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Эта книга даёт вам возможность увидеть мир глазами фашистов, понять, как выглядит твёрдая и не допускающая компромиссов решимость, и насладиться достойным образцом современной исторической литературы • Вниманию читателя предлагается история становления и укрепления позиций итальянского фашизма, расказанная сквозь призму жизни его идеолога. Вы хотели понять, как Бенито Муссолини сумел создать движение, изменившее мир, добить переживавшую упадок итальянскую демократию и стать дуче - иными словами, вождём? Тогда этот увлекательный и виртуозно написанный труд в форме художественного повествования для вас! • По книге снят одномённый сериал "М - сын века" • Первая часть цикла "Роман о Муссолини" ("Il Romanzo di Mussolini") • Книга на английском языке • A startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction

Following on from the success of Son of the Morning, which saw him compared to both Bernard Cornwell for the flair of his historical writing and to George RR Martin for his gripping plotting, Mark Alder takes his history of the 100 years war into France as the war between Heaven and Hell swallows up the ambitions of both the French and English crowns • As the armies mass around Crecy the rivalries between Lucifer, Satan and God become ever deeper and more violent. Combining a cast of larger than life (yet real) characters and a truthful, deeply researched take on the religious beliefs of the time Mark Alder is embarked on a truly unique historical fantasy that will ensure you never see the 100 Years War and the history of medieval Europe in the same way again

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This volume includes wonderful stories like "In a Far Country", "The Men of Forty Mile", "The Son of the Wolf" itself and others. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes

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From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world • Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and he had to hide when Karl, the Dutch man who raised him, was arrested by soldiers during Sukarno’s drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past • Adam sets out on a quest to find Karl, but all he has to guide him are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colourful, dangerous capital, Jakarta. Johan, meanwhile, is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but is careening out of control, unable to forget the long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother

Основанный на собственном детстве Дж. Дж. Балларда, роман "Империя солнца" рассказывает о борьбе маленького мальчика за выживание во время Второй мировой войны в Китае • Джим разлучен со своими родителями в мире, охваченном войной. Чтобы выжить, он должен найти в себе силу, превосходящую все события, которые его окружают • Шанхай, 1941 год — город, охваченный пламенем от рокового факела Перл-Харбора. На улицах, полных хаоса и трупов, молодой британский мальчик тщетно ищет своих родителей. Заключенный в японский концентрационный лагерь, он становится свидетелем яростной белой вспышки в Нагасаки, когда взрыв бомбы возвещает конец войны... и рассвет разрушенного мира • Книга на английском языке • Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come… • Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change • Based on J

'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.' • Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer

In Igboland, the lives of two Nigerian women change forever… • In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures the endless chores she is tasked with by her employers. She’s been a housemaid since the age of ten, but she is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man’s son • Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery love-struck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife • When, years later, dramatic events straight out of a movie force Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate • Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigerian history, and celebrates the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man’s world

*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller* • A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride - Walter Isaacson • A masterclass in narrative journalism - Bradley Hope • Exemplary - The Times • An exceptional work - Washington Post • Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future • Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary and to others he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car

Джеймс Баллард, написавший несколько книг и известный всему миру как фантаст, прежде всего знаменит автобиографическим романом "Империя Солнца" о нескольких годах своей мальчишечьей жизни в концентрационном лагере в Китае в период японской оккупации в годы Второй мировой войны. Эта правдивая и жестокая история о выживании в условиях голода, смертей и жестокости людей по отношению друг к другу не содержит моральных оценок и потрясает той непосредственностью, с которой одиннадцатилетний Джим приспосабливается к войне • Книга на английском языке • The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester • Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches

Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков