Thirteen Days In Milan

Author : Jack Erickson
Publisher : RedBrick Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781301336371

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Thirteen Days in Milan by Jack Erickson Pdf

Sylvia de Matteo, an American single mother, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan’s train station. She is seized at gunpoint and thrown into the back of a van. Moments later, a Paris-bound train with Sylvia's fiancé and ten-year old daughter aboard departs Centrale without Sylvia. The terrorists drive Sylvia to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell. When the terrorists discover Sylvia's father is a wealthy Wall Street investment banker, they demand a ransom for her safe release.

Author : Jack Erickson
Publisher : RedBrick Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780941397186

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The Lonely Assassin by Jack Erickson Pdf

A Russian banker embezzles millions laundering money in Switzerland for Russian oligarchs. He flees with his Italian wife to a remote location on Lake Como near Milan, where their daughter lives. Putin wants him dead and sends a GRU assassin to Milan to find and poison the banker. But Milan’s antiterrorism police cannot locate the assassin, Vasily Egorov, who is traveling with phony documents, carrying a vial of poison, and speaking Italian. Unexpectedly, Egorov meets an intriguing Italian woman who probes into his emotional life. On a dangerous assignment, Egorov realizes he’s an assassin in a deep personal crisis.

Author : Jack Erickson
Publisher : RedBrick Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781370506804

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No One Sleeps by Jack Erickson Pdf

Milan's elite anti-terrorism DIGOS police receive a tip that a sleeper cell of Muslim terrorists have received toxic chemicals from Pakistan to make deadly sarin gas. The cell leader has access to Milan's centers of finance, technology, commerce, and entertainment -- all high profile targets with potentially hundreds of casualties in a terrorist attack.

Author : Benito Mussolini
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787206380

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My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini Pdf

The dictated biography of Benito Mussolini, spanning from his early youth to his successful coup in Rome. Mussolini boisterously narrates his life story, first as a Socialist Radical in his youth, then as a Fascist strongman following World War I. “My Autobiography,” first published in 1928, is an in-depth account of the life of a Fascist Revolutionary who inspired countless movements across Europe and was widely (although falsely) credited with suppressing the Bolshevik movement in Europe.

Author : Jack Erickson
Publisher : RedBrick Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780463052785

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Vesuvius Nights by Jack Erickson Pdf

Antonella Amoruso, senior deputy of Milan's anti-terrorism police, receives a call to return to her Naples hometown for the funeral of a family member murdered in a Camorra clan feud. Amoruso is plunged into the dangerous culture of Camorra, Naple's violent criminal syndicate, that thrives on illegal drugs, prostitution, extortion, and murder. Her goal is to rescue her family from Camorra's deadly grip.

Author : Ray Moseley
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461625872

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Mussolini by Ray Moseley Pdf

In his last days, Mussolini, the tyrant, was in the grip of anger, shame, and depression. The German armed forces that had sustained his puppet government since its creation in September 1943 were being inexorably driven out of Italy, the frontiers of his Fascist republic were shrinking daily and Mussolini was aware that German military leaders were negotiating with the Allies behind his back in neutral Switzerland. Moseley's well-researched and highly engaging tome throws light on the last twenty months of the despot's life and culminates with the dramatic capture and execution of Mussolini (and his mistress Claretta Petacci) by partisans of the Italian resistance on April 28, 1945.

Author : Deborah Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351576031

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"Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000?500 " by Deborah Howard Pdf

Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes, ritual topographies and human interaction with the natural environment, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were perceived, represented and remembered. The essays explore both the ways in which the physical embodiment of pilgrimage cultures is shared, and what we can learn from the differences. The chosen period reflects the flowering of medieval and early modern pilgrimage. The perspective is that of the pilgrim journeying within - or embarking from - Southern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Italy. The book pursues the connections between pilgrimage and architecture through the investigation of such issues as theology, liturgy, patronage, miracles and healing, relics, and individual and communal memory. Moreover, it explores how pilgrimage may be regarded on various levels, from a physical journey towards a holy site to a more symbolic and internalized idea of pilgrimage of the soul.

Author : Jacobus de Voragine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691154077

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The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine Pdf

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and later archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In this translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich work, which offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture. Arranged according to the order of saints' feast days, these fascinating stories are now combined into one volume. This edition also features an introduction by Eamon Duffy contextualizing the work.

Author : Thomas Cook (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117052501

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Cook's Excursionist and Home and Foreign Tourist Advertiser by Thomas Cook (Firm) Pdf

Author : Clive Ponting
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056488664

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Thirteen Days by Clive Ponting Pdf

Ponting examines the 13 days leading up to World War I, beginning with a dramatic recreation of the assassination in Sarajevo, followed by a description of the developments city by city, day by day.

Author : Dennis McCarthy,June Schlueter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683933069

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Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal by Dennis McCarthy,June Schlueter Pdf

Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of Queen Mary’s delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval of England’s return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas North as its author. It also points to numerous connections between the journal and the plays of Shakespeare, extending the playwright’s debt beyond North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives and revealing how the journal served as a template for The Winter’s Tale and Henry VIII. Both, the authors argue, were written by North during the Marian years (1554-58) and later adapted by Shakespeare. Like the authors’ 2018 “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels” by George North,this book presents original work using digital research tools, including massive databases and plagiarism software. The earlier book garnered worldwide attention, with a front-page story in The New York Times.

Author : William Archer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOM:39015036799016

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The Thirteen Days by William Archer Pdf

Author : Richard Owen
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909961845

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Chaucer's Italy by Richard Owen Pdf

An exploration of the influence of Italy and Italians on Chaucer’s life and writing. Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In fact, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio (among others), the author of The Canterbury Tales might never have assumed his place as the “father” of English literature. Nevertheless, Richard Owen’s Chaucer’s Italy begins in London, where the poet dealt with Italian merchants in his roles as court diplomat and customs official. Next Owen takes us, via Chaucer’s capture at the siege of Rheims, to his involvement in arranging the marriage of King Edward III’s son Lionel in Milan and his missions to Genoa and Florence. By scrutinizing his encounters with Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the mercenary knight John Hawkwood—and with vividly evocative descriptions of the Arezzo, Padua, Florence, Certaldo, and Milan that Chaucer would have encountered—Owen reveals the deep influence of Italy’s people and towns on Chaucer’s poems and stories. Much writing on Chaucer depicts a misleadingly parochial figure, but as Owen’s enlightening short study of Chaucer’s Italian years makes clear, the poet’s life was internationally eventful. The consequences have made the English canon what it is today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555068298

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the monthly packet of eveing readings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015043550667

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Monthly Packet by Anonim Pdf