Bøger af Robert Harris

I have always been a fan of history, especially military history. However, I have found that the military history of African Americans in the defense of America has had very little written about it, and in some cases, their deeds and accomplishment were completely omitted. This book is a brief look at some of their accomplishments. Americans of every race should remember and take pride in the courage of Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre, the bravery of Peter Salem at the Battle of Bunker Hill, the unselfish sacrifices of John R. Fox on December 26, 1944, at the Italian village of Sommocolonia, and the heroic deed of Dorie Miller aboard the USS West Virginia on December 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. When we remember these acts of courage, devotion to duty, and paying the ultimate sacrifice, we realize that the African American's military contributions goes far beyond digging ditches and serving meals aboard ships. It is my hope that the readers of this book will be encouraged to explore more information on America's history. America's history includes all Americans.

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938.Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course. And once again, Robert Harris gives us actual events of historical importance--here are Hitler, Chamberlain, Mussolini, Daladier--at the heart of an electrifying, unputdownable novel.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVE AND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven't seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier.

A backstage view of Ancient Rome at its most bloody and brutal, adapted by Mike Poulton from Robert Harris's bestselling The Cicero Trilogy.

From Simon & Schuster, What to Listen for in Mozart is Robert Harris' essential introduction to the world's most popular composer.An introduction to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart explores the essentials of his work, examining his place in the aristocratic society of the late eighteenth century, and discusses his life and death.

Need to build stand-alone Java applications? The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace will help you build them from the ground up. The book first runs down the Java GUI toolkit history. Then the book explains why SWT is superior and provides extensive examples of building applications with SWT. You’ll come to understand the entire class hierarchy of SWT, and you’ll learn to use all components in the toolkit with Java code. Furthermore, the book describes JFace, an additional abstraction layer built on SWT. Demonstrations of building JFace applications are also included and reinforced with thorough explanations and example code. These applications can be used as GUI plug-ins for Eclipse, and they’re compatible with the new Eclipse 3.0 application development framework.

His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold.

This collection of 139 letters from six of the seven Gould brothers who left their homes in central New York to fight for the Union Army forms a moving depiction, not only of life on the front lines of the Civil War, but of life on the home front as well.

When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences.

With the help of Claire's best friend, Hester, Jericho sets out to find Claire, clear his name and unmask the spy.

Stedet er Rom, og tiden er cirka år 60 f.Kr. Forskellige magtfulde mænd kæmper om magten i republikken. Dette er historien om virkelige historiske personer, deres alliancer og forræderi, deres grusomheder og forbrydelser. I en alder af 48 sidder Cicero, politiker, konsul og sin tids største taler, i eksil. Ved at love at støtte Cæsar - hans unge, ubarmhjertige rival - får han lov til at vende tilbage til Rom. Derfra kæmper han sig vej tilbage til indflydelse; først i retssalene, så i Senatet og siden i sine magtfulde skriverier, indtil han for en kort, men glorværdig stund er den mest fremtrædende statsmand i byen. Men ingen offentlig person, uanset hvor klog eller snu han er, kan se sig fri for at blive berørt af andres skruppelløse ambitioner og konspirationer. DIKTATOR beskriver på indlevende og spændende vis nogle af de mest skelsættende begivenheder i gammel tid: det romerske imperiums kollaps, den efterfølgende borgerkrig og mordet på Julius Cæsar. Men det evige dilemma forbliver dette: hvordan holder man politisk frihed adskilt fra personlige ambitioner, udefrakommende interesser og den altødelæggende effekt af fremmede krige. I Robert Harris’ portræt forsøger Cicero at besvare dette spørgsmål i både tanke og handling og bliver en helt i både sin egen og vor tid. Afslutningen på trilogien efter IMPERIUM og LUSTRUM. Kan læses selvstændigt.

Den midaldrende Oxford-historiker, Kelso, tager til Moskva for at deltage i en konference om de nyligt åbnede Sovjet-arkiver.En aften får han besøg på sit hotelværelse af en tidligere NKVD-officer, der var bodyguard for Berija, chefen for Stalins hemmelige politi. Den gamle mand hævder, at han befandt sig i Stalins dacha den nat, Stalin døde, og at han hjalp Berija med at stjæle diktatorens private papirer, bl.a. en lille sort notesbog.Kelso beslutter at checke den gamle mands historie, og en uskyldig forespørgsel på Lenin-biblioteket udvikler sig hurtigt til en morderisk jagt gennem Moskva, op gennem det nordlige Rusland til de store skove nær Arkhangelsk ved Hvidehavet.I Arkhangelsk kombinerer Robert Harris Fædrelandets fantasifuldhed med Enigmas gennemresearchede historiske detaljer. Resultatet er en klassisk, intelligent thriller i stil med Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene og John le Carrés romaner.En forfatter som håndterer spænding som en litterær Hitchcok . - Nelson Mandela, The Guardian