Bøger af John Sweeney

As World War II brings Japanese troops into Burma, schoolteacher Grace sets off on a daring journey to deliver 62 orphans to safety. ELEPHANT MOON is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience.'Excellent and ingenious' Daily MailA 'compelling story of survival' Kirkus ReviewsBurma, 1940. As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and its British rulers prepare to flee, leaving behind their human legacy -- sixty-two children born to local women after affairs with foreign men.Disowned by both sides, the children are to be abandoned with no one to protect them. But their teacher, Grace Collins, a young Englishwoman, refuses to leave the orphans and instead, with the help of a man who loves her deeply, sets out to guide them to the safety of India.They face impossible odds, because between the group and India lie one thousand miles of jungle, mountains, rivers and the constant, unseen threat of Japanese soldiers.With the enemy chasing them down, the group's chances of survival look bleak -- until they come across a herd of fifty-three elephants who, with their awesome strength and kindness, quickly become the orphans' only hope.Based on a true story, ELEPHANT MOON is an unforgettable epic tale of love, courage and compassion in the midst of brutality and destruction which fans of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, Edith Eger and Celeste Ng will love.What everyone is saying about ELEPHANT MOON: 'Absolutely amazing.''Thrilling...filled with adventure, tragedy and love' - Daily Mail'This book was beautiful and gives a very different view of the Second World War. The elephants' relationships were enchanting and I completely fell in love with them. Couldn't put it down.''What a marvellous book!''I absolutely loved this book. As someone who's been lucky enough to see elephants in the wild and to experience close contact with working elephants on a trip to India, this book really captivated me with its descriptions of the elephants and their individual traits.''If you were to relocate Michael Morpurgo's War Horse to Burma in the Second World War, with elephants taking the sentimental role from the horses, you might end up with something like Elephant Moon.' Literary Review'A knowledgeable, compelling story of survival, set in one of the lesser-known theaters of WWII.' Kirkus Reviews

'Inspired by historical facts and real people - the hidden origins of the tragedy of the second world war.'November 1930 Phillip is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to find a secret document that could destroy the Nazi Party who are within touching distance of power. The Communists and the Nazis desperately want the secret document and both want Phillip dead. Phillip, who is mixed race, must confront his inner daemons while threatened by rising nationalism and identity politics, and challenges the role America is playing in helping develop the Nazi programme that leads to the holocaust. Phillip falls in love with a Jewish girl and pledges to save a child of mixed race, but becomes trapped in Germany and must use all his resources to try to stay alive and find the secret document.

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School LibraryCTRG96-B1563Includes index.London: Grant Richards, 1904. ix, 357 p., [1] leaf of plates: port.; 21cm

This is the story of the rise, fall, and rise again of Wayne Rooney, England's greatest modern footballer.

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing expose of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.

HUNTING GHISLAINE tells the extraordinary, shocking story of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former partner of disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the daughter of media baron Robert Maxwell.

'An insightful, frighteningly intelligent thriller... a gem of a novel' Robert DinsdaleA Welsh journalist falls foul of Stalin's secret police after threatening to tell the world about the famine in the Soviet Union - a thriller based on a terrifying and tragic true story.

Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Hamiltons and of Martin Bell going to Westminster.

Redefine what it means to be innovative The Innovative Mindset calls the accepted definition of innovation into question, urging you to consider how innovation might function as a behavior that you perpetuate, rather than an inflexible theory or corporate-defined initiative.

North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. The regime controls the flow of information to its citizens, pouring relentless propaganda through omnipresent loud speakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the gulag awaits.

The first comprehensive guide on maximum adverse excursion -- a powerful new tool for dramatically lessening trading risks "Trading successfully, like everything else, is built upon solid preparation. It is the well-prepared individual who will be able to cope in today's competitive market.