Résultats pour "The Duel" dans Biographies et mémoires

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, two prime ministers who fought each other relentlessly, but who between them created today’s Canada. John Diefenbaker...

Ihre "Zwangsehe", wie Günter Grass sie einmal nannte, wurde offiziell am 1. Januar 1960 geschlossen: An diesem Tag besprach der Kritiker Marcel Reich- Ranicki "Die Blechtrommel" des gerade 32-jährigen Autors. Er verriss den Roman. Und so begann das wechselhafte Verhältnis von "MRR" und "GG". Ein halbes Jahrhundert der Auseinandersetzungen, zahlreiche Romane und Verrisse, Liebeserklärungen und Wut folgten.

La Policía Judicial acude hasta el número 13 de la calle Montesinos. Dos niños, Francisco, de seis años, y Adrián, de cuatro, yacen muertos sobre la cama. Paqui, su madre, les cuenta que un ecuatoriano ha entrado en casa durante la madrugada y ha acabado con la vida de sus dos hijos, pero con las primeras pesquisas se despiertan las sospechas. Las incoherencias de su relato y las pruebas forenses pronto desmienten su coartada.

Listen to this captivating memoir by Wilhelm Johnen who flew his first operational mission in July 1941, having completed his blind-flying training. In his first couple of years he brought down two enemy planes. The tally went up rapidly once the air war was escalated in spring 1943, when Air Marshal Arthur Harris of the RAF Bomber Command began the campaign dubbed the Battle of the Ruhr.

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.

In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years’ War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight, fresh from combat in Scotland finds his wife, Marguerite, accusing squire Jacques Le Gris of brutally raping her. A deadlocked court decrees a “trial by combat” that also leaves Marguerite’s fate in the balance. For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser. While enemy troops pillage the land, and rebellion and plague threaten the lives of all, Carrouges and Le Gris meet in full armor on a walled field in Paris.

A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a father, who fled post-war Vietnam on a small boat to find refuge in the United States, and his American-born daughter, who ventures to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives on their shared homeland, as they search for common ground and a path toward mutual healing.

Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch! This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You're here to witness the catastrophically awesome exploits...