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Janet Wallach

    Arafat w oczach przyjaciół i wrogów
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    Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
    • Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements–a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds wit the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.

      Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
      3,8
    • Arafat

      • 465 stránok
      • 17 hodin čítania

      "Lyle Stuart book." Examines the personal and public dimensions of the PLO leader.

      Arafat
      3,0
    • Coco Chanel

      • 189 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania
      Coco Chanel
      3,0
    • Piraten entführen die dreizehnjährige Aimee du Buc, um sie im sagenumwobenen Topkapi-Palast dem Sultan als Geschenk zu überreichen. Dieses neue Leben ist dem Mädchen so fremd, dass es vor Sehnsucht nach seiner Heimat zu zerbrechen droht. Doch Tulip, einer der Eunuchen, nimmt sich ihrer an und führt sie behutsam in die Welt des Harems ein. Schließlich erwacht Aimees Lebensfreude erneut - bis eines Tages der Blick des Sultans wohlgefällig auf ihr ruhen bleibt ... Basierend auf dem Schicksal der Cousine von Kaiserin Josephine.

      Serail
      3,7