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The Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn more books like this

by Tracy Chevalier

Taking as her inspiration the famous "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries (which date from the 16th century), Tracy Chevalier writes a deeply researched historical novel about their creation, going into the minds and lives of the men who designed and executed the tapestries as well as the into the events of the time.

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Villette

Villette more books like this

by Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontė's last novel--a highly autobiographical one--tells the story of Lucy Snowe, a cold young woman who becomes a teacher at a school for girls in Brussels, where she falls in love with a fellow teacher, M. Paul Emmanuel. The plot parallels a situation in Brontė's own life, when she studied in Brussels in the 1840s and became involved ...

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Folding Star

Folding Star more books like this

by Alan Hollinghurst

In Alan Hollinghurst's second novel, Edward Manners is 32 years old, gay, and disillusioned with his life in England. He arrives in an ancient Flemish city to work as a language tutor, also hoping to get some writing done. There, he becomes obsessed with one of his students, a 17-year-old boy named Luc Altidore. Their relationship quickly becomes ...

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Niccolo Rising

Niccolo Rising more books like this

by Dorothy Dunnett

Dunnett presents a mercantile thriller following the intriguing adventures of a young trader in 15th-century Europe as he battles and connives his way from apprentice to entrepreneur extraordinaire. "Engrossing, often witty . . . with satisfying characters and complex alliances".--Kirkus Reviews. From the author of the successful Francis of Lymond ...

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Resistance

Resistance more books like this

by Anita Shreve

An American pilot is downed in Belgium during a bombing mission and is hidden by a young married Belgian woman, a resister in a Nazi-occupied village. The two fall desperately in love, with consequences that test their dearly-held ideas about love and betrayal.

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Battle--the story of the Bulge

Battle--the story of the Bulge more books like this

by John Toland

"For the first time in the growing literature of World War II, the inspiring story of the stubborn, lonely, dogged battle of the Americans locked in this tragic salient is told...gripping...You cannot put it down once you start it". -- San Francisco Chronicle. John Toland has written numerous books on World War II, including Infamy: Pearl Harbor ...

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Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne

Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne more books like this

by Donald R Burgett

This powerful, action-packed memoir puts readers into the middle of the Battle of the Bulge and the Allies' legendary fighting force known as the Screaming Eagles. Along the way, Burgett, just 19 at the time of the battle, vividly captures some of the most horrific action of World War II.

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Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels

Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels more books like this

by Rick Steves

Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best ways to meander around Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, explore its maze of canals, and find the tastiest breweries and restaurants? With "Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges and Brussels," travelers can experience everything Amsterdam, Bruges, and Brussels have to offer - economically and hassle-free. ...

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They called it Passchendaele. more books like this

by Lyn Macdonald

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We Shall Not Sleep

We Shall Not Sleep more books like this

by Anne Perry

After four long years of World War I, peace is finally in sight. But chaplain Joseph Reavley and his sister Judith, an ambulance driver on the Western Front, are more hard pressed than ever. Then Matthew, the third Reavley sibling and an intelligence expert, suddenly arrives at the front with startling news.

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Rick Steves' France

Rick Steves' France more books like this

by Rick Steves

Rick Steves doesn't just list where to travel in Europe, he leads travelers through the "Back Door," and reveals how to give every journey an extra, more authentic dimension. He shows travelers how to delve into European culture, make friends with the locals, and experience each region's natural wonders 2; economically and hassle free. "Rick ...

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Professor more books like this

by Charlotte Bronte

THE PROFESSOR is an early work by Charlotte Brontė on which her later novel, VILLETTE, was based.

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The spring of the ram more books like this

by Dorothy Dunnett

The adventures of 15th century infamous liar, Niccolo, continue in this second book of the series. Running from a bad marriage, Niccolo travels from Florence to the dazzling city of Trebizond where his bawdy and dangerous schemes lead him to the arms of his wife's daughter.

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Sharpe's Waterloo more books like this

by Bernard Cornwell

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Waterloo more books like this

by Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Corwell, author of Sharpe's Company, Sharpe's Seige, and Sharpe's Revenge, continues the saga of Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe in this, his final adventure. Just as he comes face-to-face with his estranged wife and her lover at a grand society ball, news comes that the British-Prussian link is under attack. In the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe once ...

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Scales of Gold more books like this

by Dorothy Dunnett

It is 1464, and ambitious merchant-banker Nicholas va der Poele, eager to expand his commercial empire, is drawn to the newest trading arena--Africa. Crossing ocean, desert, and jungle, Nicholas and his companions experience Africa's enthralling and perilous mixture of brutality and beauty: the horror of the slave trade and the ferocity of its ...

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In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign more books like this

by Leon Wolff

Of all the grim, gallant, and inglorious battles of the Western Front, Passchendaele is the name uniquely evocative of the "mud and blood" that pervaded the First World War. The total gain--a few thousand yards of indefensible slough--cost many tens of thousands of Allied lives. In this now-classic account of the Flanders campaign, first published ...

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The Rise of the Dutch Republic more books like this

by John Lothrop Motley

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. Without the birth of this great commonwealth the various historical phenomena of: the sixteenth and following centuries must have either not existed; or have presented themselves under essential modifications.

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Bitter Woods more books like this

by John S D Eisenhower

"It was the greatest single battle the U.S. Army ever fought. More than a million GIs were involved and nearly 80,000 became casualties. The Allied generals had to rally beaten, dispirited troops in th"

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Battle of Hurtgen Forest more books like this

by Charles Whiting

Thirty thousand GIs suffered casualties in the longest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army--a battle that historians have ignored for more than 40 years, a battle that, according to veteran military historian Charles Whiting, never should have been fought. Photos.

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A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front more books like this

by Winston Groom

"A Storm in Flanders" is novelist and prizewinning historian Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought--and thought about--war. 16-pages of illustrations.

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A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It more books like this

by Gerald Astor

As the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge approaches, this engrossing oral history--told in the words of those who were there, from the top decision-makers to footsoldiers in the trenches--addresses the still lingering controversy over who did what to whom, who performed with valor and who committed the most egregious errors.

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Asterix in Belgium more books like this

by Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illustrator)

What a horror! Chief Vitalstatistix has learned that Caesar has called the Belgian tribes, and "not" the Gauls, the bravest he knows. Along with Asterix and Obelix, the chief goes to confront the Belgians--who, to his surprise, turn out to be very like the people in his own hometown.

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Virtue more books like this

by Jane Feather

With a highly sensual style, Jane Feather--winner of four Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards--works her bestselling romantic magic in a tale of a strong-willed beauty forced to make her living at the gaming tables. An arrogant nobleman is determined to get the better of her, and the stakes are nothing less than her virtue. Regency Romance.

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Maigret at the Gai-Moulin more books like this

by Georges Simenon

It's closing time at the Gai Moulin, and Jean Chabot and Rene Delfrosse are planning to rob the till to pay of their debts. To their surprise, they stumble upon a dead body. What at first seems to the police an open and shut case proves more complicated when the body turns up next at the zoo, stuffed into a wicker basket. Into the puzzlement steps ...

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