... Konstantin Makovsky depicting the rape of Bulgarian women by Ottoman troops during the suppression of the April Uprising a year earlier , served to mobilise public support for the Russo - Turkish War ( 1877-1878 ) waged with the ...

... April Uprising was one of the most im- pressive European and world events ... Konstantin Makovsky painted pictures around it . People of good will all ... April Uprising is also the key to the new stages in the development of our nation ...

New South Wales, 1885 When Alice Ryan wakes to find thugs surrounding her cottage, on the hunt for her no-good brother, she escapes into the surrounding bush.

Despite their growing attraction, both Peter and Elizabeth have secrets that will come between them.

"Beyond the best battle scenes I've ever read - brutal, bloody and thoroughly gripping" -- DIANA GABALDON "Steven Pressfield...makes the distant past seem real and immediate. This is historical fiction elevated to the status of myth.

This highly illustrated book details their costume, weapons and the way they waged war.

Part memoir, part adventure story, and part study of the natural world, this is an evocative and vividly written memoir of a childhood on a remote sheep farm in Wales.

Profiles the Romanov Dynasty tsar as one of Russia's most forward-thinking rulers, documenting his efforts to redefine history by bringing freedom to his country, and describing the series of assassination attempts that eventually ended his ...