The national bestseller from the highly-acclaimed author of Schindler's List, To Asmara is a dazzling tour def orce--the deeply moving and spellbinding story of an alienated Australian journalist's soul-searching journey across a war-torn Africa.
The national bestseller from the highly-acclaimed author of Schindler's List, To Asmara is a dazzling tour def orce--the deeply moving and spellbindin...
Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.
Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer o...
Strhující a proslulé románové zpracování osudů Oskara Schindlera – bezohledného kariéristy, válečného zbohatlíka, milovníka elegance, přepychu, alkoholu a krásných žen, jenž ve stínu osvětimských komínů našel svoji lidskost a riskoval nejen majetek, ale i vlastní život, aby nedopustil vyvraždění tisícovky „svých židů“. Román sugestivně líčí vývoj a střety individualit – obětí, pasivních účastníků a iniciativních vykonavatelů – zapojených do obrovité byrokratické mašinerie zla. Steven Spielberg použil motivy románu pro...
Strhující a proslulé románové zpracování osudů Oskara Schindlera – bezohledného kariéristy, válečného zbohatlíka, milovníka elegance,...
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and...
'God save all here.' Summer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel - lawyer, journalist, activist, politician - the word 'famine' will forever conjure the hollowed faces of Ireland's dead, the liquid Irish of the past now mute on their tongues.
Propelled by disgust at the injustice, Mitchel will do all he can to fight for the destitute, the starved, the forgotten. His odyssey will take him all the way to America - that land of promise - but it will draw him into a terrible paradox. He is...
'God save all here.' Summer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel - law...
