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Gabriel García Márquez’s most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. General Simon Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes of the western hemisphere; in García Márquez’s brilliant reimagining, he is magnificently flawed as well. The novel follows Bolívar as he takes his final journey in 1830 down the Magdalena River toward the sea, revisiting the scenes of his former glory and lamenting his lost dream of an alliance of American nations.

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Graham Greene's account of a five-year personal involvement with Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu, one of the few men in the National Guard whom the general trusted completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational politician in the vital period of his country's history and to an unusual and enduring friendship.

“From exactly midnight until daybreak, the Namiya General Store advice box will be reopening for one night only.” When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s...

A profound and engrossing medical drama by bestsellers Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright is back where she worked as an intern: the general hospital. This time, instead of dealing with patients' broken bodies, she's tackling their mental health issues, with...

BBC Audio presents all three original albums from the ground-breaking comedy series that launched the careers of Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys-Jones. Not the Nine O'Clock News is one of the great classics of British television comedy. The show ran from 1979 to 1982...

Sector General: a massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. It's 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of any conceivable alien patient–though that capacity is always being strained as more (and stranger) alien races turn up to join the galactic community. Sentient viruses, interspecies romances, undreamed-of institutional catering problems–it all lands on Sector General’s doorstep.

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas...

Il fait un froid de loup, moins 38 degrés. Stalingrad, hiver 1942-1943. Un vent gelé souffle sur la steppe et lance des cristaux de glace contre nos visages. Nous marchons sur des milliers de cadavres congelés. Le Général SS, silencieux et introverti, marche au devant de la colonne. Il est furieux. Ça fait longtemps que nous le savons. C'est un passionné, qui veut mourir au combat. Le Général SS veut emporter avec lui, vers la mort, le plus grand nombre de soldats.

They were the leaders, the men who made the decisions that change the outcome of battles... and the fate of continents. From the awesome landing at Normandy to the torturous campaigns of the South Pacific, from the frozen hills of Korea to the devastated wastes of Dien Bien Phu, they had earned their stars. Now they led America’s finest against her most relentless enemy deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia. It was a new kind of war, but the Generals led a new kind of army, ready for battle - and glory...

Private McAuslan, J.—the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban)—demonstrates his unfitness for military service in this first volume of stories of life in a Scottish regiment. Unkempt, ungainly and unwashed, civilian listeners may regard him with shocked disbelief. But generations of ex-servicemen have hailed him with delight as a familiar friend—because every old soldier can remember a McAuslan! 

Está congelando a -38oC. Stalingrado, inverno de 1942-1943. Um vento frio varre as planícies, jogando cristais de gelo em nossos rostos. Estamos marchando por milhares de corpos congelados. Os generais da SS estão marchando na frente do comboio, silenciosos e distanciados. Notamos que o general da SS está bravo há um tempo, um fanático que quer morrer em batalha, levando consigo tantos quanto possível.

A riveting tale of battle and adventure in a brutal land, where loyalty and courage are constantly challenged and the enemy is never far away. Jack Lark barely survived the Battle of the Alma. As the brutal fight raged, he discovered the true duty that came with the officer's commission he'd taken. In hospital, wounded, and with his stolen life left lying on the battlefield, he grasps a chance to prove himself a leader once more. Poor Captain Danbury is dead, but Jack will travel to his new regiment in India, under his name.

Once the Carthaginian forces were removed from Iberia, the reinforcements and supplies for Hannibal Barca dwindled to a trickle. Even so, Hannibal held onto the southwest quadrant of the Italian peninsula and remained a danger to the Republic. Although made rich from his conquests, the architect of the victory in Iberia retreated to Rome.

El coronel de la Guardia Civil Antonio Escobar, hombre de profundas convicciones religiosas, consiguió con su decidida actuación el 19 de julio de 1936 que no prosperase la sublevación militar en Barcelona. Pese a ser hijo de un héroe de la guerra de Cuba, y tener una hija monja adoratriz, un hijo falangista Palma de Plata y dos hermanos también coroneles de la Guardia Civil, optó por la libertad de actuar conforme a su conciencia y al juramento prestado al Gobierno legalmente constituido.

The scandalous death of Lixie Miller's husband has forced her to flee to Lordsburg, New Mexico. All she wanted to do at first was crawl in a hole and hide. But after a few months of dull routine, her safe hole is beginning to feel like her burial place. Then an interesting attorney comes from Santa Fe just to meet her - and leaves just as quickly as he came. And others need her help, including a hurt Indian girl.

Il Generale, Mario Castelli, è stato alla guida di un'azienda, ha avuto una bella famiglia, ha avuto molto dalla vita. Ora non ha più niente. La sua è stata una discesa veloce, inarrestabile, provocata da un imprevedibile tradimento. Dopo la galera, scivolare in basso è stato più facile di quanto potesse immaginare. Ora vive insieme ad altre creature notturne negli anfratti dei senzatetto, dei disperati, dei barboni. Eppure, anche lì, gli uomini e le donne con cui divide la nuova condizione di dropout gli riconoscono la naturale autorevolezza di chi sa come ci si muove nel mondo.

Milena Busquets continua la seva missió d’explicar el món, o almenys una part del món, a través de la seva vida i les experiències d’una dona privilegiada en una part privilegiada del món. Barcelona, Cadaqués, fills, nòvios, amants, amistats, el sector editorial en què va néixer, l’experiència d’intentar escriure sense impostura, la llarga ombra de la seva mare morta, el temps que passa, l’èxit, la por, el sexe, la solitud i la llibertat.

Instantáneas de una vida. Un lienzo impresionista de momentos vitales: alegrías, dolor, recuerdos, anhelos… La madre fallecida hace años, pero cuya presencia se sigue sintiendo; la niñera de la infancia en Cadaqués; los hijos que crecen; los buenos y malos amantes; los editores, las lecturas, la escritura; los solitarios baños matutinos durante el verano; las pequeñas cosas que hacen que la vida merezca la pena; el encuentro fortuito con un amigo de la infancia ya olvidado y el hallazgo de un viejo amigo de la madre cuya pista se había perdido.

In the throes of crisis, Rome braces for change. Caesar, Rome’s greatest general and conqueror of Gaul, now faces being stripped of his command and dragged back to Italy for prosecution by his enemies. His former ally, Pompey, has sided with his opponents in the Senate and frustrates all efforts to find peace. With no alternatives, Caesar crosses the Rubicon and spearheads an invasion of Rome with Mark Antony at his side, throwing the empire into civil war. Will Antony rise to the heights of power or be executed as a traitor?