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In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction...
3) The escape
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Survivors' Club volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has seen her own share of suffering. After the lingering death of her husband, Samantha McKay is at the mercy of her oppressive in-laws--until she plots an escape to distant Wales to claim a house she has inherited. Being a gentleman, Ben...
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Pink carnation volume 3
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English
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The top spies of England and France contend with one another in 1803 Ireland, while Letty Alsworthy finds herself forcibly married to her sister's undesirable fiancé.
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Temeraire volume 4
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English
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Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
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Temeraire volume 1
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English
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When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire.
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Temeraire volume 6
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English
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Convicted of treason and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales, Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, Temeraire, encounter complications after the colony's governor, Captain William Bligh, is overthrown.
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[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 3
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1995.
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English
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British Officer Sharpe discovers that he is a father. He desperately attempts to rescue his Spanish lover Teresa and their daughter before the French troops storm the city of Badajoz.
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English
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Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spyand a treacherous disease that decimates the crew.
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Pink carnation volume 12
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English
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Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman--especially not the legendary Pink Carnation. All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into Lisbon. Only the English government knows that mad seventy-three-year-old...
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Temeraire volume 5
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English
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As Napoleon launches an attack on Britain, Captain Will Laurence, accused of treason, escapes from his prison ship and sets out on a desperate quest to reunite with his fighting dragon, Temeraire, who has been consigned to breeding grounds in Wales.
13) Napoleon: a life
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski...
14) Blood of tyrants
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Temeraire volume 8
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English
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Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.
15) Sharpe's siege
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[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 10
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1996.
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English
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[Sharpe's DVD series] volume 9
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c1996.
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English
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It is June 1813. After the victory at Vitoria, Wellington is preparing the troops for the invasion of France.
17) The passion
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Grove
Pub. Date
c1987.
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English
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Passion consumes Henri, a chef with Napoleon's army, and Villanelle, who has lost her heart to a married noblewoman, until the two meet at the gates of Moscow and form a bond based on bitter loss.
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A series of short stories in which mystery master Arthur Conan Doyle dishes up action and hilarity in equal measures. The stories follow the adventures of the eponymous brigadier, a Frenchman who is puzzled by British mores and manners but is always at the ready to defend his own or another's honor, either by word or by the sword.
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Pink carnation volume 2
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English
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Modern-day graduate student Eloise achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked one of history's greatest spies, the Pink Carnation, who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty sure that her handsome on-again, off-again crush, Colin Selwick, has the answers somewhere in his archives. When she finally comes across an old codebook,...
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