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  • Children of the Siege

    by Diney Costeloe

    Heart-stopping and gripping, this classic Diney Costeloe story shows the courage of one family in the face of great danger.Nineteenth-century Paris is in flames, houses ransacked, streets barricaded. Most people are fleeing the ravaged city, but the St Clair family have made a fateful decision – to return to Paris from their house in the country.As the horrors of the Commune and the ensuring siege ... Read more

    € 5,88 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Children of the Siege

    by Diney Costeloe

    Narrated by Georgia Maguire

    Unabridged

    10 hours 31 min

    A lost child, a family divided, the bitter backdrop of war. After the Franco-Prussian War and the siege of 1870-71, the St Clair family return to Paris, seeking refuge and security, only to be swept up into the terrible cruelties and violence of the Commune. Here their young daughter, Hélène, falls ill and in an unlucky twist of fate, becomes separated from her family. Alone and frightened, she ... Read more

    € 24,79

  • The Siege Of Krishnapur

    Winner of the Booker Prize 1973

    by J.G. Farrell

    series W&N Essentials
    In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As ... Read more

    € 3,99

  • Symphony for the City of the Dead

    Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

    by M. T. Anderson

    A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in ... Read more

    € 10,78

  • Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918 The Great War - Vol. I

    from the siege of Liège to the signing of the armistice as viewed from the Grand headquarters of the German army

    by Anon and 2 more

    series Ludendorff's Own Story #1
    As the German army moved swiftly into its start positions at the beginning of the First World War, efficiently and seamlessly forming up for the hammer blow that was to fall on France it must have been with some pride that General Ludendorff would look upon the first grand strategical plan that he had a hand in. A cool, calculating planner dedicated to ensuring that chance played as little a part ... Read more

    € 2,78 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Siege Of Krishnapur

    Winner of the Booker Prize 1973

    by J.G. Farrell

    Narrated by Peter Wickham

    series W&N Essentials

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As ... Read more

    € 23,23

  • Fortress

    The Story of the Siege and Fall of Singapore

    by Kenneth Attiwill

    Fortress: The Story of the Siege and Fall of Singapore, first published in 1959, is the sobering account of the failed defense of Singapore in late 1941 and early 1942 against the advancing Japanese Army.In Fortress, author Kenneth Attiwill—himself a prisoner of the Japanese for three and a half years—recreates, in vivid detail, the fall of Singapore in World War II: the unforgettable atmosphere ... Read more

    € 4,64 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heralds of the Siege

    by Guy Haley and 1 more

    series The Horus Heresy #52
    A galaxy burns and brother turns on brother as the conflict brought about by a beloved son’s betrayal reaches its fateful end. The Warmaster Horus has triumphed. His massive fleet at last nears Terra and the patriarchal Throne of his hated father. Many have fallen to bring this moment about, their tales are the ashes upon which the Heresy was born and prospered. Others have played their own small ... Read more

    € 8,99

  • The Siege

    Winner of the 2014 CWA International Dagger

    by Arturo Perez-Reverte

    WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2014Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near where a French bomb has just fallen. In order to find the murderer, police commissioner Rogelio Tizon begins to perceive ... Read more

    € 3,99

  • Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 – The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire

    by Fergal Keane

    (This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Maps are best viewed on a tablet.)The epic story of one of the most savage battles of the Second World War.Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle ... Read more

    € 25,93

  • Empires of the Sea

    The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World

    by Roger Crowley

    In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the center of the world.In Empires of the Sea,acclaimed historian Roger Crowley has written his most ... Read more

    € 4,79

  • A Chain of Thunder

    A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg

    by Jeff Shaara

    series the Civil War in the West #2
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America’s long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted “Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general—and all ... Read more

    € 8,71