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One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."--San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewAs Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led to the unraveling of the Bolshevik Revolution. From Tito's funeral to the birth of Solidarity in the Gdänsk shipyard, from the tragedy of T...

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Sono passati dieci anni da quando, grazie a una lunga serie di sotterfugi e manipolazioni, Francis Urquhart ha raggiunto l'apice della carriera politica. Ora si appresta a diventare il primo ministro più longevo nella storia del paese: lo spettro della vecchiaia incombe, è tempo di bilanci e di pensare a come guadagnarsi un posto nella Storia. Ma nel corso della sua impietosa scalata il nostro protagonista si è fatto molti nemici, e oggi si ri...

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When Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler's armies were on the run, and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprint for a lasting peace--but instead they set the stage for a forty-four year division of Europe into Soviet and Western spheres of influence. After fighting side by side for nearly four years, their political alliance was beginning to fracture. SIX MONTHS IN 1945 brilliantly capt...

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In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrified mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones, her former lover, who she walked out on many years ago. Now memori...

Addresses the neurologic consequences of exposure to environmental toxins.

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Personality disorders, depression, mania, psychosis, behavioral problems, anxiety disorder, attention deficit disorder, dementia, hyperactivity, insomnia, panic disorder, suicide, sleep disorder, all the purview of psychiatrity, can be the result of neurotoxicity from chemicals capable of damaging the brain or nervous system. The ambiguity of such outcomes is acknowledged, at the same time emphasizing the value in considering the effects of ch...

From the author of the bestselling "One Minute to Midnight, " a riveting account of the pivotal six month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the atomic age, and the beginning of the Cold War.

Can one man stop a reign of terror? A missile tears a passenger plane from the skies over London. Everyone on board is killed, including thirty-seven children. As terror turns to international chaos, can the government survive...?

Novel which explores Churchill's journey from the political wilderness to No. 10 at the outbreak of W.W.II. Interest in Churchill is at an all-time high at the moment, following the "Great Britons" poll, and the success of Roy Jenkins' biography. Dobbs' last novel, "Whispers Of Betrayal", was a "Sunday Times" bestseller. "A thriller writer with a marvellous inside track knowledge of government" "Daily Express".

Die attraktive Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) hat einen gefährlichen Beruf: Als Geheimagentin leitet sie rund um die Welt an der Grenze zur Legalität verdeckte Einsätze für Regierungen, die bereit sind, den nötigen Preis zu zahlen. Was geschieht jedoch, wenn eine Mission plötzlich aus dem Ruder gerät? Verraten von ihren eigenen Auftraggebern, wird sie plötzlich selbst zur Gejagten und muss im Fadenkreuz einer knallharten internationalen Fahndung u...

On Friday, May 10, 1940, Hitler launches a devastating attack that within days will overrun France, Holland, and Belgium, and bring Britain to its knees at Dunkirk. This historical novel follows Winston Churchill as he leads his nation during three of the most crucial weeks of its history.

La politica richiede sacrificio. Il sacrificio degli altri, ovviamente. Per quanto un uomo possa ottenere, sacrificandosi per il suo paese, è comunque più conveniente lasciare che siano gli altri a farlo per primi. Il tempismo, come dice sempre mia moglie, è tutto". Questa è una delle massime di Francis Urquhart, per alcuni semplicemente FU, una specie di patrizio solitario, aristocratico molto vecchio stile, che ha passato l'età della maturit...

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