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Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945
[Buy it!] | Friedlander, Prof Saul | USD 19.31
(Mon Jun 3 08:09:17 2024) | AbebooksUK | Cambridge Rare Books | ISBN10: 0753824450, ISBN13: 9780753824450, [publisher: WandN] Softcover 2008-10-16. WandN. Paperback. GOOD Edgewear. 8.5x5.5.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008] |
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The Mirror and the Light
[Buy it!] | Hilary Mantel | USD 6.66
(Mon Jun 3 08:09:18 2024) | Abebooks | Book Express (NZ) | ISBN10: 0007480997, ISBN13: 9780007480999, [publisher: 4th Estate] Hardcover 912 pages. The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the W omen's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century' Obser ver The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-win ning Wolf Hall trilogy. 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheadin g, when can you speak it? England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead , decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French execu tioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney em erges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to s hort-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwel l is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regim e to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new cou ntry in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themsel ves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone c lose to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and B ring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell , the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offeri ng a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious conte st between present and past, between royal will and a common man' s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, pass ion and courage. A Guardian Book of the Year * A Times Book of t he Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year * A Telegraph Book o f the Year * A Sunday Times Book of the Year * A New Statesman Bo ok of the Year * A Spectator Book of the Year
[Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 2020] |
