6 títulos para "Best Nicholas"

Cinco d’as que estremecieron al mundo

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Desde el 28 de Abril de 1945 en que se ejecuta a Mussolini, hasta el 2 de Mayo en el que las tropas soviŽticas conquistan Berl’n, pasan cinco d’as llenos de caos, miedos, esperanzas y apasionantes relatos humanos que el historiador Nicholas Best ha recogido con impresionante pulso narrativo. Como si...

Cinco días que estremecieron al mundo

Best, Nicholas

Desde el 28 de Abril de 1945 en que se ejecuta a Mussolini, hasta el 2 de Mayo en el que las tropas soviéticas conquistan Berlín, pasan cinco días llenos de caos, miedos, esperanzas y apasionantes relatos humanos que el historiador Nicholas Best ha recogido con impresionante pulso narrativo. Como si...

Where Were you at Waterloo?

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"As sharp as Waugh and sometimes better" - Times Literary Supplement Nicholas Best's first novel, a satire of army life. One morning the Gobelin Guards are Trooping the Colour. The next day they are flown out to the Indian Ocean to defend the island of British Casuarina from invasion. Vainly await...

Tennis and the Masai

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Take a nervous young Englishman on his gap year. Drop him into a ghastly Kenya prep school in the middle of Rider Haggard country. A school where cricketing news comes by carrier pigeon, leopards are assaulted with a red-hot poker, and runaway boys are hunted down with spearmen and a pack of foxhoun...

Happy Valley

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The definitive story of the British in Kenya, from the explorer Joseph Thomson, whose exploits inspired King Solomon's Mines, to the decadent Happy Valley set of the 1930s, the murder of Lord Erroll, and the Mau Mau revolt of the 1950s. "Nicholas Best tells an immensely entertaining tale" - Max Has...

Five Days that Shocked the World

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In the five momentous days from April 28 to May 2 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. The execution of Benito Mussolini, the suicide of Adolf Hitler, and the fall of the German capital signalled the end of the four-year war in the European Theater. In...