"In Peach village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learned to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then, one day, Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been…
'The People Speak' tells the story of Britain through the voices of the visionaries, dissenters, rebels and everyday folk who took on the Establishment and stood up for what they believed in. Here are their stories, letters, speeches and songs, from the Peasants Revolt to the Su…
The People Speak tells the story of Britain through the voices of the visionaries, dissenters, rebels and everyday folk who took on the Establishment and stood up for what they believed in. Here are their stories, letters, speeches and songs, from the Peasants Revolt to the Suff…
The People Speak tells the story of Britain through the voices of the visionaries, dissenters, rebels and everyday folk who took on the Establishment and stood up for what they believed in. Here are their stories, letters, speeches and songs, from the Peasants Revolt to the Suff…
A brilliant, methodical investigation of a murder scandal that convulsed the Roman political and social establishment in the 1950s." (Financial Times). On April 9thm 1953, twenty-one-year-old Wilma Montesi went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her bod…
By the 1950s, Italy was in the process of reinventing itself and becoming one of the most glamorous places on earth. But the murder of Wilma Montesi exposed a darker side of Roman life--a life of corruption, cover-ups and carnal pleasures. It was a crime that the newspapers, the…
Covering nearly four years of combat with access to military records, letters, memoirs, photographs, and interviews, this volume offers a historical perspective on the war against Japan, from the debacle in Bataan to the miracle of Midway, the black terraces of Iwo Jima, and the…
'The Pacific' describes the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.