Resultados para "becker" en Novela histórica

Long before Paris, even long before Zsa Zsa, there was Alice. Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest daughter was known for drinking, smoking, and gambling. She was rarely found without her pistol, her copy of the Constitution, or her pet snake. She was charming and witty and, despite her antics, she was America’s princess. Based on true, historical events, Crowded Hours is the story of the fierce tribalism and savage rivalry that defined the complicated Roosevelt family, told from Alice’s perspective. It is a story for American history buffs, for those who yearn to know more about our nation’s past.

"Caccia alla marmotta" è il libro di una vita. Parzialmente autobiografico, racconta le poche settimane di permanenza in Svizzera, a Pontresina, nel giugno 1938, del giornalista viennese Albert Trebla, fuggito nei Grigioni dopo l'annessione dell'Austria da parte della Germania, insieme con la moglie Roxane, detta Xane. Sono giorni carichi di angoscia e alle notizie inquietanti che giungono dall'estero si aggiungono gli eventi luttuosi che agitano la tranquilla superficie dei paesini attorno a Sankt Moritz, tra morti improvvise e misteriosi suicidi.

In 1914, the war which was to have been wrapped up by Christmas had - in reality - only just begun, as all sides entrenched themselves deeper into the Great War. Christmas Eve, 1914 follows one company of British officers as they rotate forward to spend their Christmas on the front lines, a mere 80 yards from the German guns. Upper- and working-class men and boys are thrown together into one trench and struggle to survive.

The Wall is a new, brief collection of stories by Becker that have either never been translated into English or been published here in audiobook form before. The title story, "The Wall," recounts two boys’ risky adventure when they scale the wall of a transit camp to visit the ghetto their families have recently vacated. In "The Most Popular Family Story," a favorite anecdote recounted year after year at the gatherings of an extended Jewish family subtly marks the absences left by the Holocaust.