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Ever since marrying Maximilian of Austria, Charlotte's life has been a series of disenchantments. Her life with Max reduced to nothing, she now puts all her stakes in the Mexican crown. Upon the couple's arrival in Veracruz, they are faced with an anemic, worn-out country, far from pacified by the French troops. They must come head-to-head with the defiant local elites, who have decided to take advantage of Max's weaknesses in order to preserve their...
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At sixteen, Princess Charlotte falls in love with an Austrian archduke, Maximilian of the House of Habsburg. Soon enough, she finds herself enmeshed in the cruel and unpredictable world of international diplomacy as her marriage founders. Increasingly shrewd, navet and idealism replaced by practicality and skepticism, Charlotte will help ensure that she and Maximilian are sent to Mexico to reign as emperor and empress
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A supernatural take on World War II espionage featuring a girl with the ability to possess other bodies. PUBLICATION IN 3 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Europe, December 1942. The global conflict has reached a fever pitch. The Nazis are at the height of their power, but the Allies have had their first victories both in Stalingrad and in the Pacific. Never has the war's outcome been so much in doubt. Amidst this chaos, the destinies of several men will...
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A supernatural take on World War II espionage featuring a girl with the ability to possess other bodies. PUBLICATION IN 3 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Europe, December 1942. The global conflict has reached a fever pitch. The Nazis are at the height of their power, but the Allies have had their first victories both in Stalingrad and in the Pacific. Never has the war's outcome been so much in doubt. Amidst this chaos, the destinies of several men will...
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A supernatural take on World War II espionage featuring a girl with the ability to possess other bodies. PUBLICATION IN 3 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Europe, December 1942. The global conflict has reached a fever pitch. The Nazis are at the height of their power, but the Allies have had their first victories both in Stalingrad and in the Pacific. Never has the war's outcome been so much in doubt. Amidst this chaos, the destinies of several men will...
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Inspired by the poignant story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL sniper who earned several awards for his service before his murder in 2013.
Discover a unique graphic novel from award-winning writer Fabien Nury (The Death of Stalin) and artist Brüno (Tyler Cross) illustrating the events leading up to the death of American hero Chris Kyle, which came only a year after publishing his autobiography. This tragic tale adapts part of his memoir while also...
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Par le scénariste de Il était une fois en France.
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des dignitaires nazis poursuivent dans le plus grand secret d'étranges expérimentations sur des prisonniers. Tout semble dépendre des étranges pouvoirs qu'une petite fille auraient développé, et que les nazis espèrent instrumentaliser. Mais Ana Anslea est-elle seulement une petite fille ? Ses souvenirs remontent à tant de siècles…
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The graphic novel which inspired the hotly tipped and highly controversial new movie directed by Armando Iannucci, due in theatres in March, and starring a host of high profile actors, including Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jason Isaacs. Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death in the Soviet Union in 1953. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke - the political...
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"Moscow. September 17th. 1904. In front of the palace of the Governor General of Moscow, the assembled masses protest against widespread poverty. Governor Sergei Alexandrovich is stood on the balcony when he drops his hankerchief-- Inadvertently giving the signal for the soldiers to open fire... The Governor fears for his life and the lives of his family as the repercussions of his deadly mistake resound throughout the whole of Russia... and the assassins...
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"Based on the true story of Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew who immigrated to France in the 1920s and became one of the richest men in Europe as a scrap-metal magnate. During the Second World War he becomes a Nazi collaborator and war profiteer who provides the Nazi regime with the metals it needs, but secretly he uses his wealth and influence to finance the French Resistance and free fellow Jews from Nazi hands. Due to his tactics he was one of...