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The Enemies of Jupiter: Book 7 (The Roman Mysteries #7)
by Caroline LawrenceJonathan's father, Doctor Mordecai, is summoned to Rome to help the plague victims. The four young detectives are wanted too, as the Emperor Titus believes that they can find the mysterious enemy who seeks Rome's destruction.Can the friends prevent disaster? And what is Jonathan's secret mission?
The Enemies of Jupiter: Book 7 (The Roman Mysteries #7)
by Caroline LawrenceJonathan's father, Doctor Mordecai, is summoned to Rome to help the plague victims. The four young detectives are wanted too, as the Emperor Titus believes that they can find the mysterious enemy who seeks Rome's destruction.Can the friends prevent disaster? And what is Jonathan's secret mission?Read by Michael Praed(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd
The Enemies of Jupiter (Roman Mysteries Book VII)
by Caroline LawrenceThe fever that started in Ostia is sweeping through Rome, and Jonathan, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus are called by the Emperor to investigate. The friends' investigations take them from the Imperial Palace to Tiber Island, but Jonathan is distracted by a secret mission of his own. Suddenly, he finds that everything is terrifyingly out of control. This is the seventh volume in the popular series of mysteries set in ancient Rome, which have been widely praised for their fast-paced plots, well-drawn characters, and authentic Roman setting.
The Enemies of Rome: The Barbarian Rebellion Against The Roman Empire
by Stephen Kershaw PhDA fresh and vivid narrative history of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the “barbarian” enemies of Rome. History is written by the victors, and Rome had some very eloquent historians. Those the Romans regarded as barbarians left few records of their own, but they had a tremendous impact on the Roman imagination. Resisting from outside Rome’s borders or rebelling from within, they emerge vividly in Rome’s historical tradition, and left a significant footprint in archaeology. Kershaw builds a narrative around the lives, personalities, successes, and failures both of the key opponents of Rome’s rise and dominance, and of those who ultimately brought the empire down. Rome’s history follows a remarkable trajectory from its origins as a tiny village of refugees from a conflict zone to a dominant superpower. But throughout this history, Rome faced significant resistance and rebellion from peoples whom it regarded as barbarians: Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Goths, Vandals, Huns, Picts and Scots. Based both on ancient historical writings and modern archaeological research, this new history takes a fresh look at the Roman Empire through the personalities and lives of key opponents during the trajectory of Rome’s rise and fall.
The Enemies of Rome: From Hannibal to Attila the Hun
by Philip Matyszak"Matyszak writes clearly and engagingly . . . nicely produced, with ample maps and illustrations." --Classical Outlook This engrossing book looks at the growth and eventual demise of Rome from the viewpoint of the peoples who fought against it. Here is the reality behind such legends as Spartacus the gladiator, as well as the thrilling tales of Hannibal, the great Boudicca, the rebel leader and Mithridates, the connoisseur of poisons, among many others. Some enemies of Rome were noble heroes and others were murderous villains, but each has a unique and fascinating story.
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America
by Kati Marton"You are opening a Pandora's box," Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths: secret love aff airs, betrayals inside the family circle, torture and brutalities alongside acts of stunning courage -- and, above all, deep family love. In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton, an accomplished journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State, using the secret police files on her journalist parents as well as dozens of interviews that reveal how her family was spied on and betrayed by friends and colleagues, and even their children's babysitter. In this moving and brave memoir, Marton searches for and finds her parents, and love. Marton relates her eyewitness account of her mother's and father's arrests in Cold War Budapest and the terrible separation that followed. She describes the pain her parents endured in prison -- isolated from each other and their children. She reveals the secret war between Washington and Moscow, in which Marton and her family were pawns in a much larger game. By the acclaimed author of The Great Escape, Enemies of the People is a tour de force, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America.
Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo
by J. Ryan StackhouseHow do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining the Gestapo's policy of 'selective enforcement', J. Ryan Stackhouse challenges the abiding perception of the Gestapo as policing exclusively through terror. Instead, he reveals the complex system of enforcement that defined the relationship between state and society in the Third Reich and helps to explain the Germans' abiding support for Hitler and their complicity in the regime's crimes. Stories of everyday life in Nazi Germany paint the clearest picture yet of just how differently the Gestapo handled certain groups and actions, and the routine investigation, interrogation, and enforcement practices behind this system. Enemies of the People offers penetrating insights into just how reasonable selective enforcement appeared to Germans, and draws unavoidable parallels with the contemporary threat of authoritarianism.
Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump (The American Ways Series)
by D. J. MulloyThe rise of the alt-right alongside Donald Trump’s candidacy may be seem unprecedented events in the history of the United States, but D. J. Mulloy shows us that the radical right has been a long and active part of American politics during the twentieth century. From the German-American Bund to the modern militia movement, D. J. Mulloy provides a guide for anyone interested in examining the roots of the radical right in the U.S.—in all its many varied forms—going back to the days of the Great Depression, the New Deal and the extraordinary political achievements of Franklin D. Roosevelt. <p><p> Enemies of the State offers an informative and highly readable introduction to some of the key developments and events of recent American history including: the fear of the Communist subversion of American society in the aftermath of the Second World War; the rise of the civil rights movement and the “white backlash” this elicited; the apparent decline of liberalism and the ascendancy of conservatism during the economic malaise of the 1970s; Ronald Reagan’s triumphant presidential victory in 1980; and the Great Recession of 2007-08 and subsequent election of President Obama.
Enemies of the State: The Cato Street Conspiracy
by M. J. TrowOn 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a dense crowd, five of the Cato Street conspirators—Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James Ings, Richard Tidd and John Brunt—were hanged for high treason. Then they were decapitated in the last brutal act of a murderous conspiracy that aimed to assassinate Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet and destroy his government. The Cato Street conspirators matched the Gunpowder plotters in their daring—and in their fate—but their dark, radical intrigue hasnt received the attention it deserves. M.J. Trow, in this gripping fast-moving account of this notorious but neglected episode in British history, reconstructs the case in vivid detail and sets it in the wider context of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
The Enemies of Versailles: A Novel (The Mistresses of Versailles Trilogy #3)
by Sally ChristieIn the final installment of Sally Christie’s “tantalizing” (New York Daily News) Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, Jeanne Becu, a woman of astounding beauty but humble birth, works her way from the grimy back streets of Paris to the palace of Versailles, where the aging King Louis XV has become a jaded and bitter old philanderer. Jeanne bursts into his life and, as the Comtesse du Barry, quickly becomes his official mistress.“That beastly bourgeois Pompadour was one thing; a common prostitute is quite another kettle of fish.” After decades of suffering the King's endless stream of Royal Favorites, the princesses of the Court have reached a breaking point. Horrified that he would bring the lowborn Comtesse du Barry into the hallowed halls of Versailles, Louis XV’s daughters, led by the indomitable Madame Adelaide, vow eternal enmity and enlist the young dauphiness Marie Antoinette in their fight against the new mistress. But as tensions rise and the French Revolution draws closer, a prostitute in the palace soon becomes the least of the nobility’s concerns. Told in Christie’s witty and engaging style, the final book in The Mistresses of Versailles trilogy will delight and entrance fans as it once again brings to life the sumptuous and cruel world of eighteenth century Versailles, and France as it approaches irrevocable change.
Enemies to Allies: Cold War Germany and American Memory (Studies In Conflict, Diplomacy, And Peace Ser.)
by Brian C. EtheridgeAt the close of World War II, the United States went from being allied with the Soviet Union against Germany to alignment with the Germans against the Soviet Union—almost overnight. While many Americans came to perceive the German people as democrats stan
Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America
by Robert Alan Goldberg"There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, subversions, and coverups. Those who suspect conspiracies behind events in the news - the crash of TWA Flight 800, the death of Marilyn Monroe - join generations of Americans, from the colonial period to the present day, who have entertained visions of vast plots. In this book Robert Goldberg focuses on five major conspiracy theories of the past half-century, examining how they became widely popular in the United States and why they have remained so. "--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
El enemigo (Colección Endebate #Volumen)
by Christopher HitchensCon la muerte de Osama bin Laden el mundo pareció cerrar una época. Christopher Hitchens reflexiona acerca de la figura que atemorizó a Occidente durante diez años, su final y su sangriento y funesto legado. Todo cambió el 11 de septiembre de 2001 cuando 19 terroristas suicidas secuestraron cuatro aviones y sembraron el caos y la destrucción. El siglo XXI comenzaba cubierto de sangre y barro y el espectro de Al Qaeda y su líder, Osama bin Laden, ocuparon un espacio inusitado en el imaginario global. Desde la seguridad en los aeropuertos hasta las guerras de Afganistán e Iraq, la onda expansiva de esos atentados aún se hace notar. Diez años más tarde Estados Unidos acabó con su principal enemigo, pero ¿qué representaba Bin Laden? Más aún, ¿quién era y qué había conseguido? Esas son las preguntas que la incisiva pluma de Christopher Hitchens intenta responder.
Enemigos de Esparta
by Sebastián Roa«Te metieron en la cabeza la idea de que Esparta es invencible, pero yo te digo que no lo es. Y no tardaremos mucho en comprobarlo.» Sebastián Roa vuelve a deslumbrar con una obra llena de épica, fuerza narrativa y rigor. Una nueva obra maestra de uno de los grandes de la novela histórica de hoy. GUERRA · AMOR · TRAICIÓN Prómaco y Veleka se aman. Pero él es un simple mercenario de sangre mestiza, y ella pertenece a la nobleza. No les queda otro remedio que huir en busca de los espartanos, a quienes Prómaco tanto admira. VIOLENCIA · SEXO · VENGANZA Cuando un altivo guerrero espartano rapta a Veleka, Prómaco jura rescatarla aunque tenga que buscarla en el corazón de la propia Esparta. Pero enfrentarse a su poderoso ejército es un sueño imposible. MUERTE · PODER · REBELIÓN O tal vez no. En Atenas, un puñado de exiliados conspira. Epaminondas, Pelópidas, Agarista, Platón... A cada uno le mueven sus razones, pero todos comparten un objetivo: recuperar la democracia arrebatada por Esparta. Críticas:«Sebastián Roa consigue que nos sintamos como si estuviéramos ahí.»El Mundo «Cuando el rigor histórico y el talento se aúnan surgen obras maestras como esta. Impresionante.»Anika Entre Libros «Una auténtica joya.»La historia en mis libros «Tramas de pasión, intriga, guerra y ambición se entrecruzan de manera magistral.»Todo Literatura «Hay que leerlo ya.»Historia o leyenda «Una novela histórica de altura y bien documentada que combina rigor informativo y aventuras verdaderamente trepidantes.»Culturamas «Una trepidante historia, minuciosamente documentada y repleta de amores, batallas, traiciones, venganzas y pasiones humanas.»Eldiario.es «El autor maneja los recursos literarios con maestría.»La Razón
Enemigos perfectos (Saga de los Malory #Volumen 10)
by Johanna LindseyLos Malory son una familia de granujas apuestos y aventureros libertinos, y damas con carácter. Una saga romántica sobre la aristocracia británica del siglo XIX, creada por el talento incomparable de Johanna Lindsey, una de las autoras más populares del género. Enemigos perfectos es la décima entrega de la emocionante «Saga de los Malory», sin duda la saga familiar más popular del género romántico. Nueve años atrás, Richard Allen huyó de Inglaterra y de su dominante padre. Decidido a vivir su propia vida, terminó por unirse a una banda de piratas cazadores de tesoros en el Caribe. Allí adoptó la identidad de un francés seductor y despreocupado, Jean Paul. Cuando regresa de incógnito a Inglaterra para lleva a cabo una tarea urgente, se enamora de Georgina Malory, una mujer casada. Pero su osado intento de cortejarla en un baile de disfraces se convierte en el peor error de su vida porque lo pone en presencia de otra hermosa mujer. Emocionada porque sus abogados por fin han encontrado la manera de liberarla de un compromiso matrimonial indeseado, Julia Miller espera encontrar al hombre de su vida en el baile de su amiga Georgina. Cautivada por un francés enmascarado, no puede evitar seguir a ese misterioso hombre...
The Enemy: Detroit, 1954
by Sara Holbrook<P>Set in 1954, this compelling historical novel tells the story of a young girl’s struggles and triumphs in the aftermath of World War II. The war is over, but the threat of communism and the Cold War loom over the United States. <P>In Detroit, Michigan, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles with the ups and downs of family life, dealing with her veteran father’s unpredictable outbursts, keeping her mother’s stash of banned library books a secret, and getting along with her new older “brother,” the teenager her family took in after his veteran father’s death. <P>When a new girl from Germany transfers to Marjorie’s class, Marjorie finds herself torn between befriending Inga and pleasing her best friend, Bernadette, by writing in a slam book that spreads rumors about Inga. Marjorie seems to be confronting enemies everywhere—at school, at the library, in her neighborhood, and even in the news. <P>In all this turmoil, Marjorie tries to find her own voice and figure out what is right and who the real enemies actually are. Includes an author’s note and bibliography. <P><b>Jane Addams Children's Book Award Medal Winner</b>
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis (Routledge Library Editions: Wyndham Lewis #1)
by Jeffrey MeyersOriginally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis’ years at Rugby and the Slade, his bohemian life on the Continent, the creation of Vorticism and publication of Blast, and his experiences at Passchendaele, as well as his many love affairs, his bitter quarrels with Bloomsbury and the Sitwells, the suppressed books of the thirties, the evolution of his political ideas, his self-imposed exile in North America and creative resurgence during his final blindness. Jeffrey Meyers also describes Lewis’ relationships with Roy Campbell, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. E Lawrence, Hemingway, Huxley, Yeats, Auden, Spender, Orwell and McLuhan. As the self-styled Enemy emerges from the shadows, he is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in modern English art and literature.
The Enemy: Life Aboard a U.S. Navy Destroyer
by Wirt WilliamsThe Enemy, first published in 1951, is the wartime account of a fictional U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Dee (based on the author’s experiences while serving aboard the USS Decatur in the North Atlantic). The ships’ mission is to locate and destroy German submarines while protecting an aircraft carrier. The book details life aboard the destroyer and the inevitable conflicts that arise between men at sea for long periods. The ship also encounters and engages enemy submarines, receiving slight damage. Following author Wirt Williams’ service aboard the USS Decatur, he was transferred to the Pacific theater where he captained a Landing Ship. After the war, Williams worked as a reporter, then became an English professor in California. He continued to write and published six novels, and was nominated for three Pulitzer Prizes, once for his reporting and twice for his novels. The Enemy was his first novel. Williams passed away in 1986 at the age of 64.
The Enemy Above: A Novel of World War II
by Michael P. SpradlinNazi gun fire can only mean one thing... The Germans are closing in. And twelve-year-old Anton knows his family can't outrun them. A web of underground caves seems like the perfect place to hide. But danger lurks above the surface. Ruthless Major Karl Von Duesen of the Gestapo has made it his mission to round up every Jew in the Ukrainian countryside. Anton knows if his community is discovered, they will be sent off to work camps...or worse. When a surprise invasion catches them off guard, Anton makes a radical decision. He won't run any longer. And he won't hide. He will stop being the hunted...and start doing some hunting of his own. Michael P. Spradlin's newest thriller is the ultimate game of cat and mouse set during one of the darkest moments in history.
Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire
by Kassandra LuciukThis graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee testimony in existence. The novel follows Boychuk from his arrest in Toronto to Kapuskasing, where he spends just over three years. It details the everyday struggle of the internees in the camp, including forced labour and exploitation, abuse from guards, malnutrition, and homesickness. It also documents moments of internee agency and resistance, such as work slowdowns and stoppages, hunger strikes, escape attempts, and riots. Little is known about the lives of the incarcerated once the paper trail stops, but Enemy Alien subsequently traces Boychuk’s parole, his search for work, his attempts to organize a union, and his ultimate settlement in Winnipeg. Boychuk’s reflections emphasize the much broader context in which internment takes place. This was not an isolated incident, but rather part and parcel of Canadian nation building and the directives of Canada’s settler colonial project.
Enemy Archives: Soviet Counterinsurgency Operations and the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement – Selections from the Secret Police Archives
by Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr LuciukAs Russia wages a twenty-first-century war against the very existence of a Ukrainian state and nation, reanimating Soviet-era propaganda that portrayed Ukrainians as Nazi collaborators and fascists, the experiences of the Ukrainian nationalist underground before, during, and after the Second World War gain new significance. While engaged in a decades-long struggle against the Ukrainian nationalist movement and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and lasting into the mid-1950s, Soviet counterinsurgency forces accumulated a comprehensive and extensive archive of documents captured from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the UPA. Volodymyr Viatrovych and Lubomyr Luciuk have curated and carefully annotated a selection of these documents in Enemy Archives, providing primary sources the Soviet authorities collected and deemed useful for better understanding their opponents and so securing their destruction, a campaign that ultimately failed.The documents seized from the insurgents and Soviet analyses of them shed light on a wide range of experiences in the underground: how the movement struggled to maintain discipline and morale, how it dealt with suspected informers, and how it resisted the ruthless Soviet state, laying the foundations for the continuing Ukrainian struggle against foreign domination.
The Enemy at His Back
by Elizabeth Churchill BrownThis work discusses the communist schedule for taking over America and its potential loss of liberty. The author’s goal is to succeed in awakening the American people to the immediate mortal danger and have better knowledge on how to protect ourselves from communism.“Elizabeth Churchill Brown’s book is one of the clearest and most factual expositions of Communist influence on American foreign policies and actions that I have read. This book should be read in all American homes and schools and should be required reading by every American in Government Service.”—General Albert C. Wedemeyer
The Enemy at Home: A Thrilling Historical Suspense Novel of a WWII Era Serial Killer
by Kevin O'Brien&“Tantalizing…had me guessing and turning pages right up to the final, shocking reveal—which I never saw coming.&” —Charlie Donlea, bestselling author of Twenty Years Later Perfect for readers of The Nurse&’s Secret, this provocative and captivating new book from the New York Times bestselling author follows adiabolical murderer as he preys on women in WW2 era Seattle. Thoroughly researched, this gripping new historical thriller featuring a diverse, engaging cast of characters is at once vivid, richly detailed, and laced with taut suspense.&“Fast-paced, suspenseful, and intriguing... Super enjoyable.&” —Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times bestselling author&“A sweeping, addictive story of bravery and sacrifice…Authentic period detail creates a suspenseful, chilling atmosphere in this grand historical novel.&” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author 1943, Seattle. While raging war reshapes the landscape of Europe, its impact is felt thousands of miles away too. Before the war, Nora Kinney was one of countless housewives and mothers in her comfortable Capitol Hill neighborhood. Now, with her doctor husband stationed in North Africa, Nora feels compelled to do more than tend her victory garden or help with scrap metal drives . . . At the Boeing B-17 plant, Nora learns to wield a heavy riveting gun amid the deafening noise of the assembly line—a real-life counterpart to &“Rosie the Riveter&” in the recruitment posters. Yet while the country desperately needs their help, not everyone is happy about &“all these women&” taking over men&’s jobs. Nora worries that she is neglecting her children, especially her withdrawn teenage son. But amid this turmoil, a sinister tragedy occurs: One of Nora&’s coworkers is found strangled in her apartment, dressed in an apron, with a lipstick smile smeared on her face. It&’s the beginning of a terrifying pattern, as women war-plant workers like Nora are targeted throughout Seattle and murdered in the same ritualistic manner. And eclipsing Nora&’s fear for her safety is her secret, growing conviction that she and the killer are connected—and that the haven that was her home has become her own personal battlefield . . .&“Nobody writes suspense better than Kevin O&’Brien. Read The Enemy at Home, but do so with the lights on.&” —Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author&“A compulsively unputdownable, keep-you-guessing-to-the-end, pages-flying whodunit. Packed with compelling, complicated characters in a fascinating and meticulously-researched time and place.&” —Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is &“The curves in the plot kept me reading late into the night (while checking the locks on my doors!).&” —Erica Bauermeister, New York Times bestselling author of No Two Persons
The Enemy At Home
by Meriol TrevorFor Seraphine de Trévires, love would have to wait. It was marriage she longed for - marriage to Dominique d'Erlen, traitor and usurper of his brother's estates. But this was the time of the French revolution; armies were on the march and disaster threatened all of Europe. The loveless union was Seraphine's only hope of seeing Paris and the glittering world of her dreams. And then she met the handsome English soldier who, left by the French to die in a forgotten dungeon, so completely won her heart that love left her no choice. No choice, but instead an agonizing decision...