Historical Fiction Revolution

During the late 60s and early 70s, turbulence dominated both the world stage and the personal psyche of youth worldwide. It was an era of startling contrasts. Make peace, not war. Flower power. Turn on, tune in, drop out. Passion for ear-splitting, loud music. Vegetarian heroin users. Open the mind, close the establishment.

It’s 1753, and troubling news comes to Russell’s Ridge. Susanna Russell longs to escape her valley home. When war breaks out, she gets her wish to study in fabulous Williamsburg. But she realizes she’s lost something important along the way. Something - and someone. James Paxton is studying for the ministry. But when violence threatens the valley, his path becomes clouded. What is God’s will for his life? The answer is alarming - and impossible.

A gripping, fact-based story of how Daniel Morgan and his courageous riflemen played a crucial role in George Washington's victory in the American Revolution.... They wore hunting shirts, deer-skin leggins and moccasins. Each had a tomahawk and a scalping knife in their belts and carried "long rifles" in their hands. Every rifleman was a Patriot volunteer, a tracker, and a hunter. And they could kill a redcoat from 250 yards.

Honoria Blake knows she must have had a moment of madness when she accepted a summons by the Scarlet Pimpernel to travel to revolutionary Paris and help his League. She's an expert forger, but the violence of the Reign of Terror has her longing for her quiet, unobtrusive life in London. Then a bloody man staggers to the door of the house where she's hiding, claiming he was sent by the Pimpernel. Recently escaped from La Force prison, the former Marquis de Montagne is sinfully handsome and charming. He's also desperate enough to kidnap Honoria. So much for her return to the quiet life.

After her late husband leaves her in debt to some dangerous people, Lady Gabrielle McCullough is forced to become a thief. In the intervening years, her skills have not gone unnoticed. After being recruited by the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious do-gooder spiriting aristocrats out of revolutionary France, Gabrielle crosses the Channel for the most daring mission of her life. Accompanying her is the Earl of Sedgwick, a thief in his own right and an enticingly masculine presence. The man is not to be trusted - nor is Gabrielle's body when he's near.

1791. On découvre des cadavres dans la Seine, nus et la tête coupée. Malgré l'émoi populaire, Victor Dauterive, jeune officier de la nouvelle Gendarmerie n'a guère le temps de s'en préoccuper : Lafayette, son mentor, l'a chargé d'arrêter Marat, ce dangereux agitateur qui appelle au meurtre des aristocrates. Mais la mission tourne vite au cauchemar. Les vainqueurs de la Bastille sont-ils de vrais patriotes ou des activistes corrompus ? Existe-t-il vraiment un Comité secret agissant en sous-main pour le roi ? Et n'y aurait-il pas un lien avec ces corps flottant dans la Seine ?

Ce petit homme sec, sanglé dans un costume bleu de coupe impeccable, n'est autre que Robespierre, l'Incorruptible ! Et celui-là, avec son sans-gêne, son débraillé, c'est Fouquier Tinville, l'accusateur public. Ce jeune homme maigre, au regard fiévreux, c'est le citoyen Bonaparte. D'autres encore vivent familièrement sous nos yeux, les Tallien, les Barras, les Fouché... Car nous sommes en Thermidor, an II. En cet âge d'or de l'intrigue et de la conspiration, un personnage étrange, une femme joue un rôle passionnant, anime tous ces grands hommes qui tiennent le devant de la scène, s'en fait aimer ou haïr.

Einar Már Guðmundsson er en af Islands største nulevende forfattere. Han debuterede i 1981, og havde sit folkelige gennembrud med romanen "Universets Engle" (1993) som modtog Nordisk Råds litteraturpris. I "Hundedage" spejler Guðmundsson gennem nutidens prisme den dramatiske tid i slutningen af 1700-tallet og begyndelsen af 1800-tallet. Tiden for den franske revolution, historiens største vulkanudbrud og Islands første og eneste konge: "Hundedagskongen" Jørgen Jürgensen, en dansk kaperkaptajn, som i 1809 gennemførte et statskup på Island.

They drowned Victoire's mother, claiming she was a witch. Then, her father died beneath the wheels of a nobleman's carriage. Forced to leave her village, Victoire finds work in Paris. But domestic employment comes at a high price, and the orphaned girl suffers gruesome abuse at the hands of a diabolical aristocracy. Accused of a heinous crime, they imprison her in the depraved lunatic asylum, La Salpêtriere. With the help of ruthless seductress, Jeanne de Valois, Victoire must find the strength to join the revolutionary force storming the Bastille.

As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of Victorian London, werewolves prowl the shadows of back alleys. But they have infiltrated the inner circles of upper-crust society as well. Only a handful of specially gifted practitioners are equipped to battle the beasts.

The question of how the American colonists made the long trip from being subjects of the British king to being citizens of the independent United States has nearly as many answers as there were people. Within these collected tales, you'll be transported to the time when the American Revolution tested how a tobacco farmer, a Spanish sailor, and a Quaker blacksmith would all navigate the tumultuous times of the American Revolution.

Robespierre is dead. The Reign of Terror is over. As Royalist strength grows, the Duc de L'Aubespine plots a coup that will consign the revolution to history. With Olympe in his clutches, he believes nothing can stop him. But he's reckoned without the intrepid Battalion of the Dead! Reunited in Paris, Ada is poised for action—but if she plays her hand too soon, everything she's sacrificed to gain his trust will be lost. Meanwhile, an unlikely alliance with an old enemy might be Camille's only option to save Olympe and stop the duc in his tracks.

Sie ziehen mit den Truppen Ottos des Großen bei Augsburg in die Entscheidungsschlacht gegen die Ungarn. Wagen sich noch in der Frühzeit der Hanse mit ihren Schiffen über die Ostsee bis ins Baltikum vor und schließen sich dem Zweiten Kreuzzug an, um die ungläubigen Wenden zu bekehren. Sie kämpfen im Dreißigjährigen Krieg gegen die eigenen Landsleute und keine zweihundert Jahre später im Befreiungskrieg gegen die französischen Besatzer unter Napoleon. Sie haben Erfolg. Sie leiden.

Born to a life of wealth and status, Mademoiselle Dacia de Prideaux is every inch the glittering aristocrat. However, her brother, Marcel, is an outspoken political activist, and with the country on the verge of the French Revolution, he has made dangerous enemies - one of whom takes Marcel’s life. When Dacia is accused of the unthinkable crime, she finds refuge with her dear friend Marguerite St. Just, who believes there is one man with the means to help: the wealthy fop, Sir Percy Blakeney.

Charles Dickens takes us to the year 1775, where England and France are undergoing a period of social upheaval and turmoil. The forces that are leading to revolution in France are colliding with a circle of people in England, causing their destinies to be irrevocably intertwined. A Tale of Two Cities has helped to shape our understanding of one of the most pivotal events in modern history: the French Revolution and the birth of the new French Republic.

Als uneheliche Tochter des Schlossherrn hat die junge Magd Resa von ihrer Herrin Rodegard nicht viel Gutes zu erwarten. Unbeabsichtigt kommt sie auch noch den Heiratsplänen in die Quere, die Rodegard für ihre eigene Tochter schmiedet. Kurzerhand lässt Rodegard das Mädchen in ein Berliner Bordell verschleppen. Als Prostituierte gebrandmarkt, gehört Resa zum Abschaum der Gesellschaft. Doch während der blutigen Barrikadenkämpfe der Märzrevolution steht plötzlich ein verletzter junger Mann vor den verriegelten Toren des Bordells und bittet Resa um Hilfe. Ist Friedrich für Resa die Chance, sich ihr Leben zurückzuholen und Rache an Rodegard zu nehmen?

A missing mother, a mysterious parcel of old letters, and a young woman in search of her roots reveal an astonishing story of a woman's affair with Che Guevara and an intimate portrait of revolutionary Cuba.

An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world. 1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some...

When mill heiress Miss Emily Marsham agrees to a marriage born out of tragedy and hardheaded necessity, her hopes for future marital bliss aren’t high. Adam Blackthorn, the ambitious manager of one of her father’s mills, is not what she expected in a husband. Can she make the best of her situation and be a dutiful wife, or will Adam challenge her to become something else entirely?

Eine Liebesgeschichte zwischen duftenden Hyazinthenfeldern und den Wirren der Märzrevolution. Berlin, 1848: Wo später einmal der Boxhagener Platz sein wird, erstrecken sich duftende Hyazinthenfelder so weit das Auge reicht - die Ländereien der fünf Sonntag-Schwestern. Früher waren sie unzertrennlich, doch seit dem Tod ihres Bruders Heinrich steht ein dunkles Geheimnis zwischen ihnen. Vor allem die mittlere Schwester Alba leidet sehr unter dem großen Streit. Zumal ihre Familie drauf und dran ist, die Felder zu verkaufen, die Alba über alles liebt.