HEMMI - Biography & Memoir 1

The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M. Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He d……続きを見る

Dies ist ein Buch, das der Comedian Rolf Schmid und sein Texter Hardy Hemmi gar nie wollten. Wirklich nicht. Nicht einmal im Traum. Sie wollten nichts anderes als bloss ein paar Anekdoten aus dem fa……続きを見る

Alan Hemming grew up on a small farm in England in the fifties and sixties. In this, the first volume of his autobiography, he provides an unusually frank and personal memoir of his childhood. After……続きを見る

Peter Hemming's motto in life is, 'Everything is Possible', and once he'd stepped off the plane onto the concrete of Kefalonia Airport in April 2001 he had to quickly start believing it. What lay ah……続きを見る

Controversy surrounded Zola during his life-time, and controversy has followed him ever since. No other French writer was so violently attacked by contemporaries, none had a more devoted following. ……続きを見る

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adven……続きを見る

First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a fascinating new perspective on Baudelaire's ex……続きを見る

The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him "the king of romance." She was not thinking only of his immensely popular novels The Three Musketeers and ……続きを見る

*** The Sunday Times bestseller *** 'Vividly imagined and prodigiously researched' Helen Davies, Sunday Times, Books of the Year 'Such a rewarding read' John Preston, Daily Mail, Books of the Year '……続きを見る

Together is about the extraordinary revival of small groups in Britain today. What happens when a room full of people decide to work towards the same dream? Why is it that when we come together in s……続きを見る

The untold story of an enigmatic genius who changed warfare forever In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds -- to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an ……続きを見る

Eva Hemming, the Finnish Operas solo dancer and prima ballerina, grew up in Helsinki in the 1920s. In her captivating memoirs starting with the early childhood years, she describes the stages of her……続きを見る

Moving country remains the hugest thing weve ever experienced/ accomplished/ drowned in. Its an act of seemingly utter insanity, which negates all ones most primal connections to the cosmos. I find ……続きを見る

Intet emne er for stort eller småt til at blive sat under lup i Hemming Hartmann-Petersens erindringsessaysamling "Med tilbagevirkende kraft". Alt lige fra køkkenhaven til identitetskriser bliver ta……続きを見る

På baggrund af mange timers interview tegner tidligere programsekretær i DR, Hemming Hartmann-Petersen, et portræt af den rebelske kommunist og sagfører Carl Madsen – af hans tid som modstandsmand u……続きを見る

Den danske radiovært Hemming Hartmann-Petersen fortæller i korte essayistiske nedslag om barndommen på Amager, om tiden på DR og om alt det, der ellers rører og har rørt på sig gennem et langt og sp……続きを見る

Den tidligere danske radiovært Hemming Hartmann-Petersen kommer omkring så forskellige emner som haven, ballet og skat i sin erindringsessaysamling "Med venlig hilsen", der har fået samme navn som e……続きを見る

Programsekretær og radiovært i DR Hemming Hartmann-Petersen fortæller om sin tid som jazz- og teatermusiker i tiden fra 1940 og de næste godt 20 år frem. Han mindes den danske jazzguldalder, hvor st……続きを見る

African Son is a record of the author’s many trips to Africaーas a Peace Corps volunteer, Fulbright scholar, teacher, and travelerーover the course of thirty years. These personal essays range from ……続きを見る