Une stupéfiante peinture du Moyen Âge à la veille de la première croisade, par le nouveau maître du roman historique.1072 : à Manzikert, aux portes de l'Anatolie, les chrétiens viennent de subir une terrible défaite face auxmusulmans. Déjà divisée depuis le grand schisme de 1054 entre catholiques et orthodoxes, la chrétienté est plus menacée que jamais.Dans ce contexte troublé, Vallon, un mercenaire franc, et Hero, un érudit venu d'Italie, gagnent le...

Un mercenario y sus tres compañeros emprenderán la aventura de sus vidas, atravesando la Europa del siglo XI para salvar la vida de una caballero normando.Una épica novela histórica de aventuras en la Europa del siglo XI.1072, en una Inglaterra devastada tras las guerras y rebeliones a raíz de la invasión normanda, un misterioso mercenario francés llamado Vallon acepta una misión peligrosa. Debe de viajar por Europa en busca de cuatro preci...

Una intensa novela épica sobre el arma que llegó a dominar el mundo: la pólvora.Después del año 1066, en que se produjo la conquista normanda de Inglaterra, vastos imperios pelean por el dominio sobre sus enemigos. Desde los normandos en el norte hasta los bizantinos del Sur, las batallas se suceden a lo largo y ancho de Europa y en todas y cada una de sus fronteras.Sin embargo, al este, un imperio aún más poderoso empieza a dar señales de querer imponerse ...

The year is 1072.The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks.On a heart-stopping journey to the far ends of the earth, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and the blood-drenched battlefields, Vallon and his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time.The scale is huge. The journey is incredible. The history is real. This...

Nach «Der Thron der Welt» der neue packende historische Abenteuerroman von Robert Lyndon!1081 n. Chr.: Der fränkische Kommandeur Vallon rettet in der Schlacht bei Durazzo Kaiser Alexios I. vor dem sicheren Tod. Zum Lohn für seine Heldentat wird er zum General ernannt. Sein nächster Auftrag soll ihn und seine Gefolgsleute ins ferne China führen, um die Formel für das sagenhafte Donnerkraut zu stehlen - das Schießpulver, mit dem die Kundigen, so geht die Legende, Feuerschwerter herste...

AN EPIC HISTORICAL QUEST SET AT THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF GUNPOWDER.In the world after 1066, vast empires clamor for dominance.From the Normans in the north to the Byzantines in the south, battles rage across Europe and around its fringes. But in the east, an empire still mightier stirs, wielding a weapon to rule the world: gunpowder.Seeking the destructive might of this 'fire drug,' the mercenary Vallon -- a man made of grit and earth as much as of flesh and blood -- is ...

A soldier races against time to capture four hawks—braving ruthless warlords, bloody battles, and brutally cold seas—in this heart-stopping historical adventure.The year is 1072.The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks.On a heart-stopping journey to the far ends of the earth, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and the blood-drenched ba...

The study of plant development in recent years has often been concerned with the effects of the environment and the possible involvement of growth substances. The prevalent belief that plant growth substances are crucial to plant development has tended to obscure rather than to clarify the underlying cellular mechanisms of development. The aim in this book is to try to focus on what is currently known, and what needs to be known, in order to explain plant development in terms that allow fu...

**PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years**At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, m...

In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This multifaceted book carries the President-to-be from the aftermath of his devastating defeat in his 1941 campaign for the Senate-the despair it engendered in him, and the gru...

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyBook Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times