![]() ![]() ![]() Hitler’s blunder in attacking Russia is common knowledge. Hastings, Max, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 19391945 (London: Harper Press, 2011) Hastings, Max, The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas. ![]() He reminds us that although the Germans were almost invariably superb at the tactical and operational level, their strategy was often flawed. He knows that even the finest intelligence organisation will rarely tell you everything you would like to know. He castigates incompetence, but acknowledges that mistakes are often made in war. All Hell Let Loose: The World At War 1939-1945 History, Biography & Memoir All Hell Let Loose: The World At War 1939-1945 / 9780007450725 Harper Collins UK. He writes with compassion, but without sentimentality with understanding, but without hesitating to explode myths where necessary. The book is well paced throughout, and a compelling read: no mean feat given the vast canvas it covers. Max Hastings has combined his considerable experience of war reporting with years of research on the Second World War to write a compelling account of this terrible event, largely told through the eyes of a multitude of men and women who were touched by it. ![]() We still live with the consequences to this day. An average of 27,000 people died each day between September 1939 and August 1945 as a result of the war. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 Unbekannter Einband 26. ![]()
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Her Imperfect Groom by Rose Gordon5/11/2023 ![]() It hurt too much to be anything else.” ― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softlyģ. “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back. ![]() “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.” ― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and YermaĢ. Related: 10 Ways to Stop Loving Someone Who Doesn’t Love You Back 68 quotes about loving someone who doesn’t love you backġ. We take the time to share our strong hearts and how they deal with the pain of unrequited love. Everything can be turned into something positive.Įven when we’re sad, we find time to write about our feelings and enrich the world with our unique words. These quotes may have helped them release their emotional burdens as well as you.Īnd that’s the beauty of the world we live in. We find something beautiful in all this, and that is what inspired us to write some of the most heartwarming quotations you could ever read. ![]() ![]() Read More: quotes about loving someone who doesn t love you ![]() If you’re loving someone who doesn’t love you back, you understand the pain of having so much love for one person that remains unreciprocated. Errotic love, affectionate love, playful love, unconditional love…There are many types of love but of all of them, the unrequited one is the most painful. ![]() The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne5/10/2023 ![]() She is saved from being raped by her doctor by the intervention of the police, alerted by a friend of hers, Countess Blackwell (the heroine of books one of this series, The Highwayman), and is taken in by the Blackwells while she recuperates. ![]() ![]() Locked away in an asylum by her libertine husband who claims that she has debauched tastes when in fact he’s the abusive one and has run through her inheritance, she is abused sexually and spiritually day and night by the staff. ![]() Vincent, Viscountess Benchley, is a woman of great determination. He’s returned to Scotland to assume the mantle of laird and try to return justice and order to his clan after years of his father’s misrule. He has, in response to his father’s cruel teachings, become a soldier for the crown and a killer supreme so legendary that people whisper he made a deal with a demon to gain his fearsome skills. When we first meet him, he’s pulling the rotting skeleton of a bawdy woman he once knew out of a bog, a woman the local gossip accuses him of murdering. Liam MacKenzie, Lord Ravencroft, is a man of action. ![]() Bambi a life in the woods book5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Disney released its movie based on Bambi in 1942. In 1933, he sold the film rights to Sidney Franklin for $1,000, who later transferred the rights to the Walt Disney studios. It was translated into English in 1928 and became a Book-of-the-Month Club hit. His most famous work is Bambi, which he wrote in 1923. In 1927 he became president of the Austrian P.E.N. He wrote film scripts and librettos for operettas. He also wrote for nearly all the major newspapers of Vienna. He was soon publishing, on an average, one book a year, of plays, short stories, novels, travel books, and essay collections. In 1900 he published his first collection of short stories. ![]() In 1901 he founded Vienna's first, short-lived literary cabaret. ![]() ![]() He became part of the Young Vienna movement (Jung Wien) and soon received work as a full-time art and theater critic in the Vienna press. He also began submitting poems and book reviews to journals. When his father went bankrupt, Felix had to quit school and begin working in an insurance agency. Many Jews were immigrating into the city in the late 19th century because Vienna had finally granted full citizenship to Jews in 1867. When he was three weeks old, his family moved to Vienna, Austria. He was born Siegmund Salzmann in Budapest, Hungary. There is more than one author with this Name.įelix Salten was an Austrian writer. ![]() Black dagger brotherhood the beast5/10/2023 ![]() But Mary is on a journey of her own, one that will either bring them closer together or cause a split that neither will recover from. ![]() After suffering mortal injury in battle, Rhage must reassess his priorities-and the answer, when it comes to him, rocks his world.and Mary’s. But Rhage can’t understand-or control-the panic and insecurity that plague him…Īnd that terrifies him-as well as distances him from his mate. ![]() Mary, his beloved shellan, is by his side and his King and his brothers are thriving. Ward Black Dagger Brotherhood Series 22 primary works 36 total works There are three spinoffs of Black Dagger Brotherhood series: they are Black Dagger Legacy, Black Dagger Brotherhood Prison Camp, and Lair of the Wolven. But as the Brotherhood readies for an all-out attack on them, one of their own fights a battle within himself…įor Rhage, the Brother with the biggest appetites, but also the biggest heart, life was supposed to be perfect-or at the very least, perfectly enjoyable. The slayers of the Lessening Society are stronger than ever, preying on human weakness to acquire more money, more weapons, more power. ![]() After avoiding war with the Shadows, alliances have shifted and lines have been drawn. Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. ![]() No direction home by robert shelton5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan was eventually published in 1986, when Dylan’s career was at a low ebb. ![]() They chatted for hours in Manhattan in 1971, during Dylan’s withdrawal from public life, and long into the night in London during the 1978 world tour. At the Woody Guthrie memorial in 1968, and the Isle of Wight in 1969. At Newport ’65, when Dylan went electric. And Shelton was there, a witness to all the crucial moments of Dylan’s formative years: at Newport ’63, and at the celebrated Philharmonic Hall concert of Halloween 1964. He studied all the poets, and seers, and mystics who had influenced Dylan. To the vast coterie of musicians and poets who scuffled for dimes in now legendary Greenwich Village clubs and hung out in Washington Square Park. ![]() Shelton talked to everyone-childhood friends from Hibbing, including Echo Helstrom and Bonnie Beecher, the real “Girl from the North Country.” To fellow students from whom Dylan begged, stole, and borrowed money, records, and songs as he passed briefly through university in Minneapolis. ![]() Miss marple murder in the library5/10/2023 ![]() Main article: List of Agatha Christie's Marple episodesĪgatha Christie's Marple follows the adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St. The title of the series removes the word Miss from Miss Marple, to match the title of the Agatha Christie's Poirot series. Subsequent episodes were derived both from works featuring Miss Marple and also Christie novels that did not feature the character. The first six episodes were all adaptations of Miss Marple novels by Christie. Overview Įach series consists of four feature-length episodes, except series six which only has three episodes. Following the conclusion of the sixth series, the BBC acquired the rights for the production of Agatha Christie adaptations, suggesting that ITV would be unable to make a seventh series of Marple. ![]() ![]() Unlike the counterpart TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, the show took many liberties with Christie’s works, most notably adding Miss Marple’s character to the adaptations of novels in which she never appeared. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to the third series, until her retirement from the role, and by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. ![]() ( Chorion/RLJ Entertainment)Īgatha Christie's Marple (or simply Marple) is a British ITV television programme loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Walter Savage Landor «Letters and Other Unpublished Writings of Walter Savage Landor» М. 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Blakey JRevelation Blind Willie Johnson The Biography. ![]() Save the date by jenny b jones5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Tell us a little more about your obsession with Ben and Jerry. I think I look every bit my 30 plus years and then some. We should talk more often! Maybe it’s just the power of really good lighting and some PhotoShop. You are so stinkin’ cute, barely look over eighteen, and make the rest of us adults feel like we’ve passed the century mark. ![]() ![]() The mailman may just have me committed before then. And as I type this, I’m seriously-on-the-edge-of-my-seat-oh-so-patiently waiting for Save the Date to arrive. Believe me, if you haven’t read her books – go buy them now! Just Between You and Me was the first book I ever read of Jenny’s and I couldn’t put it down. After 500 years and 50 bazillion emails from you all… (well, okay, I exaggerated a little.) It looks like we finally get to post this amazing interview with Jenny B. ![]() Alison goodman eona5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Based on the ancient lores of Chinese astrology and Feng Shui, The Two Pearls of Wisdom and its sequel The Necklace of the Gods are compelling novels set in a world filled with identities, dangerous politics and sexual intrigue. O’Hearn Memorial Fellow at Melbourne University, holds a Master of Arts, and teaches creative writing at postgraduate level.-This text refers to the audioCD edition. Quickly learning to navigate the treacherous court politics, Eon makes some unexpected alliances, and a deadly enemy in a Dragoneye turned traitor. Alison Goodman was born in Australia and after a bit of wandering, now lives in her hometown, Melbourne. The Emperor immediately summons Eon to court to protect his son and heir. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eon's unprecedented display of skill at the Dragoneye ceremony places him in the centre of a power struggle between the Emperor and his High Lord brother. Eona becomes Eon, and a dangerous gamble is put into play. Because females are forbidden to practise the Art, Eona endures years of study concealed as a boy. He is really Eona, found by a power-hungry master of the Dragon Magic in a search for the new Dragoneye. The first book, Eon, has also been published under the titles Eon: Dragoneye Reborn, Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye, and The Two Pearls of Wisdom. Eon is a potential Dragoneye, able to manipulate wind and water to nurture and protect the land. Eona is the second half of a fantasy duology by Alison Goodman and was on the New York Times Bestseller List. ![]() |