In 1939, on a royal tour of Dartmouth Naval College, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) meets the dashing Prince Philip of Greece. Immediately they begin a correspondence, as war breas out across Europe, where Philip is sent to serve in the......

It\'s January 1871 when Edith, the sheltered daughter of a wealthy widow, pays her first eventful visit to the workhouse for the poor. There she meets Rosie, a rebellious, quick-tempered orphan who is always getting into trouble. Edith soon finds......

Join Mary Wade on a long and perilous journey that begins in the slums of eighteenth century London. Aged thirteen, Mary is imprisoned in Newgate prison awaiting sentence of death for a petty theft. When her sentence is commuted to transportation she......

This title provides two Tudor stories by Alison Prince in a flexibound format. My Tudor Queen is the diary of Eva De Puebla who comes to England as lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon. Anne Boleyn and Me is the story of Elinor Valjean, Eva\'s......

It\'s 1909. Dollie is swept up in the thrill of the campaign for Votes for Women. Against her guardian\'s wishes, she marches against Parliament with Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. But as the movement turns violent, women are......

In 1939, the start of the Second World War, Sophie becomes a messenger for a Resistance group in Northern France. But as the German invaders overwhelm the British forces on the French coast, Sophie finds herself more deeply involved with the......

It\'s August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It\'s a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius,......

It\'s 1917 and Billy Stevens is a telegraph operator stationed near Ypres. The Great War has been raging for three years when Billy finds himself taking part in the deadly Big Push forward. But he is shocked to discover that the bullets of his......

It\'s 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntree\'s brother goes missing in action, she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the......

77 Klangbilder gesprochenes Hochdeutsch ist ein praktisches Lehr- und Lernmaterial zum Training einer guten deutschen Aussprache und Intonation auf den Sprachniveaus B1 bis C2. Jedes Blatt der 77 Klangbilder stellt ein spezifisches phonetisches......

It\'s 1665 and Alice is looking forward to being back in London. But the plague is spreading quickly, and as each day passes more red crosses appear on doors. When her aunt is struck down with the plague, she is forced to make a decision that could change her life forever......