Allan Massie
Author
Language
English
Description
"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
2) The Caesars
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1984, c1983
Language
English
Description
Thsi book is the author's attempt in defining they type of men the first emperors of Rome were.
Author
Series
Bordeaux quartet volume 4
Publisher
Quartet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the early summer of 1944, France is in turmoil. The Allied invasion, bringing the promise of Liberation, is awaited, eagerly and nervously. The Vichy regime is in its death throes. Those who have served it and collaborated with the German Occupation fear the revenge of the Resistance. Atrocities are committed on both sides, and justice is blind. Superintendent Lannes, suspended from duty by order of the Boches, searches unofficially for a missing...
Author
Series
Bordeaux quartet volume 2
Publisher
Quartet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
With his son's safe return, Superintendent Lannes and his wife can, at last, have some joy amid the grim reality of Vichy France. Not that the unexplained murders seem to have stopped. Allan Massie's second volume in his trilogy continues the story of dogged detection in a world seemingly gone mad.
Author
Series
Canongate classics volume 91
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In the early years of World War II an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumors of a collaboration with the Nazis in Norway.