LIBROS DEL AUTOR: haig tahta

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  • The Constantinople Trilogy
    Haig Tahta
    In his Constantinople Trilogy, Tahta examines the momentous epoch, from 1915 through 1923, with insight and compassion. Intellectually challenging and sometimes provocative, Tahta has written an inspired literary account of a critical time too often ignored but essential in understanding the roots of contemporary European hostilities. Compellingly told through stories of person...
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    26,23 €

  • BILLY'S OWN WAR
    Haig Tahta
    Written by novelist and historian, Haig Tahta, and beautifully illustrated by Andrew Higgins, this whimsical and heart-warming tale of childhood in 1940s rural England vividly relates the life of 8 year-old Billy and his gang on their cheeky adventures in an age when children were to be seen but not heard - while in the background faint rumblings of the World War contrasts with...
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    26,43 €

  • The Full Circle
    Haig Tahta
    The Full Circle takes to a conclusion the story of Conrad, the son of Harry Bridgeman and his Armenian wife Olga, the two principal characters in Haig Tahta's Constantinople trilogy. The novel refers to events and characters not only in the trilogy but also in the novel that immediately precedes it - Brothers. However, The Full Circle stands entirely on its own and is a great r...
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    19,45 €

  • Brothers
    Haig Tahta
    Brothers carries forward the story of Conrad and Billy, the sons of Harry Bridgeman and his Armenian wife Olga, the two principal characters in Haig Tahta's Constantinople Trilogy. Conrad, 9 years older than Billy, cool, reserved and overflowing with empathy for anyone younger or more vulnerable than himself, has loved and looked after his little brother since childhood. S...
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    18,26 €

  • Survivor Guilt
    Haig Tahta
    In Survivor Guilt, Haig Tahta continues the story of several characters from his outstanding family saga, The Constantinople Trilogy. Carrying forward the adventure that began with those who suffered the terrors of 1915, the reader is taken on a perilous yet exciting journey through Fascist Italy and Vichy France. In the course of his electrifying narrative, Tahta explores th...
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    16,97 €

  • The Siege of Darabad
    Haig Tahta
    The Siege of Darabad is a work of fiction. Darabad, as described, does not exist, but many of the events portrayed happened in one form or another somewhere in British North India during that fateful year of 1857. Without pandering to sentimental nostalgia for the vanished glories or failures of the British Raj, Haig Tahta has written a masterful novel that gives recognition to...
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    19,42 €

  • Costantinople - April 1915
    Haig Tahta
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    23,26 €

  • Constantinople - End of Empire
    Haig Tahta
    Constantinople - End of Empire is the third and final book in Haig Tahta's marvellous trilogy set in and around the city from April 1915 to the end of 1923. It carries forward the characters from the first novel, April 1915, which explored the fateful consequences of the entry by the Ottomans into the Great War, and continued through the second book, Constantinople 1920, revolv...
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    22,46 €

  • Constantinople 1920
    Haig Tahta
    Constantinople 1920, the second book in Haig Tahta's projected trilogy, chronicles the impending fall of the Ottomans and explores the circumstances and atmosphere of Constantinople during the British occupation of the city from 1920 to 1922. It carries forward the same characters from Mr. Tahta's first novel, April 1915, set in the Ottoman Empire at a critical moment following...
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    26,83 €

  • Burning Orchards
    Gurgen Mahari / Haig Tahta / Hasmik Ghazarian
    Gurgen Marhari’s controversial novel, Burning Orchards, is set in the Ottoman city of Van, Eastern Anatolia, during the period leading up to the Armenian rebellion of 1915 and relates the epic story of the events which culminated in the catastrophe of the following years, wonderfully told by one of the great writers emerging from Soviet Armenia.Written with an abiding humanity,...
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    34,73 €