In the tradition of `Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's `Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur, and his exploits as a British Special Operations Executive-trained resistant A scion of one of the oldest families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in a magnificent chateau and educated in E...
This book is about the adventures of Charlie and Marianne. It covers their sailing adventures, adventures with grandchildren and land adventures. It also shows the role God had in their lives and how He has formed them in their Christian walk.
A star of Stars Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace, this Scottish-born actor's career took off after he played a heroin addict in Trainspotting.
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Volume 3, Part 2
by Edward Hyde Clarendon
When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive "somewhere better"-someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America's casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one's life comes to the fore-sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and...
A Companion to Woodrow Wilson (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to American History)
by Ross A Kennedy