рассказы на англ.яз
This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title story follows the trek of a prospector across the Canadian tundra. Other stories include and Love of Life The Story of Keesh; A Day's Lodging Negore, he Coward; The Sun Dog Trail; The Unexpected;The White Man's Way, Brown Wolf.
522 Руб.
Hawthorne Nathaniel Collected Short Stories IV
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Collected Short Stories is Hawthorne's interesting story collection, which was written in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories "The Brithmark", "Young Goodman Brown", "Rappaccini's Daughter" and other tales.
478 Руб.
Hawthorne Nathaniel Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. "Mosses from an Old Manse" is Nathaniel Hawthorne's interesting story collection, which the was named in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories like "The Brithmark", "Young Goodman Brown", "Rappaccini's Daughter" and other interesting tales.
809 Руб.
Mosses from an Old Manse
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. "Mosses from an Old Manse" is Nathaniel Hawthorne's interesting story collection, which the was named in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. This book includes wonderful short stories like "The Brithmark", "Young Goodman Brown", "Rappaccini's Daughter" and other interesting tales.
199 Руб.
Chesterton Gilbert Keith Father Brown Short Stories
G. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enthusiasm when he first appeared in The Story-Teller magazine in 1910. Depicted with Chesterton's characteristic elegance and wit, this unworldly but perceptive priest-sleuth soon became a major figure in the world of whodunit fiction and continues to charm readers today. This anthology contains 24 Father Brown short stories, including The Blue Cross', ‘The Secret Garden’, The Wrong Shape', and The Three Tools of Death', in which the unassuming Father exercises his formidable powers of intuition and analysis to solve a range of crimes.
1984 Руб.