A simple retelling of the fateful days in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and the people in the ancient town of Pompeii perished.
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Eccli, Michela
Recounts how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the Trojan War.
Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to tra...
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowin...
Combines fact and speculation in a fictionalized reconstruction of the events leading up to and including the November 1943 mission of a small force of German paratroopers who landed in Britain to capture Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1944: Imperial Japan still commands most of Asia. Determined to regain their hold on Burma, the British send a special forces unit - the Chindits - deep behind Japanese lines. Their mission is to attack the enemy wherever they find him. What awaits them is a nightmare equal to an...
The powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II. 1940. The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his...
The unflappable Sheriff Walt Longmire and his deputies are trying to put the troubling events of the past behind them. The mysterious White Warrior who tormented Branch is dead. Walt's best friend Henry Standing Bear is a free man. Longmire's right-hand deputy Victoria 'Vic' More...
Armed with more power and greater responsibility, Ragnar's desire to seek out and conquer new kingdoms remains unquenchable. Loyalties shift as friends turn to foes and unlikely alliances are formed. Amidst all the war and political confusion, not a single soul is spared in the n...
Sixteen German paratroopers are dropped on the coast of England with orders to bring Churchill back to Hitler.
Inspired by true events, this is a feel good story about Michael Eddie Edwards an unlikely but courageous British ski jumper who never stopped believing in himself even as an entire nation was counting him out.
A master of epic military fiction, the New York Times bestselling author of To Wake the Giant makes Midway personal as he takes listeners inside the hearts and minds of the heroes of one of World War II's most pivotal moments. Jeff Shaara recounts in electrifying detail the U.S. ...
When the birds have a contest to see which one can fly the higest, they all learn a valuable lesson about cooperation.
Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on...
Michael Kitchen stars as Detective Chief Inspector Christopher Foyle in this original PBS Masterpiece Theatre mystery series. Set in the beautiful southern English countryside amid the disorder and danger of World War II, Foyle's War takes place far from the glory of the front. H...
Set in the breathtakingly beautiful resort of Portofino, Hotel Portofino is a story of personal awakening at a time of global upheaval in the traumatic aftermath of World War I, and of the liberating influence of Italy's enchanting culture, climate and cuisine on British 'innocen...
Nicknamed, The Eagle, for his unerring intuition, detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson exudes competence and self-assurance but beneath the facade is a tormented personality. Pulled off a plane as he's going to visit his dying mother in Iceland, Hallgrimsson learns that he's been sele...
This masterpiece of espionage and commando action is a searing drama of courage and deceit--and of those who paid the price for Hitler's most daring plan: to kidnap, or kill, Winston Churchill.