Death in Bordeaux (Häftad)
avAllan Massie
ISBN: 9780704371903 - UTGIVEN: 201006In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion that there is a political motive for the murder seems justi[...]
Dark Summer in Bordeaux (Häftad)
avAllan Massie
ISBN: 9780704372665 - UTGIVEN: 201204With his son's safe return, Superintendent Lannes and his wife can, at last, have some joy amid the grim reality of Vichy France. Not that the unexplained murders seem to have stopped. Allan Massie's second volume in his trilogy continues the story of dogged detection in a world seemingly gone mad.[...]
Cold Winter in Bordeaux (Häftad)
avAllan Massie
ISBN: 9780704373280 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02Winter. 1942-3. The war is turning against Germany on the Eastern Front. The Americans land in North Africa. Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Superintendent Lannes - himself an object of suspicion, with one son in Vichy and another with de Gaulle's Free French - investigates the murder of a woman. It loo[...]
The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain (Häftad)
avAllan Massie
ISBN: 9781250024923 - UTGIVEN: 201302"Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--"The Wall Street Journal" ""In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's l[...]
Question of Loyalties (Häftad)
avAllan Massie
ISBN: 9781841952994 - UTGIVEN: 2002-11Etienne de Balafre, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his father - Lucien. Was he a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government?[...]
The Death of Men (Pocket)
avAllan Massie
ISBN: 9781841955049 - UTGIVEN: 2004-09Corrado Dusa is head of Italy's Christian Democrat Party and the country's senior minister. He is also considered to be the key figure in resolving the crisis of dissent and violence that permeates political life. But Dusa has been kidnapped and now his son, a member of a militant extremist group, h[...]
