A new spy thriller set over the four days of the 1938 Munich Conference, as the world waits for war, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fatherland, Conclave and An Officer and a Spy

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September, 1938. Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Cha...(展开全部)

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, gracias a su prodigiosa memoria y a su talento para descifrar textos codificados, Mike Rogan ingresa en la Seccion de Inteligencia del Ejercito americano, poco despues de casarse con Christine. A raiz del desembarco de las tropas americanas en Francia, Rogan es enviado a Europa en mision de escucha de mensajes. Pero por un error cae, junto a C...(展开全部)

A novel of blood and vengeance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Godfather . Michael Rogan was an intelligence officer behind enemy lines in World War II Europe. But he made the mistake of falling in love, which gave him something to lose-or to be taken from him. Captured by the Nazis, Michael was treated as an experiment. A piece of meat. A subjec...(展开全部)

沃纳·赫尔佐格 Werner Herzog（1942 -）。享誉国际的新德国电影大师之一，与文 德 斯（Wim Wenders）、法斯宾德（Rainer Werner Fassbinder）齐名。赫尔佐格1942年出生于慕尼黑，1962年起开始制作、拍摄电影与短片，1 968年他的第一部长片《生命的讯息》 （Signs of Life）获柏林影展银熊奖；1972年《天谴》 （Aguirre，the Wrath of God）被英国《视与听》杂志评为年度十大佳片之首，他也成为国际影坛最受瞩目的德国青年导演；1974年《人人为自己,上帝反众人》（The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser）获戛纳电影节评审团大奖；1982年又有 《陆上行舟》（Fitzcarraldo）获戛纳电影节最佳导演奖。 他同时还拍摄了大量深具影响力的纪录片，包括获奖无数...(展开全部)

Marti Perarnau, former Spanish Olympiad turned journalist, is a renowned football analyst. He writers for a number of Spanish newspapers and runs the hugely popular Perarnau Magazine blog. He lives in Barcelona.

Marti Perarnau, former Spanish Olympiad turned journalist, is a renowned football analyst. He writers for a number of Spanish newspapers and runs the hugely popular Perarnau Magazine blog. He lives in Barcelona.

From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the 'lessons of history' as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform speci...(展开全部)

From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the 'lessons of history' as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform speci...(展开全部)

In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the start of the Cold War, uncovering the untold story of a group of ex-Soviet Muslims who had de...(展开全部)