Resultados para "Winston" en Novela histórica

Ross Poldark es la primera novela de la popular serie POLDARK, que ahora se ha convertido una vez más en una de las grandes series internacionales de televisión, protagonizada por Aidan Turner. Cansado por la severa Guerra en Estados Unidos, Ross Poldark vuelve a su Cornualles natal con su...

It’s 1925. Hitler has published Mein Kampf and Mussolini has shut down the free press in Italy. Three friends meet on a Scottish estate for a weekend of salmon fishing and convivial conversation over brandy and cigars: Winston Churchill, future world leader; "Bendor", 2nd Duke of Westminster; and Coco Chanel, iconic fashion entrepreneur. The narrative develops into a visceral account interspersed with sharp and insightful humor, revealing two men whose deep friendship is divided by their profound political differences, as each of them tries to navigate an uncertain world.

Virginia Lawson has always considered herself a strong, down to earth person. She wasn't shaken easily, and took pride in her ability to stay calm in difficult circumstances. She kept herself together when her father died at age 16. She stayed practical when she lost her inheritance in the Civil War. And when she had to travel hundreds of miles to where she was now, Virginia didn't even break a sweat.

Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early 20th century, Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this sprawling saga of heroism, injustice, and love. An episodic novel set in six parts, El Paso pits the legendary Pancho Villa, a much-feared outlaw and revolutionary, against a thrill-seeking railroad tycoon known as the Colonel, whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Only the past can save the future for Winston Churchill, and it’s a past with many secrets.There is vast treasure hidden in an almost impregnable Central African fortress surrounded by cliffs. The mountain is a honeycomb of ancient tombs and palaces, as well as the ancient burial place of a Nubian queen mysteriously wedded to a Roman. Young Winston Churchill, a prisoner during the Boer War, is offered a secret deal for freedom by Britain’s enemy Louis Botha

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business...

Lily Larsen is given no choice but to leave her beloved home in Cades Cove, Tennessee. She is sent to St. Louis to live with her uppity aunt, who is determined to turn Lily into a proper young woman. Brokenhearted, Lily succumbs to her aunt and uncle's odd ways, though she can't understand why her estranged relatives suddenly care about her. She is schooled in etiquette and groomed for the purpose of marrying into wealth. However, she remains guarded, fearing that her secrets will be discovered and ruin any chance for happiness.

It's 1944. The Second World War is going the way of the Allies. Major Bill Evans is an intelligence officer in London working on the crucial Operation Overlord - the Allied invasion of Western Europe. When a monitored German agent goes missing, suspicion falls on the agent's landlady - and on Helen Duncan, a well-known medium the landlady has been consulting. Duncan seems to know more than a Scottish housewife should about certain aspects of the war. Is it her supposed access to the spirit world, or is she something more sinister - a Nazi sleeper agent?

Winston Churchill receives startling news from a German aristocrat in early 1933 after Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. The aristocrat has learned of a plot to stage a fake assassination attempt on the new German leader that the Nazis will use as a pretext to declare martial law and liquidate their political opponents. Unknown to Hitler, however, his enemies within the Nazi party - the Black Front - are conspiring with renegade elements of his own SS to turn the fake assassination attempt into a real one.

"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale. When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks...

The Gump phenomenon continues! Forrest Gump is back! The lovable man for all ages, who captured America's heart in the #1 bestselling novel Forrest Gump and in the blockbuster film, returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A...

A string of strange deaths in 1932 leads Bourke Cockran, Jr., and his lover Mattie McGary to uncover a plot by Nazi scientists to conduct lethal experiments on American twins in order to create a master race. They confront an international conspiracy connecting Wall Street to Washington, DC; from Long Island's fabled Gold Coast to the marble corridors of the Barlow Palace in Munich, headquarters of the fast-rising Nazi Party; and finally to a sinister clinic hidden deep in the Bavarian Forest.

Anne Winston ist es leid, an den rauschenden Bällen Londons und den sonstigen gesellschaftlichen Verpflichtungen teilzunehmen. Sie befindet sich am Ende ihrer zweiten Saison und hat bereits drei Heiratsanträge abgewiesen. Die Schönheit gilt mittlerweile als unnahbar. Dabei verspürt sie im Inneren Sehnsucht nach einem Mann, der nicht nur ihre Äußeres und ihre Erbschaft, sondern auch ihren Geist zu schätzen weiß.

Charlotte ist die zweitälteste Tochter des Viscount Henry Winston und wird gemeinsam mit ihrer älteren Schwester Anne in die Londoner Gesellschaft eingeführt. Ihre zauberhafte Schwester erweckt sofort die Aufmerksamkeit des begehrtesten Junggesellen der Saison. Charlotte aber hat kein gutes Gefühl bei dem Werben des jungen Benedict. Deswegen versucht sie, eine Verlobung der beiden zu verhindern. Hierbei erhält sie unverhofft Unterstützung durch den Duke of Rochester. George Lennox, der Duke of Rochester, hat sich seit dem Tode seiner Ehefrau aus der Gesellschaft zurückgezogen.

Recruited by a foreign power in postwar Paris and sent to Washington, Winston Bates is without training or talent. He might be a walking definition of the anti-spy. Yet he makes his way onto the staff of the powerful Senator Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee. From that perch, Bates has extensive and revealing contacts with the Dulles brothers, Richard Bissell, Richard Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Joe Alsop, Walter Lippman, Roy Cohn, and even Ollie North - to name but a few of the historical players in the American experience Winston befriends - and haplessly betrays for a quarter century.

Churchill, die Résistance und eine geheime Sabotagegruppe − der erste Roman des Bestsellerautors endlich auf Deutsch. 1940 verlässt der junge Paul-Emile überstürzt seine Heimatstadt Paris. Nicht einmal sein Vater weiß, wohin er geht. Denn Paul schließt sich einer geheimen Spionageeinheit an, die Winston Churchill ins Leben gerufen hat. Mit einer Handvoll französischer Freiwilliger, Stan, Gros, Flaron, Cucu und Laura, lehrt man ihn die Kunst des geheimen Krieges. Die Aufträge sind gefährlich, und die Missionen scheinen nie zu enden.

The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by...