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Shylo è il coniglio più piccolo della sua cucciolata e anche il più debole e gracile della famiglia. Per questo i suoi fratelli non fanno altro che prenderlo in giro e giocargli brutti scherzi. Un giorno, mentre saltella da solo nella foresta, si imbatte in una banda di ratti che stanno organizzando un complotto ai danni della regina. Nonostante si senta il meno coraggioso fra i conigli, toccherà proprio a lui partire per Londra e cercare i me...

Eigentlich ist Shylo das kleinste und ängstlichste Kaninchen weit und breit. Doch dann gerät ausgerechnet er in ein riesengroßes Abenteuer! Eine Bande von Ratten will die Königin von England im Nachthemd fotografieren und sie so vor der ganzen Welt lächerlich machen. Um den gemeinen Plan der Ratten zu verhindern, muss Shylo all seinen Mut zusammennehmen. Und er braucht die Hilfe der königlichen Kaninchen von London...

Das ängstliche Kaninchen Shylo erlebt sein größtes Abenteuer und rettet die Queen vor königlicher Verschwörung.Eigentlich ist Shylo das kleinste und ängstlichste Kaninchen weit und breit. Doch dann gerät ausgerechnet er in ein riesengroßes Abenteuer! Eine Bande von Ratten will die Königin von England im Nachthemd fotografieren und sie so vor der ganzen Welt lächerlich machen. Um den gemeinen Plan der Ratten zu verhindern, muss Shylo all seinen...

An updated reissue of the 2012 Quercus book with the same title, it includes a new chapter on Simon Bolivar and an exciting new cover design, from the prizewinning historian and bestselling author.

From the global bestselling author of "Stalin: The Court Of The Red Tsar, Jerusalem" and "The Romanovs", comes an epic and gripping tale. It's 1942 and the battle for Stalingrad is only the beginning...

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Op bijzonder levendige wijze beschrijft Montefiore Stalins jeugd en diens carrière als revolutionair, gangster, dichter, priester in opleiding, echtgenoot en charmeur. Het is het verhaal van een jongen met een jeugd zonder veel vooruitzichten die de voormalige Sovjetunie hielp vormen en opbouwen, die Churchill en Roosevelt buitenspel zette, die Hitler versloeg en die misschien wel 's werelds grootste massamoordenaar werd.

Inspired by events in Stalin's Moscow at the end of WWII, One Night in Winter begins with the shooting of two teenagers in the shadow of the Kremlin. As the children of Soviet officials, they inhabit a rarefied world that revolves around the exclusive Josef Stalin Commune School 801. The school is an enclave of privilege—but one that hides a wealth of secrets.Stalin launches a ruthless investigation. In what comes to be known as the Children's...

The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it.Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths, it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history...

Life is an adventure. Anything in the world is possible - by will and by luck, with a moist carrot, a wet nose and a slice of mad courage! Shylo has always been the runt of the litter, the weakest and queitest of all of his family, his siblings spend their days making fun of him for not being like the rest of them. But when Shylo stumbles across a band of ratzis and overhears their evil plan to take a photo of the Queen in her nightie, it's up...

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited pow...

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De bejubelde auteur van Stalins jeugdjaren en andere meeslepende biografieën heeft met De Romanovs een toegankelijke, levendige en zeer onthullende geschiedenis geschreven over de uitzonderlijke mannen en vrouwen die Rusland drie eeuwen regeerden. In dit fascinerende werk wendt Simon Sebag Montefiore zijn talent voor geschiedschrijving aan om het verhaal te vertellen van de grootste en meest complexe keizers en keizerinnen van de Romanov-dynas...

Wie was Stalin, de dictator, de massamoordenaar? Wie was de mens Stalin? Wat speelde zich af binnen de muren van het Kremlin tijdens zijn regime? Wie waren de mannen en vrouwen die het stalinistische hof vormden? Tot in detail wordt het persoonlijke en politieke leven van Stalin beschreven: van zijn misluktehuwelijk tot zijn identificatie met de tsaren, van zijn minnaressen tot het besluit de koelakken uit te moorden. Even nauwgezet laat Monte...

This widely acclaimed biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader, and Russian tsar.Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with bracing narrative verve, this feat of scholarly research has ...

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From the author of The Romanovs: a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership-as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin-wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented-was the love of her life and her co-ruler.Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, territories that define the Russian sphere of influence to this day. Their a...

Here is Stalin the supreme dictator in the making, a darkly turbulent, charismatic young man fancying himself a poet and a priest and finally embracing revolutionary idealism as his Messianic mission in life.