No copies available
The last copy was sold recently.
Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.
First published in 1956, Han Suyin’s magnificent novel about the Emergency Period in Malaya and Singapore.
These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany.
The plots of this thriller are based on the real danger that threatened the Allied plan "Overlord" to land in France and the accompanying plan "Bodyguard", which had to mislead the Germans regarding the place and time of D-Day.
The Quiet American (1955) is set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the French colonial struggle against the insurgents. Through the atmosphere of Saigon, Greene creates a tense story of love and political intrigue, with a strong critique of the Vietnam War
Mown Fields (1933) represents the culmination and swan song of a life that ended too soon – the author finished the novel just five months before his death from tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-one.
In occupied Prague in 1942, the student Pavel hides the wounded Jewish woman Hana. In danger and fear, a strong love is born between them. The Gestapo discovers them, Pavel dies tortured under investigation, and Hana survives the Holocaust carrying the me