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The “gripping and meticulously researched” (The Times, London) true story of the determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China’s Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond.Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking’s Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan’s aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours aw...

The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond.Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan i...

The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War IISpring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircraft drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: ...

The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War IISpring 1933. The quiet courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectation. Japanese aircraft drone overhead, troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: what...

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Gefangener 5995 schafft es, aus einem chinesischen Straflager auszubrechen, wo er als dissidenter Intellektueller fast zwanzig Jahre weggesperrt war. Auf seiner Flucht versucht er, seine alten Kontakte zum britischen MI6 wiederzubeleben. Aber die Welt und vor allem China haben sich verändert. Jeder beobachtet jeden, die Überwachung wichtiger Personen ist flächendeckend. Deswegen rekrutieren die Briten den Journalisten Philip Mangan, der sich e...

John Henry Clay, "Anno Domini 448": 448 d.C. L'impero romano si sta sgretolando. L'imperatore è debole. Politici furbi e generali ambiziosi si contendono il potere. E dalla Germania arriva una minaccia ancora più oscura: Attila, re degli Unni, sta raccogliendo le sue orde ed è determinato ad annientare Roma. In tempi di grande pericolo e inganno, dietro ogni sorriso può celarsi un tradimento e ogni manica può nascondere un pugnale affilato. To...

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Peanut è un uomo solitario. Una notte fugge da un campo di lavoro, attraversando le lande desolate e ghiacciate della zona nordoccidentale della Cina. E pensare che, vent'anni prima, era una spia di sua maestà, arruolato nei servizi segreti britannici. Ora, invece, deve darsi alla macchia confondendosi tra le strade di Pechino, tenute perennemente sotto controllo dalla polizia della Repubblica popolare cinese. Disperato e senza più scrupoli, P...

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Il giornalista Philip Mangan è costretto a nascondersi da quando gli agenti cinesi hanno scoperto che è una spia del governo britannico. Quando però viene coinvolto in un attacco terroristico e un misterioso cinese gli si avvicina nel cuore della notte fornendogli informazioni sull'attentato, Mangan capisce di essere di nuovo nel mirino. Da Washington alle polverose strade africane, un occulto potere sta tramando, e ha intenzione di usare Phil...

The TSR2 is one of the greatest "what-if" aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans. It was a magnificent, cutting-edge aircraft, one of the most striking of the Cold War, but fell victim to cost overruns, overambitious requirements, and politics. Its scrapping marked the point when Britain's aerospace industry could no longer build world-class aircraft independently. After the demis...

Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingIn many ways, Pearl Tao was a typical American child. She spent summer days at the pool, played softball and lingered at suburban barbecues in her home city of Washington DC. Yet she is also an academic prodigy, with a university place sponsored by a secretive advanced technology corporation.Only now, aged nineteen, has she begun to understand the terrifying truth of what ...

Fearing for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone into hiding from the Chinese agents who have identified him as British spy. His reputation and life are in tatters. But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on the origins of the attack, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the storm.Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on a humid Hong Kong ...

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A Chinese spy. A British journalist. A nation hunting them. Discover the thriller debut inspired by a real event.

The first in a new thriller trilogy starring journalist Philip Mangan, and offering an insight into the dangerous, clandestine world of international espionage. A prisoner on the run, with secrets the world would kill for...

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