Historical Fiction Napoleon

Richard Sharpe believes that his soldiering days are over, but his retirement is interrupted by a request from Donna Louisa Vivar for Sharpe to discover the truth about the disappearance of her husband, the Captain-General of Chile. Sharpe's quest takes him to St Helena and an encounter with Napoleon, and on to Chile where he soon finds himself caught up in the rebellion against Spanish rule and fighting alongside the flamboyant rebel admiral, Lord Thomas Cochrane.

I tredje del af Sandra Gullands trilogi om Josephine bliver hendes ægteskab med Napoleon mere og mere lykkeligt, men parret kan tilsyneladende ikke få børn sammen. Hun har to fra sit første ægteskab og bebrejder sig selv deres barnløshed, mens presset udefra bliver større og større, da omgivelserne kræver en arving. Hvis Josephine ikke kan føde Napoleon en søn, må hun forskydes til fordel for en ung, fødedygtig, kongelig kvinde. Men Napoleon vil gøre alt for at beholde Josephine og i stedet adoptere en søn...

"La grande ombre", celle de Napoléon projetée sur les états conquis, est un récit qui prend l'histoire par le petit bout de la lorgnette. De l'Écosse à Waterloo, Jock raconte sa vie et comment le hasard et aussi la soif de grandeur de sa cousine le jetteront dans les derniers soubresauts de l'Empire. La marche de l'histoire n'est qu'un prétexte pour Conan Doyle qui décrit la façon dont la vie s'écoule dans cette ferme paisible avec la menace, dans tous les esprits, du débarquement français.

Thomas Grey – Spion und Abenteurer im Namen der britischen Krone. England, 1803: Eine französische Invasionsflotte steht kurz davor, die Strände Südenglands zu stürmen, als ein Mitglied aus Napoleons innerstem Kreis den britischen Marinegeheimdienst in der Hoffnung kontaktiert, mit brisanten Informationen nach London überlaufen zu können. Das internationale Schachturnier in Frankfurt gibt ihm die seltene Gelegenheit, außerhalb Frankreichs zu reisen. Der Geheimdienst schickt seinen besten Spion – und Schachspieler – Kapitän Thomas Grey, um die Flucht des Franzosen nach England zu arrangieren.

Montague has devoted his life to managing the wealth of London's elite, but at a huge cost: a family of his own. Then the enticing Miss Violet Matcham seeks his help, and in the puzzle she presents him, he finds an intriguing new challenge professionally...and personally. Violet, devoted lady-companion to the aging Lady Halstead, turns to Montague to reassure her ladyship that her affairs are in order.

Miraculously spared from death, Malcolm Sinclair erases the notorious man he once was. Reinventing himself as Thomas Glendower, he strives to make amends for his past, yet he never imagines penance might come via a secretive lady he discovers living in his secluded manor. Rose has a plausible explanation for why she and her children are residing in Thomas' house, but she quickly realizes he's far too intelligent to fool. Revealing the truth is impossibly dangerous, yet day by day he wins her trust, and then her heart.

En el año 1925 María Bonaparte, descendiente directa de Napoleón y poseedora de una inmensa fortuna, pide la ayuda de Sigmund Freud para realizar una terapia sicoanalítica para curarse de lo que ella denominaba “anormalidad orgásmica”. Entre 1925 y el año 1939, año de la muerte de Freud se desarrolla entre los dos una relación de amistad, de cooperación, de solidaridad, que se materializó en la extraordinaria ayuda de María Bonaparte para obtener las visas de salida de Freud de Austria y su ingreso como refugiado en Inglaterra en 1938.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Edward Bellamy’s An Echo of Antietam. Set during the American Civil War it tells the story of a young officer and his girl in the immediate hours before the Battle of Antietam, and the days that followed.