Resultados para "La operación" en Novela histórica

Los servicios de inteligencia soviéticos diseñan para ese bebé el más audaz plan de espionaje jamás imaginado. Unos años más tarde, Lavrenti Beria, el sanguinario jefe de la policía bolchevique, presentará ese plan a Stalin, que se apropiará del operativo y lo convertirá en una misión personal y extremadamente secreta, advirtiendo a su ejecutor de algo muy importante: no se le puede escapar de las manos. Será la Operación Kazán.

Cuando los bombardeos de los Aliados comienzan a caer sobre Berlín, los padres de Magda deciden enviarla con sus tíos a las montañas, donde le consiguen un trabajo en el Berghof, el lugar de descanso de Hitler. Tras una serie de rigurosos exámenes físicos y mentales, es asignada a la cocina. ¿Su labor? Formará parte del grupo de mujeres dedicadas a catar los alimentos del Führer para asegurarse de que no estén envenenados.

El 15 de abril de 1986, tras una oleada de atentados contra intereses occidentales respaldados por, Muammar al-Gadafi, Ronald Reagan la ejecución de la “Operación el Dorado Canyon” destinada a acabar con el dictador libio. Ningún país de la OTAN apoyó militarmente esta operación. Ante la precariedad de medios, la CIA solicitó ayuda a España. Dentro del más absoluto secreto, el CESID traslada a un agente español a Libia para localizar a Gadafi que terminaría convirtiéndose en la única fuente de información sobre el terreno.

El capitán Jack Aubrey está en tierra con medio sueldo sin mando, hasta que Stephen Maturin llega con órdenes secretas para que Aubrey lleve una fragata al Cabo de buena Esperanza bajo el banderín de un comodoro, allí para montar una expedición contra las islas francesas de Mauricio y La Reunión. Pero las dificultades para llevar a cabo sus órdenes se agravan por dos de sus propios capitanes: Lord Clonfert, un diletante que busca placer, y el capitán Corbett, cuya severidad empuja a su tripulación al borde del motín.

Tras su misión narrada en Operación El Dorado Canyon, el agente del CNI Julián Roig tiene que viajar de urgencia a Marruecos para acabar siendo destinado en la embajada de España en Praga en 1989. Durante esos cinco años vivirá todo tipo de misiones entre la vida y la muerte y para las que su pericia, su agilidad mental y su inteligencia serán definitorias. Los servicios de inteligencia occidentales, la Iglesia Católica, el sindicato polaco Solidaridad, el dramaturgo checo Vaclav Hável y el eslovaco Alexander Dubcek son solo algunos de los coprotagonistas.

El fantasma de la Ópera es la historia de un tenebroso personaje, quien, a pesar del tormento que le provoca su fealdad, lucha por vivir para satisfacer su pasión por la belleza.

Operación Gladio nos guía por el tortuoso camino que llevó en España de la dictadura a la democracia, lleno de conquistas y renuncias, acuerdos históricos y pactos vergonzosos. Esas preguntas conducen a la periodista Alicia Durán hasta la Red Gladio, organización anticomunista promovida por la CIA tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial que mató a miles de inocentes para sembrar el caos y evitar la expansión de la izquierda por Europa. El éxito de su investigación, llevada a cabo entre España e Italia, correrá paralelo al riesgo de su vida...

British sisters Ida and Louise Cook enjoy their quiet, unassuming lives in south London. Ida writes romance novels, and Louise works as a secretary. In the evenings, the sisters indulge in their shared love for opera, saving their money to buy records and attend performances throughout England and Europe, becoming well-known by both performers and fellow opera lovers. But when Hitler seizes power in 1933, he begins targeting and persecuting German Jews, passing laws that restrict their rights and their lives.

Mars is supposed to be dead. Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll seemingly of their own volition carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.

When American heiress Gwen Barton aids an injured gentleman in an opera box in London, she shares a kiss with the stranger that changes her life. More determined than ever to be herself, in spite of the limp she's sustained since childhood, she will marry for love and not a title. She also resolves to learn the identity of the man she helped - and kissed. Surely he can't be the irritating Avery Winfield though. But as circumstances continue to throw Gwen and Avery together, she begins to wonder if there is more to this man than she first thought.

Il romanzo, che ha ispirato numerose opere cinematografiche e il famoso musical di Broadway. Il fantasma dell'Opera è uno dei romanzi più noti dello...

Ascoltando si impara!... Anche la letteratura, con il Prof. In questo audiolibro che fa parte della collana dedicata alla letteratura, ci avvicineremo alla vita e alle opere di Luigi Pirandello. Il Prof vi parla di Pirandello e delle sue opere più significative, dei suoi pensieri, i romanzi, e le celebri opere teatrali.

From a triumph in radio serials to persevering in a burgeoning, male-dominated television industry, Abby Taylor has a million stories she’s dying to tell. The soap opera is her brainchild. Championed by her mother and sisters, nothing can stop Abby from becoming an aspirational voice for every woman in the country. Her life behind the scenes, however, is just as dramatic as any she could have invented. Stay tuned for an engrossing story of determination, grit, and love.

Young Kit Kellan has led a rough-and-tumble life - knocking around the Vega System in his youth as a tiger hunter, a brawler, and a bouncer in a bar. But his real fight is just beginning. Summarily expelled from the prestigious Terra University, he is taken into custody by an agent of the System Bureau of Investigation (SBI). Kit's crime: thinking too much and thinking too well. He’s not in custody for long, however. Snatched from captivity by the People’s Revolutionary Society, Kit sets out an epic adventure that will take him to the farthest reaches of the universe.

It’s July 1946, and after a decade of Depression and war, life in America is returning to normal. But for Charlotte and Mary Oswald, one tumultuous summer will unearth all their secrets and upend their world, once again. Charlotte Oswald’s life is dictated by rules. Where she can go. Whom she can speak to. How she can spend her long, dull summer days. It’s a small, closeted existence, but necessary to protect Charlotte, who has suffered from debilitating fits since childhood.

Nell'autunno del 1542, nella Roma dei Papi sopravvissuta al Sacco dei Lanzichenecchi, Michelangelo Buonarroti è la luce più luminosa dell'arte. Ormai sessantaduenne, dopo aver affrescato la volta della Cappella Sistina e completato il "Giudizio Universale", dopo aver vinto ogni sfida possibile, il genio toscano si trova di fronte a una nuova e tormentata sfida: terminare la tomba di Giulio II. L'opera è stata rinviata per quarant'anni e gli eredi del papa non accetteranno più scuse.

With dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi's Requiem, featuring her neighbor Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina. But when all that emerges from the doomed diva's vocal chords is a dying gasp, Daisy soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries.

In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper. It is an action-packed tale of technological advances and science fiction scenarios. Some of the predictions were remarkably accurate.

In the year 2135, dangerous alien life forms freed in the destruction of Saturn's moon, Enceladus, are making their way toward Earth. A task force spearheaded by Lt. Cmdr. Shaila Jain is scrambling to beat them there while simultaneously trying to save crewmember Stephane Durand, who was infected during the mission to Saturn and is now controlled by a form of life intent on reopening a transdimensional rift and destroying the human race.

Lieutenant Commander Shaila Jain has been given the assignment of her dreams: The first manned mission to Saturn. But there’s competition and complications when she arrives aboard the survey ship Armstrong. The Chinese are vying for control of the critical moon Titan, and the moon Enceladus may harbor secrets deep under its icy crust. And back on Earth, Project DAEDALUS now seeks to defend against other dimensional incursions. But there are other players interested in opening the door between worlds…and they’re getting impatient.