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#1 New York Times Bestseller"No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down.... There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one's own life and its value." -- New RepublicSixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the AndesOn October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help. A tale of astonishing bravery and adventure, Alive is much more than a survival story, it is a breathtaking saga of human courage The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including interviews, recommended reading, and more.

The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth. ABANDONEDAlmost three months later, two of the survivors, emaciated and frozen, reach the authorities and lead a rescue team to the remaining fourteen passengers. ALIVEThe rescue team are shocked when they reach the crash-site.

On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of GBP2,500,000 (the equivalent of GBP41 million today).

The dramatic, ultimately tragic history of the Knights Templar, the largest and most powerful military order of the Crusades.

‘A telling portrait of an older man after a miserable divorce ... a well-observed portrait of middle-class London life for the older single man. It's hilariously funny' Saga'At once eloquent and entertaining, intelligent and incisive ... Novels don't come more diverting or sublimely satirical than this' TatlerJomier has reached the age of retirement, his children are grown up and his wife, after having an affair, has left him. Embittered and humiliated, he lives alone in London, mourning the disintegration of his marriage as he broods about the past and the present.When he falls for Judith, things begin to improve. Yet he still cannot escape his old habits and it is only when his daughter falls ill that he begins to reassess his feelings towards those he loves and his ability to forgive. Darkly humorous, ruthlessly satirical and surprisingly moving, The Misogynist is a perceptive exploration of the ways in which we can unintentionally let past disappointments affect our present, and how difficult it can be to move forward.

Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies - many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented him because he was middle-class, meritocratic and a Jew.In October 1894, the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence discovered they harboured a spy in their midst, Captain Dreyfus, on slender evidence, was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans, found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict and sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devil's Island.The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus - over twelve long years, through many trials - is a story rife with heroes and villains, courage and cowardice, dissimulation and deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history, the Dreyfus affair divided France, stunned the world and unleashed violent hatreds and anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long, bloody twentieth century to come. Today, amid charged debates over national and religious identity across the globe, its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian, biographer and prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read, this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice and a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.

Man is a delicate mechanism… he can easily be set off course. It is the late 18th century and a young Sicilian nobleman, Vitellio Scarpia, finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home to pursue a military career, his impulsive and undisciplined nature has led to his expulsion from Spanish royal guard, and he must now seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound up with the ruler of the Eternal City, the Pope. Scarpia enrols in the Papal army and becomes the lover of an alluring countess who introduces him into Roman society with its blend of religiosity, sophistication and intrigue. Half-enthralled, half-appalled, Scarpia enjoys the life of the decadent city, learning in due course that as an unsophisticated provincial he is no match for the worldliness of Rome. Patronized by a powerful Cardinal, Scarpia is sent on a mission to Venice, where he encounters the beautiful, exquisitely gifted singer, Floria Tosca. As the armies of revolutionary France invade Italy, and war and revolution engulf the whole peninsula, the lives of the two become fatefully entwined. Piers Paul Read brilliantly reimagines the infamous villain of Puccini’s opera, Tosca, telling a story that shines a light into the dusty corridors of history and the dark corners of the human soul.

Sir Alec Guiness was one of the greatest actors of the twentieth centuries. With a talent recognised by discerning critics from his very first appearance on the stage, he gained a world-wide reputation. After his death in August 2000, his widow Merula asked the author Piers Paul Read, who had been a friend of her husband, to write his biography. Given full co-operation by the Guinness family and free access to Sir Alec's papers, including his private and unpublished diaries, Read has produced the definitive portrait: a highly entertaining and penetrating account of an intriguing and complex man.

127 short chapters the story of one of the world’s largest religions. A History of the Catholic Church tells in 127 short chapters the story of one of the world’s largest religions from its roots in Jewish history to the pontificate of Benedict XVI. In a taut narrative, it describes how the small community of those who believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God grew into a powerful institution whose patriarch, the pope, claimed both secular and spiritual jurisdiction over all the nations of Christendom. There are chapters on the major challenges it faced such as the rise of Islam, the schism with the Orthodox Church, the Protestant Reformation, French Revolution, Bolshevism, Nazism and secularism. There are also short chapters on Catholic art, architecture, philosophy and literature. It is not an academic treatise but a selection of episodes chosen to entertain as well as inform the reader. Piers Paul Read is the author of 17 novels and eight works of non-fiction, among them Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974). He studied History at Cambridge University, and has written a history of the crusading order, The Templars (1999), and an account of the infamous miscarriage of justice in France in the nineteenth century, The Dreyfus Affair (2012). The Templars ‘A highly readable and nicely paced book that draws on the lessons of modern historical scholarship while also communicating a sense of narrative excitement and drive.’ Evening Standard The Dreyfus Affair ‘In bringing his novelist’s eye to bear on events, Read ensures they unfold with a compelling sense of drama.’ The Sunday Times

12TH OCTOBER 1972. A RUGBY TEAM OF AMATEUR PLAYERS, THEIR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM URUGUAY, SOUTH AMERICA, LEAVE FOR ARGENTINA BY AN AIR FORCE PLANE. THE PLANE CRASHES AT A HIGH ALTITUDE WHILE CROSSING THE ANDES. FROM THE 45 PASSENGERS AND CREW, 13 DIE ON THE SPOT. FROM THE 32 SURVIVORS, SOME GET SERIOUSLY INJURED. THE PLACE GETS COVERED WITH THICK SNOW. THERE IS NO VEGETATION, NO FOOD OR WATER EXCEPT FOR SOME CHOCOLATES AND A LITTLE WINE FROM LEFT OVERS OF THE PLANE. EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE PLANE FROM THE AIR AND FROM THE GROUND ARE UNSUCCESSFUL. SEVERAL ATTEMPTS MADE BY THE SURVIVORS TO FIND A ROUTE TO CIVILIZATION ALSO FAIL - TILL THE LAST ONE. THEY ARE TRAPPED FOR 72 DAYS DURING WHICH PERIOD 16 MORE OF THEM DIE LEAVING ONLY 16 ALIVE. HOW DID THEY SURVIVE FOR 72 DAYS ? HOW DID THEY BEHAVE ? HOW WERE THEY RESCUED IN THE END ? WHAT DID THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH AFTER THEY WERE RESCUED ? THIS IS A STORY OF CATASTROPHE, HUMAN ENDURANCE AND A STUDY IN HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY......चाळीस उतारू व पाच कर्मचारी यांना घेऊन उड्डाण केलेले ते विमान अँडीज पर्वतावर आदळले. तुकडे झालेल्या विमानाचा अर्धा भाग हाच त्या उतारूंचा आसरा थोडीशी वाईन व काही चॉकलेटस् एवढेच खाद्य अपघात झाला तेव्हा फक्त ३२ जण वाचले होते. काही दिवसांत २७ उरले. मग १९ आणि शेवटी फक्त १६. शेवाळंही नसलेल्या बर्फाच्छादित पर्वतावर ७२ दिवस ते कसे जिवंत राहिले? कसे वागले? त्यांची सुटका कशी झाली? आणि सुटकेनंतर त्यांना कोणत्या अनुभवाला सामोरे जावे लागले? याची ही रोमांचकारी सत्यकथा

En el a o 1972 parti de Montevideo, con destino Santiago de Chile, un avi n Fairchild F227 de las fuerzas a reas uruguayas en el que viajaba un equipo de rugby y sus acompa antes. Pero en realidad les aguardaba un destino muy distinto del que ellos hab an proyectado. Las infernales condiciones climatol gicas determinaron la cat strofe, y el aparato se estrell en Los Andes. S lo diecis is de los cuarenta y cinco pasajeros que viajaban en el avi n sobrevivieron al accidente y a los casi tres meses de indescriptibles rigores que compartieron con el hambre, el fr o y el dolor. Sin otras provisiones, se vieron obligados a enfrentarse al horror de alimentarse con la carne de sus compa eros muertos, en un acto desesperado por conservar la vida. Viven Relata con toda suerte de detalles esta escalofriante peripecia y la de los familiares que en ning n momento dejaron de buscarlos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. And to survive, they were forced to do the unthinkable... This is their story, one of the most astonishing adventures of the twentieth century.