Лучшие книги Майкла Доббса

Фрэнсис Уркхарт, главный организатор правящей партии Великобритании, недоволен своим нынешнем положением. Должность у него, конечно, высокая, но реальной власти не дает. А Фрэнсису хочется принимать участие в действительно больших делах, наряду с избранными управляя страной. Он приложил все усилия, чтобы на очередных выборах премьер-министр пусть и с трудом, но сохранил свой пост. После этого Фрэнсис представил ему план изменения состава Кабинета министров, намекая на свои заслуги. Однако премьер уже принял план дальнейших действий, и в нем, увы, нет места Уркхарту. И тогда Фрэнсис решает отомстить. Причем сделать все так, чтобы премьер-министр был уничтожен, а он, Уркхарт, занял его место. И это будет поистине страшная месть…

В центре романа конфликт между представителями высших ветвей государственной власти Великобритании - наследственной королевской и выборной правительственной. И способы, которыми такой конфликт разрешается в наши дни и которым могли бы позавидовать герои самого Дюма.

Минуло всього кілька місяців відтоді, як Френсис Уркгарт здобув посаду прем'єр-міністра, а країна вже починає втомлюватися від нього. Однак він не дозволить так легко вигнати себе з Кабінету. Якщо громадськість жадає свіжої крові — вона її отримає. Він згоден ризикнути всім, і хай що принесе йому найбільша ставка в його житті, ім'я Френсиса Уркгарта не забудуть уже ніколи... Завершуючи похмуру трилогію про жадобу, корупцію і неприборкані амбіції, роман «Остання гра» вкотре засвідчує: незалежно від країни, в коридорах влади правлять інтриги та пристрасті.

Американская журналистка Изидора Дин и ее дети попадают в автомобильную катастрофу. Врачам удается спасти жизнь женщины, но, придя в сознание, она узнает ужасную весть: ее дочь, полугодовалая Бэла, умерла. Однако сын Изы, трехлетний Бенджамен, уверяет, что девочку "забрала какая-то тетя". И Изидора начинает почти безнадежные поиски и борьбу за свою дочь…

Книга Майкла Доббса посвящена возникновению холодной войны между Советским Союзом и Соединенными Штатами Америки. Предвестники будущего противостояния между союзниками проявились, по мнению автора, когда еще не отгремели залпы Второй мировой войны, в период от Крымской конференции лидеров СССР, США и Великобритании до применения США ядерного оружия против Японии. Временной отрезок с февраля по август 1945 года, наполненный событиями завершающего этапа войны, является историческим фоном повествования. Используя воспоминания непосредственных участников событий, автор живо и увлекательно освещает встречи Большой тройки в Ялте и Потсдаме, дипломатические переговоры, рабочие и неофициальные контакты советских и западных политических и военных деятелей, в ходе которых постепенно выявлялись непримиримые противоречия, определившие в итоге судьбу послевоенного мира. Книга адресована широкому кругу читателей, интересующихся проблемами Второй мировой войны и новейшей истории.

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we really did come to Armageddon.
Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board.
Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev--rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion--agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro--never swayed by conventional political considerations--demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator's overthrow.
Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is ariveting account of history's most dangerous hours, full of lessons for our time.

An acclaimed historical thriller by the author of HOUSE OF CARDS – a highly original, fast-moving tale that gives an unexpected twist to the last days of the Second World War. Now reissued in a new cover style.Spring 1945. The final weeks of the war. One man holds the secret that will decide the fate of post-war Europe: Peter Hencke, an unlikely hero, a German prisoner-of-war on the run.Refusing to wait for peace and the freedom it will finally bring, Hencke is fired by a personal mission that drives him to risk everything in his lonely, treacherous journey across wartime Britain, back through the battle-torn remnants of the Third Reich – to the very heart of encircled Berlin.One man faced by the mightiest armies ever assembled, pursued by the most powerful and ruthless men in Europe – and helped and loved by two of the most extraordinary women. The secret of Peter Hencke will be hidden until the very last moments of the war.

Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy – now reissued in a new cover.He schemed his way to power in ‘House of Cards’ and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in ‘To Play the King’. Now Francis Urquhart is about to take his place in the record books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. Yet it seems the public is tiring of him at last, and the movement to force him from power is growing. But Urquhart is not yet ready to be driven from office. If the public demand new blood, that is precisely what he will give them…Francis Urquhart goes out in a blaze of glory in this final volume in the irresistible story of the most memorable politician of the decade.

The combination of Michael Dobbs’ excellent writing skills and historical passion, and the legendary character of Winston Churchill, have provided two triumphantly successful books in WINSTON’S WAR and NEVER SURRENDER.In 1941, the war appears to be going badly on many fronts. Churchill is the confirmed leader and so his domestic political struggles are slightly lessened, but battered, bloody and almost bankrupt, Britain limps on. Churchill knows his country cannot win the war alone.An alliance with America is paramount, and Churchill is determined to develop and use a friendship with Averall Harriman, American Ambassador to Britain, and personal friend of President Franklin Roosevelt. But his son's wife exploits this first. Pamela Churchill's passionate affair, conducted under her father-in-law's roof, presents Churchill with the appalling dilemma between saving his country, and allowing his son Randolph to be cuckolded.With no British battlefield successes, and with a jubilant Germany controlling Europe, 1941 was a bleak year. America continued resolute against fighting, but by the year’s close Pearl Harbour had forced America into the war. Why had the Japanese been persuaded to attack American targets? And how were the rumours of the attack prevented from reaching American ears?Decisions of love and war are often matters of perception. And so it was in this case.This is an extraordinary novel of a man at bay, a nation facing disaster, and the political skills, human dilemmas and brilliant leadership that saved the day.

Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston’s War.Winston Churchill at his lowest ebb – pitted in personal confrontation with Adolf Hitler, and with ghosts from his tormented past.Friday 10 May 1940. Hitler launches a devastating attack that within days will overrun France, Holland and Belgium, and bring Britain to its knees at Dunkirk. It is also the day Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister. He is the one man capable of standing in Hitler's way – yet Churchill is still deeply mistrusted within his own Cabinet and haunted by the memory of his tortured father.Never Surrender is a novel about the courage and defiance that were displayed in abundance – not just by Churchill, but by ordinary men and women over three of the most momentous weeks in British history.