A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train and bus. The author shows daily lives lived against a backdrop of continued and seemingly endless political friction and conflicts, in places that exhibit the contradictions inherent in an area of which Porfirio Diaz said: Poor Mexico So far from God, so close to the United States. It is an observation that serves as an epigraph to the book, as a means of showing how fervent Catholicism can live side by side with extreme violence, how people can show alternating...
A portrayal of the troubled countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as the author travels through them by train and bus. The author...
Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became a key figure in the heyday of Montparnasse. This book follows him through the free love of Paris and into World War I.
Despite his colourful claims, Diego Rivera was not actually raised by a magical nurse who let him roam the forest. After studying in Mexico, he became...
The authorized, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley. Descended from the Duke of Wellington, Mary Wesley grew up a rebel, believing that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape, although her first marriage (to Lord Swinfen) was conventional. Her second husband, Eric Siepmann, a writer who never managed to make any money at all, was feckless and bohemian. In between Swinfen and Siepmann, she had a love affair with Czech war hero, Heinz Ziegler -- and possibly with his brother at the same time; and in her later years enjoyed...
The authorized, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley. Descended from the Duke of Wellington, Mary Wesley grew up a rebel, believing that she ...
Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured by Klaus Barbie, the infamous ‘Butcher of Lyon’, is revered alongside that of other national icons. But Moulin’s story is full of unanswered questions and the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend. Patrick Marnham, winner of the Marsh Prize for biography, thrillingly tells the epic story of France’s...
Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as...
