Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece stolen, Gentlemen in Black by a Spanish master, arrives at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum finds hope and enlists Spenser's help. Soon the cold art case thrusts Spenser into the shady world of black market art dealers, aged Mafia bosses, and old vendettas. A five-million-dollar-reward by the museum's top benefactor, an aged, unlikable Boston socialite, sets Spenser and pal Vinnie Morris onto a trail of hidden secrets, jailhouse confessions, murder, and double crosses.
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'An essential part of the library for anyone interested in the great political and military upheavals in the 15th century.' – Graeme Rimer, Retired Former Academic Director of the Royal Armouries 'A creditable effort to examine a neglected aspect of medieval warfare.' – Jim Bradbury, Cambridge University Press 'Everything you need to know about being a soldier in the Wars of the Roses.' – The Mail Bookshop What was it like to fight in a Wars of the Roses battle? What kind of men fought at St Albans, Northampton, Wakefield, Towton, Tewkesbury and Bosworth? How was the medieval soldier recruited, paid, equipped, fed and billeted? And how was a battle contested once both sides resorted to all-out conflict? First published in 1998, this classic study of the medieval soldier in the Wars of the Roses examines these and other questions using various documentary sources and recent evidence. Eyewitness accounts, contemporary chronicles, personal letters, civic records, archaeology and surviving military equipment are used to paint a fascinating picture of the medieval soldier. Evidence gleaned from the mass war grave found close to the battlefield of Towton in North Yorkshire sheds new light on those that lived and died in the civil wars. But what do we know about the psychology of those involved? And how did soldiers feel about killing their fellow Englishmen? Andrew Boardman explores the grim reality of medieval soldiering on land and sea during this crucial period of aristocratic violence and dynastic upheaval. He makes us question the current historical record, such as it is, and our perceptions of chivalry and warfare in Lancastrian and Yorkist England. The text is supported by many contemporary illustrations, diagrams and maps, making this updated work an indispensable guide to medieval soldiering in the late fifteenth century.
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Was Philip de László a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de László, who painted such luminaries as the Pope, the Austrian emperor, King Edward VII and Prince Louis Battenberg, was subjected to a secret tribunal which interned him for trading with the enemy. At the outbreak of the First World War, de László had pulled strings to be naturalised as British, but in 1919 he was referred to a public committee to revoke his naturalisation. With the aid of skilled counsel, de László had the application overturned – however, newly discovered records show MI5 had evidence obtained from a top-secret source that alleged that he was supplying the enemy with important information on politics and industrial production. Crucially, the source's anonymity prevented MI5 from presenting evidence to the tribunal, which has particular resonance in the contemporary War on Terror. In the only book to examine MI5's secret evidence, Phil Tomaselli explores these allegations and reaches a shocking conclusion.
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Farmer, author and broadcaster Arthur (A.G.) Street was one of the leading voices of British agriculture during the Second World War. His daughter Pamela – herself an aspiring writer – was 18 when war broke out. David, her future husband, served with the 4th RHA in North Africa. Using their previously unpublished diaries and letters, Miranda McCormick – Pamela's daughter – tells the candid story of a Wiltshire family living and working at a time when 'a little German with a black paint-brush moustache turned [the] world upside down'. Their very different experiences of war are woven into one masterful narrative of love, duty and separation during a time of national adversity. Detailing the sudden rise of her tenant farmer father to the status of a national celebrity, Pamela's service as a VAD nurse and in the ATS, as well as her unofficial fiancé's detainment in German and Italian prison camps, this is a story told with an almost allegorical simplicity. Intimate and personal, this vivid account of 'ordinary life' during extraordinary times is also the chronicle of a generation for whom farming was the fourth line of defence.
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After the fall of the Wall, Berlin is full of disused spaces and abandoned buildings, just waiting to be filled with new life. It is unclear who owns any of this, which allows the techno scene to take over these new empty spaces in both halves of the city. Clubs, galleries, ateliers and studios spring up – only to disappear again a few weeks later. Soon Berlin has become the epicentre of a new culture, attracting enthusiastic followers from all over the world to clubs like the Tresor and the E-Werk. Wearing gasmasks and welding goggles they dance the night away to the jackhammer sound of previously obscure Detroit DJs. Among them are writers, artists, photographers, designers, DJs, club-owners, music producers, bouncers and scenesters, people from the centre of the movement and from its peripheries – in Der Klang der Familie they all get to have their say and paint a vibrant picture of a time when it felt like everything was possible.
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Jack Lewis, un jeune artiste peintre commence une grande carrière jusqu'au jours ou un événement viens le perturber dans sa brillante ascension. Perdant toute inspiration, Jack, commence à perdre espoir, jusqu'au jours ou la vu du sang va lui redonne une toute nouvelle forme d'inspiration. Enchaînant les crimes et étant poussé par un sombre collectionneur d'art morbide, Jack deviens très vite un tueur en série recherché par un sombre et talentueux inspecteur...
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<p>Opowieść, przesąd, przekleństwo - słowa są ulotne, ale mają moc kształtowania rzeczywistości. </p> <p>Czasy między I a II wojną światową, maleńka wieś nieopodal Częstochowy. </p> <p>W domu Jadwigi i Michała Pecynów radość miesza się z lękiem. Kobieta rodzi swoje siódme dziecko - wszyscy liczą, że w rodzinie pojawi się pierwszy chłopiec, tymczasem rozlega się krzyk kolejnej dziewczynki. Rodzice próbują wyprzeć swój żal, jednak społeczność wiejska im w tym nie pomaga. Starszyzna wsi wierzy, że siódma córka w rodzinie może stać się zmorą i sprowadzić na wybraną ofiarę chorobę, a nawet śmierć. Choć oficjalnie nikt nie daje wiary przesądom, gdy Jadwiga w wyniku porodu traci zdrowie, podświadoma niechęć do dziewczynki zaczyna narastać...</p> <p>Poruszająca historia przypadnie do serca miłośniczkom powieści Sylwii Kubik. </p> <p>Sabina Waszut (ur. 1979) - autorka powieści historycznych i obyczajowych. Jej debiutancka powieść „Rozdroża" była nominowana do Nagrody Literackiej Europy Środkowej „Angelus” za 2014 r, zaś kolejne dzieła zdobyły . nominację do nagrody „Książka Roku” portalu Lubimyczytać.pl, a także nagrodę główną w kategorii „Pióro” Na Festiwalu Literatury Kobiet w Siedlcach. Jako felietonistka współpracuje z miesięcznikiem "Chorzów Miasto Kultury". Mieszka w Rudzie Śląskiej. </p>
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Tirol, 1975. Der Extrembergsteiger Karl Platz, wie immer in Geldnöten, begegnet seinem ehemaligen Schulkollegen Angelus Korff wieder, mit dem ihn einige traumatische Jugenderlebnisse verbinden und der mittlerweile zu den reichsten Unternehmern des Landes gehört. Die beiden treffen eine fragwürdige Vereinbarung. Widerwillig nimmt Karl den zwielichtigen Bekannten mit zu einer Expedition in den Himalaya. Eine Expedition, die alte Wunden aufreißt und beiden zum Schicksal wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwickelt sich ein poetischer Thriller, der intensiv um die Frage nach der menschlichen Bestimmung und dem Wunsch nach Erlösung kreist. Faszinierend und geheimnisvoll, fesselnd bis zum Schluss.
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