Kategoria BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels >> Historical Fiction

Inspired by true events, this is a story about eighteen-year-old Bluey Guthrie who, in 1948 leaves his family to take the job of a lifetime on a remote island in the Central Pacific. Bill and Isobel, seasoned ex-pats help Bluey fit in to a privileged world of parties, dances and sport.

However, the underbelly of island life soon draws him in. Bluey struggles to understand the horrors left behind after the Japanese occupation, the rising fear of communism, and the appalling conditions of the Native and Chinese workers. All this is overseen by the white Colonial power brutalising the...

ANTICO EGITTO Nuovo Regno - XVIII Dinastia. Emma ed Amosis sono due ragazzi che comunicano attraverso un computer sperimentale, ma che sono separati da uno spazio di tempo di 3.500 anni circa. Emma, studentessa sedicenne, e la figlia di un brillante scienziato che conduce Ricerche e Studi sulla Intelligenza Artificiale ed Amosis e un ragazzo dell'Antico Egitto, studente della Casa della Vita, la Scuola del Tempio di Ammon, a Tebe. La teoria della relativita del tempo e dello spazio, la moderna ricerca scientifica, la misteriosa e inquietante vicenda del Faraone Thut-ank-Ammon, sono il filo...

Laramie was a television western starring John Smith as Slim Sherman and Robert Fuller as Jess Harper. The characters ran a stagecoach relay station in the Wyoming Territory during the 1870s. The series ran from 1959 to 1963. Dell Comics published four issues of Laramie: the first three in the Four Color series, and the fourth as a stand-alone title. All four exciting issues are reprinted in this volume.

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-The Nook of Hummingbirds- was drawn up in 1975, having the original paper planks been stored for more than 40 years. It is one of the few comics from the author. It is composed by 62 cartoons made in pen and India ink, in black and white, that were restored and colored by his brothers. The story is a romantic drama, with a syncretism of mythological and religious references from diverse backgrounds. The author permeates the story with the -Penelope drama- (greek mythology), the -woman-skeleton- (a story from the inuits, a indigenous people who inhabit the Arctic regions) and references to...

Els descobriments dels arqueolegs Jaume Deya, Pablo Galera i el seu equip al jaciment dAlmallutx, al Gorg Blau, desvetllen com era la forma de vida que duien els musulmans i berebers de la Tramuntana. Aquesta vida fou bruscament truncada per uns fets belics de tragiques consequencies i que es convertiria en un gran genocidi a la Mediterrania. Es possible trobar virtuts com la noblesa, lamor i la compassio enmig del gran drama que suposa la Conquesta del rei Jaume I, anomenat el Conqueridor? Beatriz Colom Poceiro ens il.lustra aquesta historia sobre la fi de la Mallorca bereber en unes...

"Set in a sawmill town in the Pacific Northwest at the turn of the 20th century, this historical novel dramatically charts rising tensions that can only lead to disaster.

The boom and bust cycle of Everett's sawdust economy turned the town into a place of incredible extremes," explains Howard in his historical note that prefaces this book. In the early 1900s, Everett, Washington, is the focus of the timber industry in the Northwest. Such is the demand for labor that it becomes widely known as a location where an unskilled worker can easily find a job. Wave after wave of newcomers...

Aeden is young man with no memory, adrift in a world of riddles. His only friend - a man hated for his race and creed, their only hope - a nun on the run for opposing the Holy Wars. Meanwhile a veteran of the Third Crusade is hunting Aeden, believing him to be the clue to discovering the greatest secret in alchemy - the identity of the First Matter.

In 1993 Two Armenian petty thieves are sent by the KGB to London to thwart a plan by Chechnya who are seeking independence and buying arms. They become entangled in a web of secret agents, espionage and murder of the Chechen Ambassadors. Based on true events, the book tells the inside story of the beginning of Russia's war against Chechnya.

DEUX FRERES, UN DESTIN: RAMENER L'EGYPTE A LA GLOIRE ET LANCER LES BASES D'UN NOUVEL EMPIRE. TEL EST LE DEFI DE KAMOSE ET AHMOSE DIGNES FILS DE SEKENENRE TAA LE BRAVE. NOUS SOMMES DANS LA DEUXIEME PERIODE INTERMEDIAIRE DE L'EGYPTE ANCIENNE MARQUANT LA FIN DU MOYEN ENPIRE. APRES DEUX CENTS ANS DE STABILITE, L'EGYPTE ALLAIT CONNAITRE UNE PERIODE TROUBLE CATALYSEE POUR L HISTOIRE PAR SEKENENRE TAA LE BRAVE DONT LE CRANE FENDU ATTENTD INEXORABLEMENT LES VISITEURS DU BRITISH MUSEUM APRES AVOIR TRAVERSE 3500 ANS D'HISTOIRE...

Inspired by a true story, in 18-century China a young girl lusts for revenge. Imploring the spirit of the White Crane to guide her boxing, Fang Chis quest to destroy the dark sorcerers of the Serpent Cult takes her into a world far stranger and more dangerous than she could possibly have imagined. This begins a journey of violence, mysticism and transformation that leads her to become one of the greatest martial artists of her, or any, generation - leaving a legacy that could save the world... or destroy it.

Efunsetan, simply called Efun (She must defend her legacy with blood) (A novel partly based on a true story but mostly fiction) is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history's greatest survival stories in the Southwestern region of West Africa. Efun was beautiful, loved and wielded influence with the British and well ahead of her civilization but despised by the same entity she tried to help. In order to keep her legacy, she must fight blood with blood. This is a two-part series. Volume 1 revolved around her rise to success and her challenges in keeping up with the society in which...

El ano es 1916 Plagada por guerra, hambre y revueltas Rusia esta al borde del colapso. Nuevas fuerzas politicas pelean por el poder: Socialistas, Democratas y Zaristas- todos convencidos de su derecho por gobernar el pais. Todos sedientos por las tropas y armas necesarias para asegurarse el control del imperio. En la guerra civil que esta por estallar habra un arma que las superara a todas- el tren de combate. Esta es la historia de su creador y del nacimiento de La Maquina."

As prisoners of war, the ideals of honour and valour are replaced by lies and betrayal. Morning light brings no solace from the darkness of the dreadful nights. Prison - a raw and brutal affair between individuals who no longer regard each other as equal. National borders and boundaries stripped away, the only thing that remains is control or survival.

In the year 982, Erik Torvaldsson, also known Erik the Red, left Iceland following a bloody feud with his neighbour. He set out to find a mysterious island to the north. He found it and, to attract settlers, he named it called it Greenland. With gifts and bribes he ruled his colony undisturbed by Christian kings and priests until the beginnig of the year 1000.

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