Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр Исторические романы

Berlin, 1920-1933 - gloomy years of German history. Russian emigres keep getting killed by a murky big man, may be he is hunting Anna who claims she is daughter of Nikolas II, miraculously surviving t...

In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphem...

1172, Britain - king's lover is dead, and the bishop of St Albans summons an Italian female physician-cum-detective to find out the truth...

Adelia Aguilar is a unique person - she is Doctor to the Dead, in XI century. She has to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. But when member...

Last 12 years of Genghis Khan's struggle for control of vast Asian territory, from Pacific to Kiev. Compelling and historically as accurate as artfully written.

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than...

"The Radetzky March" charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through the Battle of Solferino to the entom...

"Autobiography" of a notorious Australian gang leader, written as a letter to his daughter. Late XIX century. Impressive.

An extraordinary work of fact-based fiction. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island prison colony off the Tasmanian coast, the novel plucks a real-life thief and prisoner, English forger William Bue...

He who calls himself a Civilized Man, an Englishman - is he able to discipline his heart so as to distinguish oneself from a savage? That is the question - for Charles Dickens and for the wife of a go...

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under hi...

Необычная любознательность заставила Хрупа - не простую крысу, а крысу-философа и путешественника, забыв осторожность, пуститься в дальние края. Читателю представляется возможность посмотреть на окруж...

Отмеченные печатью автобиографичности, эти книги-воспоминания повествуют, каждая на свой лад, об экзистенциальном одиночестве человека, оказавшегося в эмиграции, вдали от родины.

Одиссея - вторая (после "Илиады") классическая поэма, приписываемая древнегреческому поэту Гомеру. Создана, вероятно, в VIII веке до н. э. или несколько позже. Рассказывает о приключениях мифического ...

Роман "Юлиан Отступник", вошедший в трилогию "Христос и Антихрист", рассказывает об императоре Юлиане, прозванном за свою попытку возродить умирающую языческую религию "Отступ...