Attentate ziehen seit Jahrtausenden eine blutige Spur durch die Geschichte der Menschheit. Dabei sind die Motive und Ziele der Anschlage so vielfaltig wie ihre Methoden. Aber, sind diejenigen, welche ihr Handeln oft mit Folter, Hinrichtung oder lebenslanger Haft bezahlen auch die wahren Schuldigen? Die Hordokumentation «Die Geschichte der bekanntesten Attentate» beleuchtet in 11 Kapiteln Tat-Hergange und Motive sowie die Biographien der Opfer un ...
Out of war-torn skies soars…G-8 and His Battles Aces! The greatest combat pilot of the War to End All Wars, G-8's true name was stricken from all official records. Flying a supercharged warplane, backed by his wild wingmen, Bull Martin and Nippy Weston, G-8 fought the most horrific foes the Kaiser could throw at him. «If bombers cross the lines tonight, they will be eaten by our giant Spider!» Headquarters scoffed at this warning-until G-8 ...
From the wreck of a crashed D.H. came those words spoken with mad laughter by a dying Yank. But, its head was a skull, its body a giant skeleton – this ghastly phantom that stalked night skies, crashing entire planes in its long bony fingers, driving men insane before death. No Yank had faced it – and lived. But G-8 and his battle buddies cut haunted skies to thrust their wings into its horror snare. G-8 did not fly the good fight alone in Pulp ...
Im Jahre 664 kampfen im Konigreich Northumbrien die Anhanger der Kirche Roms gegen die Lehren des Kelten Columban von Iona. Um den Kirchenstreit beizulegen, wird in Witebia eine Synode einberufen. Als die Abtissin Etain ermordet in ihrer Zelle aufgefunden wird und wenig spater zwei weitere Diener Gottes sterben, vermutet man zunachst kirchenpolitische Motive. Schwester Fidelma, eine irische Nonne koniglichen Gebluts und gleichzeitig Anwaltin bei ...
Being a student at Americus High School was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper's life. Greg came from a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, whose members devoutly and publicly supported racial equality. When he refused to insult and attack his school's first black students in 1964, Greg was mistreated as badly as they were: harassed and bullied and beaten. In the summer after his senior year, as racial strife in Americus – and the ...
Das Buch ist eine Hommage an London, die Hauptstadt des einst gro?ten Weltreichs. Diese prachtige Stadt bildet die farbenfrohe Kulisse fur 1000 Kurzgeschichten. Aus ganz verschiedenen und hochst individuellen Blickwinkeln werden Begebenheiten aus mehr als 100 Jahren europaischer Geschichte erzahlt. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden dabei Ereignisse vor und wahrend des 2. Weltkriegs. ...
Captured American airmen, their faces a ghastly purple, are leading savage suicide attacks against their own men. Backed by his Battle Aces, G-8 uses all his powers of disguise and daring to smash the devilish plot – and all his fighting nerve as his Spad takes to the air against the mystery staffel of the Purple Aces. ...
12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the ...
Вторая книга трилогии «Повелительницы Казани» – «Гаухаршад» повествует о довольно продолжительном периоде истории Казанского ханства. На троне страны один за другим менялись ханы. В эти годы трагически прервалась династия Улу-Мухаммада, а ханством поочерёдно овладевали то ставленники Московского княжества – касимовские царевичи, то представители крымских Гиреев. Центральной фигурой в книге выступает дочь Нурсолтан – Гаухаршад – женщина своенравн ...
