Ce que je propose à mes lecteurs est un grand voyage dans le temps. Un retour sur notre histoire collective. De l'Empire romain, en passant par Charlemagne, Napoléon, la naissance des grandes couronnes d'Europe, et ce, jusqu...
Europe
- Author:de Guyloué, BouchardSummary:
- Author:Nelson, Holly Faith, Alker, SharonSummary:
Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the...
- Author:Watkins, Daniel J.Summary:
The French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's Histoire du peuple de Dieuwas an ambitious attempt to connect the ideas of the Enlightenment with the theology of the Catholic Church. A paraphrase of the Bible written in vernacular French...
- Author:McGrath, EamonSummary:
Rollins’s Get in the Van meets Bidini’s On a Cold Road in an original fever dream
While touring Europe, Eamon McGrath wrestled with one of the biggest questions on the mind of any touring artist: should...
- Author:Raab, Elisabeth M.Summary:
“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang...
- Author:Fritzsche, PeterSummary:
World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long...
- Author:Pitts, JohnySummary:
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Afropean written and read by Johny Pitts. In the face of growing racial discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment and the spectre of terrorism looming large over an economically stricken...
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
Witches are hated in Württemberg, Germany, in the eighteenth century. It’s not so long since they were burned, and any woman who knows too much, who’s too clever or quick or skilled at healing, is suspect. Young Lilli knows this, and...
- Author:Ibsen, HenrikSummary:
- Author:Haberman, ArthurSummary:
The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style “low, dishonest.” That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism of the nineteenth...
- Author:Flint, EricSummary:
After carving a place for itself among the struggling powers of 17th century Western Europe, the "out-of-time" modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must fight for its life against Dark Age domination. Alternate history...
- Author:Flint, EricSummary:
First Time in Paperback for This Exciting Installment in the New York Times Best-Selling Ring of Fire Series- The Most Popular and Best-Selling Alternate History Series. The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but...
- Author:Flint, Eric, Weber, DavidSummary:
The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain,...
- Author:Flint, Eric, Weber, DavidSummary:
The West Virginia community tossed back in time to 17th-century Germany attempt to use their modern-day knowledge to build a resistance against the forces of France, Spain,and England.