End Games in Bordeaux
End Games in Bordeaux

Author: Allan Massie

Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780704373761

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In the early summer of 1944, France is in turmoil. The Allied invasion, bringing the promise of Liberation, is awaited, eagerly and nervously. The Vichy regime is in its death throes. Those who have served it and collaborated with the German Occupation fear the revenge of the Resistance. Atrocities are committed on both sides, and justice is blind. Superintendent Lannes, suspended from duty by order of the Boches, searches unofficially for a missing girl, and investigates cases of historic sex abuse. His marriage is experiencing difficulties and he worries about his sons, one with the Free French, the other in Vichy. The narrative of this tense economical novel switches between Lannes in Bordeaux and the young characters met in the first three books of this Vichy Quartet, now caught up in the terrible drama of these months in France, London and on the Eastern Front. The fourth and final chapter of the 'Bordeaux' novels, Allan Massie's acclaimed crime series featuring Superintendent Lannes

Dark Summer in Bordeaux
Dark Summer in Bordeaux

Author: Allan Massie

Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780704372665

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With his son's safe return, Superintendent Lannes and his wife can, at last, have some joy amid the grim reality of Vichy France. Not that the unexplained murders seem to have stopped. This is the second volume in a trilogy, following Death in Bordeaux.

Death in Bordeaux
Death in Bordeaux

Author: Allan Massie

Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780704371903

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In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion that there is a political motive for the murder seems justified. In defiance of authority, he continues working on the case. And then another body is found...Meanwhile, the Superintendent has other troubles. His eldest son, Dominique, is at the Front, his wife, Marguerite, is depressed, and when the Battle of France breaks out, Bordeaux is filled with refugees fleeing the war. Suddenly civilian crime seems of little importance compared to the chaos that ensues. As Bordeaux becomes an occupied city, Lannes' chief suspect is untouchable, protected by a relative in the Vichy government. Lannes himself is threatened with blackmail on account of his Jewish friends and Dominique is taken prisoner. Common sense should make Lannes abandon the investigation, but honour and a natural obstinacy lead him to pursue it. However, as events turn increasingly bleak, Lannes begins to doubt it can ever be solved...

In the Wake of the Plague
In the Wake of the Plague

Author: Norman F. Cantor

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-03-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1476797749

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The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

The Complete History of the Black Death
The Complete History of the Black Death

Author: Ole Jørgen Benedictow

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 1059

ISBN-13: 1783275162

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Completely revised and updated for this new edition, Benedictow's acclaimed study remains the definitive account of the Black Death and its impact on history. The first edition of The Black Death collected and analysed the many local studies on the disease published in a variety of languages and examined a range of scholarly papers. The medical and epidemiological characteristics of the disease, its geographical origin, its spread across Asia Minor, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and the mortality in the countries and regions for which there are satisfactory studies, are clearly presented and thoroughly discussed. The pattern, pace and seasonality of spread revealed through close scrutiny of these studies exactly reflect current medical work and standard studies on the epidemiology of bubonic plague. Benedictow's findings made it clear that the true mortality rate was far higher than had been previously thought. In the light of those findings, the discussion in the last part of the book showing the Black Death as a turning point in history takes on a new significance. OLE J. BENEDICTOW is Professor of History at the University of Oslo.

Treachery in Bordeaux
Treachery in Bordeaux

Author: Jean-Pierre Alaux

Publisher: Le French Book (NY)

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781939474261

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Winemaker Banjamin Cooker sets out to discover if a grand cru wine estate has fallen into disrepair from negligence or sabotage.

Cold Winter in Bordeaux
Cold Winter in Bordeaux

Author: Allan Massie

Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780704373280

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Winter, 1942-43. The war is turning against Germany on the Eastern Front. The Americans land in North Africa. Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Superintendent Lannes investigates the murder of a woman.

The Death of Crazy Horse
The Death of Crazy Horse

Author: Richard G. Hardorff

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780803273252

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Eyewitness and newspaper accounts describe the surrender and death of Crazy Horse, a charismatic and influential Ogala Sioux Indian and non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, who was apparently stabbed in the back.