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Late 1941. Allied shipping is easy prey. Focke-Wulf Condors roam at will across the Atlantic, sinking ships and shadowing convoys for the Wolfpacks. There are no aircraft carriers to spare. Drastic times call for drastic measures. Put an 80-foot-long rocket catapult on the front of a civilian transport ship and stick a Hawker Hurricane on a launch cradle. It takes a certain kind of pilot to sign up for a one-way trip. Once they've dealt with the Condor. They can either ditch, or bail out and hope that someone picks them up before they freeze to death in the middle of the Atlantic.

The Hague, 1882, a howling winter's night, Sien and her daughter are on the brink of surrendering to the bitter cold, their exhaustion, their hunger, when a good Samaritan appears. Vincent van Gogh, a struggling artist, provides them with warmth and shelter for the night. Fascinated by Sien - her face, her struggles, her life lived - Vincent offers Sien work sitting for him. From model to muse, the two soon become lovers.

It is the winter of 1942, and the world is at war. A few Jewish musicians attempt to flee the Nazi death grip, each desperately trying to navigate his own path to safety. With the courageous aid and kindness of strangers, they soon find themselves in Rome, where under the highly secret help of the Vatican, they are hidden in Bellafortuna, a small village in Sicily.

French innkeeper Louise Ravoux is struggling to keep her inn afloat while raising her two daughters and avoiding her abusive husband. One afternoon, a scruffy redheaded painter walks in, wanting to rent a room. Vincent van Gogh reminds her of her first love, and he has the most arresting eyes of anyone she’s ever seen. Though attracted to Vincent, Louise still bears the scars her husband gave her the only time she flirted with a man during their marriage. Still, something about Vincent makes her feel alive, and when she sees him painting outside, she stops to admire his work.

Vincent Van Gogh: The Ambiguity of Insanity is a fictionalized biography and gripping novel of the life of the 19th-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The author, Giuseppe Cafiero, draws a psychological portrait of the post-impressionist painter through the women that marked his life and the cities in which he lived.

Giovanni Tempesta always dreamed of becoming an opera tenor and one day singing from the stage of the La Scala Opera House in his hometown of Milan, Italy. But with no real training, his dream has little chance for fulfillment. One day, he meets and immediately falls in love with Isabella Monterone, a dark-haired beauty, whose father, a very rich and powerful Milanese Judge, refuses to allow his daughter to date a penniless musician.

In 1882, there was an artistic explosion of creativity in Europe. To a poor girl, Maria, and her alcoholic, prostitute mother, Sien, in The Hague, Netherlands, that didn't mean much until one winter evening when her mother brought Vincent Van Gogh to their home. Before his stint in Paris with the bohemian painters of his day, Van Gogh tried for a family life while learning the trade of art. Seminary school was a failure, and his cousin, Klee, had rejected his romantic advances.

A HEARTBREAKING LOVE STORY IN THE HEAR OF FASCIST ITALY. Fear of paradise is a story of longing and missed opportunities, of separation, the passage of time, and the unforeseen consequences of innocent decisions. Set against the rise of Fascism in 1920s Italy, Vincent Engel's haunting novel takes us on a journey through a wild and romantic landscape where two lonely young people forge a strange and wonderful friendship. Between the sea and the forest, in the heart of Puglia, lies the village of San Nidro, frozen in time.

This is about a boy who was crippled at the early age of seven and started out with a troubled life. A concerned judge had him protected by the court, then he was sent to a boarding school, and later to a distant college. He met a medical student and fell in love, but was called back to Murfreesboro by Judge Chamberlin to inherit the remarkable Vinson Plantation. He became a compassionate person who believed he was given a premonition by the Lord to prepare for a great impending battle. With the friendship of his servant Eli, they prepared the plantation for the inevitable war.

Das Hörspiel beleuchtet das Leben von Vincent van Gogh - ein Leben in Leidenschaft. Vincent van Gogh wurden 1853 in den Niederlanden geboren. Er brach Internat und Mittelschule ab, lernte dann Verkäufer in einer Kunsthandlung seines Onkels. Da er jedoch aufgrund der Heuchelei nicht zum Verkäufer geeignet war, wandte er sich der Religion zu. Trotz abgebrochenem Theologiestudiums bekam er Anstellungen als Hilfsprediger. Schließlich wurde er Maler. Finanzielle Unterstützung erhielt er von seinem Bruder Theo.

It is 1832. The USS Hayes sails the Indian Ocean, guided by its lord and master, Captain Gellins. Meanwhile, a shipmate is wrongly accused of stealing and faces the fatal lash. He is just one of many who have been falsely accused; others have already met their end at the gratings, all from the lies supplied to the captain by shipmate Penderghast. Who can tell what will happen if certain other shipmates take the law into their own hands to try and right this injustice?

Le vieil homme dans la haute tour mystérieuse à la périphérie de la ville se considère comme le plus grand alchimiste de tous les royaumes. Il est le maître des élixirs. Il le prouve de manière impressionnante avec ses potions magiques extraordinaires, comme la "malédiction de l'ombre curieuse" ou le "miroir de la mort". Que d'autres préparent des potions d'humilité et de modestie. En enquêtant sur une mort mystérieuse, le soldat de la garde municipale trouve une lettre portant le sceau du roi. Il ne peut pas résister.

Rome, 133 BC. Gaius Marius is back from war in the West. They fought for the peace and prosperity of Rome, but the legions return to find the Eternal City far less peaceful and prosperous than they had hoped. People are starving, homelessness abounds, war after war has overtaxed the legions. And the revolutionary tribune, Tiberius Gracchus, thinks he has a solution for everything. Political parties are developing, the people are up in arms, the senate is enraged. And Tiberius is at the center of it all.

Amaury de Villiers est un homme intransigeant. Trop. Le jeune et ambitieux inquisiteur, éloigné par ses supérieurs, est envoyé dans un petit village des monts des Corbières, dans le Languedoc, afin de traquer l'un des derniers hérétiques appelés Cathares. Son arrivée à Coulhens ne manquera pas de provoquer des tensions au sein de la petite communauté et Amaury pourrait trouver bien plus que ce qu'il était venu chercher.

April 1901: A weekend house party at the stately home of the Earl of Lowton...with an invitation to his daughter’s debutante ball. It should have been perfect. And it would have been…had it not been for the body found dead in the lake. The timing couldn’t be worse. With only hours to go before the biggest event in the Lowton’s social calendar, the family have no intention of letting it ruin the occasion. But Eliza isn’t family. Determined to prove the death was murder, Eliza enlists the help of husband Archie, and best friend Connie.

Dans la campagne écossaise du XVème siècle, Ava, une jeune fille que rien ne préparait à subir les pires atrocités, se retrouve aux prises d'un juge sadique et obsédé : Lord Thorburn. C'est dans ce contexte désespéré, qu'elle se liera d'amitié avec Isla, une autre victime de la folie du juge, et qu'elle fera la rencontre de Kieran Thorburn, d'où naitra un amour impossible et dangereux.