This book is pretty much as exciting as true crime can get. I can't even begin to fathom that this stuff actually happened.The only reason I didn't give it five stars, however, was the author tends to go on long rants about people and occurrences completely unrelated to the story such as Albert C...
I was astonished by how much I enjoyed this book, which I devoured in a single day. Olof Rudbeck was the discoverer of the lymph system, a keen astronomer, a composer, a singer, an instrumentalist, a top-flight architect -- in short, a sort of paradigm for Renaissance Man (the plant genus Rudbeck...
“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last SummerVienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extr...
All the clouds are dispersed. Europe owes the happy issue of the negotiations to the departure of Lord Castlereagh. —CONVERSATION OVERHEARD AT A BALL IN EARLY 1815 The arrival of the Duke of Wellington had not only affected Vienna’s diplomatic activity and social calendar; it was also posing a ...
He wore a low-riding pot-helmet and his face was shadowed but he seemed to be dozing. The village and the camp areas seemed to be asleep and the only sound that came to Moffitt's ears were the soft shushings of the sentries' feet on their patrols. Hitch and he squeezed between the halftracks and ...
Its altitude was no more than five hundred feet and it had been searching now for more than half an hour, sweeping an area of about ten miles east and west from the two German patrol cars that still burned, bright orange in the pastel-shaded night. Jerry wanted the vehicle, patrol or unit that ha...
The air was fetid and Dietrich rose swiftly from his cot and pulled back the flap at the entrance. He stepped outside in his undershorts, glancing at his watch and looking to the east where the sky was light but hazed. It was a few minutes past oh-five-hundred and any moment the rising sun would ...