Deze auteur staat bekend om zijn scherpe verkenningen van de menselijke psyche en sociale dynamiek, waarbij hij zich vaak verdiept in de complexe motivaties en morele dilemma's van zijn personages. Zijn proza kenmerkt zich door precisie en zijn vermogen om een narratieve spanning op te bouwen die de lezer diepgaand boeit. Voortbouwend op een diepe interesse in theatergeschiedenis, weerspiegelt zijn werk een structurele benadering van verhalen vertellen en een genuanceerde psychologische weergave van zijn onderwerpen. Zijn nieuwste werk markeert een uitstapje naar het horrorgenre, waarin hij zijn onderzoek naar de donkerdere facetten van de mensheid voortzet.
London today: a world of sex and drugs and designer clothes, where Robert searches for fulfilment in gay clubs. London 50 years ago: Michael enters a secret queer underworld, negotiating the dangers of the law and the closet.
“War no longer exists,” writes General Sir Rupert Smith, powerfully reminding us that the clash of mass national armies—the system of war since Napoleon—will never occur again. Instead, he argues in this timely book, we must be prepared to adapt tactics to each conflict, or lose the ability to protect ourselves and our way of life.General Smith draws on his vast experience as a commander in the 1991 Gulf War, in Bosnia, Kosovo and Northern Ireland, to give us a probing analysis of modern war and to call for radically new military thinking. Why, he asks, do we use armed force to solve our political problems? And how is it that our armies can win battles but fail to solve the problems?From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechnya, Smith charts a stream of armed interventions that have failed to deliver on promises of resolution. He demonstrates why today’s conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events. He makes clear why the current one-size-fits-all model of total war, fought out on battlefields, that politicians still cling to must be abandoned in favor of new strategies that take into account the fact that wars are now fought among civilian populations. And he offers a compelling new model for how to fight these battles—and secure our world.Clear, incisive and provocative, The Utility of Force will fundamentally change the way we understand war.
The narrative explores the complexities of love and friendship through Al, a retired businessman in his sixties, who befriends a much younger woman, Courtney. This friendship strains his marriage to Kimberly, who demands he choose between them. As Al grapples with his feelings for both women, he ultimately ends the friendship, leading to guilt and a struggle to rebuild trust with Kimberly. The story delves into themes of loyalty, emotional conflict, and the nature of love across different relationships, culminating in Al's journey towards reconciliation with his wife.
This collective biography of poets like Owen, Sassoon, Brooke, Graves, Rosenberg, Brittain, Sorley, and Seeger, along with potted biographies of many other war poets, gives the background of the poets' experiences to explain how the war created so much important poetry - and why we keep coming back to this work a hundred years later.
Steal a few cents and they put you in jail. Steal a few million and they put you in charge.
Edward Barton należał do grona najwybitniejszych pisarzy XX wieku. Krytycy byli surowi dla jego powieści, ale czytelnicy go uwielbiali, podobnie jak przemysł filmowy, kt�ry realizował kinowe przeboje oparte na jego książkach. Będąc u szczytu sławy, Burton wydaje kolejną bestsellerową powieść pt. Antrakt, także z sukcesem sfilmowaną, po czym z niewyjaśnionych powod�w wycofuje się z życia publicznego i nie publikuje już kompletnie nic.