2019, ISBN: 9780140258547

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U.S.A.: Delta, 2005. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. Historical romance trade sized paperback Condition is fine near new, has slight shelf wear with a corner tip creased and a handling… Altro …

U.S.A.: Delta, 2005. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. Historical romance trade sized paperback Condition is fine near new, has slight shelf wear with a corner tip creased and a handling crease in middle of front cover, appears unreadl , pages clean and tight, no writing or stamps, cover bright and glossy. THIS BOOK IS IN LARGER EASY TO READ PRINT.. Please note that this is a thick heavy paperback and may require additional postage as the postage listed is for domestic mediia mail. ..........*We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info.**.......WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK........Summary - MORE THAN A MISTRESS -He is the greatest matrimonial prize in all of Christendom, the scandalous Duke of Tresham. When a young servant, Jane Ingleby, interferes with his duel, causing him to get shot, the duke enlists her as his nurse. But Jane, far too bold and far too beautiful for her own good, questions the duke's every move, scolds his bad manners, and touches his soul. When he offers to set her up in his London town house, love is the last thing on his mind. And hers. Their arrangement is strictly business- until suddenly everything changes. NO MAN'S MISTRESS - Ferdinand Dudley is accustomed to getting what he wants.that is, until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to claim his rightful estate, and is met by the bewitching fury of Lady Viola Thornhill. She refuses to cede him the home she calls her own. He refuses to leave. So the contest begins between these two foes to force one to acknowledge the others claim. Nor will they acknowledge the passion brewing between them. But Viola knows it is a game she cannot afford to lose. Marriage is out of the question and she will be no man's mistress.., Delta, 2005, 5, London: Arrow Books. New. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First printing of Arrow paperback edition with full number line, 2008. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside. Brand new unopened book. Cover design uncredited with photos courtesy of Arcangel Images. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Strike Back Series; Vol. 6; 480 pages; Two soldiers. John Porter, once he was one of the SAS's most promising young recruits. Now he's a broken man: a drunken tramp living on the streets of London. Sir Peregrine Collinson, Britain's most decorated military hero, a best selling author, and personal envoy for the PM. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago in a raid to free a hostage that went badly wrong. One got a medal, the other got the blame. Now, amidst another hostage crisis in the Middle East, their lives are about to collide again. And the strike back is about to begin... ., Arrow Books, 2008, 6, New York: Pocket Books, 1973. Twelfth Printing. Mass market paperback. Good. pocket paperback, 1047, wraps, covers creased and small edge tears, text somewhat darkened, top corner front flyleaf cut off. A novel about an American naval family caught up in World War II. Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 - May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) which won the Pulitzer Prize. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and nonfiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherished his privacy, "the reclusive dean of American historical novelists". Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wouk joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942 and served in the Pacific Theater during World War II, an experience he later characterized as educational: "I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans." The Caine Mutiny went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A bestseller, drawing from his wartime experiences aboard minesweepers during World War II, The Caine Mutiny was adapted into a Broadway play called The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and Columbia Pictures released a film version with Humphrey Bogart portraying Lt. Commander Philip Queeg, captain of the fictional USS Caine. In the 1970s, Wouk published two monumental novels, The Winds of War (1971) and its sequel, War and Remembrance (1978). He described them, which included a devastating depiction of the Holocaust, as "the main tale I have to tell." Both were made into successful television miniseries, the first in 1983 and the second in 1988. Although they were made several years apart, both were directed by Dan Curtis and both starred Robert Mitchum as Captain Victor "Pug" Henry, the main character. The novels are historical fiction. Each has three layers: the story told from the viewpoints of Captain Henry and his circle of family and friends, a more or less straightforward historical account of the events of the war, and an analysis by a member of Adolf Hitler's military staff, the insightful fictional General Armin von Roon. Wouk devoted "thirteen years of extraordinary research and long, arduous composition" to these two novels, noted Arnold Beichman. "The seriousness with which Wouk has dealt with the war can be seen in the prodigious amount of research, reading, travel and conferring with experts, the evidence of which may be found in the uncatalogued boxes at Columbia University" that contain the author's papers. The Winds of War is Herman Wouk's second book about World War II, the first being The Caine Mutiny (1951). Published in 1971, it was followed up seven years later by War and Remembrance; originally conceived as one volume, Wouk decided to break it into two when he realized it took nearly 1000 pages just to get to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The novel features a mixture of real and fictional characters that are all connected to the extended family of Victor "Pug" Henry, a fictional middle-aged Naval Officer and confidant of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The story arc begins six months before Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ends shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when the United States and, by extension, the Henry family, enters the war as well. Wouk interspersed the narrative text with epistolic "excerpts" taken from a book written by one of the book's fictional characters, German general Armin von Roon, while he was in prison for war crimes. Victor Henry translates the volume in 1965 after coming across Von Roon's German version. While the texts provide the reader with a German outlook on the war, Henry occasionally inserts notes as counterpoints to some of von Roon's statements. Wouk never presumes to read the minds of historical characters; only fictional characters have thoughts the reader can share in this novel. Wouk wrote that the novel was a traditional and linear narrative of the war that began with the cataclysmic event of Pearl Harbor, "where we entered the ordeal that ended with our martial triumph, our temporary nuclear supremacy, and our global leadership that has since became our unwanted glory and our leaden burden. In The Winds of War, I have tried to evoke the whole historic-that is linear drift to that shattering moment". Wouk wrote that in "The Winds of War", I did my best to shake up the familiar elements in the kaleidoscope of art, to give them an organizing vision and a shape, so that he who runs might read and picture what happened in this worst world catastrophe - the worst, that is, so far., Pocket Books, 1973, 2.5, Penguin, London, 1999. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, faint spine crease, price sticker on rear cover."Lawrence of Arabia" began World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the great figures of the war. He altered the face of the Middle East, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the army and the Royal Air Force, in near obscurity. Lawrence deliberately turned his life into a conundrum and set out to mystify those who came after him-beginning with his own account of the Arab Revolt, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1926- thereby assuring his place as a mythical cult-figure for posterity. He saw himself as an intellectual rather than a soldier, and a wanderer after sensations rather than a man of action. He wore an endless series of masks. But who was the real man behind these disguises? Desert explorer and Arab scholar Michael Asher set out to solve this riddle of appearances. Retracing many of Lawrence's desert journeys, he gained startling new insights into his character. The result is a biography that captures the elusive man behind the myth., Penguin Books Ltd, 1999, 4<

1999, ISBN: 9780140258547

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Penguin, London, 1999. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, faint spine crease, price sticker on rear cover."Lawrence of Arabia" began Wo… Altro …

Penguin, London, 1999. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, faint spine crease, price sticker on rear cover."Lawrence of Arabia" began World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the great figures of the war. He altered the face of the Middle East, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the army and the Royal Air Force, in near obscurity. Lawrence deliberately turned his life into a conundrum and set out to mystify those who came after him-beginning with his own account of the Arab Revolt, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in 1926- thereby assuring his place as a mythical cult-figure for posterity. He saw himself as an intellectual rather than a soldier, and a wanderer after sensations rather than a man of action. He wore an endless series of masks. But who was the real man behind these disguises? Desert explorer and Arab scholar Michael Asher set out to solve this riddle of appearances. Retracing many of Lawrence's desert journeys, he gained startling new insights into his character. The result is a biography that captures the elusive man behind the myth., Penguin Books Ltd, 1999, 4<