33 Results for : commandeered
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The Fallen One , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 596min
1332 A.D. - As the premier commander for Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, when he commandeered the throne from a young Edward III, Sir Mathias de Reyne is the type of knight that all men aspire to be: fair, powerful, intelligent, and bold. Men on both sides of the Mortimer/Edward lines respect and admire de Reyne for his outstanding character, including Dragonblade himself, Tate de Lara. Before the war separated men into two groups - those that supported Mortimer and those that supported the rightful king - Mathias, Tate, Kenneth St. Hever, and Stephen of Pembury were inseparable friends. But then, sides were chosen and lines were drawn. When Roger Mortimer lost his head, Mathias de Reyne was spared because of his great and fair reputation. Stripped of his lands and titles, however, he was forced into obscurity. He became known in legend as The Fallen One. More than a year after being stripped of his knighthood, Mathias now makes his living as a blacksmith in the north Cumbrian town of Brampton. One morning, he hears cries for help and, being an innately brave and helpful man, follows the cries and comes upon a terrible scene. Rescuing a young woman from a fiend, he very quickly realizes that the young woman is the most beautiful he has ever lain eyes upon. The Lady Cathlina de Lara is a lush beauty with dark hair and flashing dark eyes, and the attraction between the pair is immediate. But she is also a de Lara, related to the man who took Mathias' titles from him - his former best friend. Still, he cannot forget the dark-eyed beauty and soon finds himself swept up in a wildly passionate love affair, breaking his promise to never bear arms again by resuming his knighthood without the permission of the king and fleeing to Scotland. From the brutal Scots borderlands to the fields of Dupplin Moor and a historic battle, join Mathias and Cathlina as their journey in life takes them on a passionate adventure of love, life, learning, and the redemption of ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017481/bk_acx0_017481_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Masters CIA Thriller Series: Box Set, Books 1 - 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1692min
Over 250,000 words to keep you up nights. 3 Lies Will kidnapping a sick woman alter the course of a nation? At CIA headquarters, officers fear that terrorists commandeered the computers to launch an unauthorized mission. Elsewhere, conspirators abduct seemingly unrelated people to use as pawns in their treachery. Two disparate ambitions - Clint Masters becomes the reluctant link in the chain of danger. After meeting a woman who doesn't treat him like a commodity, Beth unexpectedly disappears. In spite of the evidence, her family refuses to admit she's in danger. And without routine dialysis, Beth will die. While a CIA young gun tracks his quarry, Clint must find Beth before her kidneys fail. The Master’s Key Someone wants Clint Masters to suffer and will burn down the city to get revenge. Clint's company makes devices that manage the city's infrastructure, making him a respected member of Boston's elite-until one of his products causes a deadly accident. While the public accuses him of terror, he's not allowed to reveal the truth about the tragedies. As his CIA contacts discover, not everyone at the Agency wants to expose the killer. Amid city-wide panic, the public demands Clint's arrest. He must choose. Does he go on the run to find the real terrorist or watch from a jail cell while his city burns? Dead Storm Hackers can access your bank accounts, take control of your car, or read your personal files. What if one gripped your beating heart? Whatever. Clint's got his own problems. As his city smolders from a saboteur's plot, Clint's company sinks in the morass. As the stock price tanks, it's not a problem he wants to face sober. When a medical hacker seizes control of the First Lady's heartbeat regulator, Clint's products pose a new threat. With their own on the line, the D.C. elite won't let Clint rest. They expect him to search for the one man Clint doesn't want to find. This t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Nolan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075443/bk_acx0_075443_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two." -Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivating study of Napoleon's plundering of Europe's art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzman's Plunder recounts the fate of Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of a young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563, the Renaissance picture had been immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had spread the scene across the end wall of the monastery's refectory and filled it with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the biblical banquet was taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once it was pulled from its frame, the canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder, bound for Paris; soon after, artworks commandeered in Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought to the French capital. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution, in the former palace of the French kings. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon's looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals defining traits of his character: his desire for greatness and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the paintings and sculptures they had seized. Nevertheless, the French resisted sending The Wedding Feast at Cana back to Venice, and the painting remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly opposite the Mona Lisa. Expertly researched and deftly told, Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art-appropriation campaigns in history, shedding light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the world's great museums.- Shop: buecher
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