First published in 1966, Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli is one of the supreme political biographies of the last hundred years.An outsider, a nationalist, a European, a Romantic and a Tory - Disraeli's story is an extraordinary one. Born in 1804, the grandson of an immigrant Italian Jew, he became leader of the Conservative Party and was twice Prime Minister. Famous for the 1867 Reform Act, his purchasing of the Suez Canal and his diplomatic triumphs at the Congress of Berlin,...

There was no more appropriate person to write this book. Robert Blake was the doyen of Tory historians being most famous for his unsurpassed biography of Disraeli (to be reissued in Faber Finds). His history of the Conservative Party was first published in 1970. It then went as far as Churchill. A subsequent edition took it up to Thatcher and the final edition, the one being reissued by Faber Finds, to Major. For the span it covers, it remains the definitive one-volume history.'His...

Une aventure captivante faite d'intrigues, de romance, de mystère et de suspense qui vous saisira dès la première page.Un vibrante thriller d'aventure, de suspense et de mystère dont l'action se déroule dans le dernier quart du XIXe siècle et pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.Un éminent archéologue disparaît dans des circonstances étranges pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, alors que les armées se battent sans fin sur le front, avec des batailles sangla...

'Lively and entertaining... [ Disraeli's Grand Tour] concentrates on one colourful episode, or sequence of episodes, in the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East which he undertook with the man who was intended to become his brother-in-law. On the way they were joined by raffish Wykhamist James Clay, a friend of Disraeli's brother, and also by Tita Falcieri, who had formerly been a servant to Byron. Indeed... much of the tour might almost be consi...

Het verloren legaat door Robert BlakeEen opwindend avontuur vol intrige, romantiek, mysterie en spanning dat je in spanning zal houden vanaf de eerste bladzijde.Het verloren legaatEen levendige avonturenthriller vol spanning en mysterie die zich afspeelt in het laatste kwart van de 19de eeuw en de Eerste Wereldoorlog.Een vooraanstaande archeoloog verdwijnt onder vreemde omstandigheden tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog, terwijl legers strijden aan een eindeloos ...

Between the disintegration of the Liberal Party in 1915 and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour in 1964, Britain weathered a turbulent half-century including two world wars and many profound socio-political changes. What did not survive this tumult was Britain's sea-based Empire, as the great land-based USA and USSR now assumed dominance. With customary wit, scholarship and wisdom Robert Blake guides the reader through Britain's slow decline from the world's premier power to a nation wi...

A vibrant thriller of adventure, suspense and mystery set in the last quarter of the XIX century and the First World War.A prominent archaeologist disappears under strange circumstances during the First World War as armies battle an endless front engulfed in bloody battles and enormous hardships that wreak havoc on both sides.At the end of the war, a shrewd journalist intrigued by the surprising disappearance of the archaeologist will undertake a complex investigation, which ...

Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minster of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in 1899 resigned his commission to report on the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he served in both Conservative and Liberal governments, and became Chancellor of the Exechequer under Baldwin, A period in the political wilderness was ended by the declaration of the Second World War and his appointment to the Admiralty; aft...

Ein spannendes Abenteuer voller Intrigen, Spannung und Mysterien.New York, 2017An einem Wochenende erhält Manuel, ein Experte für antike Zivilisationen, die unerwartete Einladung auf einem Archäologie-Kongress in New York zu sprechen, auf dem die fortschrittlichsten Forschungsmethoden vorgestellt werden.Zur gleichen Zeit erhält Kate am anderen Ende der Stadt die Nachricht von dem unerklärlichen Verschwinden ihrer Schwester in Ägypten, die dort angeblich auf einer Ni...

Um thriller vibrante de aventura, suspense e mistério ambientado no último quartel do século XIX e na Primeira Guerra Mundial.Um arqueólogo proeminente desaparece em circunstâncias estranhas durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, enquanto os exércitos lutam contra uma frente interminável em batalhas sangrentas e enormes dificuldades que causam estragos nos dois lados.No final da guerra, um jornalista perspicaz, intrigado com o surpreendente desaparecimento do arqueólogo, assumirá uma investiga...

First published in 1977, A History of Rhodesia is a history of the origins and course of modern European occupation of ‘Southern Rhodesia’, ‘Rhodesia’ as it has been termed since the old ‘Northern Rhodesia’ became independent under the name Zambia in 1963. Robert Blake describes the years of the Monomotapa; the Portuguese occupation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the Ndebele kingdom of the nineteenth century; the advent of Cecil Rhodes and the establishment of the Cha...

Ein mitreißender und spannender Thriller, der Sie von der ersten Seite an in seinen Bann zieht.Während eines Urlaubs in Italien, findet sich Sam Carter, ein Fotograf aus New York, in eine Reihe unerklärlicher Ereignisse verwickelt, die ihn zu einem rasanten Thriller voller Abenteuer, Spionage, Intrigen, Romantik, Geheimnissen und Spannung führen.Lassen Sie sich von dieser Reise, tief ins Herz Europas, verführen, wo nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer, Leidenschaft und Rache mi...