管麟Peter: 17025 books
A Night Without Stars
A Novel of the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton returns to his acclaimed Commonwealth series in this thrilling follow-up to The Abyss Beyond Dreams. Featuring Hamilton’s trademark blend of intricate plotting, riveting suspense, high-concept science, and vivid characters, A Night Without Stars brings the story...
Beyond No Mean Soldier
The Explosive Recollections of a Former Special Forces Operator
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
Peter McAleese needs little introduction... His classic book "No Mean Soldier" was an immediate bestseller and set the bar for the modern military memoir. Few have since met its match. This completely revised and expanded edition sees a philosophical McAleese revisiting his time with Britain's...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling...
Leipzig 1813
The Battle of the Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The battle of Leipzig was, in terms of the number of combatants involved, the largest engagement of the entire Napoleonic Wars. It was the only battle of the wars in which all Allied armies (including even the Swedes) fielded troops against Napoleon. Peter Hofschroer looks at the run-up to this crucial...
Richthofen Jagdstaffel Ahead
RFC Fighter Pilots Out-Performed and Out-Gunned over the Western Front, 1917. With Colour Artwork by John Batchelor.
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
In early 1917 the war in the air intensified on the Western Front in France. Richthofen's deadly Jagdstaffel 11 was flying vastly superior Albatros and Halberstadt planes, with synchronized machine guns. Into the fray came 40 Squadron RFC with its problematic FE8s.
No contest you would think,...
The Bedbug
Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious spy - but he was never licensed to kill. Instead, he was authorised to bemuse and beguile his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, he bluffed and tricked his way into the confidence of everyone...
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and...
Betrayal of Richard III
An Introduction to the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This fully revised edition of Lamb's classic introduction to the last Plantagenet ruler's life coincides with Richard III's reburial in LeicesterIn this classic work, the late V.B. Lamb and Peter Hammond survey the life and times of Richard III and examine the contemporary evidence for the events...
Chaucer
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet’s works.
Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life. He served with...
Newton
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the...
by Kevin Peter Lee
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2015
This is the special edition of Kevin Peter Lee’s four best-selling books for the beginner level of Mandarin Chinese. Basic Chinese For Beginners! The Complete Collection: All 4 Books! has everything you need to gain a thorough understanding of how Mandarin Chinese is spoken and read. Included is...
The Adventures of Pilot Officer Pratt.
A sort of autobiography. Episode 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Peter Pratt is a normal lad. He has no direction in life, is a mediocre achiever and has no real plan as to the way forward. He is in his late teens and, on a whim, visits a Royal Air Force recruitment office in Leeds, England looking for a cash handout to supplement his upcoming college course. This...
by Peter Salway
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor Claudius in 43 AD, and it continued to be a part...
Historic Treasures of Uzbekistan
Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
A fascinating insight into the author's journey along part of the Great Silk Road through Uzbekistan where he discovers a wealth of original and restored architecture dating back to the time when Genghis Khan came, conquered and destroyed it in the 13th century. Local hero Amir Temur (Tamerlane) rebuilt...