Edward IV
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- 11 hodin čítania
Edward IV's struggle to gain and retain the kingship of England during a period of sustained dynastic turmoil in the middle of the Wars of the Roses
James Lovell Knihy
James Lovell je legendou prieskumu vesmíru. Jeho meno je neodmysliteľne spojené s misiou Apollo 13, kde ako veliteľ doviedol posádku z kritickej situácie späť na Zem. Okrem toho sa podieľal na priekopníckej misii Apollo 8, ktorá ako prvá vstúpila na obežnú dráhu Mesiaca. Jeho skúsenosti a odvaha ho radia medzi najvýznamnejšie postavy dobývania vesmíru.
A True and Wholly Engrossing Tale of High Finance and Treachery in Which the Secret of a Wartime Tragedy is Revealed Through a Contemporary Drama.On 10th June 1944, four days after the Allied invasion of Normandy, the inhabitants of a remote village in South West France were rounded up by a company of SS soldiers and all but a handful were shot or burnt to death - 642 in total.The atrocity and its particularly disturbing details have never been adequately explained until now. In 1982 Robin Mackness met the one man left alive who held the knowledge which made terrible sense of the massacre. Five further years of thorough investigations convinced the author that he had discovered the true secret of Oradour. It cost him twenty-one months in prison and much else besides.
The Bastard's Sons
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- 11 hodin čítania
The first joint biography of the three sons of William the Conqueror. They became kings, crusaders and rulers of England and Normandy.
W kwietniu 1970 roku, w latach chwały programu Apollo, NASA wysłała kapitana marynarki Jima Lovella, Johna Swigerta i Freda Haise na piątą misję księżycową. Po zaledwie pięćdziesięciu pięciu godzinach lotu doszło do katastrofy: z powodu eksplozji zbiornika z tlenem w module serwisowym statek... číst celé