Napoleon roberts5/31/2023 Roberts contends that these accounts have acted as ammunition for those attempting to portray Napoleon as a kind of “proto-Hitler,” whose governance set the intellectual and moral stage for horrendous tyrannies to come. The supposed reminiscences and memoirs of many individuals in Napoleon’s entourage were often ghostwritten in an attempt to impugn the memory of him. Roberts opens the book with the observation that most of the source material used in previous biographies of Napoleon can be considered suspect. Using new documents from archives and traveling to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, Roberts paints a new portrait of a well-known historical figure, drastically altering the understanding of Napoleon’s motivation and character. With 33,000 of Napoleon’s recently published letters at his disposal, Roberts allows the reader an insider’s look at the real man considered to be one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Napoleon: A Life is Andrew Roberts’s 2014 biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose battles are among the greatest in history.
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Cursed by Thomas Wheeler5/31/2023 She struggles to unite her people, avenge her family, and discover the truth about her destiny.īut perhaps the one thing that can change Destiny itself is found at the edge of a blade. She wields a sword meant for the one true king, battling paladins and the armies of a corrupt king. Thomas Wheeler, Cursed 4 likes Like Paladin, paladin, choke and twitch, bitten by the Wolf-Blood Witch. Nimue teams up with a charming mercenary named Arthur and refugee Fey Folk from across England. Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can think of little else. Nimue teams up with a charming mercenary named Arthur and refugee Fey Folk from across England. Cursed by Thomas Wheeler 6,823 ratings, 3.22 average rating, 1,424 reviews Open Preview Cursed Quotes Showing 1-2 of 2 Its only a lost cause when everyone gives up on it. The Lady of the Lake finds her voice in this cinematic twist on the tale of King Arthur created by Tom Wheeler and legendary artist, producer, and director. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people’s only hope. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people’s only hope. That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue’s fate is forever altered. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave… Whosoever wields the Sword of Power shall be the one true King.īut what if the Sword has chosen a Queen? Ringworld book5/31/2023 Niven still ranks near the top of the SF field, but this outing is likely to satisfy determined Ringworld fans more than other readers. Wu's pursuit of the Protectors displays Niven's deft hand at portraying aliens, but the dialogue that fills in the backstory slows the narrative. The battle against the vampires is the more exciting of the two stories, filled with action, scenes of the Ringworld and explorations of ritualistic interspecies sex. Meanwhile, returning hero Louis Wu is battling what effectively is a plague of Protectors (superbeings common to many Niven novels) whose rivalries threaten Ringworld's existence. The series is composed of five standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a star. It is part of his Known Space set of stories. A motley array of hominid inhabitants are seeking to defeat a plague of vampires. The Ringworld series is a series of science fiction novels written by American author Larry Niven. This third fictional voyage to the Ringworld (after Ringworld, 1970, which won both the Hugo and the Nebula for best SF novel of that year, and Ringworld Engineers, 1980) offers two stories crowded into one. Indeed, he referred to the first couple of books as Essays in the craft. An honored SF writer returns to his best-known creation: the artificial world, built far from Earth by aliens over a half million years ago, in the form of a ring 600 million miles in diameter, hosting an astonishing multitude of inhabitants and cultures. A higher call5/31/2023 Agent: Greg Johnson, Wordserve Literary Agency. During the introduction, the cold caller should state their name and the company. 1) The Introduction It’s good etiquette to let the person answering the call know who they are speaking to as soon as possible. The book is a riveting story of humanity and mercy set against the ghastly backdrop of war. The typical structure of a cold call script has four core components. Based on thousands of hours of interviews and an evident knowledge of his subject, Makos details the frantic life of the German fighter pilots living on the edge, and the American bomber crews, far from home, fighting to survive. Charlie Brown and his crew through training and to the successful completion of their combat tour in April 1944. Building on the events of that encounter, Makos crafts a multifaceted story, relating the career of Stigler from his first taste of combat in North Africa to his final assignment flying jet fighters in the waning battles of the war in Europe. Military historian and aviation enthusiast Makos, along with WWII biographer Alexander (In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers), delivers a top-notch narrative of the unlikely encounter between one of Germany’s leading fighter aces, Franz Stigler, and the rookie crew of an American bomber in the frigid skies of Germany in December 1943-upon engaging the already damaged American plane, Stigler had mercy on his enemies and escorted them to safety. The night circus book 25/31/2023 The Night Circus centres around a duel between two young, promising magicians, Celia Bown and Marco Alasdair, thrust unbeknownst into competition against each other at a young age by their competing mentors. The entire circus glistens with excitement. The line for tickets snakes around the outside of the fence. He identifies signage that needs to be adjusted or elevated to be easier to read, doors that are not visible enough and others that are too predominant, drawing too little attention or too much of a crowd.īut these are minute details, really, extra oil for inaudible squeaking. Instead, he wanders through pathways and concourses and walks in loops around the courtyard with Marco in tow, who is taking notes whenever Chandresh finds something to comment upon.Ĭhandresh watches the crowd, discerning how people decide which tents to enter. I’ve been lucky enough to have this experience twice in the last handful of months first with The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht ( REVIEW) and now with The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.Ĭhandresh Christophe Lefèvre enters not a single tent on opening night. Even after that final page is turned though, these novels live in my memory, constanly ekeing their way into my thoughts and colouring my discussion of other, inferior novels. Every so often, a novel comes along that knocks me off my feet, ties me up and leaves me bound, unable to escape until I turn its final page. |